>>2791104Materialism out of your ass may say that the state determines civil society, but a little Marx would show you that's an idealistic form of materialism. That is, it would be materialism just as in an arbitrary name for a given doctrine. Because how can an account of the state be materialist if it doesn't even consider the most fundamental material aspect of its form and activity, which is the production process that enables all members of society to sustain their life? Your doctrine of the state is idealistic precisely because it hypostatizes a "separate" state capable of shifting the tides of matter in motion, as an external and independent autonomous arbiter beyond the concrete structure of society. And the concrete structure of society, let me tell you, is not the state. It would actually be much closer to te truth to assert it of ancient states rather than modern ones, which is the completely the opposite of what you said earlier. So we come full circle in your assertion and reach a complete contradiction: the dictatorial Lenin who tries to bring the working class to power is still in itself less dictatorial than your own position on what the state is and does: dictate the form of society. If your lenin and your communist party was even true (history shows they were far from a despotic leader and party), they would be your perfect political ideal, a man and a party capable of using the determinant position of the state to shape society from the top down. But that's not what bolshevism was and that's not what the state is and does.
The birth of modernity is precisely the advent of bourgeoise class domination, which generated completely new political structures and a new form of state. You can see it in the glorious revolution, American indipendence and french revolutions, which would have absolutely no sense without accounting for the empowerment of a new class, the bourgeoise, and a new legislation and state form to fit their interests. What need has the feudal lord for the Napoleonic code? They can clean their ass with it, they subsist with the tribute and rent collected from subjects, spoils of war and etc. It is only with the growth of commerce and production, both activities which the bourgeoise advanced to an efficency never before seen, that a universal law resembling a commercial pact between separate, antisocial competitive atomized individuals make any sense, as if everyone person behaved with one another in society as different firms do in a market. The state is this just the instrument which a given class use to execute the domination they reached in the production process in the first place, using its administrative, logistical, and violent powers to shape society according to their class interests
Anyways, you need to read more Marx in order to be materialist, because you are an idealist