One of the most wishy-washy, bourgeois philosophy out there. Bitch I know I exist, now how is that going to help us get rid of capitalism.

    • TheBroodian [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I can’t remember who off my head

      Sartre was explicitly an outspoken Marxist and Communist. I believe Camus was also a socialist

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy [any]
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      3 years ago

      basically life has no inherent meaning

      Depends on how one defines "meaning".

      it’s up to individuals to define their own meaning to life an live by it.

      This is one of the best copes for life in late stage capitalism. Nobody would give that much of a shit about stuff like "meaning" or "purpose" if there was a sense of solidarity between people, humane working conditions, and all efforts being directly or indirectly related towards a shared human project to improve living conditions, understand the world, etc.

      Instead what exists in the west is a hellscape where individuals are pitted against each other in market competition, for the sake of perpetuating the rotting machine of capitalism where profit is the bottom line, built on a mountain of corpses and human misery. In the face of all this illogical suffering it is natural for an individual to ask "why?".