>>2469711>You think groups exist because of le ingroup outgroup dialectic?If you play around with definitions, I could probably answer with a very contrived no, since we could in theory speak of a group that contains everyone and everything. But if we're using language as a tool to describe the world, then yes
The notion of a group is only useful insofar as it describes an in-group out-group relationship. Anything else would be philosophical mental masturbation.
>Isnt this idealism?No. I don't see the notion of a group as some kind of metaphysical "thing", I see it as a convenient way to describe dialectical relationships on a larger scale than individual subjects (technically most "individual subjects" are themselves actually groups of other things, because materialism).