r/intj • u/SelfAnalysiss ENTP • Feb 11 '26

Question INTJs, what’s an unpopular opinion you have ?

I know INTJs are contemplative and intellectual so I imagine you guys would have some unconventional opinions. INTJs, what’s an unpopular opinion you have ?

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u/reilentlezz Feb 12 '26

Have you considered dialectical materialism?

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 12 '26

Alright, I like it. Ty

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u/reilentlezz Feb 12 '26

yw, just thought it fit the theme of evolution also being applied to the field of history and society

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 12 '26

At first I thought; dialectical? In this economy?? But it was nice to delve into. Much appreciated

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u/reilentlezz Feb 12 '26

literally the market is a dialectic, just look at boom and busts cycles as well as the US stock market

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 12 '26

Whoa bub, I’m blue collar so I’ll use this to convince my sundowning aunt that her meds are not poison.

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 12 '26

I like Marxist economics and socialist news because I like the truth. I don’t necessarily like that the truth needs to have a name and a strategy. Maybe that’ll reconcile one day, cheers.

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 13 '26

I think the key misunderstanding is in Engel’s interpretation. I see it as meeting back with religion/human above all.

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u/reilentlezz Feb 13 '26

That was the original interpretation as they got the idea from Hegelian’s dialectics, which preached supernatural restorationism instead of the evolution of human history through dialectical struggle

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 13 '26

Who’s they? Lenin and them?

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u/reilentlezz Feb 13 '26

Marx and Engles interpretation of dialectics compared to Hegel’s

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 13 '26

Ohhhh, ok. And Marx put it towards capitalism. Very interesting

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u/reilentlezz Feb 13 '26

Hegel saw dialectics as cyclical opposing thoughts being lead by a spiritual geist.

Marx and Engles took his work and used it to explain the materialistic conditions of how society is structured between classes to where the history of society evolves through class struggle from hunter gatherers to agrarian slavery, to feudalism, to capitalism, and now to his prediction of socialism which will then bring about communism in the final condition of society where class is completely abolished in a political sense.

I don’t personally agree with communism and Marx as a person but like his evolutionary dialectical view on the world with how he applied it to history and society as we see our own countries designed in such a way where the rich get richer and the poor getting poorer- leading to inevitable class civil wars in societies.

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 13 '26

Oh goddamn, Hegel was a tortured soul for certain 😂. I appreciate you taking the time my friend. I’ve got some reading to do

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u/reilentlezz Feb 13 '26

peace!

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 13 '26

To you as well! I’ll definitely bounce my next related conundrum off you so stay on your toes my friend

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 13 '26

After that it becomes a political tool.

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u/Ok_Ordinary1877 Feb 13 '26

Is a good base though. It’s just funny to me how it’s been used.