Dialectical materialism, the philosophy of Marxism, is the world-view of the working class. As the basically scientific and uniquely true philosophy, diamat currently constitutes the progressive world-view of all of progressive humanity. Diamat is the science which studies the relationship of knowledge to the objective, material world, as well as the most general laws of the movement and development of nature, society and thought. The philosophy of Marxism is called diamat because it represents the organic unity of ">materialism and the dialectic. It is called materialist because it begins with the recognition of matter as the unique basis of the world, while it sees consciousness as a property of highly organized matter, as a function of the brain, as a reflection of the objective world. It is called dialectical because it recognizes the general interconnection of objects and phenomena in the world, as well as the movement and development of the world as the result of the internal contradictions at work therein.