The marxists are going to have a real tough time when it’s pointed out, repeatedly, that GENETICS are a MATERIAL CONDITION... how does this not ultimately destroy them? If you want to be a MATERIALIST well... how do you square this with avoiding “zoological” study of man? https://twitter.com/mechapoetic/status/1191127406272286721 …
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
Marxism isn't really very materialist. By "materialism" it means idealism but about the economy.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I agree but they always pretend to be “purely materialist”
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
"Materialism means everything is environmental influences, right?"
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Replying to @Outsideness @Logo_Daedalus
... Funniest part of this is Marx's request that Darwin write an endorsement of Das Kapital, with the response "You're kidding, right?"
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Replying to @Outsideness @Logo_Daedalus
Tbf, Marx anticipated evolution. 2 full years before Darwin has the idea.
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Replying to @siberianentropy @Logo_Daedalus
Evolutionary ideas long pre-existed Darwin. It's Natural Selection, not evolution, that is the breakthrough.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Logo_Daedalus
Agreed, yes. But also Darwin was the first to provide evidence for it. Marxism is materialist though. Marx wouldn’t have gotten to evolutionary theories w/o the power of fleshing out historical materialism. Most serious Marxists understand genetics are material condition.
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Not really. Blank slatism and universalistic humanism completely dominates the Marxist world, with a very few marginal exceptions.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Logo_Daedalus
I don’t think this is true of only Marxists. I do think though, there have been disastrous cases where Marxists (e.g. some Marxist who denied race related stuff) have used pseudoscience bc certain truths made them uncomfortable, just like the Nazis, and the Austrians e.g. Schütz
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