maryanxx wrote:I don't mix them. Now, given that you have knowledge of Marxism, you are speaking through Marx's perspective or through the perspective of Marxism itself, as a philosophy?
There is no such a thing as "Marx's perspective". It is not a doctrine, or a dogma in which one believes, or glass lenses through which one looks at the world in a "Marxist-distorted" way. It is a set of abstract ideas based on dialectical materialist truths, ideas that can be validated, refuted, adapted or enhanced by revolutionary practice.
Either one chooses science, the study of objective reality and truth through practice and therefore materialism (dialectical materialism only being a more advanced form of it), *or* one chooses the subordination of the material world to absolute ideas, spirit, the will of supernatural beings, etc., the equation of abstractions to other abstractions, religion, and therefore idealism (in any of its numerous flavors). In the end, they are mutually exclusive.
That you fail to see the contradiction here leads me to conclude that you misunderstand the implications of both materialism and idealism.
maryanxx wrote:I believe in his theories, not his own personal opinions such as atheism.
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his personal opinions (his idealist and religious views) from the philosophy of Marxism itself.
This is where you are completely wrong. First, Marxist "atheism" (quotation marks explained later) is not Marx's personal opinion. It is inherent to Marxist philosophy. It is a consequence of materialism. And second, Marxism is not atheist per se. It does not bother rejecting this or that religion or religious conception of God or the world, as much as it seeks to change the conditions that give rise to the popular belief in God and the necessity of religion.
And one does not
believe in the theories of Marx, for that would be idealism and dogmatism. One answers the fundamental question of philosophy about the relation between idea and matter, and from there, chooses to adopt scientific thought processes, the Marxist dialectical materialism being one of them.
maryanxx wrote:The only idealistic views of Marxism would be his predictions.
Wrong again. They are not at all idealistic. They are materialistic since they are based on- and result from the materialist conception of history: historical materialism.
It is inseparable from dialectical materialism and is nothing more than an extension of it. It is dialectical materialism applied to history, if you will.