Submitted by ordinaryDrain in Anarchism
Pop wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by hermit_dragon in How does BDSM fit into anti-hierarchy by ordinaryDrain
Old-school Marxists believe that history is has a structure of antagonism called a dialectic that is playing itself out in class struggle and will inevitably end in the synthesis of the antagonism in the form of a classless society
the dialectic is a metanarrative about the structure of human history
(metanarratives should be left in the coffin with transcendent gods imo)
for dialectical materialists, history moves in stages, including pre-capitalist 'primitive accumulation', capitalism, to communism
they think it's inevitable because it's implied by the dialectical ideology
they believe in 'progress' - the playing out of this dialectic towards a final state, communism
so when Browse says things like "Eventually as capital goes away and class society is tossed into the dustbin of history," they are signalling that very specifically classical marxist ideology
one that assumes capital will go away
it's an ideology that is outdated to say the least (most solid marxists today have ditched that and the idea that the vote will bring them freedom), and has never been part of the anarchist outlook
hope this helps
hermit_dragon wrote
Ahhh okay I get it! That definitely helps.
Thank you - I appreciate both the explanation and the intellectual labor you extended to do so.
Pop wrote
no problemo, sorry, I'm often not very good at getting thoughts across
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