I don’t think there is a problem with this. It just may means one’s ideology needs to be updated. Also it may mean one’s palate may be more sophisticated. We all have an ideology through which we filter our tastes; it is undialectical to think otherwise. It means understanding the limitations of what our tastes are, not to gloss over them and blame others’ of purity tests (not saying you were necessarily doing this). We all have purity tests. However, if this filter then adversely affects revolutionary pragmatism then one’s ideology and strategies need to be reconsidered. Marxism is a science.
It was not meant to be a get-out-jail-free-card for “Western guilt”. If that’s why I got all the upvotes then I may need to do a post about this.
I agree. To clarify, I’m just saying that you can’t use yiur ideology as the litmus test to deem whether a piece of media is worthy of your enjoyment. Well, you can, but youre probably not gonna be able to enjoy much, especially if you’re a Marxist living in the West.
A more pragmatic perspective is to just enjoy things and also find joy in the opportunity to sharpen your lens.
That pragmatism is maybe part of a person’s ideology? One may think there’s a separation but making those concessions is part of the filter. It is undialectical to think otherwise; the mind-body dualism has been replaced by monism - the material world including our own minds gives us the ideas.
I don’t think there is a problem with this. It just may means one’s ideology needs to be updated. Also it may mean one’s palate may be more sophisticated. We all have an ideology through which we filter our tastes; it is undialectical to think otherwise. It means understanding the limitations of what our tastes are, not to gloss over them and blame others’ of purity tests (not saying you were necessarily doing this). We all have purity tests. However, if this filter then adversely affects revolutionary pragmatism then one’s ideology and strategies need to be reconsidered. Marxism is a science.
It was not meant to be a get-out-jail-free-card for “Western guilt”. If that’s why I got all the upvotes then I may need to do a post about this.
I agree. To clarify, I’m just saying that you can’t use yiur ideology as the litmus test to deem whether a piece of media is worthy of your enjoyment. Well, you can, but youre probably not gonna be able to enjoy much, especially if you’re a Marxist living in the West.
A more pragmatic perspective is to just enjoy things and also find joy in the opportunity to sharpen your lens.
That pragmatism is maybe part of a person’s ideology? One may think there’s a separation but making those concessions is part of the filter. It is undialectical to think otherwise; the mind-body dualism has been replaced by monism - the material world including our own minds gives us the ideas.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8676149/6768653
A tangent, if you are interested: https://redsails.org/what-is-fundamentalism/
Oh I agree with that. They aren’t inseparable. Material circumstances influence outlook, whether consciously or unconsciously.