Do you understand dialectical materialism?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I know it's a Marxist thing, but that is the complete and utter limit of my knowledge. I'd speculate something about man being driven solely by material goals, but then you have "dialectical" thrown in.

It basically means 'abracadabra'.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

To elaborate: 'dialectical materialism' is infamous for meaning absolutely fyck all. It was essentially a magical incantation used by Communists to 'prove' that all of human history pointed towards the inevitable triumph of their beloved Soviet Union. As a theoretical term it is basically gibberish. Marx did not use the term himself (his understand of history, whatever can be said against it, was never that crude), and neither even did Engels.