ok

so alongside the obvious answer of "smoking some serious shit"

what exactly is going on here

Now

I might pass this off as just one crackpot

but there's more than one

"Reason in Revolt - Dialectical Philosophy and Modern Science"

seems similar

There's also some book on infighting in the USSR over relativity and dialectical materialism

now, I don't really belong here

but I like to think I have at least some understanding of what the position being taken is

and I can't figure out what the hell the supposed incompatability between relativity and dialectical materialism that these authors try to resolve is

Well, I study physics

and like many people who study things

get entertainment out of looking at the most crackpot stuff people write about it

at least in the case of lysenkoism the reasoning for the crackpot makes sense

but here it just seems to be pure paint huffing

an error made more than once suggests that there must be something causing that error

well that's the obvious guess

The books posit that there's some incompatability between relativity and dialectical materialism

but they never seem to explain what

because the discussion is about the books?

No, just these crackpot books

well the first example i gave doesn't seem prominent

but the second was by Ted Grant

who isn't exactly a hackjob liberal

Trotskyist who was active in the UK for decades

part of Militant

or, was

founded IMT