Reducing spiritual experiences to idealistic spooks probably won't help all that much in either understanding them as phenomena or connecting/organizing with people who have them.
For me this raises the question: How exactly can Marxism be synthesized with spirituality? Like, what is spirituality if not ultimately an exercise in idealism. I know that is extremely reductionist but still...
I remember the ML Youtuber Hakim explaining how his faith and Marxism are not in direct contradiction with one another. While this is encouraging in the aim of utilizing religion as another tool for Marxists to perhaps nurture a sense of community and interconnectedness, I'm not entirely convinced.
I'm with you. I don't think you need a full understanding of dialectical materialism to be sympathetic to revolutionary goals...but the core flaw with many of the arguments against Marxism is idealism. People want things to be a certain way that they aren't.
I'd love to learn more though. I need to look into liberation theology.
literally the definition of Marxism but ok
Idealistic spooks are fake, google 'superstructure'
Reducing spiritual experiences to idealistic spooks probably won't help all that much in either understanding them as phenomena or connecting/organizing with people who have them.
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For me this raises the question: How exactly can Marxism be synthesized with spirituality? Like, what is spirituality if not ultimately an exercise in idealism. I know that is extremely reductionist but still...
I remember the ML Youtuber Hakim explaining how his faith and Marxism are not in direct contradiction with one another. While this is encouraging in the aim of utilizing religion as another tool for Marxists to perhaps nurture a sense of community and interconnectedness, I'm not entirely convinced.
I'm with you. I don't think you need a full understanding of dialectical materialism to be sympathetic to revolutionary goals...but the core flaw with many of the arguments against Marxism is idealism. People want things to be a certain way that they aren't.
I'd love to learn more though. I need to look into liberation theology.