Message from @dontchewglass
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essentializing oneself : "im a gamer"
rather than recognize your own being, your identity becomes what you consume
or what you do
@dontchewglass 'becoming who they are'. Who are they?
@not_matt What is 'your own being'?
each individual within society
@dontchewglass If people ought to think of themselves as individuals and pursue 'becoming who they are. What does that involve and why should it be pursued?
read sartre
and the good parts of heidigger
I think that people should pursue their individuality and cultivating who they are within the collective body
^^^
Sartre
@not_matt I have. Great, you're existentialists....
Cancer.
well then you shouldn't have those questions anymore : )
I think that the conflict between individualism and collectivism is a false dichotomy
dear lord
yikes lol
what do you find wrong with it?
existentialism i mean
Being a communist isn't the same as signing away your individual autonomy and having your own personal interests
(and just because i like existentialism doesn't mean other thinkers won't address the same issues and questions, schelling comes to mind as explaining why we are radically free and individuals but obviously w/o the same context to work with as jps)
@petit bourgeois Thanks! Always great to meet a fan
i actually met a fan in real life one time, one of the Knights For Socialism in Orlando. It was so weird but awesome
Phenomenology et al. is masturbation. The focus is wrong. It is a reflection of the material world not the centre of it. How do you even call yourself a Marxist?
ah the old metaphysics is masturbation meme
You do know Sartre was avowedly Marxist for the majority of his life, right?
sartre and de beauvoir both afaik
Yep
I care what a man says not who he keep company with.
And what he says is absolutely fine
i think his ideas on radiacal freedom are pretty anarchist imo
encouraging others to reject how Capitalist society defines them and to realize their absolute freedom is not contradictory to Communism
How do you reconcile existentialism and marxism?
He did become an Anarchist
i think he was jealous of camus
His existentialism did not contradict material analysis lmao
Nah, he just broke with the Marxist movements of his time, he was always p anti-authoritarian