I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

  • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
    2925·
    10 months ago

    Yeah, they have a very alternative interpretation of geopolitics and they’re loud about it. If there was a flat earth instance with users that spammed every physics thread there would be some grumbling just the same.

    • Hodja_Nasreddin@lemmygrad.ml
      237·
      10 months ago

      An liberal idealist who compares “geopolitics” to an exact science, and materialist Marxism to a belief in a flat earth, is like an religious obscurantist who attacks a nuclear physicist for lack of science. Do me a favor. Read some actual scholarly literature on politics, (liberal subreddits and CNN don’t count), before you open your mouth. You’re embarrassing yourself.

      • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
        422·
        10 months ago

        Cool story. You’re right, it’s not an exact science, so why are you so sure about your perspective on it either? I think the answer is “identity”.

        As for my reading list, I’ve probably gotten further into Das Capital than you have, and it belongs on the side of electrification that it was written on.

        • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
          161·
          10 months ago

          I’ve probably gotten further into Das Capital than you have

          Apparently not far enough to be able to spell the German title correctly.

          • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
            14·
            10 months ago

            Oh yeah, K. It has been a few years.

            I swear, I did read a good chunk of the thing. Maybe a third or so. And yes, it did make my eyes bleed.

        • Hodja_Nasreddin@lemmygrad.ml
          152·
          10 months ago

          The answer is dialectical materialism. It’s not “my perspective.” These are objective laws of social development that were discovered by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Italian bourgeois economists who discovered the existence of social classes with their own interests. Again, this is the development of materialist social thought, which has been going on for centuries. You with your meager knowledge cannot understand not only Capital, but even political economy for pre-schoolers. That makes your attempts to appear smarter than you are look pathetic.

        • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
          9·
          10 months ago

          Capital is a thesis on economy, why would it help you on politics?

          Surely you’d know what it’s about if you’ve read it.