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Marxism is entirely unconcerned with moral frameworks right? We have to bring those in ourselves? (hexbear.net)

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Like diamat is just a method of scientific analysis. Any action compelled by that understanding is compelled by personal beliefs external to the diamat analysis? Is this right?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, there is a clear political goal in Marxism. It isn't scientific analysis for the sake of scientific analysis. It's virtually impossible to read anything Marx wrote and not come out of it completely sympathetic towards the plight of the working class and view the ruling class with complete contempt. "From each according to his own abilities to each according to his needs" is a very clear moral prescription. He wasn't describing how people living in a bygone communal society behaved but prescribing what people living in a communist society ought to behave. Forget about being a good comrade, you'll go far towards being a good person if you start applying this moral principle to your life and cultivating this moral principle towards other people in your life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What is the moral principle? Utilitarianism? Virtue ethics? Like of course Marxists have a political goal but isn't Marxism just "actually societies evolve according to understandable principles and here's how that works out". Or is that just dialectical materialism, and Marx developed other ideas outside of diamat and they all get lumped into "Marxism"?