Why dont this "leftists" go ask Pol Pot what happens when you dont read theory?

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    • gvngndz [none/use name,comrade/them]
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      The psychological angle isn't that people randomly kill each other(?), and equating pre-agricultural human societies with industrial ones is a big mistake, just because primitive communism existed in small tribes doesn't mean fully industrialized communism can exist in a world with billions of people.

      I ofcourse agree with you, I don't agree with their arguments, but we can't just ignore them and act like it's all "pseudoscience" especially when most of us aren't experts on the topic.

    • gvngndz [none/use name,comrade/them]
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      You just edited your comment to include the criticism of postmodernism, the grand narrative thing isn't a stretch imo, infact I actually agree with the postmodernists on that one. And simply saying "it doesn't matter all I care about worker's emancipation" isn't a very wise take if you are aiming to use Marxism to emancipate workers. Because if postmodernism is true, Marxism (in it's traditional form) is false.

        • gvngndz [none/use name,comrade/them]
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          Sorry, I was sleeping, but, "Postmodernism" doesn't reject material reality existing(?) I don't really know what you're talking about. In fact "Postmodernism" isn't really a coherent ideology at all, all it is a rejection of grand narratives, which is something most people believe in.

          Anyways I don't really want to restart this argument.

      • ZizekianHotDogVendor [comrade/them]
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        Postmodernism couldn't be true by its own standards precisely because it rejects narratives of truth. Calling postmodernism true would be precisely nonsensical