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Dialectical Materialism Resources:
Reading:
Friedrich Engels (1883), âDialectics of Natureâ https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/index.htm
Josef Stalin (1938), âDialectical and Historical Materialismâ https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm
Mao Zedong (1937), âOn Contradictionâ https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm
Mao Zedong (1937), âOn Practiceâ https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
Torkil Lauesen (2020), âThe Principal Contradictionâ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Principal-Contradiction-Torkil-Lauesen-ebook/dp/B08CSW7L52
V. I. Lenin (1908), âMaterialism and Empirio-criticismâ https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/one1.htm
V. I. Lenin (1915), âOn the Question of Dialecticsâ https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/misc/x02.htm
Videos/Podcasts:
Red Menace, âThe Fundamentals of Marxism: Dialectics, Historical Materialism, and Class Struggleâ https://redmenace.libsyn.com/ep-20
Red Menace, âOn Contradiction: Maoâ https://redmenace.libsyn.com/on-contradiction-mao
Red Menace, âOn Practice: Maoâ https://redmenace.libsyn.com/on-practice-mao
The Marxist Project, âFundamentals of Marx: Idealism vs. Materialismâ https://youtu.be/XyzFwHFN_BI
Revolutionary Left Radio, âThe Principal Contradiction: Applying Dialectical Materialismâ https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/contradiction
The Marxist Project, âFundamentals of Marx: Dialecticsâ https://youtu.be/GNHzVeC7jeY
The Marxist Project, âFundamentals of Marx: Historical Materialismâ https://youtu.be/_AvvqDk-hME
The Marxist Project, âFundamentals of Marx: Contradictionsâ https://youtu.be/eY5wM4Ap508
The Peace Report, âTwo World Outlooks Metaphysics and Dialecticsâ https://youtu.be/TOCdp6e8K3w
General Resources:
MLM Basic Course: http://bannedthought.net/MLM-Theory/MLM-Intro/MLM-BasicCourse-CPI(Maoist)-2016-OCR.pdf
Learn from the Reddit community: https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/
AzureScapegoatâs Socialism101 site: https://www.socialism101.com/
Quotes from (in order of appearance):
Karl Marx, (1859) A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Contribution_to_the_Critique_of_Political_Economy.pdf
Karl Marx, (1845) âCritical Battle Against French Materialismâ in The Holy Family or Critique of Critical Criticism: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/holy-family/ch06_3_d.htm
V. I. Lenin, (1909) â2. How Bogdanov Corrects and âDevelopsâ Marxâ in MATERIALISM and EMPIRIO-CRITICISM: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mec/six2.htm
V. I. Lenin, (1915) âConspectus of Hegelâs Book Lectures On the History of Philosophyâ: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/cons-lect/ch02.htm
V. I. Lenin, (1915) “On the Question of Dialectics”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/misc/x02.htm
Mao Zedong, (1937) “On Contradiction”: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm
V. I. Lenin, (1915) “On the Question of Dialectics”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/misc/x02.htm
Karl Marx, (1867) “Capital Volume 1”, chapter 32: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm
V. I. Lenin, (1915) “On the Question of Dialectics”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/misc/x02.htm
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47 Comments
@Void6969-m6z
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMYeah Darwin was Inspired by Hume a thinker who definitely didn't follow dialects.
@Void6969-m6z
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMBut Evolution isn't following dialectics
@peaceleader7315
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMAhhh… hmmmm.. negative and positive to combine and create a flashpoint for energy âšïž.. hmmmm.. đ€
@pawanjain5834
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMExelent video this video is very helpfull for my political science exam đ
@purpleicewitch6349
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMI love how you used Charmander's evolution to help teach Marxism <3
@murdoch3396
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMI donât understand at all to be perfectly honest. I appreciate the effort to enlighten me but I canât escape the thought that Iâm just mentally jacking myself off and I donât see what it has to do with communism and seems really spiritual and hokey like some weird L. Ron Hubbard shit.
I get the general framework about the state changes after gradual change but I donât understand how it carries through to geopolitics because it doesnât seem to actually work out that way as capitalism is cranking forward stronger than it has ever been.
In short I think this is partially why leftists lose, we sit jacking our brain off in the corner while the capitalists are moving fast and breaking things, for better or for worse.
@Maugonzalezb
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMAnd that's why Socialism was replaced by neoliberalism and today it is considered an old, contradictory failed approach.
@bjrnhjortshjandersen1286
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMMarket saturation theory
@belphegor_dev
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMGreat vid!
@Birkguitars
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMSomeone trying to convince me of the strength of their political argument sitting in front of a flag on which are the faces of some of the most heinous mass murderers in human history has an uphill task – in the same way way that going up Everest without oxygen is uphill. Why not go the whole way and add Hitler and Pol Pot?
@b9l_onion758
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMRe watching the video helps a lot
@saradam1505
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMI need to read much more because i have not completely and fully understood it, but this is so so beginner friendly! the topic themselves seem so big but you guys gave such a great starting point! thank you so much!!
@estevaoosoriodearagaogomes9753
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMNot quite right!
Marx established what is called as "Materialist Idealism".
Marxism does not understand, in fact, material dinamics. Material dinamics, on an ontological realistic stance, does not need human intervention (by definition).
As soon as Marxists need human intervention to restore materialist dinamics, it becomes materialist idealism. (By ontological definition)
So… Marxism is not realistic, but idealistic.
Liberalism is, so on and so far, the most approximate philosophy on what we can call as materialist realism.
@Fictionalre
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMLove the video
@prljaviroker
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMStill don't get it
@NPC-bs3pm
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PM7:21 "One of the fine gentlemen behind me" WHATâ
At least 4 of those are unquestionably MONSTERS of history.
@rodnee2340
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMMarxism 101. The rantings of an unwashed parasitic socialist grifter. That somehow is confused with genius by people who should know better.
@maxkarl8761
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMWhat will communism transform to?
@DBrown-ig8em
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMWhenever socialism has become dominant over capitalism, feudalism has remained. Engels explains this when he writes of an "equal obligation to work." He calls for "establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture." The conscripts in these armies are best referred to as "serfs."
Some of us who have watched socialism supersede feudalism and capitalism wonder about a dialectic between foolishness and wisdom.
@raymondjensen4603
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMIt really doesn't matter what it means as dialectical materialism is a meaningless dead end. Marx is so esoteric that a life studying his writings will do no more then to obfuscate your understanding of his ideas…, you will come out with what you came in with. What is true is Marx/Engels focused on the necessary environment for these societies to spring organically from unleashed human potential, powered by the release of surplus labor…, in other words…, after the revolution, you're on your own. For Mao, Lenin, Castro, Stalin, Pol Pot, that is their "Oh, Shit" moment. All this dialectical materialism doesn't initiate an organic egalitarian system, it all just winds up as an authoritarian dystopian blunder.
@Leonard-td5rn
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMThomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were not trying to construct a hypothetical social system
They were just products of their era and politicians..Stop navel gazing and Marxist gibberish
@Leonard-td5rn
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMWhat is gibberish What is intellectual masturbation What is navel gazing What is wasting your time with junk science What is self pity what is lack of self respect What is the gulag 4:38
@lvernon9471
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMThis might be the fifth time Iâve come back to this video to fully understand DIAMAT. The more I learn about socialism and communism and Deprogram my brain, the more and more this video makes sense.
@A_friend_of_Aristotle
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMWrong from the beginning. The philosophical underpinning of Marxism is religion. Marxism is a secular religion. Why else would it's champions be so wrong so often? It's only a bit more bloodthirsty than most religions, so score one for religion.
@Christina-rq3ed
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMChristina Dixon present
@adamharris6608
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMExcellent video, well made, informative, delivered with passion, passion without hubris. Wonderful! You give an old Red like me…hope! Solidarity, Comrades đ
@ZalamaTheDragonGod
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMthe theory is more understandable lol
@richardgabbrielli3328
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMExcellent video, very clear and well laid out
@ishmen1998
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMIm communistâ€â€
@libertycoffeehouse3944
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMCommunism is slavery. In order to make all property community owned property, there would have to be a faction or group that controls the government and has coercive power. This group would have to be able to use force against others. This assumes there is a benevolent group that exists out there somewhere. History shows us no such group exists. It is the billionaire class that supports and finances communism around the world not the poor. Thus a Marxist Revolution is financed by people like JP Morgan and the Rockefellers who stated competition was sin. These billionaires wanted state capitalism not free market capitalism.
@eurique7303
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMGreat video camarada!
@TheGagginator
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMGreat video explaining a difficult concept! I'm fairly new to dialectics, and in turn dialectical materialism, but I have a question (please don't be rude if I get something wrong or use the wrong terminology, I'm genuinely asking):
If we as a society manage to achieve Communism through the use of Hegelian dialectics, what's stopping our society from falling back to Capitalism using the same means? Would/should democracy as we know it be forbidden, or would it not be necessary? If democracy gave us capitalism, should it still be allowed for the sake of "freedom", even if people's ignorance gives us less freedom through reinstating a primarily capitalist control of society?
Let's say we live in a communist society, would people accidentally (or deliberately) use dialectics to convince others to go back to the old ways in order to please a select few, i.e. creating the private sector? Would a totalitarian dictatorship be required to uphold the communist status quo, defending it from the people who may want to destroy the people's well-being for the sake of a select few's profit and gain?
Take care, comrades.
@franzupet4406
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMGreat video and thanks for resources I dropped right into them đ
@brimantas
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMthen when dialectic became dialectical materialism it lost its philosophical essence, its movement between materialism and idealism. The perception of the world is divided when many people cannot understand that the perception of the world is subjective, logically we can put that subjectivity in the first place, because until there is no perception, there is no world (subjectively). Therefore, we cannot understand subjective (idealistic) worldviews – religions.
@soumyendradas
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMMarxism or communism whatever you call it the idea is wrong. the Marxists must understand that human civilisation is outcome out of production and distribution of consumable articles. Though Marxism speaks of materialism it does not discuss about production and distribution of articles. And nobody understands the confusing ideas of dialects thesis and antithesis. now you can definitely ask a question what is the proof that human civilisation was developed out of production and distribution of consumable articles. there is sure proof. In paleolithic age men produced all articles with the help of inborn instinct and intuition. articles were mostly stone tools and some others. But inborn instinct could not help men to invent many articles. for ages men remained confined within few articles made with instinct and intuition and did not advance. even now some groups of people are primitive because they are solely dependent on congenital instinct. they cannot produce many articles and are remaining unchanged. only when men got the knowledge of number system that they earned the capability to produce many articles and they advanced materially. so definitely men got the knowledge of number system even when they were primitive and before advancement of civilisation. All features of civilisation like division of professions, idea of private property, administration, legal system appeared as a result of production of many articles. even countries were formed out of production of articles. so definitely human civilisation was the result of production and distribution. this idea is not discussed in Marxism. So Marxists and communist countries have no idea of production and distribution, the core activity of human civilisation. they do not know how to produce any articles. so the communist countries are lost and abolished.
@switted823
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMstupid pseudoscience garbage, this is derived from a literal religion
@EdT.-xt6yv
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PM8:29 âŻïž
@aksks762
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMgreat job comrades! jesus is lord! there will be a sudden change soon. there won't be anything like a gradual change about it. and, it will be "revolutionary" i love learning about your philosophy. it is very interesting what makes you tick. please keep making these videos so i can keep learning. know true peace comrades! btw, if you read the book called "the cause of hitler's germany," it is interesting too.
@hexon6956
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMJacksepticeye??
@JulianH-co7qg
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMThis video is odd. It starts by explaining the differences between idealism and materialism, and then it starts giving a physics and chemistry lesson. But how does one leap into something like communism?
@paulh2468
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMAn easy way to prove that private property has been around for millions of years is to give your dog its own bed for a few weeks. Then, as in many Youtube videos, you lie in your dog's bed. Your dog will be very upset, because you have clearly stolen the bed, which is your dog's property. Humans have the same instinct. Marx was deliberately blind to human nature. No doubt he wanted to kill most humans, in order to bring about a synthetic communist ubermensch. The ultimate Dialectic. The best explanation for why Marx wanted to end private property is because he was a psychopath and a kleptomaniac. He didn't want to work, and ended up sponging off relatives and 'friends' his whole life. Even now, the PRC and DPRK engage in large scale theft of IP. And just about everything else from their own people. They self-justify this by inventing victimhood, publicly. Privately they use Marx's pseudo-philosopy as a bogus justification.
@paulh2468
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMIf Marx's delusions and logical errors were true, then Communism would be the only form of government now. The USSR would still exist, and the 100 million Chinese people murdered by Mao would not have been murdered. Only 5 communist countries still exist. Why is this? Marx created the pathological groundwork for Lenin to claim his dictatorship was required, which is the opposite of Rule BY the Proletariate. Lenin basically thought the prols were too stupid to run the state. Wealth and power are synonymous, and Lenin accumulated all power to himself. Like all other tyrants in history, making him a hypocrite. Plato's 3 parts of the soul are speculative and unprovable, Just like Dialectical Materialism. Marx's criticism of Capitalism might be partially right, but his treatment for the disease was to kill the patient. Which later communists decided: kill just about every human you can (aka genocide). Marx's 3 laws aren't laws, they are fanciful, unprovable beliefs. Marx fails completely to understand real human psychology, and that personal property has existed for all of human history. Communism is anti-human, and will disappear. Like all other flawed beliefs before it. Capitalism requires money to function. The first coin appeared 2700 years ago. Communism lasted barely 2 centuries. Materially, communism can be judged by its results: as a completely failed experiment in terror. Dialectic Materialism is understandable, if you torture logic until it screams.
@jkcjkcjkcjkcjkcjkcjk
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMOnly 4 minutes in on a 17 minute long video and already had 3 ads interrupt… change your monetization settings, this is ridiculous. I get that being a Marxist Youtuber probably doesn't pay well but it's hard to even follow your script when every 60 seconds without warning a different voice, at a different volume level tries to sell me a product. Kind of ironic tbh
@BBSF88
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMThis channel deserves a Lenin Peace prizeđ. Highly informative.
@JohnBrockman
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMGotta say, the science analogies are garbage. You can't reason from a pot of boiling water to historical changes any more than you can reason from lobsters pissing out their eyes to the idea that men should dominate women. Not only are there plenty of examples of gradual processes within the physical, material world, but there's no justification for going from one to the other. Perhaps it's intended as an explanatory tool, but that's not the way it sounded to me.
It may be core to Marxism, but it's trash.
@1991Aski
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMSocialism – the socio-economic application of Taoism (Yin & Yang – Dialectics)
Dialectics – the MLM take on Twin Flames…. đđ
@Marxism_Today , have you tried linking dialectical materialism with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle – using Bohr Wave-Particle duality??
@Letstalklakecounty
03/05/2025 - 3:37 PMUmm…your description of Idealism is drastically fallacious.