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Reminder Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot ENDED philosophy.

>>14736133
Stalin absolutely MOGGED and SHAT all over them

>>14736133
>Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot
not philosophers
>ENDED philosophy
what do you mean?
Wether you mean it in a positive or in a negative way, it's false. What about Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Foucault, Deleuze or even marxist and neo-marxist philosophers like Lukacs, Adorno, Agnes Heller or Zizek?

>be me
>try to read the Capital and other 'Theory' stuff
>can barely understand anything
I think I might be too dumb for this, lefty bros.

>>14736124
protip all marxist writings are fiction

>>14736199
>>14736209

I forgot how fucking stupid communism as a workers unification ideology is. The average person might read one drug store paperback a year

I would want marxist threads to get banned, by default, but that would make people think marxism was anything besides not being worthwhile.

>>14736248
>"I'm a brainlet incapable of arguing against an ideology so it should be banned"

Here's some image guides from leftypol
https://leftypol-reading-list.fandom.com/wiki/Image_Guides

>>14736280
I've argued against it so many fucking times you have no idea.

>>14736228
read lenin
>>14736248
seething brainlet

>>14736173
It's mostly nonsense. you should be concerned it it ever does become understandable.

>>14736228
well that's not the point of theory, and if you read that list to the end it basically debunks the entire teleology of the communist project (if not the entire project of enlightenment). You can be a marxist and not a communist, the dialectic trumps any petty ideological considerations.

>>14736299
>read lenin

>>14736226
How funny haha great post anon now kys

>>14736169
Zizek wrote an introduction to a popular Maoist text and cites Stalin's writings on dialectics quite often

>>14736228
First of all, Theory is not communism neither is it marxist. Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Weber and Derrida (just to name a few authors in this list) were not marxist, and some of them were opposed to marxism. Also, marxist theory was not meant to be read by uneducated working class people of the mid-1800s, but rather people like Engels, that is to say capitalists who were conscious about the problems of capitalism as a system, and, later on, the most educated members of the working class as well. Why do you think The Communist Manifesto exists? Because Marx and Engels knew perfectly that the working class could not read "Das Kapital", but could read a brief and nimble pamphlet.

>>14736669
So what? Stalin is still not an actual philosopher. Zizek writes about movies as well, but that doesn't mean movies are the same as philosophy essays. Stalin's writings were political writings, and the same could be said about Mao. Lenin could actually be considered a philosopher because he didn't limit himself to political writings around themes like dialectics. He wrote Materialism and Empirio-criticism, for instance, and that's an actual philosophy essay. I doubt Mao or Stalin ever wrote something similar to that.