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.

  • znsh@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The scientific way says “This system is this way because existing the way it used to caused it to change into what it is now. Existing in its current form will cause it to change further in the future.”

    Isn’t this just omitted because it’s obvious that the system is the way it is because something caused it to change? At least I’ve always looked at things that way.

    • NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      “Something caused it to change” isn’t the same as “it changed itself by living the way it once did.” I know that’s granular, but that distinction is important.