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Harry Dubois frfr

Haven’t read Hegel proper, if your goal is to understand Marxism then Elementary Principles of Philosophy is my recommendation. It goes over Idealism, Dialectics, Materialism, and then how they came to form Dialectical and Historical Materialism.

Marxism, reading theory brought me to Historical and Dialectical Materialism, which also brought me to researching the foundations that led up to Marxism that Marx built off of.

I understand, my point is more that the DPRK went from “2 systems, 1 state” to “2 states,” unless I’m missing something. That doesn’t seem like an escalation, but an abandonment of reconcilliation, hence me trying to learn more.

And yea, love these paintings! Looks a lot like my childhood puppy, and is calming to look at.

Are hostilities really ramping up, or is DPRK hunkering down more and disengaging?

Always have been.

That’s a fair interpretation, but it’s also worth noting that Materialism in its Dialectical form was very new, ie created by Marx. There was a ton of misunderstanding surrounding his theories (which remains today).

Nah, I’m just a Communist, I’ve read a good deal of Marx and the gang.

It’s specifically a conversation surrounding misunderstandings of Dialectical Materialism, the example given being one such example.

I think it’s more a consequence of this being an out of context snippet.

I saw a review of Paul Barth’s book [Die Geschichtsphilosophie Hegels und der Hegelianer bis auf Marx und Hartmann] by that bird of ill omen, Moritz Wirth, in the Vienna Deutsche Worte, and this book itself, as well. I will have a look at it, but I must say that if “little Moritz” is right when he quotes Barth as stating that the sole example of the dependence of philosophy, etc., on the material conditions of existence which he can find in all Marx’s works is that Descartes declares animals to the machines, then I am sorry for the man who can write such a thing. And if this man has not yet discovered that while the material mode of existence is the primum agens [primary agent, prime cause] this does not preclude the ideological spheres from reacting upon it in their turn, though with a secondary effect, he cannot possibly have understood the subject he is writing about. However, as I said, all this is secondhand and little Moritz is a dangerous friend. The materialist conception of history has a lot of them nowadays, to whom it serves as an excuse for not studying history. Just as Marx used to say, commenting on the French “Marxists” of the late [18]70s: “All I know is that I am not a Marxist.”

The Base, ie the Mode of Production, is the primary mover. Capitalism is the creator of Liberalism, not the other way around. However, upon acknowledging this, some people fail to “close the loop,” seeing the Superstructure, ie culture, merely as a “projection” from the Base, a constant emittance, rather than 2 components that develop each other dialectically, in spirals.

Not people, the Mode of Production. Capitalism projects cultute that supports it, like Liberalism, but the French “Marxists” didn’t loop that back to Liberalism influencing Capitalism, and then that newly influenced Capitalism projecting new forms of Liberalism. This is why it develops in “spirals,” dialectically.

Yes, they failed to understand the Base and Superstructure having the ability to impact each other.

To be clear, Marx was anti-ideology, it didn’t mean he was against his own framework of analysis nor that “Marxists” are going against Marx by referring to themselves as such, it’s just a funny anecdote.

“All I know is that I am not a Marxist” - Karl Marx

Delicious in Dungeon, Vinland Saga, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, and other classics.

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Programmers of the world, unite!

100%. This is why it’s important to support Palestinian liberation, and why people pointing out that technically Israel is more LGBT friendly are just downplaying genocide.

A people under constant duress will be incredibly reactionary, and the path out of that mindset is progression, not extermination.

You can abolish ownership and make decisions democratically. It’s better than Capitalism where the wealthy few own the majority without democracy.