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that a mechanical materialist treats humans like passive objects, reduces consciousness to brain chemistry, and sees religion as just ‘false consciousness’ to be eliminated.

This is not a specifically Marxist discussion but a broader philosophical one.

In philosophy of mind, the knowledge argument or “Mary’s Room” is the non-Marxist argument.

Here’s a short video (<5mins) describing it.

My own personal view is that “physicialism” is the materialist view, and there is no contradiction between “mechanical materialism” and dialectical materialism.

You might find this article from Roderic Day interesting.

It argues that the individualism and vs collectivism contradiction is “false and misleading”.

That “production is already socialized — collectivized” under capitalism.