for example all time greats are:
Intersectionality is opposed Marxism
Queer Theory is opposed to Marxism
Postmodernism is opposed to Marxism
Postcolonialism is opposed to Marxism
Feminism is opposed to Marxism
Identity politics exists because of Stalinism
it's all just shit like that, they seem to fundamentaly oppose any theory after Lenin.
I've tried arguing wih them for example about Intersectionslity, but they just say that it can't incorporate class because then they wouldn't need to use it anymore because it is the only thing that matters.
all reform is useless because it doesn't remove capitalism(black liberation, lgbt+ liberation?)
They now try to explain foucault and described him as anti-marxist.(turns out that's true)
"Queer Theorie says it is reactionary to be cis." "intersectionality leads to infighting about who is the most opressed"
They use postmodernism and idealism as some kind of slurs for ideas and all of the above is idealist, only the material ever matters. Idealism is petit-burgoise, post-modern nonsense
Also they are explicitly anti-pluralist in their organisation and don't want to do anything except growing by recruiting students. Like I can't even convince them to go help the foodbank.
Because these people(at hte foodbank) are apparently too pre-occupied with survuval to educate themselves about marxism. So any energy on them is wasted. They can't be useful as activists and we must grow first before we can help people. (which is a shit reason)
They also say shit like that all opression is based on class, and that intersectionality splits the working class and should be avoided. That privileges don't exist because you can't make individuals responsible for opression because it all comes from above.
This video explains what is happening here. It's their exact points.
They only ever go somewehere to hand out flyers, not for support. (one guy actually said we couldn't go to the foodbank beecause we would have to do work there and couldn't just hand out flyers)
I don't know if still have the energy to fight against this bullshit and I've read some more about intersectionality but, they've "indoctrinated" themselves about this shit for years and i am not making any progress. It makes me angry and tired.
Maybe I’ve not read enough Marx (I haven’t), but I have trouble completely believing that some opium addict from the 1800s managed to construct a 100% comprehensive worldview that requires absolutely no further considerations beyond it. We can & should read other shit
No gods, no masters. Do not fall for false prophets, nothing is sacred.
Don't fall for false prophets, but actually read what Marx said and understand it before critiquing it. Don't take it as religion. The fundamental issues around value and commodity form and historical materialism are vital and a lot of leftists fall into a false prophet, where their false prophet is ideology that utopians ages ago argued incorrectly and just repeat capitalist positions as socialism.
The account is LiterallySatan so maybe it's a bit. And they, Satan, are our true master. Good advixe though, regardeless
Well, at the very least it took until Lenin to work out the first treatment of Imperialism.
Lenin's treatment isn't exactly original lol outside of taking an established framework and applying it to WW1. He based his essay heavily off of Hilferding and Hobson.
I don't think there are many semi-serious people who believe you shouldn't read anything after Marx, even the most obsessively "orthodox" of Marxists won't go there. The people who do believe that are usually young leftists who have read 5 books and now they think that's pretty much everything.
However, the main reason people stress the importance of Marx etc is that while his theory is far from touching everything relevant, it set a number of very useful principles, like importance of material analysis, materialism vs idealism, scientific socialism vs utopianism, purpose of philosophy is to change the world, primacy of class struggle, etc.
I agree with this, I definitely worded my bit not greatly
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