krishna bound

4y

how can anarchists even be against settlers, what weren't anarchists in the 70s in the US literally inspired by settlers?? i say this as someone who isn't even a fan of the book

Yuzzy

4y

You were all baited

the reds

4y

The Japanese, he reminded his readers, were not the only ones who made upideas and then fervently began to believe in them. Jean Jacques Rousseau, for example, had simply sat in a forest, invented man in a state of nature, and then imagined a "pseudohistory of man from his own brain." But, even more incredible, Rousseau "fanatically believed in this his pure invention, and, most extraordinary of all, persuaded other people to believe in it as fanatically."

This passage got me dead

deadacc

4y

wheres this from

the reds

4y

If I die before seeing an industrialized and prosperous Sub saharan africa I will be a very angry ghost

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Fashion sxn lost

Womanpuncher69

4y

did the ussr or any socialist country have fashion shows

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Yessir

https://www.rbth.com/arts/332960-soviet-fashion-shows

Womanpuncher69

4y

Lenin bless you

space0cadet

4y

Why the f*** do people call Stalin easy to read. HE rambles about the stupidest s*** ever, makes his books so f***ing boring

MyBallsAndMyWord

4y

Hmm I mean nothing specifically tying the “nature question” to Stalin’s application of dialectics, that’s something I’ve kinda pieced together myself with a lot of influence from JMP and other Marxist philosophers after having studied dialectics for some time

If you specifically want some criticism of the application of dialectics to nature, check out the article I link to Choking on the last page, and if you want a good easy to read overview of dialectics and their importance I recommend the pdf for Torsion and Tension by JMP which is also on that page, which touches on some of these issues. This one also talks about a lot of what I’m getting at http://moufawad-paul.blogspot.com/2013/08/lament-for-dialectical-thinking.html?m=1

If you want a rather long read about class struggle in the USSR and many of the errors Stalin made in regards to it from a “proto Maoist” perspective, I highly recommend this http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/CSSUi76NB.html (I think this is an essential history on the USSR)

If you’re looking for general reads on dialectics/the role of philosophy in relation to science/Marxism then I have a lot lol so just lmk and I’ll put together a list

Womanpuncher69

4y

do y’all think Lukac was right that dialectical materialism can’t be applied to the natural sciences

Womanpuncher69

4y

do y’all think Lukac was right that dialectical materialism can’t be applied to the natural sciences

Lein

4y

Been reading a lot ot Ha Joon Chang, very interesting to learn about how east asia developped/industrialized and how mainstream economists not only don't give credit to the methods they used but how they then go back in time and retcon how western europe developped itself. They all needed state intervention and heavy protectionism for decades, and onlu once their industries were safe did they start talking about "free trade". But the mainstream economists ofc just ignore the first step. Now my question is why didn't Africa get to develop the way the east asians were?

americana

4y

Natural sciences and the theory of evolution is where I’ve seen dialectics play the biggest role and it’s why I’m such an adherent to dialectics

the reds

4y

It's a bit funny how in the face of overwhelming evidence people who argue against the concept of labor aristocracy can only say "its inconvenient to believe this so i will simply choose not to"

the reds

4y

It's a bit funny how in the face of overwhelming evidence people who argue against the concept of labor aristocracy can only say "its inconvenient to believe this so i will simply choose not to"