• pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    182·
    11 hours ago

    Western Marxists need to understand this too, they have such an idealist perspective on everything.

    • RiverRock@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I begin with me, the center of the universe.

      Now, to look at the universe one piece at a time and determine whether each piece is Good or Bad

    • burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Then we need to apply this to some LATAM Marxists too, specially Trots (but some MLs too, unfortunately).

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      51·
      7 hours ago

      sometimes, it feels like western marxism is as such a degraded state that it can be better described as half-step-marxism.

      • RiverRock@lemmy.ml
        61·
        2 hours ago

        You know how scientists will breed knockout animals, such as mosquitoes, with certain disease-carrying genes “knocked out”, with the idea that they’ll outcompete the natural variant in the wild and deny the pathogen a vector to spread? That’s how I see western marxism. Capital’s intellectual science project of creating a “marxism” incapable of threatening it in the real world, but that they could massively fund to occupy all the niches they wanted to deny to communists. The more explicitly political arm of all that Gloria Steinem, Jackson Pollock type shit. A controlled subculture used to misdirect the revolutionary potential of the many points of struggle at that time, pacifying them into navel-gazing individualism by stoking their intellectual chauvinism on the one hand and invoking the image of the authoritarian bad communist on the other, conditioning the culture to produce Chomskies and Zizeks instead of Lenins and Maos.