Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

  • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    181·
    1 year ago

    suppose you could make an argument that a non-communist dialectical materialist is also a Marxist

    That’s my argument

    though I’ve never seen it used that way in practice.

    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.

    • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
      51·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.