Such a minefield (and mind field!) of opportunity for cooptation and manipulation through language, especially trigger keywords that can derail or rechannel whole herds of those captured by the "spells." A tricky business espec. as quantum theory apparently reinforces the postmodernist/subjectivist view.
To me (subjective alert, LOL) the key insight here is exposing how such philosophical sleights-of-word are basically a way to rationalize and justify one's own worldview and interest in controlling the narrative to one's own political advantage.
This is basically a form of absolute idealism which is based on Hegel who based it on Gnosticism and Hermetiscism. Originally in Hermeticism it was a way to defend the Creator God and praise him. In Gnosticism that then devolved into him becoming incompetent and being blasphemed as the "evil demiurge". Hegel then turned it absolute with the entire material, physical world being seen as an illusion and being demonized and having to be negated and destroyed in order to transcend it and reach the metaphysical which he sees as the only "real" reality. And Marx then inverted it, turning it from absolute idealism into absolute materialism.
Now one might think that that makes him opposed to Hegel and Marx himself claimed to be in opposition to Hegel. But we are forgetting that for Hegel the means of negating and transcending lie in his dialectical process which for Hegel is a process of creating contradiction and intentionally creating opposing sides, then bringing them into conflict and making them struggle with each other, thereby ultimately negating both extremes and transcending them. So Marx's seeming inversion of Hegel isn't so much actual opposition to Hegel as it is simply putting Hegel's teaching about his dialectical process into practice.
Now, all this might sound a bit complicated, but what I am really trying to say is that communism is a cult - literally.
Such a minefield (and mind field!) of opportunity for cooptation and manipulation through language, especially trigger keywords that can derail or rechannel whole herds of those captured by the "spells." A tricky business espec. as quantum theory apparently reinforces the postmodernist/subjectivist view.
To me (subjective alert, LOL) the key insight here is exposing how such philosophical sleights-of-word are basically a way to rationalize and justify one's own worldview and interest in controlling the narrative to one's own political advantage.
Extraordinary, true and deep as always.
This is basically a form of absolute idealism which is based on Hegel who based it on Gnosticism and Hermetiscism. Originally in Hermeticism it was a way to defend the Creator God and praise him. In Gnosticism that then devolved into him becoming incompetent and being blasphemed as the "evil demiurge". Hegel then turned it absolute with the entire material, physical world being seen as an illusion and being demonized and having to be negated and destroyed in order to transcend it and reach the metaphysical which he sees as the only "real" reality. And Marx then inverted it, turning it from absolute idealism into absolute materialism.
Now one might think that that makes him opposed to Hegel and Marx himself claimed to be in opposition to Hegel. But we are forgetting that for Hegel the means of negating and transcending lie in his dialectical process which for Hegel is a process of creating contradiction and intentionally creating opposing sides, then bringing them into conflict and making them struggle with each other, thereby ultimately negating both extremes and transcending them. So Marx's seeming inversion of Hegel isn't so much actual opposition to Hegel as it is simply putting Hegel's teaching about his dialectical process into practice.
Now, all this might sound a bit complicated, but what I am really trying to say is that communism is a cult - literally.