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ML view in instrumental vs structural Marxism? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So here I am finding out about instrumental and structural Marxism.

The problem is that the main promoters of both theories were anti soviet. So my question is. Are there any sources of either Marx, Lenin, Stalin or Mao and what they thought about it?

I can imagine that maybe the terms instrumental and structural could've been coined after their death. But I can also imagine they had some thoughts on similar concepts

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, great post. I recently deprogrammed a well meaning french friend on Hannah Arendt by sharing a collection of quotes from her describing how she is pro-american segregation, pro-south african aperthied, pro-zion and views Africans as sub-human.

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/hannah-arendt-white-supremacist-456007

The right to free association, and therefore to discrimination, has greater validity than the principle of equality,” wrote Hannah Arendt in 1957, in support of segregation in the US South.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks! Added to my agitprop/debunking list.