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

@Tophattingson Materialism is for nihilists and fedoralords.

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

@Tophattingson How do you manage to fuck up a god damn doctrine so bad that the reader cannot figure out what it actually means?

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

What?

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

but here it just seems to be pure paint huffing

And that it is.

Communism is such a clusterfuck, it is almost indescribable how bad things get when you start talking about it.

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

I think that it is the beliefs of communism itself.

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

Okay?

Why do the books matter in this discussion?

because the discussion is about the books?

No?

I thought we were talking about materialism and communism.

No, just these crackpot books

I do not care about the shitty books that any hackjob liberal could have written up in a few weeks in his spare time with sub par knowledge on communist beliefs.

well the first example i gave doesn't seem prominent

but the second was by Ted Grant

who isn't exactly a hackjob liberal

Who is he again?

Trotskyist who was active in the UK for decades

part of Militant

or, was

founded IMT

>Trotskyist that cannot explain materialism
Holy shit, that is fucking pitiful.