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	{{li\|start=y\|I=Z1/W\|tradition=UM / unknown\|Q=21,29\|Q2=2129}}{{article\|Rethinking Althusser's Meta-Marxism}} (Andreas Beck Holm 2024) [https://decalagesjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/decalagesvol2iss1_07.pdf] -> so, "meta-Marxism" has rarely been used for describing Western-Marxism for some reason. rest assured, this is {{em\|not}} at all what "meta-Marxism" is referring to on any other page on this site. here meta-Marxism is a particular thing called [[E:Q92\|violet Marxism]]. if we became successful at what we were doing here you would search meta-Marxism and there would be 100 results about violet Marxism and 5 results about Western-Marxism.<br/>		{{li\|start=y\|I=Z1/W\|tradition=UM / unknown\|Q=21,29\|Q2=2129}}{{article\|Rethinking Althusser's Meta-Marxism}} (Andreas Beck Holm 2024) [https://decalagesjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/decalagesvol2iss1_07.pdf] -> so, "meta-Marxism" has rarely been used for describing Western-Marxism for some reason. rest assured, this is {{em\|not}} at all what "meta-Marxism" is referring to on any other page on this site. here meta-Marxism is a particular thing called [[E:Q92\|violet Marxism]]. if we became successful at what we were doing here you would search meta-Marxism and there would be 100 results about violet Marxism and 5 results about Western-Marxism.<br/>
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	{{li\|start=y\|I=S1/W\|tradition=UM onto W\|Q=618}}inability to maintain the division between science and ideology -> that is... not the problem {{em\|I}} had with Althusser. for me it was that he couldn't maintain the difference between ideology and material objects. so the first thing I did was fix his account of capitalism in the article I was reading so he was describing one big material object breaking. and that actually made a lot of sense to me apart from the notion that it removes the concept of predicting and understanding revolution or the ability to steer transitions, and then I was like, but what's the point of aleatory materialism if it doesn't practically tell you anything about how to have a movement; today I'd also accuse that of being anarchism instead of Marxism, because shockingly almost everything that isn't Marxism turns out to be anarchism. psychoanalysis is provably an anarchism; critical theory is provably an anarchism; capitalist ideology itself is arguably-but-not-certainly an anarchism.		{{li\|start=y\|I=S1/W\|tradition=UM onto W\|Q=618}}inability to maintain the division between science and ideology -> that is... not the problem {{em\|I}} had with Althusser. for me it was that he couldn't maintain the difference between ideology and material objects. so the first thing I did was fix his account of capitalism in [[redlink - retrieve article later\|the article I was reading at the time]] so he was describing one big material object breaking. and that actually made a lot of sense to me apart from the notion that it removes the concept of predicting and understanding revolution or the ability to steer transitions, and then I was like, but what's the point of aleatory materialism if it doesn't practically tell you anything about how to have a movement; today I'd also accuse that of being anarchism instead of Marxism, because shockingly almost everything that isn't Marxism turns out to be anarchism. psychoanalysis is provably an anarchism; critical theory is provably an anarchism; capitalist ideology itself is arguably-but-not-certainly an anarchism.

	{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=UM onto W\|Q=618}}Althusser set out to transform Marxism from an ideology into a science -> but I'm pretty sure he did it a different way than I did for some reason.		{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=UM onto W\|Q=618}}Althusser set out to transform Marxism from an ideology into a science -> but I'm pretty sure he did it a different way than I did for some reason.
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Reversedragon: Marx was actually a meta-Marxist

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	{{li\|I=S2/ML\|dimension=F2\|Q=618}}Marxism already is meta-Leninism / Marxism is not an "ideology" with a dialectic between Marxist ideology and Marxist science / Marxism (all Marxist or Leninist theory) is not defined by practical Communist struggle, but by the theory that studies how to keep it from disintegrating -> see, when I first found out about Marxism this is what I believed. then I learned that Trotskyism existed, and read in depth about why people believed it and clung to it, and I was like. huh. I guess what people always assumed about Marxism-Leninism itself being a science just isn't correct, given that individual parties and rival Marxist factions inevitably contain their own party programs which are ideology. at a certain point Leninism stood up and took the place of Marxism, and it undermined anyone doing Marxism as a science that would be able to see outside all ideologies including potential Marxist errors solely to material processes governing movements, transitions, and so forth. so we really have to start over and separate meta-Marxism (violet Marxism) from Leninism ([[E:mainstream Marxism-Leninism\|crimson Marxism]], [[E:Trotskyism\|orange Marxism]], [[E:BlackPantherism\|mauve Marxism]] if that's its own thing) so we can examine the material processes of country development inside each Leninism/Bolshevism.<br/>		{{li\|I=S2/ML\|dimension=F2\|Q=618}}Marxism already is meta-Leninism / Marxism is not an "ideology" with a dialectic between Marxist ideology and Marxist science / Marxism (all Marxist or Leninist theory) is not defined by practical Communist struggle, but by the theory that studies how to keep it from disintegrating -> see, when I first found out about Marxism this is what I believed. then I learned that Trotskyism existed, and read in depth about why people believed it and clung to it, and I was like. huh. I guess what people always assumed about Marxism-Leninism itself being a science just isn't correct, given that individual parties and rival Marxist factions inevitably contain their own party programs which are ideology. at a certain point Leninism stood up and took the place of Marxism, and it undermined anyone doing Marxism as a science that would be able to see outside all ideologies including potential Marxist errors solely to material processes governing movements, transitions, and so forth. so we really have to start over and separate meta-Marxism (violet Marxism) from Leninism ([[E:mainstream Marxism-Leninism\|crimson Marxism]], [[E:Trotskyism\|orange Marxism]], [[E:BlackPantherism\|mauve Marxism]] if that's its own thing) so we can examine the material processes of country development inside each Leninism/Bolshevism.<br/>
	as for Althusser.... I think what he's trying to do is fold Marxism inside Leninism?? he's saying that Marxism is the simulation of real movements acting on the ground ("practical theory"), but that would be Leninism. then he says that analysis and party programs are separate things ("science versus ideology and philosophy") so that Marxist theory can take the simulated Leninism and correct the real Leninism. but he says a couple of things that make me think he doesn't separate Marxism and Leninism. which logically should make any party he's part of vulnerable to sectarian fracturing, because thinking that simulations of Leninism can go back and correct Leninism without the Leninism on the ground just one day saying "yeah, no, I'm going to go get my own separate simulations, bye" is what Trotskyism does, and it keeps pointlessly attacking other Marxisms and splitting.		as for Althusser.... I think what he's trying to do is fold Marxism inside Leninism?? he's saying that Marxism is the simulation of real movements acting on the ground ("practical theory"), but that would be Leninism. then he says that analysis and party programs are separate things ("science versus ideology and philosophy") so that Marxist theory can take the simulated Leninism and correct the real Leninism. but he says a couple of things that make me think he doesn't separate Marxism and Leninism. which logically should make any party he's part of vulnerable to sectarian fracturing, because thinking that simulations of Leninism can go back and correct Leninism without the Leninism on the ground just one day saying "yeah, no, I'm going to go get my own separate simulations, bye" is what Trotskyism does, and it keeps pointlessly attacking other Marxisms and splitting.

			{{li\|I=F2/W\|tradition=MX, W onto ML\|Q=618}}Marx was actually a meta-Marxist / Marx believed in meta-Marxism, not in Marxism or Leninism / Engels was actually a meta-Marxist -> I floated this one once not necessarily standing by it; Althusser also effectively said it. I'm pinning the blame on Althusser because he actually believed it somewhat seriously despite not having a very good formulation of what meta-Marxism is.

	{{li\|I=S1/ML\|dimension=S0\|Q=618}}Leninist model (theoretical model of Marxist-Leninist movement; meta-Marxism) / simulated Leninism (meta-Marxism) / simulation of named Marxism (meta-Marxism) / practical theory (Althusser; Western-Marxism) / class struggle in theory (Althusser) -> this is a very important concept for both violet Marxism and crimson Marxism (where it basically is what crimson Marxism {{em\|does}}) but I feel like Althusser puts it in the wrong place in the model		{{li\|I=S1/ML\|dimension=S0\|Q=618}}Leninist model (theoretical model of Marxist-Leninist movement; meta-Marxism) / simulated Leninism (meta-Marxism) / simulation of named Marxism (meta-Marxism) / practical theory (Althusser; Western-Marxism) / class struggle in theory (Althusser) -> this is a very important concept for both violet Marxism and crimson Marxism (where it basically is what crimson Marxism {{em\|does}}) but I feel like Althusser puts it in the wrong place in the model

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Reversedragon: Anything which can be packaged up and sold as a self-contained product is inherently objective

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Anything which can be packaged up and sold as a self-contained product is inherently objective

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	{{li\|start=y\|I=S2/MX\|Q=618}}Violet Marxism contains ideology / Even violet Marxism cannot purge itself of ideology -> I think this article has been basically correct in saying that Marxism is inseparable from ideology and basically inseparable from being situated in a particular place in the material world as it learns, so effectively Marxism can't become disembodied and uncountable in the same sense Leninism can't.<br/>		{{li\|start=y\|I=S2/MX\|Q=618}}Violet Marxism contains ideology / Even violet Marxism cannot purge itself of ideology -> I think this article has been basically correct in saying that Marxism is inseparable from ideology and basically inseparable from being situated in a particular place in the material world as it learns, so effectively Marxism can't become disembodied and uncountable in the same sense Leninism can't.<br/>

Reversedragon: Violet Marxism contains ideology

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Violet Marxism contains ideology

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	{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=UM\|Q=618}}To separate Marxist science from "Marxist ideology" is to break the dialectical character of Marxism -> I would really contest this, again because of the existence of Trotskyism and Deng Xiaoping states. each of those parties is learning from immediate practice, but as it does that it isn't really doing so on a greater terrain of all Leninisms being part of one Marxism, it's more like there are plural Leninisms that operate separately and in contradiction and hardly work together or properly learn from each other at each moment they learn something. (I usually say the phrase "plural Marxisms" or "countable Marxisms" but every time I say that what I really mean is there are plural {{em\|Leninisms}} that are theories of local movements or workers' states, and ideally just one violet {{em\|Marxism}} that is the "Marxist science" that studies all of them.) Leninisms have become weirdly mechanical and un-dialectical themselves so it's like, to allow for a Marxist science that actually goes back and forth you have to separate Marxism out for that purpose and let Leninisms be Leninisms. exactly as Althusser seems to have chickened out of when people were upset he wasn't optimizing his definitions of Marxism for fully participating in specific Leninisms. honestly, bringing up the case of two countries bashing each other and each thinking the other is wrong would put a stop to this. it would make it really evident that Leninism A and Leninism B criticizing each other don't necessarily have Marxist science embedded into them from within their own perspective, and it's really only the combined system of the two Leninisms together in some kind of Communist International or dialogue of some sort that can create a Marxist science which is capable of analyzing both Leninisms without "breaking" the dialectical connection from it to both of them. but the creation of this 'Communist International' creates a new entity beyond the two smaller entities, so the "practical theory" of the Communist International has to be a new distinct thing from the practical theory of the two Leninisms even though if it's functioning well it's connected to them. the separation {{em\|in scale}} creates the separation between Marxist science (violet Marxism) and Leninism. it's like. is the central government of the Soviet Union directly part of the regional republican governments? it is but it isn't. in the best scenario there is a dialectical connection between them but they aren't the same thing. I guess then, violet Marxism is something of a "federal" philosophy; it's like the federal philosophy of a whole region or the world, like Liberal-republicanism is the federal philosophy of the United States but small chunks of the United States run on [[:Category:Existentialist-Structuralist tradition\|Existentialism]] and the blobs of capitalism that contain it. you could use violet Marxism to write the constitution of the Eurasian continent or something, and it would contain requirements for the component Leninisms.		{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=UM\|Q=618}}To separate Marxist science from "Marxist ideology" is to break the dialectical character of Marxism -> I would really contest this, again because of the existence of Trotskyism and Deng Xiaoping states. each of those parties is learning from immediate practice, but as it does that it isn't really doing so on a greater terrain of all Leninisms being part of one Marxism, it's more like there are plural Leninisms that operate separately and in contradiction and hardly work together or properly learn from each other at each moment they learn something. (I usually say the phrase "plural Marxisms" or "countable Marxisms" but every time I say that what I really mean is there are plural {{em\|Leninisms}} that are theories of local movements or workers' states, and ideally just one violet {{em\|Marxism}} that is the "Marxist science" that studies all of them.) Leninisms have become weirdly mechanical and un-dialectical themselves so it's like, to allow for a Marxist science that actually goes back and forth you have to separate Marxism out for that purpose and let Leninisms be Leninisms. exactly as Althusser seems to have chickened out of when people were upset he wasn't optimizing his definitions of Marxism for fully participating in specific Leninisms. honestly, bringing up the case of two countries bashing each other and each thinking the other is wrong would put a stop to this. it would make it really evident that Leninism A and Leninism B criticizing each other don't necessarily have Marxist science embedded into them from within their own perspective, and it's really only the combined system of the two Leninisms together in some kind of Communist International or dialogue of some sort that can create a Marxist science which is capable of analyzing both Leninisms without "breaking" the dialectical connection from it to both of them. but the creation of this 'Communist International' creates a new entity beyond the two smaller entities, so the "practical theory" of the Communist International has to be a new distinct thing from the practical theory of the two Leninisms even though if it's functioning well it's connected to them. the separation {{em\|in scale}} creates the separation between Marxist science (violet Marxism) and Leninism. it's like. is the central government of the Soviet Union directly part of the regional republican governments? it is but it isn't. in the best scenario there is a dialectical connection between them but they aren't the same thing. I guess then, violet Marxism is something of a "federal" philosophy; it's like the federal philosophy of a whole region or the world, like Liberal-republicanism is the federal philosophy of the United States but small chunks of the United States run on [[:Category:Existentialist-Structuralist tradition\|Existentialism]] and the blobs of capitalism that contain it. you could use violet Marxism to write the constitution of the Eurasian continent or something, and it would contain requirements for the component Leninisms.

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			{{li\|start=y\|I=Z1/MX\|Q=92}}[[E:Q92\|violet Marxism]] / meta-Marxism (Materialist analysis of contradicting or competing Leninisms, their component parts at various large and tiny scales, and their iterative development as factions or countries; R. Bergfalk) / ([[User:RD/9k/Q92\|9k]])

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{{li|start=y|I=Z1/W|tradition=UM / unknown|Q=21,29|Q2=2129}}{{article|Rethinking Althusser's Meta-Marxism}} (Andreas Beck Holm 2024) [https://decalagesjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/decalagesvol2iss1_07.pdf] -> so, "meta-Marxism" has rarely been used for describing Western-Marxism for some reason. rest assured, this is {{em|not}} at all what "meta-Marxism" is referring to on any other page on this site. here meta-Marxism is a particular thing called violet Marxism. if we became successful at what we were doing here you would search meta-Marxism and there would be 100 results about violet Marxism and 5 results about Western-Marxism.<br/>
but, I'm interested to see exactly what the word is supposed to mean in Althusser's context and like how arrogant he is to think that Mark Fisher's tools can actually step outside Marxism or what exactly is going on here.

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{{li|start=y|I=S1/W|tradition=UM onto W|Q=618}}inability to maintain the division between science and ideology -> that is... not the problem {{em|I}} had with Althusser. for me it was that he couldn't maintain the difference between ideology and material objects. so the first thing I did was fix his account of capitalism in the article I was reading so he was describing one big material object breaking. and that actually made a lot of sense to me apart from the notion that it removes the concept of predicting and understanding revolution or the ability to steer transitions, and then I was like, but what's the point of aleatory materialism if it doesn't practically tell you anything about how to have a movement; today I'd also accuse that of being anarchism instead of Marxism, because shockingly almost everything that isn't Marxism turns out to be anarchism. psychoanalysis is provably an anarchism; critical theory is provably an anarchism; capitalist ideology itself is arguably-but-not-certainly an anarchism.

{{li|I=S1/W|tradition=UM onto W|Q=618}}Althusser set out to transform Marxism from an ideology into a science -> but I'm pretty sure he did it a different way than I did for some reason.

{{li|I=S2/ML|tradition=ML, MX|Q=618}}Ideology does not make us see the world as it is, but connects people to society; this is to imply that Marxist science can break out of "the lived relationship of man to the world" ({{i|lang=fr|le rapport vécu des hommes à leur monde}}; break out of shovel dreams; early Marxism) -> we're violet so far, but I think that's only because Marx said this. he knew what he was talking about.

{{li|I=S2/ML|Q=618}}Marx stopped talking about alienation the moment he started talking about the structure of capitalism -> that's a rather damning find. really doesn't make Mark Fisher look good, [[E:stale rat bread|or Žižek]] with his apparent orange anarchism

{{li|I=S2/ML|dimension=F2|Q=618}}Marxism already is meta-Leninism / Marxism is not an "ideology" with a dialectic between Marxist ideology and Marxist science / Marxism (all Marxist or Leninist theory) is not defined by practical Communist struggle, but by the theory that studies how to keep it from disintegrating -> see, when I first found out about Marxism this is what I believed. then I learned that Trotskyism existed, and read in depth about why people believed it and clung to it, and I was like. huh. I guess what people always assumed about Marxism-Leninism itself being a science just isn't correct, given that individual parties and rival Marxist factions inevitably contain their own party programs which are ideology. at a certain point Leninism stood up and took the place of Marxism, and it undermined anyone doing Marxism as a science that would be able to see outside all ideologies including potential Marxist errors solely to material processes governing movements, transitions, and so forth. so we really have to start over and separate meta-Marxism (violet Marxism) from Leninism ([[E:mainstream Marxism-Leninism|crimson Marxism]], [[E:Trotskyism|orange Marxism]], [[E:BlackPantherism|mauve Marxism]] if that's its own thing) so we can examine the material processes of country development inside each Leninism/Bolshevism.<br/>
as for Althusser.... I think what he's trying to do is fold Marxism inside Leninism?? he's saying that Marxism is the simulation of real movements acting on the ground ("practical theory"), but that would be Leninism. then he says that analysis and party programs are separate things ("science versus ideology and philosophy") so that Marxist theory can take the simulated Leninism and correct the real Leninism. but he says a couple of things that make me think he doesn't separate Marxism and Leninism. which logically should make any party he's part of vulnerable to sectarian fracturing, because thinking that simulations of Leninism can go back and correct Leninism without the Leninism on the ground just one day saying "yeah, no, I'm going to go get my own separate simulations, bye" is what Trotskyism does, and it keeps pointlessly attacking other Marxisms and splitting.

{{li|I=S1/ML|dimension=S0|Q=618}}Leninist model (theoretical model of Marxist-Leninist movement; meta-Marxism) / simulated Leninism (meta-Marxism) / simulation of named Marxism (meta-Marxism) / practical theory (Althusser; Western-Marxism) / class struggle in theory (Althusser) -> this is a very important concept for both violet Marxism and crimson Marxism (where it basically is what crimson Marxism {{em|does}}) but I feel like Althusser puts it in the wrong place in the model

{{li|I=S2/W|Q=618}}Ideology is what we do rather than what we think (Althusser) -> yes and no. it has to be somewhat purposeful, at least on the level of someone deciding they have to align with Tories and support their nation so they stand with capital. in that case Toryism forms a kind of material object composed of everything people are doing, or to put it more clearly, the way individuals graph together into a larger object. but many things people do don't successfully form larger objects, and thus in violet Marxism they don't really qualify as ideologies (sociophilosophies).

{{li|I=S2/W|tradition=UM|Q=618}}To separate Marxist science from "Marxist ideology" is to break the dialectical character of Marxism -> I would really contest this, again because of the existence of Trotskyism and Deng Xiaoping states. each of those parties is learning from immediate practice, but as it does that it isn't really doing so on a greater terrain of all Leninisms being part of one Marxism, it's more like there are plural Leninisms that operate separately and in contradiction and hardly work together or properly learn from each other at each moment they learn something. (I usually say the phrase "plural Marxisms" or "countable Marxisms" but every time I say that what I really mean is there are plural {{em|Leninisms}} that are theories of local movements or workers' states, and ideally just one violet {{em|Marxism}} that is the "Marxist science" that studies all of them.) Leninisms have become weirdly mechanical and un-dialectical themselves so it's like, to allow for a Marxist science that actually goes back and forth you have to separate Marxism out for that purpose and let Leninisms be Leninisms. exactly as Althusser seems to have chickened out of when people were upset he wasn't optimizing his definitions of Marxism for fully participating in specific Leninisms. honestly, bringing up the case of two countries bashing each other and each thinking the other is wrong would put a stop to this. it would make it really evident that Leninism A and Leninism B criticizing each other don't necessarily have Marxist science embedded into them from within their own perspective, and it's really only the combined system of the two Leninisms together in some kind of Communist International or dialogue of some sort that can create a Marxist science which is capable of analyzing both Leninisms without "breaking" the dialectical connection from it to both of them. but the creation of this 'Communist International' creates a new entity beyond the two smaller entities, so the "practical theory" of the Communist International has to be a new distinct thing from the practical theory of the two Leninisms even though if it's functioning well it's connected to them. the separation {{em|in scale}} creates the separation between Marxist science (violet Marxism) and Leninism. it's like. is the central government of the Soviet Union directly part of the regional republican governments? it is but it isn't. in the best scenario there is a dialectical connection between them but they aren't the same thing. I guess then, violet Marxism is something of a "federal" philosophy; it's like the federal philosophy of a whole region or the world, like Liberal-republicanism is the federal philosophy of the United States but small chunks of the United States run on [[:Category:Existentialist-Structuralist tradition|Existentialism]] and the blobs of capitalism that contain it. you could use violet Marxism to write the constitution of the Eurasian continent or something, and it would contain requirements for the component Leninisms.

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== Ideology codes ==

* ML / early Marxism
* ML / Marx
* W / Western Marxism
* W / Althusser
* MX / meta-Marxism (violet Marxism)
* UM / unknown Marxism
* W onto ML / Althusser onto Marx; "meta-Marxism" (Althusser)

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	{{li\|start=y\|I=Z1/W\|tradition=UM / unknown\|Q=21,29\|Q2=2129}}{{article\|Rethinking Althusser's Meta-Marxism}} (Andreas Beck Holm 2024) [https://decalagesjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/decalagesvol2iss1_07.pdf] -> so, "meta-Marxism" has rarely been used for describing Western-Marxism for some reason. rest assured, this is {{em\|not}} at all what "meta-Marxism" is referring to on any other page on this site. here meta-Marxism is a particular thing called violet Marxism. if we became successful at what we were doing here you would search meta-Marxism and there would be 100 results about violet Marxism and 5 results about Western-Marxism.<br/>		{{li\|start=y\|I=Z1/W\|tradition=UM / unknown\|Q=21,29\|Q2=2129}}{{article\|Rethinking Althusser's Meta-Marxism}} (Andreas Beck Holm 2024) [https://decalagesjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/decalagesvol2iss1_07.pdf] -> so, "meta-Marxism" has rarely been used for describing Western-Marxism for some reason. rest assured, this is {{em\|not}} at all what "meta-Marxism" is referring to on any other page on this site. here meta-Marxism is a particular thing called [[E:Q92\|violet Marxism]]. if we became successful at what we were doing here you would search meta-Marxism and there would be 100 results about violet Marxism and 5 results about Western-Marxism.<br/>
	but, I'm interested to see exactly what the word is supposed to mean in Althusser's context and like how arrogant he is to think that Mark Fisher's tools can actually step outside Marxism or what exactly is going on here.		but, I'm interested to see exactly what the word is supposed to mean in Althusser's context and like how arrogant he is to think that Mark Fisher's tools can actually step outside Marxism or what exactly is going on here.

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	{{li\|start=y\|I=S1/W\|tradition=UM onto W\|Q=618}}inability to maintain the division between science and ideology -> that is... not the problem {{em\|I}} had with Althusser. for me it was that he couldn't maintain the difference between ideology and material objects. so the first thing I did was fix his account of capitalism in the article I was reading so he was describing one big material object breaking. and that actually made a lot of sense to me apart from the notion that it removes the concept of predicting and understanding revolution or the ability to steer transitions, and then I was like, but what's the point of aleatory materialism if it doesn't practically tell you anything about how to have a movement; today I'd also accuse that of being anarchism instead of Marxism, because shockingly almost everything that isn't Marxism turns out to be anarchism. psychoanalysis is provably an anarchism; critical theory is provably an anarchism; capitalist ideology itself is arguably-but-not-certainly an anarchism.		{{li\|start=y\|I=S1/W\|tradition=UM onto W\|Q=618}}inability to maintain the division between science and ideology -> that is... not the problem {{em\|I}} had with Althusser. for me it was that he couldn't maintain the difference between ideology and material objects. so the first thing I did was fix his account of capitalism in the article I was reading so he was describing one big material object breaking. and that actually made a lot of sense to me apart from the notion that it removes the concept of predicting and understanding revolution or the ability to steer transitions, and then I was like, but what's the point of aleatory materialism if it doesn't practically tell you anything about how to have a movement; today I'd also accuse that of being anarchism instead of Marxism, because shockingly almost everything that isn't Marxism turns out to be anarchism. psychoanalysis is provably an anarchism; critical theory is provably an anarchism; capitalist ideology itself is arguably-but-not-certainly an anarchism.

	{{li\|I=S1/W\|tradition=UM onto W\|Q=618}}Althusser set out to transform Marxism from an ideology into a science -> but I'm pretty sure he did it a different way than I did for some reason.		{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=UM onto W\|Q=618}}Althusser set out to transform Marxism from an ideology into a science -> but I'm pretty sure he did it a different way than I did for some reason.

	{{li\|I=S2/ML\|tradition=ML, MX\|Q=618}}Ideology does not make us see the world as it is, but connects people to society; this is to imply that Marxist science can break out of "the lived relationship of man to the world" ({{i\|lang=fr\|le rapport vécu des hommes à leur monde}}; break out of shovel dreams; early Marxism) -> we're violet so far, but I think that's only because Marx said this. he knew what he was talking about.		{{li\|I=S2/ML\|tradition=ML, MX\|Q=618}}Ideology does not make us see the world as it is, but connects people to society; this is to imply that Marxist science can break out of "the lived relationship of man to the world" ({{i\|lang=fr\|le rapport vécu des hommes à leur monde}}; break out of shovel dreams; early Marxism) -> we're violet so far, but I think that's only because Marx said this. he knew what he was talking about.
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	I can't believe the article hid what year and what event this was in the phrase "twentieth party congress" in hopes I wouldn't catch it. unfortunate for him that I have search engines.		I can't believe the article hid what year and what event this was in the phrase "twentieth party congress" in hopes I wouldn't catch it. unfortunate for him that I have search engines.

	{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=W, MX\|Q=618}}Marx's writings contain ideology when they are political / Marx's writings contain ideology because they are political (Althusser) / Trotsky's writings contain ideology when they are politically charged / Deng's statements contain ideology when they are politically charged -> shaky at first, because there are some charged statements Marx or Lenin ~~says~~ that are just empirically true, but when you dig into this concept further you see that any argument that's political has the opportunity to accidentally turn partisan and create unhelpful pluralities of factions. that's one of the major differences between science and ideology {{i\|per se}}. science seeks for everyone to come to a consensus about true facts that affect everyone even if the content of the facts concerns only some people; ideology picks some starting objective and always defends it even if that leads to conflicts between what different people believe to be true facts. so... yeah. when something contains a politically-charged argument, that pretty much means it's a countable sociophilosophy and you need the ability to step partially outside it in order to know whether it's true. that doesn't mean you should assume it isn't true though.		{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=W, MX\|Q=618}}Marx's writings contain ideology when they are political / Marx's writings contain ideology because they are political (Althusser) / Trotsky's writings contain ideology when they are politically charged / Deng's statements contain ideology when they are politically charged -> shaky at first, because there are some charged statements Marx or Lenin say that are just empirically true, but when you dig into this concept further you see that any argument that's political has the opportunity to accidentally turn partisan and create unhelpful pluralities of factions. that's one of the major differences between science and ideology {{i\|per se}}. science seeks for everyone to come to a consensus about true facts that affect everyone even if the content of the facts concerns only some people; ideology picks some starting objective and always defends it even if that leads to conflicts between what different people believe to be true facts. so... yeah. when something contains a politically-charged argument, that pretty much means it's a countable sociophilosophy and you need the ability to step partially outside it in order to know whether it's true. that doesn't mean you should assume it isn't true though.

	{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=W\|Q=618}}When Marxist theorists slip into simplified political rhetoric they are engaged in practice instead of theory (Althusser) -> hmm. that's an interesting way to put it. I don't know if it's actually true. I think it's simpler to say that Marxism and Leninism are two different layers of a movement and Leninism inevitably contains ideology simply because it's a simulated model of direct political practice and you have to make actual prescriptive decisions in that process of creating a party program of what strategies are better than other ones, but prescriptions always have the potential for error. they're both theory though, unless a Leninism has actually realized a workers' state and made itself into a physical object. having a potential for error doesn't mean something isn't theory, or you could say all kinds of funny things like that writing neopronouns is an inherently political act that applies political theory just because of the fact that other people could decide not to adopt them into language and it would become an erroneous prediction about the development of language. and I mean, that is a thought-provoking example, because it makes you ask, is the category of political theories a real category or are political theories indistinguishable from theories about the daily operation and development of society — does applying dialectical materialism make society and history and politics indistinguishable? but that's not really a necessary discussion when you're talking about how to separate Leninism from critiques of Leninism and actually apply the critiques. which should be a simple enough thing, it just comes down to realizing that Leninisms are particular historical periods if you do them correctly and realize them, so Marxism studies individual countable Leninisms because it studies periods of history as material objects. there is still a back-and-forth connection between Marxism and Leninisms because the Leninisms bring in new empirical observations of conditions and results as well as hypotheses and it's then a matter of tabulating all those observations and results from each Leninism and applying them to all the Leninisms. the central violet Marxism can never have full control over the Leninisms even if it wanted to, so the best thing to do is to learn how they each operate and try to make the most of how each one already operates and steer them to be the best they can be.		{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=W\|Q=618}}When Marxist theorists slip into simplified political rhetoric they are engaged in practice instead of theory (Althusser) -> hmm. that's an interesting way to put it. I don't know if it's actually true. I think it's simpler to say that Marxism and Leninism are two different layers of a movement and Leninism inevitably contains ideology simply because it's a simulated model of direct political practice and you have to make actual prescriptive decisions in that process of creating a party program of what strategies are better than other ones, but prescriptions always have the potential for error. they're both theory though, unless a Leninism has actually realized a workers' state and made itself into a physical object. having a potential for error doesn't mean something isn't theory, or you could say all kinds of funny things like that writing neopronouns is an inherently political act that applies political theory just because of the fact that other people could decide not to adopt them into language and it would become an erroneous prediction about the development of language. and I mean, that is a thought-provoking example, because it makes you ask, is the category of political theories a real category or are political theories indistinguishable from theories about the daily operation and development of society — does applying dialectical materialism make society and history and politics indistinguishable? but that's not really a necessary discussion when you're talking about how to separate Leninism from critiques of Leninism and actually apply the critiques. which should be a simple enough thing, it just comes down to realizing that Leninisms are particular historical periods if you do them correctly and realize them, so Marxism studies individual countable Leninisms because it studies periods of history as material objects. there is still a back-and-forth connection between Marxism and Leninisms because the Leninisms bring in new empirical observations of conditions and results as well as hypotheses and it's then a matter of tabulating all those observations and results from each Leninism and applying them to all the Leninisms. the central violet Marxism can never have full control over the Leninisms even if it wanted to, so the best thing to do is to learn how they each operate and try to make the most of how each one already operates and steer them to be the best they can be.
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	{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=UM\|Q=618}}Althusser tried to separate Marxist science from practical politics to avoid dividing Communist parties; this is to imply that he separated theory and practice to avoid criticism while the party process would otherwise tear apart his theory within the limits of its own understanding of the world -> this is really beginning to sound like Western-Marxism was just dysfunctional. it wasn't doing the '[[E:violet roundtable\|violet roundtable]]' thing where the various parts of it try to synchronize, it was just, hiding errors off in the corner. in a way, that explains a lot in terms of why Western-Marxist texts are "like that". they aren't even engaging with parties although the parties are there.<br/>		{{li\|I=S2/W\|tradition=UM\|Q=618}}Althusser tried to separate Marxist science from practical politics to avoid dividing Communist parties; this is to imply that he separated theory and practice to avoid criticism while the party process would otherwise tear apart his theory within the limits of its own understanding of the world -> this is really beginning to sound like Western-Marxism was just dysfunctional. it wasn't doing the '[[E:violet roundtable\|violet roundtable]]' thing where the various parts of it try to synchronize, it was just, hiding errors off in the corner. in a way, that explains a lot in terms of why Western-Marxist texts are "like that". they aren't even engaging with parties although the parties are there.<br/>
	it's like... the Soviet Union pushing out the Trotskyites only with zero instances of Trotskyites threatening to kill people. Leninism may be a little broken all the way around. we should be all thinking more about the concept of [[E:violet roundtable\|feedback in all directions\|]].		it's like... the Soviet Union pushing out the Trotskyites only with zero instances of Trotskyites threatening to kill people. Leninism may be a little broken all the way around. we should be all thinking more about the concept of [[E:violet roundtable\|feedback in all directions]].

	{{li\|I=S2/W\|Q=618}}If you can't really separate out Marxist science nor Marxist ideology from Marxist practice, then Marxism is not that different from Lacanianism -> oh no. no no no. I was wondering what swatch to give this article but oh boy this is a strawberry article you can't just say something like that. if you read just one Lacanian book you'll see the approach is drastically different from Marxism from top to bottom, this is like saying Marxism and anarchism aren't different. which is a quintessential Western-Marxist error.		{{li\|I=S2/W\|Q=618}}If you can't really separate out Marxist science nor Marxist ideology from Marxist practice, then Marxism is not that different from Lacanianism -> oh no. no no no. I was wondering what swatch to give this article but oh boy this is a strawberry article you can't just say something like that. if you read just one Lacanian book you'll see the approach is drastically different from Marxism from top to bottom, this is like saying Marxism and anarchism aren't different. which is a quintessential Western-Marxist error.