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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Dialectic can never be a science, you can't apply the same methodology. Even when it's material.

However it is philosophy, and if your searching for some material reality then it's ontology.

Science too is a product of ontology, it's a methodology created for this exact purpose and wich can be studied in this field.

Saying physical properties are social abstractions sounds to me like social constructivism, which is epistemology, again philosophy.

Social sciences can be soft science precisely when they are not dialectic and rely on the methodology of science.

And to be clear, soft science is just a science that is based on a hard science, in which we don't have enough work done to explain every emergent properties using fundamental properties of matter.

Psychoanalysis is an outdated philosophical theory, so indeed just a scam now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

The Perverts Guide to Cinema is my favorite scam film.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I went on a tear at one point trying to really understand, rigorously (I'm a computer and maths person by trade and training), what dialectics are and how, specifically, the material dialectic (the foundation of Marxist thought!) should work.

I was a bit dissapointed to understand that they can't really be "rigorous" in that fashion and that they're really more of a philosophical and rhetorical tool. I do still get a lot of use from them, and in discussions with other people the framework of the dialectic ("Ok, what if we took these two ideas and put them on opposite ends of a spectrum, how does that look?") is very useful for explaining and expounding upon ideas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Its usefulness never made me disappointed despite this drawback.

I'm a physicist at heart, which might explains it... To me the use in philosophy is just as important, especially in philosophy of science and metaphysics.

Simply put I couldn't imagine studying how reality works without ever wandering what it is and how to best study it.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Psychoanalysis is an outdated philosophical theory, so indeed just a scam now.

Quite like Marxism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In what manner?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In that it's an outdated economics theory... In fact, it was outdated when it was first published already.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In what way?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In that it ignored the previous half a century of (well tested) advances on the area and just made claims that were already known not to hold on the real world.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Can you for one second elaborate on anything you're saying? What did Marx ignore, and what doesn't hold in the real world?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

For example, the entire labor theory of value doesn't hold up on the real world and Economics had already better explanations for the phenomenon it was trying to explain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What part of Marx's LTV doesn't hold up? What theories explain Value better?

Are you capable of specifics, or can you only gesture? I am genuinely trying to see if you have an actual argument, I'm a Marxist and I encourage you to point to something that could maybe test that.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

None of the LTV hold up. For a start, it predicts that people won't ever trade. That's quite a big flaw because, you know, people do trade. Theories of value predicting people won't trade was a big problem by the time Marx was young. His one doesn't solve the problem at all, but well, it wasn't a problem anymore when he published.

The family of theories of value that predict that trade happens are called "subjective theories of value".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

None of the LTV hold up. For a start, it predicts that people won't ever trade

What on Earth are you talking about? Do you know what "Exchange-Value" represents? Can you point to that in Marx's writings? If this is your best, then you need to read more of Marx before you randomly start pretending it's debunked or outdated, lmao.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you know what “Exchange-Value” represents?

An attempt of pushing some amount of subjectivity into his value theory, but still in a way that keeps it objective and still fails to predict trade.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Exchange-Value isn't subjective.

Can you answer my main question, where did you invent the idea that the LTV doesn't believe trade exists? This is PragerU level, try harder please.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Labour theory of value puts value on goods for the sole purpose of trading and explaining trades. Both LTV and STV does.

Marx's use of LVT is to criticize how Capitalism leads to exploitation. But although the specifics differ SVT could still be used to raise the same critiques.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

It certainly holds up better than whatever nonsense western economists peddle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You should let China know ASAP 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes it's one of my favorites too. Happy to see it again, I haven't seen it in a long time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you people meme format enthusiasts, would you be interested in a MemeFormat community here on Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I would follow it like the psycho girlfriend

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

That is great to hear

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There you go

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Nice

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

it's dialectical :)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is this dialectics?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Definitely

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Honestly, a mistake right off the bat to let him get away with slandering Marxist analysis by tying it to a word as poisoned in the popular imagination as 'economics'

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why is psychoanalysis bullshit? I've seen people talking about it before but I don't really remember the reasons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

It’s not really very evidence-based from what I remember. Freuds ideas rested on a lot of untested assumptions about the way human psychology works

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Psychology student hère.

In short, our professor explained to us that there are two approaches as to how subconscious thoughts and emotions work. The first one is that sometimes thought processes are subconscious, but they can be "brought to light" relatively easily; this perspective has been well-validated and compatible with modern psychology. The second approach is the psychoanalytic one - that some thoughts and emotions are forcefully kept away from the consciousness in order to self-regulate. This position has been debunked and doesn't seem to have empirical basis.

That's why classical psychoanalysis today, where you dig deep into thoughts and feelings in order to go beyond the "defensive forces" of the mind (in German also called Abwehr), is seen as outdated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think I get it, so social science is like theoretical physics?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In Marxism, the base (material/economic conditions) is what the superstructure (social/cultural/political conditions) is generated by. Societies organise themselves around the resources available and the division of labour required to utilise them. Marxism's social observations are all rooted in that mediation of the material environment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Just to add onto this for completeness's sake: the superstructure is created by the base and also the remaining superstructure left over from the previous base. And don't forget the dialectic between base and superstructure!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Im with handlebar head on this one

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