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!
I like this one a lot. I’ll get frustrated with someone and respond that history didn’t just begin today with either a domestic issue like race tensions or the state of the economy or a foreign issue such as Ukraine or Afghanistan. Americans we especially go out of their way to not remember what happened even a few years ago.
I think it’s very important to view history as a continuous flow into the present and out through the future rather than a thing separate and apart. I’m not saying anything especially significant except that we live in a culture constantly pressuring us to forget and see ourselves as apart from history.