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Dialectical Materialism in the Age of Communism
He was talking about dialectical materialism as a major part of the themes of the book. He said that he tried to explain what it's like. And he basically said it's slippery. It's like trying to put handcuffs on an eel. But then they make you feel dumb, because you should have known that a snake is only a tail. That's the only place I've ever heard it mentioned. Now here I am reading a paper about education, mass education, and it's like, central premise is this kind of communist propaganda philosophy. Like, it's such a weird thing to have encountered. So I was like, this is weird. But okay, and then I