>>24699205
i don't disagree with you? you're stating the facts the about false consciousness and the need for workers to organise themselves to perform revolution. i don't understand how this conflicts with what i've said earlier. what i was arguing against was the notion that there is actually *no reason* to "reveal the truth" to the workers since all of history has already been determined. you can just sit on your arse and do nothing. your words don't seem to contradict that. i agree with what you've said.
>>24699213
yes, no one serious takes stalinists seriously, not even lenin himself.
>>24699234
historical materialism is just the theory of history as put forth by marx, that focuses on the material conditions that form the base of the base-superstructure cycle of history (sorry for my butchering of this, i am speaking informally). the term itself, "historical materialism", i think was coined under stalin or even by himself, but he didn't invent it. it's just a term used to describe the ideas put forth by Marx primarily in The German Ideology.

i would also like to point out that there are strains of marxism that go far away from any thought of determinism, like communisation theory and operaismo. a good example of communisation thought would be Endnotes.