Materialism does not posit that ideas do not have any influence, but that ideas come from material conditions, they aren’t formed independently of the person’s lived experience but are shaped by it. Conversation and exchange of ideas still exists and still shapes how people think, but these ideas did not come from nothing.
The world shapes us, we shape the world, the new world then reshapes us and we then reshape the world in endless spirals. It’s a cycle, but one where a return to the origin point is at a higher level, like a car tire completing one revolution and advancing one tire length.
As for the vanguard, the vanguard is a subsection of the proletariat, not its own class. As such, the vanguard has class interests aligned with the rest of the proletariat, that being the collectivization of all production and distribution so as to end the proletariat as a class in general.
Materialism does not posit that ideas do not have any influence, but that ideas come from material conditions, they aren’t formed independently of the person’s lived experience but are shaped by it. Conversation and exchange of ideas still exists and still shapes how people think, but these ideas did not come from nothing.
The world shapes us, we shape the world, the new world then reshapes us and we then reshape the world in endless spirals. It’s a cycle, but one where a return to the origin point is at a higher level, like a car tire completing one revolution and advancing one tire length.
As for the vanguard, the vanguard is a subsection of the proletariat, not its own class. As such, the vanguard has class interests aligned with the rest of the proletariat, that being the collectivization of all production and distribution so as to end the proletariat as a class in general.