What the hell is a โvirgin forestโ?Were indigenous americans not immensely altering their lands? Doesnโt denying that they had such power falsely depict them like an inferior, โless-evolved-raceโ than europeans?
wow, this blew up! did you know that THERE CAN BE NEITHER JUDAEAN NOR GREEK, THERE CAN BE NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE, THERE CANNOT BE MALE AND FEMALE, FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN THE ANOINTED ONE JESUS
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Halfway through Capital. Marx is rapidly oscillating between describing the origins of wind power in the Netherlands and describing a factory as a titanic demon of iron and blood, composed of thousands of smaller men and machines lashed together in agony and torment
Paleo diets are cancelled. Iโm introducing the medieval diet. You get 1200 calories a day, you can only drink beer or other alcohol, and you have to use stale bread for plates
remember the black death when everyone was becoming an anchorite and praying and meditating and retreating from the world into the spirit and just having unmediated revelation of the godhead and we got a small glimpse into what life is supposed to be like
In the beginning of History and Class Consciousness, George Lukรกcs devotes no inconsiderable amount of time and words to arguing that the single most fundamental, novel, and truly revolutionary insight of Marxism is that we live in a society
Capitalism isnโt just helping bring about a mass extinction of species and populations, itโs also facilitating a mass extinction of cultures. There are so, so many societies, forms of social organization and knowledge, practices and beliefs that have vanished from the globe.
you did a slave morality. you did a ressentiment. you did a bad conscience. you did an ascetic ideal. you did a teleology. you did a weak genealogy. you did no revaluations of values. this makes it abundantly clear you donโt even understand the history of your morality.
Obviously fuck the FBI and there's no doubt they'll inevitably move to repress anarchists. But like... the weirdest thing about the last four years has been the increasing sense that the FBI has developed a grudging professional respect for antifascists.
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Those people would all still be considered proletarians under Marxโs terminology. If you survive by selling your labor, failing to find a buyer doesnโt change that.
One of my favorite dynamics of intellectual history is how Marxists consistently go โwait, marx was wrong, crises arenโt integral to capitalism, theyโre not going to happen any moreโ just before another economic crisis happens
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the message of the bible is the liberation of the world from every king, captor, and empire. Jesus comes to save the world from christians no less than from death
The communist movement will benefit some more than others. It will lead to a situation where some have more than others. What it will not do is create a social class system allowing some to gain authority over others, force people to work, or allow for alienation.
I donโt think that is correct. The thing about Harry Potter is that it was broadly read by kids, even more than teens! Children arenโt looking for careers or folk medicine. if they want to live that out, they just pretend to make potions and spells with anything at hand.
This seaโฆ itโs so nutritious, so easily to swim through, it even resembles the natural color of my body to hide me from others! why, surely it is proof of an intelligent designer who created this place just for me! (I am a cryptococcus fungus infecting human cerebrospinal fluid)
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Theory isnโt for โradicalizing peopleโ, itโs for helping people that have already become radical successfully do a revolution.
you did an alienation. you did a reification. you did a commodity fetish. you did an idealism. you did no historicism. this clearly shows you donโt even understand the dialectical nature of the multiplicity of your abstractions.
(Misidentifying a mule deer as a white-tailed deer) listen man, I know my deer and this deer was *weird*. Like there was something different about it, something off. I canโt explain it, but it chilled me to my bones and I hope I never come across this โdeerโ again.
I wrote the first of a couple of essays on Bloodborne! In this one I take a symbolic approach to interpreting the religious/mythological inspirations behind the game, as well as its points of departure from those sources.
The story of Rykard in Elden Ring, far more allegorical than From Softwareโs major narratives so far, is about the destructive cycle of feeding yourself to a serpent god to become strong enough to kill the other gods
Michigan prison officials have banned dictionaries in Spanish and Swahili, saying "if certain prisoners all decided to learn a very obscure language, they would be able to then speak freely in front of staff" and could organize without their knowledge.
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Caregivers are obviously proletarians, disabled & elderly people are proletarians who arenโt able to sell labor that capitalists want, and mass waves of unemployment shocking the working class is like a primary, major dynamic of capital accumulation in Marxโs thought.
Basically Henry Georgeโs prose was made for everyone to be able to read and understand
Marx wrote in stuffy academic language, so it only appealed to academics. As a result, Marxist texts got transposed to the internet first, making it more discoverable to econ newbies.
I hate the way people talk on Twitter. Shut the fuck up dude, you think itโs cool to be so fucking dismissive and contemptuous of a book you most likely havenโt even read? Youโre a jackass
All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties a rarer sight than funerals.
Hereโs some Marx on how the growth of slavery forced numerous states to switch their primary industry from growing cotton to selling states to other slave territories