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The opening to The German Ideology by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

'left' is a social construct. how we define it has a material effect on power and how its distributed. consider for example how the concept of 'person' has historically been used to justify slavery, strip abortion rights, dehumanize lgbtq+ people, and empower corporations

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"Capitalist realism... holds that no matter the flaws or externalities, capitalism is the only possible means of operation... 'reflexive impotence'... describes a phenomenon where people recognize the flawed nature of capitalism, but believe there are no means of effecting change."

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

marxism is not crude materialism. marx argued that the end of capitalism would be precipitated by class consciousness. notice that class consciousness is something mental. it's an idea but its rooted in material reality. there is a dialectical relationship between ideology and economic base

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

im sure this wont ever happen but on the off chance someone somewhere somehow mispresents marxism and makes some silly claim about historical materialism this passage does a good job of clarifying it

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

lets imagine a society where 4 people own their own houses and each makes 50k. median household income is 50k now imagine housing is too expensive for them to live alone. they all move in together in one house. mhi is 200k wow! mhi just quadrupled! what a good and useful metric!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

capitalists do what theyve done for centuries. liberals refuse to think outside the present news cycle. they mock anybody who thinks the past is relevant. to them history is disconnected. to them only the present matters. but without the past they completely fail to understand it

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments