Okay so banger insight I got from here:

material conditions reign supreme as the foundation of any meaningful program or political convo. This type of analysis cuts laserlike through vast clouds of fluffy, worthless, marketplace of ideas grift style vvvvibes-based “idealistic” baloney.

However.

Vibes, also, are a thing. Often enough vibes become material conditions. People fight, work, organize, sacrifice and die for Vibes. Non material elements can rally support around a material cause.

What are good ways to think about the relationship between material conditions and… idealism, pure “politics”, lofty rhetoric, untethered wishful thinking… vibes. I’m hoping some well-read comrade will bless us with thought or maybe a reading rec

I love you all lea-finger-guns

  • alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    27 days ago

    See, this is why I have to be in the right headspace to enjoy all those “historical revolutionary/modern commie sent back in time/to a feudal era fantasy world, proceeds to spread modern communism” stories. They’re just often unrealistic in pre industrial material conditions. That said, they’re good fun if you don’t want realism, just a vaguely Stalinist great-man revolution story. And the ones that aren’t explicitly communist… much more believable, still a great revolution story. I definitely enjoy the John Brown Isekai because hey, he might be a proponent of American representative democracy, not the Soviet council system, which he would never have even known about, but a revolution is a revolution and freeing slaves is freeing slaves.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      27 days ago

      Which is why the only good communist novel I’ve read was about a Chinese Cadre getting spiritually isekaid and accelerating the historical development of a society in republican Rome times towards the feudal centralization power necessary to allow the natural flourishing of a bourgeois class and setting the groundwork for a modern society to be born after his death, way sooner than it naturally occured in the historical timeline.

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          27 days ago

          “Mediterranean Hegemon of Ancient Greece” by Chen Rui

          There’s occasionally something communistic that comes out of China’s literature and comic entertainment section. Usually I when I catch a whiff of it in something I’m reading, the author tends to be knowledgeable of Marxism-Leninism and historical materialism and it shows in how they present their story. Sometimes it’s overt, sometimes it’s subtle.