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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Reading for an exam and the author just states:

the structuralist thinking of Marx and Durkheim, for example, operates within a largely positivistic framework.

Seriously, the more of these mainstream academia books I read the more I feel like none of these people have actually spent any real time reading Marx or trying to understand marxist theory.

On positivism and Marxism from my other self-appointed readings

No point to this post really, I just feel increasingly disillusioned about my ability to ever write a Marxist dissertation in Western academia, one that would actually pass. There aren't even anyone to teach me or guide me in it in my field, the most Marxist guy I've found is firmly a Frankfurt school type.

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[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This thing also has a chapter on how utterly odd and foreign it must sound to a Finnish reader that anyone would have for realsies been persecuted for their Marxist views like very much happened during mccharthyism in the US, because in smol bean nazi country such a thing would never happen.

fascist gangs were literally kidnapping social fucking democrats and driving them over to the border with Soviet Russia in the 30s, and that's because all the actual communists were either dead, in prison or already exiled to Russia, god i hate this fucking country

[–] StillNoLeftLeft@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

Right!? And the way they managed to spin these "muilutukset" in school was wild. It was presented like it was some tongue in cheek horseplay between political rivals and not taking people from their beds in the middle of the night to be driven into the woods to be tortured and shot in the back. Which is what happened too, the "thrown across the border" is still the more mainstream mild stuff.

It's the same story with everything we "know" about the last 150 or so years here. From Karelia to the civil war, from Mannerheim to Donald Duck, from finlandization to nato it's all very much bourgeoisie reality.