Like how the do you “do” historical materialism? Or dialectical materialism? How the fuck do I look at a problem and then apply this method? What are the steps? Why is it so difficult to learn left theory? I feel like I have to fight people to learn because the first thing anyone will do is throw jargon at me. Like imagine you're trying to learn physics and everyone says you start by reading Einstein as if a beginner would even be able to understand what Einstein is saying, who he is responding to, what the concepts in his work are.
At some point once you think you understand a concept you actually try your hand at it. If you're studying calculus you'll do a bunch of problem sets and that actually helps you understand what it is that you're doing, how mistakes happen, and how to get better. How do I practice this skill? Every suggestion I see basically amounts to: read lots of stuff. And I don't see how this is different than just being a lib and reading a bunch of stuff and popping off with hot takes
Edit: kind of confused that there are lots of responses but no answer.
Please read Marx.
I intend to (though I'm not unfamiliar with the ideas) and would encourage people to engage with these materials as well. The meaning of that last line is to address the overall idea that you can't have a position until you meet X criteria (often self-imposed)--specifically addressing common criticisms related to "reading". I'm very new to these ideas still and want to emphasize the partially ignorant individual's ability to have the correct position before knowing everything. It, for me at least, makes the learning easier when I have a intuitive ideological picture to fit it into.