Idk about anyone else, or about the leading Marxist thinkers, but I’m personally more inclined to determinism. If you go back far enough, free will does not exist.
Even if you can want to do, say, or think something, you can’t choose to want to say, do, or think said thing. If you get food, a drink, or a snack, it comes down to hunger or thirst, things that are ultimately out of your control.
Also, the vast majority of our decisions are influenced by a number of factors not just within our lives but beyond them— our psychology, our environment, physical needs, desires, outside influence be it from family or even society, etc.
I don’t think that means that we have no control over our fates and that we shouldn’t do shit because it would be pre-determined or something, it just means I think free will doesn’t exist— we don’t do, say, or think things just because we want to— even if we did, can we really choose to want or need something? Idk if I worded my thoughts in a concise way, but I tried lmao.
Idk about anyone else, or about the leading Marxist thinkers, but I’m personally more inclined to determinism. If you go back far enough, free will does not exist.
Even if you can want to do, say, or think something, you can’t choose to want to say, do, or think said thing. If you get food, a drink, or a snack, it comes down to hunger or thirst, things that are ultimately out of your control.
Also, the vast majority of our decisions are influenced by a number of factors not just within our lives but beyond them— our psychology, our environment, physical needs, desires, outside influence be it from family or even society, etc.
I don’t think that means that we have no control over our fates and that we shouldn’t do shit because it would be pre-determined or something, it just means I think free will doesn’t exist— we don’t do, say, or think things just because we want to— even if we did, can we really choose to want or need something? Idk if I worded my thoughts in a concise way, but I tried lmao.