Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)
Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)
Marxism is the classical version of communism developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. As opposed to later ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism and Marxism-Leninism-Maoism.
Marxism isn’t some magical dogma, it’s a set of tools for analyzing the world and a vision of a better future that came from the use of these tools and the analysis they gave. Marxism-Leninism and MLM are both to an extent a use of these tools to further analyzing the world.
Without Lenin we wouldn’t have a good analysis of Imperialism and methods for theory application to the real world. Ala vanguard party and all that.
No, marxism is a lense through which to analyze capitalism. It isnt communist by itself, although marx was a communist.
It’s both, criticism of capitalism and the inevitability of the communist revolution were part of the same philosophy. I suppose you could make an argument that a non-communist dialectical materialist is also a Marxist, though I’ve never seen it used that way in practice.
That’s my argument
Sometimes capitalists spout marxist shit and it is recorded. Marxist capitalists are the worst because they have an understanding of the contradictions their counterparts dont. More commonly there are non communist Marxists in philosophy.
I agree that almost all Marxists are communists, I just felt your initial response was a simplification that lost more meaning in the simplification than it necessarily needed to.
I only got my undergrad in philosophy so I’d certainly defer to someone with more experience in the field, but I’ve only ever heard the term with regards to his economic theories.
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I have no formal training in philosophy maybe I need to read less philosophy if philosophy undergrads aren’t being exposed to it
Isn’t it extremely common to accept only some of a person’s ideas? Most modern historians and sociologists would agree that history is mostly driven by material forces rather than by ‘great men’ or supernatural forces. Doesn’t mean they have to be communists.