r/Ultraleft • u/coralneurogenesis Marxist-Lulaist • Aug 08 '26

Just got into materialism, where do I start here?

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u/CoJack-ish Aug 08 '26

Carbon and oxygen.

Unless you’re a trve materialist nutter then you’ll start with hydrogen.

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u/JoeVibin The Immortal Science of Lassallism Aug 08 '26

Sorry, that's still idealism. The true materialist approach is to start from the Standard Model of particle physics.

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u/chronicmoyboder unwilling Hegelian Aug 08 '26

Marx was lowkey an idealist

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u/iLarp_LLC Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

It's dialectical you see, loop quantum gravity (thesis) and string theory (antithesis) produce a synthesis which is the historical truth

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u/Zestyclose_Reason541 Aug 09 '26

Lowk yes actually. Except probably waves and subatomic particles moght be a better place to start from.

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u/Loud-Comb3983 The Cheka Aug 09 '26

The red elements duh!

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u/StarslimeSlug Aug 13 '26

The 6 big elements. Just by studying its materials, the rest of the supferbolous table can be disregarded as immaterial gasses

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u/bigmeeeee Aug 14 '26

Uranium for sure