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T ≠ F if and only if T does not conflict with F [closed]
Let T be any theory that defines Lenin and capitalist ideology as a symptom of falsehood. We know that the theory T is promoted as being correct, but F is another matter.
I would like to know about ...
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Marxist value theory and falling rates of profit: Surplus after technological innovation
I am reading a companion piece to the third volume of Capital (L?hnberg, 1975). The author discusses Marx theory of the tendency of profit rates to fall with increased organic composition of capital (...
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How did Marx think philosophers should change the world once they have understood it?
Marx famously said that philosophers up 'til now have been understanding the world, but the real task is to change it.
Let's assume that the rulers and the people have decided that yes, let's do it ...
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What exactly is Trotskyism?
When it comes to the currents of 'Marxism' (in quotes because some scholars do not even think he was a Marxist at all, but a crypto-bourgeois opportunist), none confuses me as much as Trotskyism.
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Is violence ever morally justifiable to restore dignity in conditions of extreme passive coercion? [closed]
I came up with a thought experiment to reach the limits of reason, to bring to light what I consider a very important problem.
Is violence justified in matters of dignity, or lack thereof?
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Is Denying the Dialectic a Performative Contradiction?
The dialectical method, often associated with Hegel and Marx, posits that contradictions drive the development of ideas through a process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Suppose there is a ...
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Is there an equivocation in the statement "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"?
It seems to me that this revolutionary slogan is somewhat ambiguous, in that what is needed and what constitutes one's ability, is left undefined. For example, as a warm-hearted humanistic type I ...
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How would Marx respond to this social individualist argument?
How would Marx respond to this social individualist argument?
Most people, both rich and poor, and engaged in whatever conflicts, would not choose to go to war for a significant but not huge increase ...
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What does Engels' phrase "in the last instant" mean?
In Anti-Duhring Engels was already employing the phrase "in the last
instant", which he was later to use when he tried to exorcize some of
the determinist readings which he freely admitted, ...
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Layperson's interpretation of Marxism, communism, socialism [closed]
Disclaimer: I have distributed this across multiple Reddit subs but no valid counter-arguments.
TL;DR I haven't read Marx, the communist manifesto, or Marxist dogma-fueled commie guidebooks. But I ...
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Can anyone define Althusser's unique contribution to 'ideology'?
Can anyone define Althusser's unique contribution to 'ideology', how he extends Marx's analysis, in effect. I may have read a primer by him, but decades ago now, though I always have this slight sense ...
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Why is goodness and self sacrifice less hostile to life than anything else, absolutely meaningful?
when that bourgeois life-form disappeared, the remaining bourgeois “way of life” transformed into a form of asceticism which became hostile against life itself. The same holds true for the ...
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What does it mean to have a "corpse in your mouth"? [closed]
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring
explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive
about love and what is positive in the refusal of ...
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Gramsci and his hegemonic block
Since a few weeks I'am reading Antonio Gramsci to learn more about his concept of historical or hegemonic block.
But the liturature is quite obscure. It is either boring or extremly abstract so that I ...
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Can the capitalist class, as individuals, relate to proletarians in non-abusive ways? [closed]
Can the capitalist class, as individuals, relate to proletarians in non-abusive ways?
Famously, the bourgeois class is composed of individuals alienated from each other, but increasingly it seems the ...
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