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Can someone explain dialectical and historical materialism to me? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I read the entire book Joe wrote but I'm not sure I'm fully understanding it

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[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This is the best reference for diamat: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Elementary_principles_of_philosophy. I haven't read Stalin's one yet and I will to compare, but I'm still recommending Politzer as the best.

You should also check out ProleWiki. We have a page on it heavily taking from Politzer's book: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Dialectical_materialism.

I've been wanting to make diagrams to help visualize diamat but I'm not sure I know enough to make them accurate and not introduce confusion or mistakes, it'd be based on the way I see dialectics which I sometimes kinda see as heterodox to most Marxists lol.

[–] SugandeseDelegation@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

I found this to be really useful as well, it's systematic and fairly thorough: https://www.marxists.org/archive/cornforth/1953/materialism-and-dialectical-method.pdf

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