Something to be said for the voluntary poverty of old surviving Catholic monasteries

Casualties of the social counterrevolution in America

Thanks for your intelligent comment. " Materialism " is a tricky word . I was pleased to see Lenin's rather obscure book " Materialism and Empirio Criticism " available ( for 5 dollars )at a local used book store a few days ago.

In Christian moral philosophy " materialism " has very negative connotations -: greed , vanity, blind ambition, social status snobbery, the very stuff of the " Culture of Narcissism ".

I appreciate the science in Lenin's " materialism ". But I also respect the voluntary poverty of surviving Catholic monasteries and the SIMPLE LIFE advocated by Henry Thoreau.

If you want little and own virtually NOTHING , the " materialistic " capitalistic world might then rightly despise you for hiding your corruption . That " Fall " , you know .