sometimes when I’m in a real ‘shower thoughts’ mood I find it deeply amusing how we needed marxism to understand this, or at least have it defensibly asserted

I don’t think that most people realize that if anything, human nature is inherently selfless, even communistic, in the grand scheme of things.

always funny how anti-communists are always saying “but human nature is inherently selfish, communism never works!” when people who study human nature for a living say “human nature is so extremely complicated and changes based on so many factors that a universal ‘human nature’ doesn’t even exist”

Equally important in dialectical materialism is that humans shape nature as we as are being shaped by it through sensuous activity - I.e. labour, transforming things with our hands, talking to and convincing others of viewpoints etc.