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!
Just to add to this:
I have noticed, recently, that death is far more protracted, even, than that. medicine has now advanced to a stage where we can prolong the life of the body to the point that what gives way first is not the heart, or the body, but the mind. Certainly in the UK, dementia and Alzheimers are now the leading cause of death - not heart failure. Death, I would argue, occurs long before the heart beats its last. Rather, from the moment we are born, we start to die. We get ill and our immune system slowly weakens; we age and organs develop new problems; we grow old and our minds whither. Hence, from a dialectical point of view, I would expand on your example, and say that the conclusion to be drawn by a dialectician must be from this an even wider realisation that all processes conducted during our lifetimes are simply stages of death, the process being continuous and ongoing. As a phenomenon, it does not start at any decisive moment, but rolls ever forward. In our final years it does not begin, it merely accelerates to more noticable levels.