This is why I use NixOS

I’ve just read a little bit about Juche idea and it seems to me it’s the opposite to my views. Wikipedia (which I know isn’t always a credible source) states:

Juche incorporates the historical materialist ideas of Marxism–Leninism but also strongly emphasizes human agency, role of consciousness, and primacy of ideology and propaganda. In politics, Juche emphasizes the nation state, national sovereignty, and strongly defends the role of an individual leader.

If this is true, I think Juche idea is closer to idealism. Human agency is taken here more as the ability of an individual to influence other people, as leadership, which produces the idea of “primacy of ideology and propaganda”. And I, by human agency, mean transforming the world around us, evolving the artificial environment we live in, i.e. the development of means of production. So the conclusion I draw is that overcoming alienation can only be done through changing the mode of production and can not be done politically.

Btw, check out Ilyenkov. He’s an example of a philosopher who took Diamat forward.

Wow, this is pretty good! Usually people understand Marxism very superficially. I’m glad there are people who take the theory seriously.

This is not about summarizing the “classical” marxist view and more about extending it, but on the side note, I think the very split of being into matter and consciousness should be overcome. The two opposing sides should be united in something that interconnects and comprehends both of them. And that is human action (and activity in general). Idealism states what we perceive is created by our mind. Materialism states what we sense is the world itself. But actually both are true. Cognition is human action towards the world. We do create what we see, but we do so by changing the world around us. So it’s more similar to how a painter depicts something than to how water reflects surrounding objects.