• FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Much of Marx, Engels, Stalin, Mao, and other diamat theorists’ writing is specifically written to attack the idealist/metaphysical world outlook. I think that it’s clear that they are making claims about the nature of reality, because the point of the philosophy falls a bit flat otherwise. But they’re also committed to ruthless criticism of their own ideas and (at least in the best case) improve the theory when new contradictions appear; I don’t think that it’s likely that revolutionary movements in the near future will change their philosophical positions to accommodate religious people, but I guess you’re also right that the usefulness of the model is really the only thing that has to be constant about it.

    • PowerLurker [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      i see your point, i do think the Abrahamic idea of an omnibenevolent god runs into some contradictions and tensions with historical materialism. broader metaphysical questions about the ultimate nature of things i do still see as beyond its purview (even if the theorists themselves didn’t) but that’s a larger conversation.