Dialectical Materialism

Dr Ranjeet Brar delivers this lecture at a party school on the question of Marxist Philosophy. (Reupload of the original Nov 17, 2015 video with improved audio: ) It is very common to hear people say that “Marx’s ideas are beautiful in theory, but they don’t work in practice,” but it is almost universally the case that those who express this opinion have not actually read Marx – and have little or no understanding of his real philosophy. Besides revealing the mechanism of capitalist exploitation, Marx’s truly great gift to human knowledge was his philosophical method – his “revolutionary dialectics”, as Lenin called it – which not only applies to the general study of thought and knowledge, but has profoundly influenced all other fields of scientific study – from the study of the natural world (the natural sciences) to the study of society and its history (the