I guess I'm looking for myth that promotes communal ideas, relates to worker alienation, etc.? I think of the book of Acts in the bible, that's somewhere between an example of how christians are supposed to live and a defense of paul before he's executed, right? but incidentally the book has ideas that can be carried forward and developed into a marxist-friendly understanding of how to live, even if it's loaded in stuff a well read marxist would find objectionable, there will be no perfect examples and i find it tiresome to get lost in pedantry about it so spare me!!!

I also wanna write some. Like "hades began to push and proliferate communism because he was horrified by the trauma of the humans coming through his gates and despised our cruel fates" feels like a decent basis for a mythic story idk

look i dont wanna get into the relationship of myth and religion to marxism, not really, i just like writing fake myth and i need an idea of what's out there in order to make something worthy of the concept

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    11 days ago

    Dialectical materials philosophy is a European philosophy based in other European philosophies

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      11 days ago

      It's the philosophical worldview of scientific socialism. Presumably it would have been developed even if the Paleocene stabilized and Paleolake Megachad civilization had an industrial revolution. But that's impossible to prove.

    • sneak100 [she/her, they/them]
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      11 days ago

      based in other European philosophies

      It didn't appear entirely in a European vacuum; there are no "purely European" ideas; Europe is a fake continent. Marx was at least in part inspired (invidious link) by the writings of anthropologists studying the legal systems of the indigenous nations of Turtle Island, who were (and are) being genocided by euros.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        11 days ago

        Can you link something written? I.hagent read everything Marx ever wrote and am genuinely interested but asking 45 of my minutes in a reply is a bit much. And yeah, you're technically right but you're also being really pedantic. A German dude was inspired by another German dude in broad strokes here.

        • Wertheimer [any]
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          10 days ago

          Engels, in Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, discusses the work of Lewis Henry Morgan

          https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch03.htm