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[–]emanresu 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Listening to these idealist morons makes me hate to call myself a Marxist.

As you should.

[–]bopomofodojo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No, I have read Marx and his grasp on the reality of historical economy is flawless. So were most early Marxists.

Marxism was diluted and dismembered by postmodernist philosophers in the mid-20th century, which has filtered down to most "leftists" and "Marxists" in the west, resulting in endless navel-gazing about pronouns and sex and gender and who has read more obscure theory. Postmodern thought and Marxism are fundamentally incompatible, since one is by definition a notion of historical narrative, and the other postulates that historical narratives, and even the notion of "truth", are false and unknowable. These are those who I do not side with, not actual Marxists fighting for a proletarian revolution based on material conditions and reality or fighting for mass class consciousness. I am not ashamed of them, they are my comrades. Though I see what you're trying to imply there, right-winger most likely.