• JuneFall [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Just focusing on:

    a materialist is...

    The person obviously has a problem with not understanding that the same term can have different meanings and as such concepts. This is one obvious flaw. A good question could be to ask why do they have this misconception? I blame the book worship of dictionaries and the status that is given to them in schools over the course of 10-20 years. They are introduced as arbiter of what is to be said and what is wrong. Which is obviously actively marginalizing non standard opinion (and arguable is actually creating the standard in the first place even against the will of the majority of kids/students).

    Even from that little could they create a wrong understanding within the US imperial core in regards to Marxism and Idealism. However the audacity (is it lack of knowledge?) to claim that experts are not aware what marxism, idealism, materialism is? Audacity!

    However their :ideology: zizek of a trashcan shows. They are :lib-brained:. Lib is when people do good stuff and good stuff is stuff I agree with. Lib according to them isn't what Libs do and not a category of analytical importance but of shifting moral weights.

    The contradiction between what they think liberal thought is and the action of liberals in the US is not explainable. Neoliberalism doesn't explain it enough. This is a prime example of one kind of false conscious.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Maybe they just want to avoid the topic. You could call them phleb and wub, Marxists are phleb and believe that the bringer of progress in history comes from material conditions if they don't want to get hung up on the language.