Message from @dontchewglass

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2017-05-15 00:29:44 UTC  

yikes lol

2017-05-15 00:30:13 UTC  

what do you find wrong with it?

2017-05-15 00:30:21 UTC  

existentialism i mean

2017-05-15 00:31:01 UTC  

Being a communist isn't the same as signing away your individual autonomy and having your own personal interests

2017-05-15 00:31:51 UTC  

(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)

2017-05-15 00:31:57 UTC  

@petit bourgeois Thanks! Always great to meet a fan

2017-05-15 00:32:20 UTC  

i actually met a fan in real life one time, one of the Knights For Socialism in Orlando. It was so weird but awesome

2017-05-15 00:33:13 UTC  

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?

2017-05-15 00:35:08 UTC  

ah the old metaphysics is masturbation meme

2017-05-15 00:36:03 UTC  

You do know Sartre was avowedly Marxist for the majority of his life, right?

2017-05-15 00:36:30 UTC  

sartre and de beauvoir both afaik

2017-05-15 00:36:38 UTC  

Yep

2017-05-15 00:36:47 UTC  

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

2017-05-15 00:37:33 UTC  

And what he says is absolutely fine

2017-05-15 00:38:56 UTC  

i think his ideas on radiacal freedom are pretty anarchist imo

2017-05-15 00:38:59 UTC  

encouraging others to reject how Capitalist society defines them and to realize their absolute freedom is not contradictory to Communism

2017-05-15 00:39:01 UTC  

How do you reconcile existentialism and marxism?

2017-05-15 00:39:08 UTC  

He did become an Anarchist

2017-05-15 00:39:21 UTC  

i think he was jealous of camus

2017-05-15 00:39:43 UTC  

His existentialism did not contradict material analysis lmao

2017-05-15 00:40:29 UTC  

Nah, he just broke with the Marxist movements of his time, he was always p anti-authoritarian

2017-05-15 00:40:56 UTC  

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

2017-05-15 00:41:00 UTC  

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

2017-05-15 00:41:23 UTC  

but can you seperate an ought from an is?

2017-05-15 00:42:36 UTC  

@danman1950 In what context?

2017-05-15 00:42:52 UTC  

@Deleted User in memes

2017-05-15 00:43:22 UTC  

that article says camus is an existentialist lol

2017-05-15 00:43:41 UTC  

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

2017-05-15 00:44:17 UTC  

i find absurdism to be distinct from existentialism

2017-05-15 00:44:31 UTC  

could just be because camus was more literary than philosophical tbh

2017-05-15 00:44:45 UTC  

I always thought of Absurdism as a sort of branch of Existentialism

2017-05-15 00:44:51 UTC  

fair

2017-05-15 00:45:40 UTC  

mfw Heidegger was a good philosopher in an apolitical sense but his politics were literally as bad as possible

2017-05-15 00:45:46 UTC  

What do y'all think of state capitalism

2017-05-15 00:45:54 UTC  

ew state capitalism

2017-05-15 00:46:03 UTC  

heidegger is fucking hilarious in how bad his politics are

2017-05-15 00:46:33 UTC  

>government can plan the economy
Sounds comfy to me desu

2017-05-15 00:46:39 UTC  

state capitalism is gross