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7/8/2025, 2:31:25 PM
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>>24531400
In a nutshell, Marxists conceived themselves as part of the tradition of the Enlightenment and its scientific rationality. It's sometimes dubbed (by themselves) "scientific socialism." Class struggle and material conditions are held to be objective truths. Knowledge through science is held as emancipatory and dominant (bourgeois) ideologies are distortions of truth.
The thing is, I'm not even sure many self-described communists believe in this today. People get this stuff communicated to them via other sources, but did you see this game Atomic Heart? It's made by a Russian so maybe that's why he got the vibe when depicting his BioShock version of a futuristic USSR, but it was kind of like that, the left-wing equivalent to socialism what Ayn Rand was doing for capitalism with her philosophy of Objectivism:
https://youtu.be/RdsKoWUNcIk
That's closer to communism as communists imagined it in the 1950s. Foucault pitted his whole approach against that. Like, rather than liberating, knowledge often reinforces power structures, and scientific rationality is not neutral but part of the machinery of control (in prisons and schools). There is no objective or universal truth for Foucault, it's something shaped by discourses and power.
>>24531400
In a nutshell, Marxists conceived themselves as part of the tradition of the Enlightenment and its scientific rationality. It's sometimes dubbed (by themselves) "scientific socialism." Class struggle and material conditions are held to be objective truths. Knowledge through science is held as emancipatory and dominant (bourgeois) ideologies are distortions of truth.
The thing is, I'm not even sure many self-described communists believe in this today. People get this stuff communicated to them via other sources, but did you see this game Atomic Heart? It's made by a Russian so maybe that's why he got the vibe when depicting his BioShock version of a futuristic USSR, but it was kind of like that, the left-wing equivalent to socialism what Ayn Rand was doing for capitalism with her philosophy of Objectivism:
https://youtu.be/RdsKoWUNcIk
That's closer to communism as communists imagined it in the 1950s. Foucault pitted his whole approach against that. Like, rather than liberating, knowledge often reinforces power structures, and scientific rationality is not neutral but part of the machinery of control (in prisons and schools). There is no objective or universal truth for Foucault, it's something shaped by discourses and power.
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