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[–] Juice@midwest.social 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Read Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Every other textbook I had started with an intro of 'there's no royal road to science'. Diamat is a handy heuristic. So difficult irl dealing with people who see human institutions, understanding, and even the universe itself as 100pct set and static, if it isn't easy then it isn't real.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dialectics is an incredible way to derive all kinds of Interesting insights and truths, and materialism, like not even bourgeois science is materialism, its positivism. The combination should absolutely be taught to everyone, every worker, there is no better way to learn to "think for yourself". But of course it is so totally alien that it is kind of hard to learn, especially when there isn't much good info for learning dialectics, let alone diamat; especially in the west. That's what makes Socialism: U&S such an amazing and impactful work

[–] tamagotchicowboy@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunate in the west they tend to teach dialectics (if at all) in general as a trichotomy rather than what it is.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 3 points 7 months ago

Miss my homies over at hexbear