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[โ€“] swiftessay@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I love how people use this kind of metaphysical argument, invoking human nature and such, and then have the nerve to call Marxism idealistic.

Marxist logic is literally about eschewing idealistic metaphysical arguments and focusing on the material conditions that influence history. Go read the Misery of Philosophy, people ffs.

Guys, you can keep jerking off each other all you want, but pseudo-scientific arguments are simply not sufficient to prove your point.

Science persists over millennia, builds compasses and then ships and then rockets and now computers. Science makes whole societies vanish or survive. Over the course of too many years.

Now let's look at communism. It's not science, it's a socioreligious sect, of the kind that Lucian of Samosata was ironic about, as those were plentiful in his time.