Post #510110
2026-03-03 22:15 UTC
You can definitely explain most of those in a way a 5 year old could understand in under 20 minutes.
Not dialectical materialism though. I’ve read about it and had it explained to me more time than I can count, and my brain refuses to hold on to what it means.
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-03-03 22:19
I wrote a basic guide on dialectical materialism. It’s missing a ton, but should be enough to hopefully make it make sense to start off with.
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@Riverside@reddthat.com 2026-03-04 11:34
From a Marxist-Leninist: there are some Marxist authors contesting the emphasis on the “dialectics” part of dialectical materialism. Paul Cockshott is a good example, you can search for Cockshott’s criticism of dialectical materialism, maybe if the concepts don’t stick to you you could have a more Newtonian materialist view
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@KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 2026-03-05 06:39
I had the same problem up in until I had Stalin explain it to me: www.marxists.org/reference/archive/…/09.htm (It’s short, to the point and when one “hence” paragraph after the other comes, you will start to understand)