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are you a philosophy major or professional yourself? you seem very knowledgeable on the subject.
only in so far as engels is unwilling to consider alternate perspectives.
as I supposed earlier, his criticism sounds more like he’s trying to academically armbar moritz’s interpretation rather than suggest moritz doesn’t actually understand the base and superprojection relationship.
he just understands it and discusses it in a way engels doesn’t approve of.
that’s how engels is coming off, anyway.
he contextualizes his thoughts well over several paragraphs, providing specific reasons and suppositions for his arguments.
What other context could be provided that would somehow make it clear engles truly doesn’t believe that another scholar is missing a fundamental logical connection?
i don’t think engels truly believes that moritz doesn’t understand the mutually independent relationship of culture and the means of production, it sounds like engles just doesn’t approve of moritz’s philosophical priorities.
“I am sorry for the man who can write such a thing. And if this man has not yet discovered…”
is a leisurely needling of a disagreeable perspective rather than some certainty that moritz doesn’t grasp the relationship between the base and its super structure.
not recognizing that the means of production affects culture and culture affects the means of production seems almost as improbable as not understanding people affect culture.
do you mean they just didn’t understand it using the terms that marx specifically set out in his treatise?
how did the French Marxists not understand that people affect culture and culture affects people?
those elements seem very difficult to even theoretically disassociate.
sounds like he was against how the French marxists were employing “Marxism” from his letter.
ha, I haven’t heard this before. thanks.
I see what you mean, although perlman’s brow ridge is prominent.
yeah, I completely agree, the post image really threw me. I had to reorient my mind to recognize him.
no worries, I didn’t know anything about that leaked PDF.
I’m reading it now. thanks for sharing, definitely interesting.
good answer, I think you were trying to reply to the commenter I am also replying to, rather than me.
in case you wanted to reply directly to them instead.
Do you think those behaviors are mutually exclusive?
When he says something like " I’m planting 1 million trees", he and 100 volunteers plant 2000 trees in one day and then he asks his followers to donate to a tree planting charity so that he and his followers “together”, can plant a million trees.
it isn’t that he’s not doing good things in small quantity as long as it is filmed and he is guaranteed to make more money off the video than he spends, it’s that his production methodology is so fucked up that you can’t trust any of his videos, or by extension his claims or intentions.
As soon as my brain starts shutting down, I also feel like I Iook preeeetty good.
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