Materialism is a form of idealism

Then read Althusser and be proven wrong, shitposters.

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Called it!

Thanks for the laughs, A.W

Materialism is, indeed, idealism! Because LMAO GERMAN IDEOLOGY

It isn't?

Materialism is a pretty direct and strong rejection of idealism.

More like, read what I wrote . Hegel calls ALL philosophy de facto idealist by the very form and content philosophy must have as thought. To merely call something material and expound the concept of what it is to be material shows the ideal nature of the claim.

If materialism was true, and empiricism truly valid, as you say, then we would just merely have to look at the world and immediately intuitively know it by what is otherwise known as intellectual intuition. If we had that, then theory would be pointless.

It means that idealism, like solipsism, is unfalsifiable, irrefutable, and says nothing.

Solipsism is refutable. You have to just stop being stupid and believing pure abstraction, that you are somehow god yet have the memory of a human being.

All of philosophy is unfalsifiable, it's not empirical, it is the very ground concept of what the empirical can even mean. Hegel's idealism is irrefutable in so far as you're going to use thoughts to argue. To know anything is to know it ideally, the very idea of the >not-ideal< is itself an idea.

"The premises from wich we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstration can only be made in the imagination. Thney are the real individuals, their activity and the material conditions under which they live, both those which they find already existing and those produced by their activity. These premises can thus be verified in a purely empirical way."

"We have seen that the whole problem of the transition from thought to reality, hence from language to life, exists only in philosophical illusion, ie., it is justified only for philosophical consciousness, which cannot possibly be clear about the nature and origin of its apparent separation from life. This great problem, insofar as it at all entered minds of our ideologists, was bound, of course, to result of finely in one of these knights-errant setting out in search of a word, which, as a word, formed the transition in question, which as a word, ceases to be simply a word, and which, as a word, in a mysterious super linguistic manner, points from whitin the language to the actual object it denotes; which, in short, plays among words the same role as the Redeeming God-Man plays among people in Christian fantasy. The emptiest, shallowest brain among the philosophers had to 'end' philosophy by proclaiming his lack of thought to be the end of philosophy and this the triumphant entry into 'corporeal' life. His philosophizing mental vacuity was already in itself the end of philosophy just as his unspeakable language was the end of all language"

"Where speculation ends – in real life – there real, positive science begins: the representation of the practical activity, of the practical process of development of men. Empty talk about consciousness ceases, and real knowledge has to take its place. When reality is depicted, philosophy as an independent branch of knowledge loses its medium of existence. At the best its place can only be taken by a summing-up of the most general results, abstractions which arise from the observation of the historical development of men. Viewed apart from real history, these abstractions have in themselves no value whatsoever. They can only serve to facilitate the arrangement of historical material, to indicate the sequence of its separate strata. But they by no means afford a recipe or schema, as does philosophy, for neatly trimming the epochs of history. On the contrary, our difficulties begin only when we set about the observation and the arrangement – the real depiction – of our historical material, whether of a past epoch or of the present. The removal of these difficulties is governed by premises which it is quite impossible to state here, but which only the study of the actual life-process and the activity of the individuals of each epoch will make evident. We shall select here some of these abstractions, which we use in contradistinction to the ideologists, and shall illustrate them by historical examples."

Empiricism is false and literally can lead nowhere you silly cave dweller - t. Hume

Except, you know, Hegel literally did just that: clarify just why epistemology is retarded, including Marx's early empiricism in the GId.

Hegel LITERALLY says that the ideal which philosophy arises from the practical and unconscious assumptions in it.

That's why Marx didn't rely on empiricism alone.
Jesus Christ. Have you even read anything Marx wrote? Or did you dismiss it because LMAO GERMANI DEOLOGY, MORE LIKE GERMAN SHITPOSTING AMIRITE

The emptiest, shallowest brain among the philosophers had to 'end' philosophy by proclaiming his lack of thought to be the end of philosophy and this the triumphant entry into 'corporeal' life. His philosophizing mental vacuity was already in itself the end of philosophy just as his unspeakable language was the end of all language"

That's very materialistic!

Admit it, idealism and materialism are not the same. Materialism is literally a rejection of idealism alone.

Feuerbach > Stirner