A Question For Marx, That Unfortunately He'll Never Answer
Materialism without the "why" the question materialism answers, is empty. The oppressed ask it instinctively. The apathetic or Dark-Triad types don't. That's why the science only moves those who already feel the wrong, who are curious about why anything matters. Marxism, dialectical materialism wasn't written against the possibility of innate human drives. He left that gap open and never fully closed it. The science is a sorting mechanism, not a conversion mechanism. It finds and vindicates the people who already have the intuition, it doesn't create it in people who don't. For the person who never felt it, the framework just slides off. This is also why communist organizing historically worked best among people already living under the boot, not among comfortable intellectuals who had to reason their way there. The genuinely conscience-absent person, the ruling class sociopath, the enthusiastic exploiter, the science will never move them. But the checked-...
