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What does this mean? Not criticizing, genuinely curious what category of thought(/action?) you have in mind here.
The basis for most leftists is not materialism but idealism rooted in the tradition of German imperialist philosophers like Heidegger and Nietzsche, who have been venerated and smoothed over and venerated again and then denied by the intellectual apparatus (the system of universities and journals that decides which ideas are received by anyone) until everyone has their own little micro tradition of Nietzschianism to suit their tastes. Nevermind their actual Nazi beliefs. It didn't bother Chomsky or Foucault or Zizek.
Of course, nobody engages directly with intellectuals. You don't even read, or even pay attention to the alt-media which whether branding itself as left or right has roots in the same intellectual tradition, you may occassionally still engage with the Jon Stewart style kids' entertainment/comedy adaptstion of the same ideas, but you guys get all of your news through the new pyramid scheme of Google and Amazon content creators.
So, it is no trouble for you to deny the entire intellectual tradition. You don't even know particularly where "your youtube guy everyone should check out" got his ideas, but at least he seems to talk like he knows what he is saying. And since he was likely bred on The Young Turks and other things like that, he is still many steps away from even investigating where he gets his ideas from.
I cannot speak for anyone else, but idgaf who is considered an "intellectual" or not. I engage with the material especially of communists who have not only put time into theory, but also put theory into practice, and anti-imperialist material that helps inform on history as well. George Jackson, Lenin, Mao, Parenti, for example.
So far, I'm not really clear on what any of this has to do with lemmygrad. It reads like something a person might say to the podcaster "left" who has no ideological grounding and may never have read a word of communist literature in their life. Though when you get to this part:
You really lose me. Because then it sounds like you're saying there's some kind of school of intellectualism people should be valuing over theory and practice, which is strange to say in a place like this, to say the least.
By criticizing an entire community as not completely, thoroughly materialist or not completely read in "intellectual tradition", they've ironically gone completely around and become idealist.
It's actually a non-criticism, since of course we are supposed to (and strive to) beat the idealism out of us that we grow up with. It's already a given -everybody knows that.
So it looks like they are just using that and their "intellectual tradition" to pat themselves on the back.