99% of the time, Materialism means being driven by greed(material wealth), while idealism means being driven by moral principles(ideals). This set of definitions is NOT the one that philosophers used.
Marx and Engels discussed materialism and idealism in philosophy, which is a completely different thing. Even in philosophy, both terms are extremely vague and are not enough to mean anything on their own without pages upon pages of elaboration.
It's laughable how online leftists throw around these words without even knowing what they mean. No, calling something "idealist" is not a valid critique and saying "material conditions" instead of "reality" does not make your argument stronger. Read an actual book for once and never ever use those words again. Save them for serious writing of substance.
Calling bullshit because you wouldn't be making a post like this so hostilely intonated. This was :bait: from the start.
I should have noticed when you said that most western leftists equate "materialism" with greed. Or the fact that you said "leftists" to begin with which is itself an ultimately meaningless term.
I'd rather have it "hostilely intonated" than to allow people to continue in their delusional LARP. If you have no actual points aside from taking issue with my tone, I see no point in continuing wasting my time with you.
We get it you're the one true leftist
Me neither :ban-hammer:
lmao of course