/lit/ - Literature

>>16325923
The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of changed circumstances and changed upbringing, forgets that it is men who change circumstances and that the educator must himself be educated. Hence this doctrine is bound to divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society. The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity or self-change can be conceived and rationally understood only as revolutionary practice.

>>16325965
>Hence this doctrine is bound to divide society into two parts, one of which is superior to society.
That's quite a leap from your previous statement (which, by the way, is incorrect, since both Marx and Engels saw humans as part of nature too)

>>16325923
Ideals come to mind from direct contact with the material world. The mind itself is material. Memories imprint on the brain fade for lake of exacting cell replication

>>16326172
Fuck off

Myth: Marx defeated Hegel and his idealism by inverting it
Reality:
>Hegel suggests that the economic and political dynamics resulting in poverty, itself functioning as a breeding ground for the rabble mentality, are inherent to the then-new political economies of modernity (of course, he also highlights how the steadily widening gap between poverty and wealth under capitalism creates a corresponding rabble mentality in the rich, who come to believe that their gains contingently gotten through gambling on civil society's free markets absolve them of duties and obligationsvis-à-visthe public spheres of thepolis). Moreover, on Hegel's assessment, no modern society (yet) appears to be willing and able adequately to address this internally generated self-undermining factor of rabble-rousing impoverishment. Without doing so, these historically youthful collective systems are at risk of destroying themselves sooner or later. Hence, rather than marking a pseudo-Hegelian "end of history," such societies, Hegel insinuates, have a very uncertain future ahead of them

>>16326179
Why the vinegar?

If I try reading Kapital will it help me sleep?