My background is hard science, and to the extent anyone there knows about dialectical materialism, it's mostly to bash it (trying to tie it in with Lysenkoism, for example). As a result, I mostly considered it from a "is this a useful way to think about the world" perspective. I have to think more, but I think it will be helpful to me when I go to talk with others.
Thanks for writing this out.
My background is hard science, and to the extent anyone there knows about dialectical materialism, it's mostly to bash it (trying to tie it in with Lysenkoism, for example). As a result, I mostly considered it from a "is this a useful way to think about the world" perspective. I have to think more, but I think it will be helpful to me when I go to talk with others.