Have you heard of dialectical materialism, but always found it rather vague or hard to understand? Do you struggle to understand its relationship to Hegel, and do you feel you need more detail and explanation? Then this podcast series if for you.

In this nine part series, Daniel Morley breaks the philosophy of Marxism down into different subjects, such as the relationship between quantity and quality, and part and whole. 

Extensively using quotations from Hegel, Marx, Engels and others, this series leaves no stone unturned. There are countless talks on dialectical materialism available online, but none are anything like as extensive as this series, nor that are helpfully broken down by subject.

The ABCs of Marxist philosophy

There are many ways to categorise philosophy, but at the most fundamental level, all philosophies are either idealist or materialist. Marxist philosophy is fundamentally materialist, that is to say, it believes the material universe is the only universe, and that mind is a product of it.

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What is materialism? | The ABCs of Marxist philosophy (Part 1)

The question of idealism versus materialism most frequently expresses itself in the question of knowledge. Do we know anything for certain, and if so, how? And why has this question stubbornly persisted throughout the history of philosophy?

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How can we know anything? | The ABCs of Marxist philosophy (Part 2)

Are humans greedy or selfish? Do we have a soul or an essence? Is there a way that we should live, one more true than how we live now? And how does this relate to the question of knowledge and thought?

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What is human nature? | The ABCs of Marxist philosophy (Part 3)

Logic is usually seen as a dry, boring discipline suitable only for pedants. This is because it is traditionally seen as having no relation to the real world of objects, and is instead a self-contained system of rules for thought. Marxism completely rejects this formalism and seeks to find the basis for our logic in this real world.

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Formal logic | The ABCs of Marxist philosophy (Part 4)

Marxist logic is dialectical, not formal. That means its starting point is change and contradiction - all truths become untruths because all that exists will perish. But how do we use logic to understand change? How do things change? 

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Dialectical logic: quantity and quality | The ABCs of Marxist philosophy (Part 5)

Thought is inherently about generalisation and universals. It takes us beyond the immediacy of the here and now, and links things. This contradiction - between part and whole, individual and type - is at the heart of philosophy’s deepest problems. The need to grasp reality as a complex whole, instead of as atomised, self-contained parts, is likewise one of the deepest problems for science.

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Dialectical logic: part and whole | The ABCs of Marxist philosophy (Part 7)

The past week has seen the largest wave of protests in China for over 30 years, as discontent over harsh lockdown measures, bureaucratic mismanagement and corruption, and the deep crisis of Chinese capitalism has boiled over onto the streets.

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Mass protests: Where is China going?

From 1925 to 1927, the young Chinese working class waged a revolutionary struggle against the decaying order of the warlords and imperialists. Tragically, the errors of the Stalinist Comintern led to the crushing of this revolution.

In this talk, Daniel Morley outlines the key lessons of these events, and draws out the need for class independence and a socialist programme.

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