I think you might be right. That’s what I was trying to hint at with my blurb about the orthodox marxists and their understanding of Dialectics versus what I have observed as the ML/MLM understanding of dialectics.

That’s fascinating. Thank you!

On another note, how did the Fichtean thesis and antithesis stuff become so prolific among Marxists? It wasn’t used by Hegel or even Marx as far as I can tell, and it’s completely contrary to the modern ideas of Dialectics as outlined by Mao.

I see, so it’s not even a debate on theory or dialectics, it’s just a debate on AES?

Where do you think their misunderstanding comes from? Like, what part of it is it that they misunderstand or disagree on?

That’s fantastic, thank you!

Can you tell me more about Mao’s ideas about intelligentsia?

Honestly, I wouldn’t be that opposed to having to stay in Academia and just do research, if the entire institution and system around submitting research wasn’t such a corrupt pile of shit. I honestly fucking love doing research, even in my free time, I always have a million tabs open, always trying to read new stuff. Just can’t stand the elitism and classism in Academia. Wish being an independent researcher was a more realistic thing.

Haha, my partner is in Academia in healthcare, and she talks about that very thing like once a week, saying she has to resist the urge to point out “the elephant” on a weekly basis to her peers.

I think it’s hard, because the farther I get into my academic career, the more elitist it gets, and the more “pay to play” it feels, like it’s just made for rich kids. I got into my program on a 75% merit based scholarship, but then my PI started setting me up with all these conferences to submit our papers to, except no one told me that I need to be the person fronting these several hundreds of dollars for registering papers that the school says they will pay me back “if funding permits” lol, what a joke. It feels like an institution that exists only to be accessible for the wealthy, despite me fighting my way up the ladder tooth and nail.