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Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

Kobayashi posted:

Here's what I think I know. In the beginning, there was a dude named Hegel. He was apparently an enlightenment philosopher who posited a "great man" theory of history. Something something great men have ideas something something dialectic. Then Marx and/or Engels came around and were like no dude actually something something historical materialism and something something class struggle and somehow this "inverted" the dialectic.

you just described the "inversion of the dialectic", you already understand it, you just don't know how to put it into college nerd words

hegel thought that ideas and our debating them (internally as individuals and externally via the process of history) was the only thing that really mattered, and what determined "reality"

marx literally inverted that causal relationship, stating that real, material things and resources are what matters and all of our abstract ideas and philosophical debates and notions of what constitutes perfect and imperfect forms are things we make up to rationalize, cope with, justify, etc the conflict between human beings for resources

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