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?

https://images.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/17759700_1709890315704329_7359977960302963299_n.png

sartre and de beauvoir both afaik

Yep

I care what a man says not who he keep company with.

http://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-the-communist-party-has-one-objective-the-creation-of-a-socialist-economy-and-one-means-jean-paul-sartre-107-96-85.jpg

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?

https://www.marxists.org/archive/novack/works/history/ch12.htm

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

the freakin intro to being and nothingness asserts his materialism and opposition to idealism

"The confrontation of existentialism with dialectical materialism is a genuine case of “either-or.”"

but can you seperate an ought from an is?

@danman1950 In what context?

@Deleted User in memes

that article says camus is an existentialist lol

He said he wasn't, but in effect p much was

i find absurdism to be distinct from existentialism

could just be because camus was more literary than philosophical tbh