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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Marxism is strictly materialist

Does Marxism draw any conclusions from materialism that are relevant to stuff like society, economics, politics, communist praxis, epistemology or some human activity that I have failed to consider here? If not, then I do feel justified in saying that there are no relevant conflicts and calling myself a Marxist.

Read Materialism and Empiriocriticism or Anti-Dühring

Alright. Albeit that will not be done overnight.

However, do understand that if by 'idealism' those works mean specifically the idealist schools of thought that only recognise material and non-material mental stuff, and not idealist schools of thought in general, then the views that I subscribe to are likely not addressed in those works.

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Does Marxism draw any [relevant] conclusions from materialism?

Of course. One of the tenets of Marxism is that social being determines social consciousness, not vice versa. This is textbook materialism. Anything else simply leads to liberalism, religion, etc.

the idealist schools of thought that only recognise material and non-material mental stuff

You seem confused. There are two main currents in philosophy - materialism, which posits that nature is primary to spirit, being is primary to thought, and idealism, which posits the opposite. In between the two there are agnostics, who claim this question is impossible to answer. This has nothing to do with whether a philosophy "recognizes non-material stuff".