“I’ll tell you the honest truth: I’m kind of simple-minded when it comes to these things. Whenever I hear a four-syllable word I get skeptical, because I want to make sure you can’t say it in monosyllables… I think: anything that’s at all understood can probably be described pretty simply. And when words like “dialectics” come along, or “hermeneutics,” and all this kind of stuff that’s supposed to be very profound, like Goering, “I reach for my revolver.”
Well, considering he went on a crusade against Marxism and especially Marxism-Leninism, that’s pretty… uh, anti-intellectual of him. Not to say plain reactionary garbage.
What an absolute brain genius to count up the syllables in “generative grammar” and compare it to “dialectical materialism” and declare that your concept has fewer syllables and is therefore more valuable.
Mao explains dialectical-materialism in very simple terms in “On Practice”. It’s not a difficult idea. It’s only over chompers head because he wants it to be.