materialism

The doctrine that material conditions — land, labour, capital, and energy — drive events, and that ideas and ideologies ride on top of them. In these pages, the court of appeal: reality outranks the narrative.

Long before Marx and von Mises debated the nature of materialism, the role of the state, and the axioms that drive human behaviour, these fundamental elements mixed and mingled to contextualize livelihoods.

As used in: the-agentic-paradigm