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I’m working in construction over the summer holidays to earn some extra money before uni starts since it pays more than the typical student job like barista. The proletarians I meet there are utterly vulgar, racist, dull-minded consumerists. They come to work in their fancy Porsches and BMWs, depreciating assets which they bought instead of investing their money. All they talk about is football or getting into fights or fucking women or getting drunk or when their next meaningless holiday to some sunny destination will be. Their only political beliefs seem to be hatred of “niggers” and “pakis” which, like everything else about them, arises from some inner animalistic impulse instead of any real developed worldview. Any talk about philosophy, history, politics, spirituality, religion, economics, man’s relation to the world and his ultimate meaning, are met only with mockery and strange glances. It seems the proletarian lives in a world which is simply an unchangeable brute fact, about which no questions can conceivably be asked. A world which simply exists as it does because it does. The proletarian’s consciousness, his cares, his worries, the structure of his mind and perception, the things which motivate him — all of these are simply foisted upon him, he lives them out unquestioningly as if they are simply given and necessary. He is, in a word, decontextualised, deracinated; he appears in this world thrown into a rootless subculture with no Weltanschauung, no idea how to situate itself within the drama of cosmic history, and not even a justification for its own existence. Their “higher metaphysical wants”, if they can be so called, are shallow enough to be fully satisfied by the theatre of competitive sports or a vague sentimental nationalism that hates the foreigner without even knowing why. How, then, does Marx suppose that this class is suppose to rise up and emancipate itself? The lack of a political will among them is evident. What leader will galvanise them, what higher principle would they be willing to die for? Their minds are numb enough not to be affected by the dull excruciating physical labour they’re put through 8 hours a day. Unless they are starving they won’t rise.

Any discussion and argument made by a materialist will ALWAYS be in bad faith, because materialists hold no real conviction
The fact that materialism does not logically lead to nihilism is proof that materialists hold un-materialistic beliefs (even the basest of moral judgements fits here) that precede their actual "philosophy"
For example, say you ask the materialist this question: if gender is a social construct, why should trans people be seen as anything other than idiots who see gender as the trap it is, but still fall for it?
It's not that they can't answer this question, but their first instinct will be to redefine some term of the question asked as to allow trans people to be heckin' cute and valid, instead of analyzing their philosophy and the placement of trans people in it
They hold the value "trans people good" before the basics of their "philosophy", therefore they are engaged in a framework that they don't recognize and "materialism" is just a code they attribute it post-hoc
This is why debunking any materialist philosophical term is useless, they will just redefine it to mean whatever the framework they already believe in and deny that framework's very existence as a philosophical proposition or otherwise
GOD I FUCKING HATE THESE FAGGOTS

Was Karl Marx just a lazy NEET?

>no one is capable of refuting him till this day
So Marx is basically the Darwin of economics

>the history of mankind goes through uts different modes of production
okay
>capitalists get their profits by extracting labor from the workers
okay
>there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall and at some point it will reach zero and lead to the next stage in the mode of production
okay
>thats why we have to fucking force it to happen within our lifetimes
Why?

reality creates ideas

will becoming knowledgeable about leftist ideas help get me pussy?

>>12161976
>The most evil man that ever lived.