I'm very dyslexic and thought the post was about the existence of Italians, which is something I have always had doubts regarding.

I lowk think the "Great Filter" they talk about to explain why there are seemingly so few intelligent civilisations is literally just capitalism

That we gotta nuke ourselves so we can communicate with dolphins and join the aliens in the society of fully automated luxury gay space communism

There isn't one; aliens are not part of human history yet (that we know of), so a historical dialectical materialist analysis can't be conducted

There's just no tangible data, only potential likelihoods firmly rooted in stellar physics and biological probabilities

there's no evidence for either, but do you mean "off somewhere in the universe at all" or "visiting earth"?

kinda hard to have an orthodox position on something that has never been observed.

I speak for all Marxists and the entirety of the theory when I say that I wish Strange New Worlds would have been planned around season long narrative arcs, less Spock struggling with his human half, and less relationships involving Spock.

Source: me, the one true leftist

If we can achieve communism we might be able to interact with aliens someday, if we don't then we're gonna turn into another dead region of the universe.

Probably something akin to this.

We don't know if aliens exist.

This article from marxists.org should help

the idea that we are special and earth is the only place to have life is human exceptionalism taken to the extreme.

Aliens coming here though...physics says no. And any aliens that can do it anyway somehow are probably so far advanced that these monkeys over there aren't particularly interesting any more.

I don't think there's one unified Marxist position on most things tbh, since sure Marx had his ideas but lots of people in his time and since have adapted his ideas based on their own different material conditions. Unless you mean specifically "what did Marx say about this" but as a materialist even he would want people to re evaluate what he said because we learn more and things change over time.

I'm not aware of him writing about aliens though at all so. Probably there isn't one.

Now, do aliens exist in the universe somewhere? It's statistically very likely. Have they come to earth? That's almost a statistical impossibility.

If extraterrestrials exist, and they have some kind of FTL to travel between stars, then they are most likely some kind of comrades. Only through a mutually cooperative social structure would a species be able to achieve such capabilities.

Now if they are actually interested in studying our star system is a whole other matter. The best guess would be that they are probably not if they have come to know much at all about our species and its behavior on our planet.

These are the basic concepts of Posadism (sans the nuclear apocalypse stuff). If we want aliens to consider talking to us, we need to improve our relations with each other and all the other life forms on our planet. Only if we can achieve some form of global comradely relations will they maybe think it worth their time to interact with us.

No idea what the marxist position is, doubt there is one, since there's not a lot of data to work with. My position is that alien life exists and that "mathematical proof" it doesn't is some hack bullshit that makes too many assumptions, but presents them as indesputable facts.

Considering how we are constantly learning about life on earth - dolphins have a straight up language apparently? It strikes me as the height of hubris to declare we know anything at all about the impossibility of extraterrestrial life.

Addendum: Life on mars is a good song and Bowie is my problematic fave

The evidence speaks for itself: Stephen Miller

From a philosophical standpoint it was a necessity that in a universe with physics as ours, matter one day arranges itself on such a high order, that life is created. We don’t know of any „soul“ or something similar, and we’ve found life on earth in the most extreme places. So life can’t just be a coincidence. Logically thinking that means that there exists life outside of earth too.

Now the more important question is: was does that change for us? And at least for us currently the answer is: nothing. This is not beneficial to us in our class struggle. It doesn’t help us make better strategic decisions. The youth organization in east Germany had some funny books about that, but even they came to the conclusion that this changes nothing. It’s nice to know that we are nothing special, but besides that, there is nothing we can gain from this currently.

When discussing alien life, it's more reasonable to think first of simple organisms than highly advanced alien civilizations.

Like I am almost certain that single-celled organisms exist or have already existed on Alien planets.

OP, I hope you know what you started on hexbear.

yes

they dont exist please be honest. from what we know for sure love and life only exist here and its our only home and space is cold and lonely