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But the realm of materialist analysis is not equivalent to dialectical materialism. If the former is just applying the scientific method to understanding the material world (which, I'll add, doesn't mean much in isolation), dialectical materialism is a specific framework by which the scientific method is applied. Sort of like how physics and chemistry are both just applying the scientific method to understanding the natural world, yet each has their own framework that may capture the truth to different degrees in different situations.
I don't disagree, which is why I happily do mutual aid work with MLs. I know we all want the same things, materially speaking. The problem is that anarchists have the underlying fear that our allies will, at some point, decide to violently enforce their own framework of how the material world works (or can work) onto us, justifying it by claiming you're simply using science. It doesn't help that y'all already take every opportunity to explain how those of us who are rightfully wary of people claiming to have absolute truth are simply misguided or uneducated.