Marxism and MLism as an ideology is fundamentally about studying the relationships between things through: looking at past history and current conditions, hypothesizing, and testing that hypothesis.
basic physical quantities like length and charge
You know that those are also social abstractions of complicated phenomenon too right? Or did you not read about what a social construct was because sociology is a soft science for girls? /s
Also have you ever opened up Capital or Imperialism and looked at how many basic quantities they use when constructing their analysis?
But sociology describes ideas, not material properties
This is a fundamentally idealist way of viewing sociology, although most sociology you're exposed to is idealist in nature.
Anyway, my point was that neither a system of government/economy nor pushing ideas are ways of describing the world.
??? What does that have to do with Marxism? I think the disconnect here is that you do not understand what Marxism is, you have only had second and third hand exposure to it.
Marxism, in the common understanding is a scientific theory of social reality
You're talking about "the common understanding" which is ironic in the context of this discussion.
The fact that it is an economic reductionist theory of social reality does not mean it is physics.
I would agree with you if I shared your shallow understanding of the subject. Have you read anything rigorous about dialectic materialism or historical materialism?
Also do you think social reality isn't a material reality? That is a rather odd position to have?
No, that is specifically idealist activism, not materialist activism. Also sociology is a science that follows similar methodology as "hard" sciences
"Science describes some material reality" "science describes some reality"
You put dialectical materialism in the latter category?
Also scientific testing+Marxism and bullshit idealist debates are not in any way similar in methodology
You do realize you're just parroting ideas that were put in your head as a child right?
You haven't seriously engaged with Marx if you think the stuff he wrote isn't still relevant.
Not meant as a diss, but please actually engage with his body of work before making this criticism.
You sound like you need a peasant's revolution
Found the idle rent seeker, or worse, a bootlicker for idle rent seekers.
There is a reason why capitalists and socialists both hate landlords, they are a relic of feudalism.
Told person who do not know the difference between authoritarian capitalistic dictatorship and commuism state.
Gonna throw out the word authoritarian because it is an empty signifier.
If China is a capitalist dictatorship why is the economy mostly publicly owned, with the percentage growing? Why does its government have a 95 percent approval rating according to a Harvard study, and why do innovations in participatory democracy emerge from China?
I just lurked into your account, this explains a LOT xD
Wow, what a vile little weirdo treating me being openly trans as some own.
Conversely Marxism applied to politics is an attempt to apply that model as rigorously as possible given the constraints the people doing the method are under.