system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
In a Marxist sense, what are dialectics?

I’ve had trouble understanding what dialectics are and I would appreciate if anyone could explain.
gpt
When (many types of) Marxists talk about dialectics they're usually talking about a *material dialectic*. That is, a dialectic that manifests itself in our economic system. Different people think about dialectics differently in subtle ways but, more or less, the materialist dialectic is a kind of 'tension' (or, contradiction) in the interests of opposing social classes that manifests in what is called "class conflict" which will eventually resolve itself in a revolutionary upheaval of the prevailing economic system. And thinking about history in these terms is something that Marxists tend to want to do.

(I should note that Marx himself didn't talk much about "dialectical materialism" as such. Other thinkers are attributed to this, like Engels.)