Let’s be materialists about this.
Let’s be materialists about this.
Deontology morally supports the development of meaningful freedoms, and Marxism aims to do just that in practice.
Does the idealism of deontology make it incompatible with Marxism? (No, but Marxists should be materialists, and get the strategic benefits of engaging in a materialist analysis.)
“If only everyone else held the same views as me! Then we’d have a world without exploitation that meets all of our needs! This means that if we simply make our arguments more forcefully, more convincingly, more sympathetically—then we will have a mass movement of the working class!” — Idealists
How do we effectively engage in “praxis”? What are organizing practices for our theory to effectively inform our action, or for reflections on our actions to inform our theory?
Guiding practices for determining strategy, organizer-and-elected coordination, positive feedback loops, avoiding unsustainable legislative leading
Four strategic aims, and listing some powers that socialist electeds have to help achieve them
The revolutionary endpoint, political capture versus developing socialized productive forces, building revolution in the womb of the old economic system
Discussing different causes of socialist elected self-moderation, and to what point it can ever be strategically justified
Discussing the limitations on legislative possibility from the institutional structure of government, working class alignment dependency on capitalist economic circuits, and the social reactionary beliefs that arise from alienation between people.
Introduction, a brief overview of DSA electoral strategy, and a brief of my views
Las Vegas DSA recently put out a good retrospective on their 2021 capture of the Nevada Democratic Party’s leadership positions. Unfortunately, a disappointing outcome, but good socialist analysis.