Who is your favourite Marxist thinker, apart from Marx and Engels?
Mine is Georg Lukács. His essay "What is Orthodox Marxism?" clarified the crucial importance of the method of dialectical materialism.
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I kind of like Adorno and his take on critical theory, even if /pol/sters complain about "muh evil cultural Marxism undermimimg western values"
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Any fans of analytical marxism?
>>3378198
>Marxist thinker
What an oxymoron
>>3378198
Stalin. The person who realized communism wouldn't work unless a dictator were at the helm.
Debord
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Critical theory is an interesting idea, but /pol/sters have a point when they say it's taken way too far in our society. We have to realize that while we can judge events through the realm of the other side's viewpoint, we can't base our entire policy and judgement on that. At the end of the day, you have to do what is right for you in this time and period. For example, yes, Islamic extremism can be tied to Western and Soviet colonialism and intervention throughout the past 100 years. You stick your dick in a beehive, expect to get stung. However, you can't expect us to just sit here and let them attack us back, let them pour into Western countries, because we feel bad for what our ancestors did. It's fucked up that it happened, but we have to stick up for ourselves and not put our own people in danger, even though we destabilized the region.
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and anyone who proposes to form foreign policy and goals around critical theory is going to end up getting their head chopped off. Everyone is out for their own good, and just because we did something bad, doesn't mean we can't stop looking out for the good of those alive now.
MacIntyre :)
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