Granted I’ve only read The Elementary Principles of Philosophy and On Contradictions from Mao, but the examples are still very vague and abstract. I’ve been trying to think of every day situations where I could apply dialectical materialism but I just can’t seem to understand it well enough.

EDIT: Amazing replies from everyone, everything is much more clear.

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 个月前

    Maybe the Vietnamese textbook on ML has more relatable examples: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:Curriculum_of_the_Basic_Principles_of_Marxism-Leninism_Part_1. Or the ABC of diamat: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:ABC_of_Dialectical_and_Historical_Materialism. Haven’t read either yet but you might just find your luck in them.

    I thought of the textbook because that’s exactly what we need, textbooks. In schools students are not just told how to do something, they are then tasked with practicing it (in most cases lol). This is what we lack, we are by and large passive consumers of theory and very few make it to the “applying theory on my own” stage. I’m sure these textbooks exist, they certainly existed in the USSR, we just need to find and make them available… or write our own.

    Try to answer this one: how does war progress dialectically? You’ll find the answer in Clausewitz’ On War but try to formulate your own answer first. Try to apply the four laws of diamat wholly, not isolated from each other. Also note that the question is not how do we explain war or why does war exist, but how it progresses.