"A materialist is someone who values possessions for comfort, you need to stop parroting your completely ill informed ideas"
"A materialist is someone who values possessions for comfort, you need to stop parroting your completely ill informed ideas"
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Really unfortunate linguistic clusterfuck here.
I do actually think marxists should be careful when they throw out "materialist". It will absolutely flummox libs every time. Know your audience folks.
I agree and disagree. Or maybe I agree but want to disagree. the materialist versus idealist divide is such a basic and important concept in philosophy that I feel like anyone should at least understand that the words have different meanings in that context. but getting people to understand that words are just tenuous representations of concepts is a hard sell.
other problematic words are fetishism and reactionary