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== Marxism beyond Marxism ==

<div style="white-space: pre-wrap;">as much as conceptualizing Socialist thought as a single tradition has usually brought great problems... what if there actually existed a way to do it properly? what if there really was a way to conceptualize every separate progressive tradition, and even the contributions of all the traditions that came before, as ultimately leading to one grand unified political theory?

That new philosophical method is _meta-Marxism_, and the rest of this text will be devoted to explaining it.

meta-Marxism is the dialectical-materialist analysis of political theories and their realization into political entities. Whereas "Marxism" has up to now mostly been the study of single countries and the act of assembling people into a single new working-class population, meta-Marxism aims to go much further. meta-Marxism can give us the tools to analyze demographic subpopulations, political factions, competing progressive movements with different theories, interactions between separately-functioning workers' states, Communist internationals, the active process of recruiting non-Marxists to a party, the material causes of individual education and biases, the seemingly-difficult interaction between political theories and "The Subject", the structure and development of classless societies, the potential future structure and function of ideologies which have not yet become countries at the point they hypothetically do, how to navigate a world covered in competing plural versions of Marxism, and even how we might prevent scenarios like the 1930s Trotskyite conspiracy.

What has become apparent over the past two centuries is that scientific socialism, and the landscape of progressive movements in general, is many times more complicated than anyone previously could have dreamed. But this does not in any way make the problem "unsolvable". All we need to do is to look higher and lower toward the largest and smallest scales of society. Physical science was not complete without discoveries such as general relativity and quantum mechanics, unable to explain such phenomena as the nature of time or the physical composition of light. A similar situation currently exists for Marxism. When we create a Marxism which is _beyond_ Marxism, which is able to fill in its own gaps that exist above and below it, we will finally produce a scientific socialism that is ready for the complicated fractures and contradictions within and outside it that form when trying to construct ideologies in the real world.

Pies are ultimately possible, and so is Marxism.
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