Is Dialectical Materialism and Marxism compatible with metaphysical Idealism?
My understanding is that Marxist materialism is not really the kind of vulgar materialism that is often conceived in the sense of believing the world is composed of atomic simples that interact with each other, and is rather more relational in nature and argues that construct of the mind and people’s internal mental states are ultimately heavily conditioned by and contextualized by external material conditions and social relations.
That being said in recent years, I’ve become more interested in the idea of metaphysical Idealism as proposed by philosophers like Bernardo Kastrup. My thinking is that if mind is seen as the ultimate substrate of reality, this does not necessarily conflict with dialectical materialism or even materialism more broadly as one can simply just switch out the ontological makeup of reality with mind rather than matter - as long as the actual relations between what we perceive to be physical entities, minds and social relations function essentially the same as under a materialist paradigm, I don’t see why this would be in conflict with Marxism. Especially if one rejects the more woo woo claims of things like mental states being able to directly affect the physical world and things like that.