So I was wondering how I can get better at analysing the world through dialectical materialism. I’ve read a fair share of theory and other comprehensive stuff about dialectics and materialism and I do think I get the core principles. What I think I need is to get some kind of practice to overcome my idealist way of thinking. I’m not really sure what I’m looking for, maybe a collection of applied examples, maybe even exercises with solutions? Or you could let me know how you guys got better at thinking in a marxist way. Thanks in advance!

  • lxvi
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    2 years ago

    Start thinking about the dual contradicting natures of things. The hospital for us is one thing but to the capitalist is another. The same with the grocery store, and every other facet of life.

    Start paying attention to everything as propaganda. When you go out to eat and see the restaurant littered with propaganda, or you go to the store, pay attention to who is speaking to you and how they are trying to control your identity, your thoughts and your world view.

    Stop looking at things as red vs blue and start viewing groups of people according to selfish class interests. Start paying attention to whether a person is proletarian or petit bourgeois. Are they blue collar or white?

    Know what you do know and what you don’t know. Always be frank about your lack of knowledge. Don’t let your ego get in the way of things. Always keep in mind what the other person knows or doesn’t know. When a person says they are representing a total group who legitimizes them? Pay attention to bourgeois mechanisms. They are attempting to force reality into their image and will pull you along with every trick in the book. The only people who really understand the nuances of a country are the people who live in it.

    They’ll take your ignorance and say you should shut up and take for granted the words of this refuge or that cultural stand in. But the danger of ignorance is you don’t know enough to take their words seriously or not. You have to know the limitations of your knowledge attempt to address them but always understand them. Speaking out of your ass and believing things that you’re not justified in believing is the greatest folly of youth and so is listening to those who do the same.