Can you reconcile Marxism with the idea that material wealth is not necessary for happiness and satisfaction?
Can you reconcile Marxism with the idea that material wealth is not necessary for happiness and satisfaction?
Jack Morris
Ayden Carter
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Juan Reed
What are you trying to say
Leo Baker
You can't. But ehy would you want to? Claiming that happiness and wealth are completely unrelated and that you can be truly happy in extreme poverty is ideology of pretty hogh purity.
Adam Fisher
*why *high
Tyler Flores
I don't think OP understands marxism like Holla Forums does
Adam Howard
I don't think there's anything to reconcile. You don't develop socieoconomic theories from the starting point of bad new age sound bites about happiness.
Liam Perez
As if could achieve happiness and such without having some basic needs met.
Surely, you've noticed that cultural, scientific and political advances have generally come from the upper class. Who else has the free time to do it?
Isaiah Evans
Why do you think the ruling class developed religion? Opium for the people.
Samuel Cruz
I do
It's a lot more complicated than that. Maslow's hierarchy of needs might apply in the capitalist west, where wealth is a strong indicator of a person's social class. And then you have dirt poor farmers in Peru or whatever who are satisfied with nearly nothing.
Human self actualization can't be measured by using a simple pyramid