Human nature

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

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"

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

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.