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I hope you see the interesting similarities to the Buddha's teachings here. If not I will quote for you.

Materialism asserts the primacy of the material world: in short, matter precedes thought. Materialism is a realist philosophy of science which holds that the world is material ... wherein all things are interdependent and interconnected and develop according to natural law; that the world exists outside us and independently of our perception of it; that thought is a reflection of the material world in the brain...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism The ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of thought - Marx