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.
Others have mentioned the Red Menace episodes as well as Mao's "On Contradiction" which I both wholeheartedly will also endorse. Something just clicked for me when I read On Contradiction in a way that just made sense.
I would also recommend "The Meaning of Marxism" by Paul D'Amato. I read it in like 2018 but it breaks down a lot of Marxist concepts into easy to understand, modern day explanations. I just checked and there's like a 5 page portion on Dialectics. I still remember that book being able to easily explain Idealism vs. Materialism when I didnt necessarily understand those concepts way back when.