DIAMAT NIGHTMARES is a series about Dialectical Materialism. A philosophical movement based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

IDEALIST VS MATERIALIST

There are two kinds of persons: Idealists (Left) and Materialists (Right). Idealists think “everything is mind”, so your reality is created only by you. That is why the ray of light in the background goes from the mind and makes the world. But the truth is they are trapped in their own beliefs, which is why they get lost in themselves. On the other hand, Materialists think “everything is matter” and only believe in the universe's physical laws. The ray of light goes from the ground to the mind. They understand human thought as the superior product of matter. Materialists are more aware of everything around them because their view of the world is more accurate.

INSEPARABLE

According to the dialectical method, “specific and universal are inseparable”. It understands everything as a whole. Therefore where there is life, there is also death. But at the same time, it doesn’t reject all the knowledge acquired with the metaphysical method. That is why we see the twin’s constellation painted first and then the scientific name of the stars.

CONTRADICTION IS IN ITSELF

The law of the passage of quantitative changes into qualitative changes is explained here. Both characters are writing on an invisible wall. While the one on the left is creating God (bible’s genesis), the other one is proving, using scientific methods, that God doesn’t exist (The origin of species by Darwin). We see an inverted burning cross because, according to Dialectical Materialism, nothing is absolute, sacred or definitive. This allows humanity to evolve. God’s will does not write our destiny. Dialectics envisages history not as a closed circle, where the same processes repeat themselves, but as a spiral in which nothing is repeated exactly in the same way.

DON'T BE PARTIAL

Metaphysics is the Idealist approach to understanding reality. It divides the knowledge into different sections but doesn’t explore their relationship. We are using Procrustes's fable as a metaphor to question this method. People in the background represent how humanity, using this approach, is not fully conscious, which is why the world is being destroyed.