>>2658170Existentialist anti-humanism is a thing. And the USSR was a theocratic eschatological authoritarian project proven "wrong" in 1991.
>>2658159>midwit philosophy that reduces everything to human agency. As opposed to what? Some divine Other? Fatalistic eschatology?
One of the central flaws of "Marxism-Leninism" (and "Soviet Communism" by extension) is the denial of agency or choice. Including the assumption that Workers will naturally turn into revolutionary communists upon familiarizing themselves with the gospel of ML, instead of recognizing they might reject it regardless.
Proles are naturally drawn to communism. It's simply an innate interest they supposedly have, except when they don't at which point supposed materialists fall back on notions of "false consciousness".
But why is it false consciousness to not care about this revolutionary eschatology (especially if they already share a different faith), or desire to be "rich" instead? What drives this class consciousness? Why is the desire of the patriarchal racist misogynist worker to have an obedient subservient wife and only live in a community surrounded by "his" people (regardless if they're 'bourgeois') "false", but not that of the
revolutionary communist who believes in the Revolution (as eschaton) and is willing to kill his fellow "reactionary" workers for the sake of this?
Both are choices. Choice here is not meant in the deterministic vs indeterministic sense, but in that we 'own' our choices. They may be socially informed and the product of upbringing and culture generally. And we may be aware of this or not to various extends. But you can't abdicate moral authority over your own actions by pretending
someone - be it The People, God, Nature, Revolution - is forcing you to. Whether it is a pogrom or a revolution. Unless you're a theist (like MLs).
There's many other issues with ML and Marxism generally. (Among them not understanding the difference between ethics, teleology and science) But this is one of the most glaring.