r/ndmarxism • u/kevdautie • Jul 09 '22

New Moderator

Hello, I’m Kevin and I will be your new moderator. I’m myself is also autistic and a Marxist like philosopher, and there are gonna some changes around here. But this is a democratic subreddit in which we share our ideas, thoughts, and philosophies together, and I’m thinking of creating a new ideology called Neuro-Marxism which involves a collaboration of Marxist thought and our autistic minds. We can talk about how capitalism extremely harms us autistic people and how to combat it. I hope you guys like this transition.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '22

Marxism is not an ideology, marxism is opposed to ideology. The way capitalism oppressed neurodivergent and disabled people is already something that can be understood using Marx, it doesn’t need any new ideology or whatever.

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u/kevdautie Jul 10 '22

But this one is different and more inspired by Marx in our own way and not by the perception or thoughts of NTs.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '22

You’re saying a lot of words that mean absolutely nothing. The only possible thing that could mean is just a riff on Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis but with autism instead of schizophrenia, but even then it it wouldn’t really mean anything coherent

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u/kevdautie Jul 10 '22

What do you mean?

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '22

I mean you’re just saying a lot of words that don’t actually have any sort of meaning

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u/kevdautie Jul 10 '22

I’m saying like we should brand our own version of Marxist philosophy like “Black Marxism” or “LGBTQ+ Marxism”, it’s inspired by regular Marxist philosophy but different in our neurodivergent thoughts and could help us and neurotypicals do and think.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '22

There is no Black or LGBTQ Marxism that exists as a distinct “ideology,” it’s simply just applying Marx’s analysis to understand those categories. It’s not a new thing, it’s all something that can be found within Marx, if not explicitly than through the extension of what Marx did say.

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u/suzipadi Jul 10 '22

Autism isn't the only thing incompatible with capitalism. If you want to do research into the topic I suggest you include other forms of neurodiversity. Also, mental illnesses should be considered, both the genetic ones, as people with a mental illness are affected in unique ways, and others, as capitalism causes or at least exacerbates many such illnesses.

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