The point of communism is to use the advances in automation humanity has made up to that point to decrease the amount of labor required for society (instead of using automation to more efficiently accumulate vast riches for the private propertied class) so that humans are able to spend more of their lives enriching it through art and joy and community instead of having to sell apart your life body and soul for capital.
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One saying I relate to is, "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." In what ways does communism or it's adjacent philosophies violate this? and how would you resolve it?
One saying I relate to is, "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." In what ways does communism or it's adjacent philosophies violate this? and how would you resolve it?
It doesn't even apply. There is no perfection in scientific socialism and there is no good in liberal imperialism.
The great part is that Marxism as a result of materialism must deal with the grey lines between concepts. Don't know if you have read about dialectics, but in essence dialectics are the point where opposites turn into each other, and dialectical materialism is about applying dialectics to the best we can to material reality - which inherently means coming into constant conflict with the nature of the material world as impossibly complex and interconnected. Mao has some good poetic writings on dialectical materialism that take influence from daoism which are a great starting point.
"Critical support" is a term you'll see a lot which encapsulates everything we've mentioned here. Critical support is taking the bad with the good without ignoring either, and attempting to produce a position that benefits our purpose without having to focus on the more arbitrary qualities of good and bad and perfect and imperfect. Ultimately as a result of "not just theorizing about the world but changing it" we must interact with all the contradictions inherent to the world in order to definitively guide us towards our goals.
There have been many different offshoot ideologies that have in time mostly been proven wrong, although as time passes we see them continue to come back around in new forms. Particularly Engels has a writing socialism: scientific or utopian that goes into detail on what idealist tendencies that choose to be above the imperfection of struggle get wrong.
The point of communism is to use the advances in automation humanity has made up to that point to decrease the amount of labor required for society (instead of using automation to more efficiently accumulate vast riches for the private propertied class) so that humans are able to spend more of their lives enriching it through art and joy and community instead of having to sell apart your life body and soul for capital.
Sorry for repeating my same comment as to another member but I don't know how to share comment links yet:
One saying I relate to is, "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." In what ways does communism or it's adjacent philosophies violate this? and how would you resolve it?
It doesn't even apply. There is no perfection in scientific socialism and there is no good in liberal imperialism.
Exactly. Its a total Liberal expression that means nothing. No offense to the person asking questions, I'm just sick of that quote
The great part is that Marxism as a result of materialism must deal with the grey lines between concepts. Don't know if you have read about dialectics, but in essence dialectics are the point where opposites turn into each other, and dialectical materialism is about applying dialectics to the best we can to material reality - which inherently means coming into constant conflict with the nature of the material world as impossibly complex and interconnected. Mao has some good poetic writings on dialectical materialism that take influence from daoism which are a great starting point.
"Critical support" is a term you'll see a lot which encapsulates everything we've mentioned here. Critical support is taking the bad with the good without ignoring either, and attempting to produce a position that benefits our purpose without having to focus on the more arbitrary qualities of good and bad and perfect and imperfect. Ultimately as a result of "not just theorizing about the world but changing it" we must interact with all the contradictions inherent to the world in order to definitively guide us towards our goals.
There have been many different offshoot ideologies that have in time mostly been proven wrong, although as time passes we see them continue to come back around in new forms. Particularly Engels has a writing socialism: scientific or utopian that goes into detail on what idealist tendencies that choose to be above the imperfection of struggle get wrong.
Thank you, I appreciate the earnest honesty of your response. Much to think about for me here.