/lit/ - Literature

>>19347248
I could seduce her, I live close to her. I'm gonna get her into psychedelics and then say opiods just make psychedelics more insightful and feed her my beautiful prose and then bam. addicted. mine. Literally could transfer to her uni and make this happen

>>17650062
I've never read Marx or Hegel, but I'm going to answer your question OP.
>Why did Hegel and Marx need to establish metaphysical premises to make claims about society?
Not sure, haven't read them. If I were to hazard a guess I'd say it's because they're attempting to ground their practical beliefs in the legitimacy of reason, because they can't use the bible or a national epic because it had gone out of fashion to do that.
>Why does it matter if one is a materialist or idealist to make the claim that it is the material conditions rather than intellectual culture that drives history?
It doesn't matter. All aspects emanate from the godhead, material conditions and intellectual culture are the same things.
>There is no contradiction in being an idealist but also a Marxist, or a materialist but also socially Hegelian.
This makes no sense. Yes there is a contradiction in being an idealist and also being a materialist - unless you view both perspectives as aspects of the godhead and that they are divine contradictions and that they are both correct precisely because they are paradoxical, thus reflecting the inescapable but illusory duality inherit in all things, then yes it makes sense.