• Cowbee
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    11 months ago

    Materialism is doing away with the idea that history is shaped by ideas and will, rather than material conditions. It isn’t going against proposed theory by targeting unrelated theory.

    You’re arguing that you cannot make predictions or try new things, despite validity of the theoretical basis, on the grounds that it hasn’t yet been done.

    You’re definitely not getting it.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      No, Materialism does not in fact do away with ideas, what it says is that there is a dialectical relationship between ideas and material reality, between theory and practice. I’m arguing that any theory that hasn’t been put into practice does not have much value. Materialism means coming up with an idea, trying it out, seeing the results, integrating that into the theory, and trying again. Continuous dialectical process of improving the theory and testing it is what Materialism actually is.

      You’ve made it abundantly clear that you don’t actually understand the subject you’re attempting to debate here. Maybe spend some time educating yourself instead of telling other people they’re not getting it.

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        11 months ago

        Materialism is quite literally the position that history is shaped by physical, material conditions, and reality, rather than the will or thoughts of individuals.

        Claiming that I don’t understand what Materialism is when you’ve been arguing against Primitive Communism as though it’s Modern Anarchism is absurd.