/lit/ - Literature

>>11416656
>Time and time again, you hear this Marxist critique of how capitalism is undermining of all traditional values, and that it's been an almost positive force of destruction
>almost
Marx saw capitalism a positive force. It has just come to be a restraint for humanity's potential and should make way for the next step in development.

>anything that isn't strictly materialistic
Everything is "strictly materialistic" in the last instance. That's the point.

>Even if you considered the best case scenario for them and capitalism gives way to socialism, so fucking what? Literally what will change? Nothing. Nothing at all. The same philosophical questions will remain and continue to fill what counts for the meaning of life for most people.
Not true. "It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness." The philosophical questions that people posit themselves in a given period of time depend on their real life circumstances. For example, there would be no such thing as existentialism and the so-called "inherent" meaninglessness of life if it wasn't for capitalism splitting us into isolated individuals facing off against a world of uncontrollable forces such as "the invisible hand of the market" or the supposed magical powers inherent to commodities, especially money, the commodity par excellence. In fact, existentialism's very conception of the individual wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the economic system alienating us from our social nature as a human being.

>not reading Lukacs right now

Pathetic

>>10701449
The apparent meaninglessness of existence is the effect of capitalist alienation therefore communism is the only solution.

When you realise the meaninglessness of life isn't an eternal truth but rather the product of our socio-economical system and existentialism just the expression of man alienated from his Gattungswesen.

stop being a nietzschean