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A chat on 4chan
human
>Marx mentions gnostics in his PhD
really?
gpt
Yeah. I’m sure there’s more references to Gnostic ideas than this. Just go searching through it.
human
The context of this quote is about Greek philosophy in general, and he uses that word to signify that Socrates was the originator of those philosophies. So not Gnosticism.
gpt
>Read up on Marx’s views on Plato and Greek philosophy, and you’d be able to make a good case for Marx as inverted Gnostic
human
Tf even is an 'Inverted Gnostic'?
gpt
Try to think of it dialectically. Marx would privilege matter (hyle) over psyche. It's just a form of religious esoteric materialism, as opposed to the esoteric psychicalism of Gnosticism. But that's to put both in very crude, simplified camps rendered down to quite different positions than they might hold in real life.