Thursday, June 8, 2023

Marxism Never was About Social Justice

I support the goal of achieving social justice and fairness in society.  But if that's the goal, then the most optimal route to that goal should be taken.  We shouldn't have to 

determine if that route to social justice meets with Marx's interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of history.  But that's what Marxism is all about; ordering society in a manner 

that fits within Marx's esoteric idea of dialectical materialism where the relationship between the worker and the mixing of their labor with the natural object they are 

working on fits within Hegel's idea of thesis, antithesis and synthesis.  Do you think the average blue collar worker gives a flying rats rear about the philosophy of history 

and dialectical materialism?  Of course not.  And for everyone trying to achieve social justice, they shouldn't care either; they should just care about whatever works to 

achieve that goal regardless of whether or not it fits within Marx or Hegel's conception of the movement of history and the relationship between the worker and what they are 

working on or how their labor fits within Marx's calculus for the value of labor.