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A new essay by me on Nietzsche 😊
"If you’re interested in bringing about a socialist revolution, it is worth engaging with one of the leading counter-revolutionary philosophers, treating him as such. That means grappling with him in full, and not hiding him behind his sister."
New
@RedSailsOrg
!
If you ever investigate the relationship between Nietzsche and Nazism, his fans offer a canned retort: it's his sister Elisabeth's fault!
As
@alicirce
deftly demonstrates in this survey of Nietzsche scholarship, this is not the case!
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Sci-hub cofounder Alexandra Elbakyan highlighted how gaining knowledge is associated with theft in some of the foundational myths of western culture.
It's an interesting pattern, and I wonder how communism/abolition of private property would change how we think about science.
TW: Suicide
A decade ago, Aaron Swartz took his own life, after being persecuted by US prosecutors and even MIT.
Strip-searched and put in solitary confinement. The crime: downloading millions of papers from behind a JSTOR paywall.
Total open access is justice for Aaron🖤✊🏾
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No one told me the footnotes in Capital would be so interesting/funny.
Here are some of my favourites, in no particular order
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This is a neat example of how you need other socioeconomic relationships to be present to use technology productively.
A turkish man invented the steam engine 200 years before the industrial revolution but he only made it to spin döner
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"It appears paradoxical to assert, that uncaught fish, for instance, are a means of production in the fishing industry. But hitherto no one has discovered the art of catching fish in waters that contain none."
- Chapter 10
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"Protestantism, by changing almost all the traditional holidays into workdays, plays an important part in the genesis of capital."
- Chapter 10
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"'Wretch' is the recognised term in English Political Economy for the agricultural labourer."
- Chapter 15
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Today I learned Sci-Hub has a stats page where it lists # paper downloads by country.
It's perhaps an interesting proxy for scientific activity?
"Most importantly, Alexandra Elbakyan is a communist and a stalinist. This has to be said over and over again: Sci-hub is made possible by communists who defend scientific knowledge as collective and universal."
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"In corals, each individual is, in fact, the stomach of the whole group; but it supplies the group with nourishment, instead of, like the Roman patrician, withdrawing it."
- Chapter 14
What a metaphor 😄
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"Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it veils the non-freedom and inferiority of women, of the toilers and exploited."
— Lenin, 1919
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The last three years would have been completely different if the eradication of smallpox was broadly considered the marvel of human achievement it actually was.
The reason we don't tell this story is because the effort was led largely by the USSR.
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The French Revolution proposed:
1) all humans are equal
2) politics and economics are inseparable
There were 2 philosophical paths forward:
1) Deny: Burke & other liberals (Constant, Toqueville), then neoliberalism (Hayek) & fascism
2) Affirm: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Lenin
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Hmm... Is Disney trying to disguise the fact that the Little Mermaid is black for their Canada poster?
Hmm... Is Disney trying to disguise the fact that the Little Mermaid is black for their China poster?
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"This passage shows, at one and the same time, the strength and the weakness of that kind of criticism which knows how to judge and condemn the present, but not how to comprehend it."
- Chapter 15
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This paper is fascinating. It notes, for example, that tankie subreddits use a lot of toxic language.
What are we toxic towards?
Fascists.
Fuck fascists.
Some American university "researchers" put out a "research paper" where they spookily study RS as a "Chinese [😄] far-left platform" alongside Qiao Collective.
1. The poor level of research is interesting.
2. RS is pretty popular it seems!
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"Most importantly, Alexandra Elbakyan is a communist and a stalinist. This has to be said over and over again: Sci-hub is made possible by communists who defend scientific knowledge as collective and universal."
Lo que es más importante, Alexandra Elbakyan es comunista y estalinista. Hay que decir esto una y otra vez: Sci-hub es posible gracias a comunistas que defienden el conocimiento científico como colectivo y universal.
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The "China just steals IP" myth is going around again, so here's your reminder that they are actually:
- leading in number of papers
- leading in most cited papers
- leading in most *prestigious* papers
- leading in patents in many sectors, including in AI
Not only does China read the most papers on Sci-Hub, they also publish the most scientific papers!
And the quality of these science papers? 🧵
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Image is for this line:
"Here, as in natural science, is shown the correctness of the law discovered by Hegel, that merely quantitative differences beyond a certain point pass into qualitative changes."
I like it for Engels jumping in and giving some much-needed context.
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The contrast between the power, based on the personal relations of dominion & servitude, that is conferred by landed property, & the impersonal power that is given by money, is well expressed by two French proverbs, “No land without its lord,” and “Money has no master.”
-Ch 4
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The NPR horror at being labeled state-affiliated media seems to stem from a misunderstanding of how media messaging is controlled.
They seem to expect pre-written articles handed to them personally from the Oval Office, when it's typically more like in this Gore Vidal interview:
You literally cannot make (NPR's) John Lansing's bio up.
If you tried you'd be accused of being too lazy. It's maybe worse than (Economist's) David Rennie's.
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This story about a scientist accidentally discovering he was doing dialectical materialism is kinda cute.
nature is just dialectical 🤷♀️
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The French Revolution is a threat to liberalism because if you follow it to its logical conclusions you end up at communism.
This provides insight as to why the wikipedia page for the painter Jacques-Louis David has the hysterical writing style usually reserved for "stalinists".
The French Revolution proposed:
1) all humans are equal
2) politics and economics are inseparable
There were 2 philosophical paths forward:
1) Deny: Burke & other liberals (Constant, Toqueville), then neoliberalism (Hayek) & fascism
2) Affirm: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Lenin
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"The weak points in the abstract materialism of natural science, a materialism that excludes history and its process, are at once evident from the abstract and ideological conceptions of its spokesmen, whenever they venture beyond the bounds of their own speciality."
-Chapter 15
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"If a serious crime is punished with a simple fine, then right as such no longer exists. When a sum can be paid for the mutilation or the killing of a man, then the man for whom the sum is being paid has no rights, he is simply an external thing."
— Hegel
A Washington construction company is facing over $150,000 in fines after a 16-year old boy was illegally put to work digging a channel and got dragged underneath the blade of a machine, causing injuries so severe that he lost both legs to amputation.
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Collecting a few tweets on a theme 🧵:
Social progress the US/West made out of fear of the USSR
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Not only does China read the most papers on Sci-Hub, they also publish the most scientific papers!
And the quality of these science papers? 🧵
Today I learned Sci-Hub has a stats page where it lists # paper downloads by country.
It's perhaps an interesting proxy for scientific activity?
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@IsobelYeung
@RodericDay
You have a lot of replies explaining why you are in fact a stenographer for the CIA. I don't expect you to learn anything from it, because, as Upton Sinclair wrote:
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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Bernal has this great essay on the social role of science, and argues "in its endeavour, science is communism"
It's how the fruits of science are hoarded, and how we pick which science projects are pursued, that's the issue under capitalism.
JD Bernal, inventor of x-ray crystallography and a communist, is really fun to read as a scientist.
This passage captures what I find to be really rewarding about science (at its best), and why I'm optimistic in a social organization beyond capitalism.
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Under capitalism, financialization is inevitable. There is no version of capitalism without loans, derivatives, and other financial instruments.
I think about this story of the 1700s Daughter Life Expectancy Investment Fund like, at least once a week.
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These two proposals are interlinked. If all humans are equal, then we all have equal rights.
But poverty limits your ability to exercise your legal/political rights. Starvation puts others in positions of power over you.
Political rights are meaningless without economic rights
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I went outside and I'd like to report that leftist infighting happens there too, and tbqh the state of the discourse is worse.
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I also like this example from Lenin on technological ability versus socioeconomic ability.
"On all sides, at every step one comes across problems which man is quite capable of solving immediately, but capitalism is in the way."
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The mantra "the cruelty is the point" misses the point entirely.
You're just witnessing fascism. The cruelty is the method. The establishment of tiered societies and the capitalist accumulation of wealth is the point.
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A student group at Stanford stole an AI model developed open source at Tsinghua University.
They added slight random noise to the model parameters to change the checksum, then generated media buzz about "their" amazing model.
US Ivy League innovation vs China innovation...
Shocked! Llama3-V project from a Stanford team plagiarized a lot from MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5!
its code is a reformatting of MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5, and the model's behavior is highly similar to a noised version of MiniCPM-Llama3-V 2.5 checkpoint.
Evidence:
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"A political party’s attitude towards its own mistakes is one of the most important and surest ways of judging how earnest the party is and how it fulfils in practice its obligations towards its class and the working people."
— Lenin, 1920
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The UN declaration of human rights includes the right to housing.
On the other hand, the threat of being unhoused is crucial for keeping workers in line.
This is why pro-capitalism "human rights" organizations like HRW try to minimize our economic human rights.
The fact that we have to pay for a roof over our heads should be considered a crime against humanity. A safe personal abode is absolutely essential to us as humans. It's why moving is one of the most stressful things we can go through.
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this, but for understanding class struggle
it's honestly really fun once you understand how things are made you start seeing it everywhere
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@blondebolshevik
Agree 😄😄
"Bentham is a purely English phenomenon. (....) He simply produced in his dull way what Helvetius and other Frenchmen had said with esprit in the 18th century."
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In 1917, the worker's strikes in the lead-up to the October Revolution centered not only on wages, but also an end to workplace sexual abuse, tipping, and respectful pronouns — demands that still resonate in 2024.
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"Netizens are members of the general public. If members of the public go online, so does public opinion. Our officials need to go wherever the public goes, otherwise how else are they expected to maintain ties with them?"
— Xi Jinping, 2016
Good. He deserves it. I often think about this quote from him. We need more politicians who understand how to use the internet.
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Seventy years later, the US is repeating this same mistake with China.
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Studying Nietzsche is a cheat code for understanding silicon valley.
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A striking figure, but not a surprise for readers of
@RedSailsOrg
and
@rosendo_joe
This was astonishing. 63 per cent of Nazi militants said their main enemy were communists/socialists.
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Nietzsche: 😡😡 "Universal education is merely a preparatory stage of communism." (1871)
Communists: 😊😊 Yes
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JD Bernal, inventor of x-ray crystallography and a communist, is really fun to read as a scientist.
This passage captures what I find to be really rewarding about science (at its best), and why I'm optimistic in a social organization beyond capitalism.
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I love so much about this photo
- adorable red polka dot tins
- her dress has pockets
- outside has green space and public transit
- inside has fresh flowers & house plant
- house seems well equipped for tea
1) Better than homelessness.
2) That’s not the reason the CAPITALIST governments tore SOME of them down.
Does this look like misery in an apartment. Keep in mind they cost only around 5%-10% of your income.
In the U.S the baseline is usually 30%…
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Nobel Prize-winner Dorothy Hodgkin's Wikipedia page is like: "her PhD advisor was a communist, her husband was a communist & advisor to Nkrumah, she was barred from the USA, she collaborated with communist Soviet and Chinese scientists...
But she was Definitely Not A Communist."
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"Science, in all its senses, is a social process that both causes and is caused by social organization. To do science is to be a social actor engaged, whether one likes it or not, in political activity."
— Levins & Lewontin (1985), two Marxist biologists
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Translation should not be viewed as an always neutral activity.
Here, Losurdo looks at the use of the word "völkisch" in Heidegger's historical context, and how much is lost when translated as "popular," cleansing Heidegger — a very political philosopher! — of Nazi associations.
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The USSR: First woman in space, grants 16 weeks parental leave, awards nearly half of science PhDs to women, etc etc.
The West: None of the above, and also:
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I wrote this! 😊
I show through 5 examples (housing, education, desegregation, global health & human rights) how the threat of socialism in the USSR drew out worker-friendly social policies from the capitalist class in the West.
I hope you find it a useful reference!
New
@RedSailsOrg
!
Alice Malone (
@alicirce
) traces, with specific examples supported by direct quotes from figures as bourgeois as Hoover and Hayek, how major pro-social concessions in American policy-making were a direct response to the Soviet example.
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"Politics is a science and an art that does not fall from the skies or come gratis... if it wants to overcome the bourgeoisie, the proletariat must train its own proletarian 'class politicians,' of a kind in no way inferior to bourgeois politicians."
— Lenin, 1920
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"People who are genuinely convinced that they are moving science forward do not demand freedom for the new views alongside of the old, but the replacement of the latter by the former."
— Lenin, 1902
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It's striking how consistent the comments and quote tweets about this are:
- replies in English are "nooo this is meaningless if it's not per Capita 😡😭"
- replies in Spanish/Portuguese/Indonesian: "hey cool, look at all the science we are reading 💪🧑🔬"
Today I learned Sci-Hub has a stats page where it lists # paper downloads by country.
It's perhaps an interesting proxy for scientific activity?
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I just read Michael Parenti's "To Kill A Nation" and he lays out how this exact same empire logic played out in Yugoslavia
Empire logic:
1) Foreign media must prove it is not a menace to us.
2) Western media is harmless both at home and abroad. Anyone who claims otherwise is "authoritarian" and hates "press freedom"
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A collection of my threads exploring socialist and anti-imperialist themes in books 🧵
It's a lot of science fiction/fantasy, and some classic literature.
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"All surplus-value, whatever particular form (profit, interest, or rent) it may subsequently crystallize into, is in substance the materialization of unpaid labour."
— Marx, 1867
I like people saying things like:
"If you produce $800 for an employer, maintenance is $100, and he pays you $300, that's $400 of free labour that he took."
This is good, but incomplete.
If you then go home and pay $300 in rent, capitalists actually took _100%_ of your labour.
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"Bourgeois economists maintain that the interest of the capitalist and of the labourer is the same. And in fact, they are! The worker perishes if capital does not keep him busy. Capital perishes if it does not exploit labour-power, which, in order to exploit, it must buy."
— Marx
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"The founder of civil society, and consequently the grave-digger of primitive equality, was the man who first fenced off a piece of land and said: 'It belongs to me.'"
— Plekhanov, 1895
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The 1805 constitution of Haiti:
- Made all citizens equal (the first constitution to do so)
- Abolished slavery (decades before England did)
- Abolished foreign (white) property
ownership
- United all citizens as the same race (Black)
- Banned its government from
imperialism
"DOCUMENT: Constitution of Hayti, 20 May 1805"
- Check out the latest from the Editors of the
@AgendaReview
:
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If we taught dialectics broadly, I think science would be easier to learn.
"[The dialectic] is the principle of all movement, of all life and all activity in the actual world. The dialectic is also the soul of all truly scientific knowledge."
— Hegel
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If you read anything about science in the USSR, you very quickly hear about Lysenko.
But only *today* I learned that *both* Oparin and Haldane of the "primordial soup" theory of the beginning of life were Marxists.
And I think Loren Graham nailed exactly why that is:
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My relative in 🇨🇦: 😨 I had to wait five months to see a specialist doctor.
My relative in 🇺🇲: 😨 I had to wait five months to see a specialist doctor, and I'm negotiating down my surprise $75,000 bill for one night in the hospital.
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What if Marx's Capital was inspired by Dante's Inferno?
In Marx's Inferno,
@MarxinHell
argues Marx guides us through the circles of Hell to teach us how to grapple with Satan & move beyond capitalism.
Lets test that hypothesis using the dark arts of NLP
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I'm reading "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain
It's the novel that includes this passage, which I reference a lot:
Some thoughts and impressions in the thread below 🧵
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I like how Ho Chi Minh talks about how learning theory is hard and requires perseverance, but is ultimately rewarding — theoretically, practically, and emotionally.
It's really encouraging 😊😊
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The US was originally unsupportive; it was instead backing malaria eradication.
Smallpox eradication succeeded where that of malaria failed because smallpox:
1) was spread from human to human
2) had a proven vaccine
Only when US efforts failed did they work w/ USSR on smallpox.
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"In capitalist society, spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labor time."
— Marx, Capital
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There's an interesting parallel between knowledge as crystallized practice (Mao, left) and value as crystallized labour (Marx, right).
Or, stated more succinctly:
Knowledge is practice
Capital is labour
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Disco Elysium and China Miéville's The City and The City are two prominent recent works created by socialists, and both decided to make their protagonist a cop.
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This quote gets at the difference between basic anti-capitalism and Marxism/scientific socialism.
To take charge of running society, it isn't enough to be angry at the power of capitalists. We must also learn how the economy works & know its limits (even capitalists are limited)
"The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire into his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits."
—Karl Marx, 1865.
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I think there is a large and widespread "anti-capitalist" consciousness.
I don't think there's a widespread communist consciousness.
These are two different things, and we aren't going to get anywhere if we conflate them.
Does anyone ever get the feeling the internet has cultivated a much larger and widespread communist consciousness than we realize and like the whole world is just ready for a match to light before this shit really kicks off for real
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"Philosophy is too serious and important to be left to professional philosophers."
— Losurdo, paraphrasing Georges Clemenceau ('War is too important to be left to the generals')
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The French Revolution kicked off a storm of discussion about rights — who gets them, and what do they include — and yet even with this head start on things, French women didn't get the right to vote until *1944*.
I think France doesn't get enough flak for this.
The French Revolution proposed:
1) all humans are equal
2) politics and economics are inseparable
There were 2 philosophical paths forward:
1) Deny: Burke & other liberals (Constant, Toqueville), then neoliberalism (Hayek) & fascism
2) Affirm: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Lenin
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Soviet propaganda like this likely contributed to the US civil rights movement.
I kinda wonder where the US would be if it had been the sole superpower at the time.
@propagandopolis
Say whatever You want, the soviets knew how to make absolute bangers when it comes to propaganda
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Here are two ways politics and economics are separated under liberalism:
1) the field of "political economy" is now simply called "economics" ()
2) liberal human rights organizations fight for political rights, not economic rights ()
The French Revolution proposed:
1) all humans are equal
2) politics and economics are inseparable
There were 2 philosophical paths forward:
1) Deny: Burke & other liberals (Constant, Toqueville), then neoliberalism (Hayek) & fascism
2) Affirm: Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Lenin
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There isn't a precise term for "the struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie or between lords and serfs."
"Class struggle" includes gender struggles and national liberation movements too — the history of all hitherto existing society, in fact.
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The US being scared by communists into doing things for its people, and then doing those things in a racist way, is just so very US.
From "The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein
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Thinking about the Attorney General's amicus briefing for Brown v Board of Education:
"Racial discrimination furnishes grist for the Communist propaganda mills, and it raises doubts even among friendly nations as to the intensity of our devotion to the democratic faith."
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These Mark Twain quotes about imperialism are from around the same time he wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court", which has this chilling passage that I think about often:
It's interesting to see how some notorious Americans slowly woke up to the reality of what their country was about.
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"Men thought dialectically long before they knew what dialectics was, just as they spoke prose long before the term prose existed."
— Engels, 1877
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Another well-titled academic article worth reading:
Fuck Nuance
Well, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a title of a journal article that goes this hard
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"Lenin felt that the path to unity is not via compromise. Instead, it is dialectical, for only open and sharp arguments lead to deeper union."
New
@RedSailsOrg
!
Was Lenin a belligerent sectarian, or a consensus-builder?
Using the religious metaphor of ecumenism, Roland Boer explains: "He was always keen to have these struggles out in the open […] for only then would strong agreements emerge."
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"Only one must not get the narrow-minded notion that the petty bourgeoisie wishes to enforce an egoistic class interest. Rather, it believes that the special conditions of its emancipation are the general conditions within whose frame alone modern society can be saved"
— Marx
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"Nabokov was grappling with his own experience as a CSA victim" is just another version of "actually Nietzsche's Nazi sister edited his works"
Both are ways to cleanse a beloved writer from their unpleasant aspects, trotted out easily as settled fact despite weak evidence.
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@SimonG42970343
@RodericDay
No need to just imagine. There's documentation of the English doing the same to the Irish in the 17th century.
Some historical context on atrocity fabrication:
To garner support for the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland, Oliver Cromwell fabricated a story that the Irish were massacring English settlers including mounting babies on pikes
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liberalism often shrugs off critiques because "times were different" or "we didn't know better".
These "blind spots" are not only historically demonstrably false, but also reveal something about the nature of liberalism: liberty for the "community of the free", not for everyone.
New
@RedSailsOrg
!
In 2012 Losurdo wrote a small summary of his Liberalism book for IS Review
#84
:
"The partial emancipation of the working class, of colonial peoples, and of women, has not been the spontaneous result of the evolution of liberalism."
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The US has never cared about dead children. Here's Madeline Albright in 1996:
It's bad enough to admit "Biden doesn't care about k*lling kids unless it would hurt his re-election campaign," but bafflingly, he doesn't even seem to care about that much either.
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@SpiritofHo
@comradebirb
Aime Césaire too:
"No one colonizes innocently, no one colonizes with impunity either; a nation which colonizes, a civilization which justifies colonization — and therefore force — is already a sick civilization."
Discourse on Colonialism (1955)
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So much social progress can be attributed to communist movements (or the fear they provoked in the capitalist world).
Here's Nobel Prize-winning Economist FA Hayek on how the USSR, and the social/economic rights it guaranteed, shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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A theme in Hemingway's novel "For Whom The Bell Tolls" is the importance of strategy and analysis over impulsive desires to just kill some fascists.
I got the sense he wrote the book to educate people against "just do it!" mentality.
Also about Mao's military dialectics.
Lacking a strategic mindset, riled-up people very often throw their best efforts against an enemy's strongest defenses, then lick their wounds and mourn and let go moments of vulnerability.
Nike's "Just Do It" makes for bad politics.
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Leaks about how media bias is created and how employees feel "discomfort" about it is better than nothing, I guess.
But even better would be a collective refusal to follow these orders — unions aren't just for wage negotiations.
NEW: Sources and documents describe Europe's largest news aggregator ordering employees to play down Palestinian deaths:
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@erinlale
Good point! Socialism in the USSR made the world free of smallpox.
More recently, there's examples like the COVID vaccine development program (& high vaccination rates) in Cuba.
Very clear that under socialism, science improves the lives of the people!
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Alice Malone (
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I love Losurdo's books but I don't find them easy to read, so here's my Losurdo Life Hack:
Before you read a chapter, read the last paragraph of that chapter first.
That's where he summarizes the argument (which he often doesn't do at the start); knowing where it's going helps!
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