“If we can say anything about life, and be absolutely correct…we can say that all things change, everything changes, all the time…change is both permanent and constant!!” — Kwame Ture, Portland State, October 9, 1973
”Dialectical Materialism”, where have you heard the word? I was introduced to it when I began organizing in 2016, and ironically found myself in more academy adjacent spaces. Although I had heard the word and was beginning to come across it in texts as a result of my political education, I couldn’t actually define, let alone, make sense of its importance to the work I was doing as an organizer attached to a revolutionary nationalist movement. And so, I want to try and kick this off with a clear overstanding (Word to Sanyika Shakur). Once we define it, we can discuss its importance.