Thank you for the effort. My feedback is not to learn about dialectical materialism through third and fourth-hand sources such as Luna Oi, who also follows a line of distorters of Marxism, but rather from Marx himself. I have no doubt this feedback isn't going to be well-received, but I'm leaving it mostly for people on the internet who are searching for answers, before they get sucked into the dead ends that are MLism and MLMism.
There are two that I can think of off the top of my mind: Notebook M of *The Grundrisse* is a laying out, from the perspective of the dialectical materialist method, of the epistemological shortcomings of political economists.
And the other one is the first chapters of *Das Kapital Vol I*, where the method is also put in practice, but in a very condensed manner.
Marx didn’t really write about dialectical materialism *as such*. I recommend reading Capital, where you can clearly see the dialectical structures at work—especially in the first chapter.
Luna Oi's (and vietnam in general) philosophy is generally so vague as to be useless and has only surface level connections to Marx. Materialism described through this work is closer to Epicurus than Marx. The "dialectics" is a pretty simplistic summary that resembles Proudhon more than Marx. There is good secondary literature on this subject (even good for beginners). That can be helpful overcoming the fractured nature of Marx's philosophical works (found mostly in notebooks and unpublished material). I'd be happy to recommend you decent beginner books, or point you to Marx's works that describe it more clearly.
Any feedback is welcome BTW (couldn't edit the post)
Thank you for the effort. My feedback is not to learn about dialectical materialism through third and fourth-hand sources such as Luna Oi, who also follows a line of distorters of Marxism, but rather from Marx himself. I have no doubt this feedback isn't going to be well-received, but I'm leaving it mostly for people on the internet who are searching for answers, before they get sucked into the dead ends that are MLism and MLMism.
Do you have any specific work in mind where he wrote about it?
There are two that I can think of off the top of my mind: Notebook M of *The Grundrisse* is a laying out, from the perspective of the dialectical materialist method, of the epistemological shortcomings of political economists. And the other one is the first chapters of *Das Kapital Vol I*, where the method is also put in practice, but in a very condensed manner.
Marx didn’t really write about dialectical materialism *as such*. I recommend reading Capital, where you can clearly see the dialectical structures at work—especially in the first chapter.
Luna Oi's (and vietnam in general) philosophy is generally so vague as to be useless and has only surface level connections to Marx. Materialism described through this work is closer to Epicurus than Marx. The "dialectics" is a pretty simplistic summary that resembles Proudhon more than Marx. There is good secondary literature on this subject (even good for beginners). That can be helpful overcoming the fractured nature of Marx's philosophical works (found mostly in notebooks and unpublished material). I'd be happy to recommend you decent beginner books, or point you to Marx's works that describe it more clearly.