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

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    1 year ago

    Just to understand what you are saying, do you say communists apply scientific reasoning?

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        1 year ago

        That’s very abstract and doesn’t mean much. With as many words you can say capitalism is based on scientific reasoning.

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          Its not abstract at all, ‘Marxism’ is an entire field in sociology and is recongised + fundemental to understanding sociology.

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            Marx was the third ever sociologist, the first being Weber and the second I always forget his name. But this is historically attested to, it’s not something I just pulled out of my ass lol

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      Yes, Marxism is based on a scientific methodology called historical materialism. It’s too complex to be explained in a single comment, but it has an internal logic and methodology which proposes to analyze social systems in general, but especially capitalist societies in particular.

      You can’t use the scientific method used in the natural sciences because you can’t put a society in a lab to study it. Social sciences require a methodology apart from the natural sciences, and Marxism has proposed historical materialism, which is very consistent and coherent approach, based on the Hegelian dialectical logic with materialism as a principle.