Reading a few articles and posts, and I'm still just not getting it beyond a very basic understanding of dialectics being "stuff impacts other stuff and then affects other things including the original thing". Materialism is easier for me to get.
Can anyone recommend a good book about it that is good for non-philosophers? Something that would work as an audiobook? I love Marx and Engels and generally I would agree with first going to the original sources to tbh their language can be too arcane for me to understand a concept I struggle with this much.
The Red Menace podcast. Episode: The fundamentals of Marxism.
We Red Theory podcast. Episode: WTF is Dialectical Materialism
On top of those, the Dialectics Deep Dive series on Rev Left has been a great supplemental for seeing patterns of the dialectic in action and theory. Although they're really long there's some really good moments of clarity I had listening to them, like bringing up the adage about no man stepping into the same river twice.