Words similar to materialism

Example sentences for: materialism

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He was enthusiastic--too enthusiastic, he realizes now--to bring glorious Marxism to his suffering people, to free Cambodia from the yoke of Vietnamese invaders, to abolish the twin evils of Western materialism and class privilege.
The rise of Falun Gong is a byproduct of China's new materialism, it said.
Shunning shallow materialism is a way to express contempt for the upper class while being a member of the upper class.
Cynics argued that Chinese students have given up the idealism of 1989 for the materialism of the Clinton era.
The Wall Street Journal reports that an activist's TV commercial urging viewers to cut back on Christmas materialism by participating in "Buy Nothing Day" has been rejected by the major broadcast networks (it has been accepted by CNN).