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.
“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.