My problem with Marxism writ large is that despite knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that reason is extremely limited and flawed, Marxism is more or less a hyper-rationalist extension of Leftism based on the idea that human reason is objective and the absolute truth.There is no space for the idea that the correspondence theory of truth does not hold. There is no space for the idea that scientific governance is an abomination. From the Marxist perspective, the most dangerous thing imaginable isn't capitalist reaction. It's things like the is-ought problem. Anyone who understands that logic and reason are hallucinations and not to be trusted represents a cacodaemonic force of ruination.It's not unique to Marx's brand of Leftism, his own ideas are built upon a more primordial foundation of Left-Politics, as the Left of the French Assembly absorbed many of the contemporary rationalists of the age. Keynesian economics also suffer from this issue.When Marxists point to the success of China, they will lay a bouqet at the feet of scientific governance. Knowers know though, it was precisely the irrational and intuitive aspects of governance which has seen the CPC bring China into good graces. The Rhetoric is hollow cope.
You accuse leftists of falling for the is-ought fallacy, despite the fact all rightist politics are built on the same principle.
>>18486876Foucault and the postmodernists already pointed this shit out 50 years ago my nigga.
>>18487015Rightism doesn’t exist in the same unified way leftism does exist. The entire left-right spectrum is a leftist construct actually. Anyone calling themself a “rightist” has fallen into a trap and allowed themselves to be defined by their ideological enemies.
>>18486876Marx wasn't practicing rationality though>>18487027>Foucault>pointed this shit outof algerian boys?
this >>18487034rightism is anyone who isn't them
>>18487063All this shows is that rightoids can't actually cooperate because they all believe in different things, while leftoids get so pigeonholed into specific issues they can't think of anything else. Both should perish.
>>18487015Actually, I accuse a specific faction within Leftism and not Leftism as a whole. Hyperrationalist dogmatism is an independent quality that can manifest in one or the other. Your concessive phrase "despite the fact" is incoherent. You can consider the fact you can use rationalism to support or critique social stratification to be yet another example of how problematic it is: one cannot even distinguish right from left if all you have are objective measures. Marx believed they would purely support his own ideas, yet at this stage the right has succumbed to rationalist hyperreality same as the left. Enough of this circus, I say, the left is clearly the moral choice, and shall not be justified by or contained to the rationalist cuckshed.>>18487062>Marx wasn't practicing rationality thoughHis works aren't as explicit about it, but it's undeniable that dialectical materialism was hinging the whole of his ideology on an analytical methodology, structuring it on the rationalist ideals of the time. Beyond that, outside of niche utopian circles "Marxism" these days may as well wholly mean "Marxism-Leninism", and at the very least you'll agree with me that Lenin committed fully to the rationalist governance meme. Trotsky is equally guilty too, though he sits in a middle ground.
>>18487088well that means you should perish, since if you are not a leftoid you are a "rightist" according to leftoids, literally everyone perishes in fact
>>18487450you either support social stratification or you dont.
Ok lol.
>>18486876When people say irrational intuition is a valid source of knowledge and a necessity to get as close as possible to the truth, it raises a core question. How do you know whether a thought or impulse seemingly born of intuition is true, how do you know its a real tap-in to the essential underlying truth of reality and not just a meaningless brain fart, if not by subjecting it and subordinating it to reason, in effect still allowing reason to be the sole determiner of truth, with intuition essentially a random generator of hypothesise to be threshed through reason.
>>18486876i don't have a problem with marxism
