I liked Stalin’s dialectical and historical materialism, it was a lot easier to understand compared Marx and Engels.
Same.
CURRICULUM OF THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF MARXISM-LENINISM- This is a book that is translated from Vietnams education course on Marxism Leninism by Luna Oi.
Other Sciences don’t depend on you researching the original works (Which are usually early 1900 intellectuals discussing complex material to each other when they already have a baseline) to understand material. They’re dissected by scholars and made into a format that is easier to learn.
The translated books by Luna Oi, which is two books at this point in time, contains annotations to describe concepts that students in the curriculum would already know by the time they begin working with the books. Its an excellent starting resource for people who are just beginning understanding Marxism, and also for people who might struggle with some topics.
Invaluable resource and I believe the first book is archived but you can also support her efforts to translate by purchasing one. I cannot recommend it enough for new marxists. The first half of the first book is all about dialectical materialism.
Highly agree, this book is invaluable.
Engels’ Dialectics of Nature. Some of the science has been superceded but pay attention to the method.
Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth is a good text to check out too. It’s not about dialectics but is an excellent application of dialectics
Dialectics of Nature is the right route. It’s fun to learn dialectics through exploring nature. A landscape materialistically transforms solar energy into higher and lower-grade forms, biomass and waste heat. It does so through structured interdependent relationships that are constantly evolving. You can build a really intuitive sense of dialectical laws in seeing how a river shapes plants that shape pollinators that shape settlements that shape rivers, tracking the energy and how it changes between quantitative and qualitative states. Contradictions are easy to point at, and you can plainly see continuity and ruptures’ impact on secondary/tertiary systems.
The big strength of dialectics is that it’s holistic. Everything is dialectical and intertwined with everything else in some way you already want to read about. See it in the systems you’re already interested in and it’s just a super engaging way to learn about their intersectional angles.
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I thought Dialectics of Nature was a great starting point. I think some people treat it unfairly. The book was never finished and is really a collection of incomplete notes published by the USSR, some chapters literally end on an incomplete thought, and so people tend to hate on the book for certain issues in it. But if you go into the book recognizing it is a flawed book but trying to understand the general idea Engels is trying to get at, that part still holds up very well.
I am currently rereading Materialism and Empirio-criticism, it really helped me shake off some neo-positivist tendencies acquired from STEM education.
Seconding this
I’ve heard that Mao’s “On Contradiction” is quite helpful for that
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https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11450117
i tried writing a pamphlet some time ago which could give you some pointers
