Can You Be Both a Marxist and a Kantian? — Ali Shukri Amin
First published on my writing site: www.aliamin.info/2026/09/can-you-be-both-a-marxist-and-a-kantian/
By Ali Shukri Amin. I first wrote this as a comment on r/PhilosophyMemes, in the thread “Meme & Genuine: Can I Be Both Marxist and Kantian or Am I Stupid?”, copied here as written.
Marxism is predicated upon materialism. If you are an idealist, you could agree with some of Marx’s conclusions, but not the method. If Marx is wrong about materialism as a bootstrap, then there are more important things in the noumenon than the historical material conditions of the underclasses.
You could be an idealist and agree with his critique of capital, but I don’t think you could be an idealist and agree with dialectical materialism.
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