Goon Danton posted:Authoritarian followers follow authoritarian leaders. If you cultivate a following of them without being of them yourself, someone is going to scoop them right out from under you. yep
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 02:05 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 13:36 |
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Hmm i wonder why movements to engage more of the populace in wage labor usually win and ones to reduce the wage labor population usually fail. Anyway,
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 02:08 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJKG6VubJ4
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 03:09 |
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I got real mad when chomsky tried to used spacetime or quantum mechanics to refute materialism, that conclusively proved to me that chomsky was an idiot. Just becaise something isn't a particle moving in euclidean space, doesn't mean you can't still classify it as matter, it only means that its dynamics operate under different rules than we, as humans who operate at the macro level, are used.
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 03:31 |
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rudatron posted:I got real mad when chomsky tried to used spacetime or quantum mechanics to refute materialism, that conclusively proved to me that chomsky was an idiot. Just becaise something isn't a particle moving in euclidean space, doesn't mean you can't still classify it as matter, it only means that its dynamics operate under different rules than we, as humans who operate at the macro level, are used. I was confused by his speech about things we understand taking on a state of physicality, because doesn't that only further validate a materialist perspective? It means achieving a more comprehensive understanding of the material world, not necessarily that ideas themselves have a physicality. Like, you can understand or at least think you understand all of the most esoteric texts you can imagine, but it has no real utility in the material world. There's nothing that a sense of idealistic self-righteousness can achieve that couldn't be realized by pharmaceuticals. Plus what do you do if people disagree with your ideology and prevent it from being realized? Kill them? That won't make the ideology jive any better with the baseline physical reality. *"ideology" i mean here, in the derogatory way Marx referred to it - not in the modern sense of a political belief system.
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 03:39 |
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A Spherical Sponge posted:Hmm well it's been a while since I read the book that laid out the argument, but from what I remember, and some google searching, the argument is basically that life entails a kind of proto-consciousness facilitated by a functional distinction between the living system and its environment, and the active maintenance of the existence of the living system (ie metabolism, homeostasis, all that sort of stuff), which imbues things in the world with meaning relative to the living system because the living system has a sort of teleological basis to its interactions with the world, based on the drive of all living things to continue to exist and reproduce.
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 03:41 |
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this is some dumb rear end bullshit
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 03:57 |
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:this is some dumb rear end bullshit turn on ur monitor
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 03:57 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:turn on ur monitor Turn On My Monitor, My rear end (I Won't Turn On My Monitor)
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 04:04 |
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The point is that arguing for socialism and arguing for equality under capitalism (equal opportunities but not equal outcomes) are two distinct things and we shouldn't confuse one for the other. Concessions given by protest is inevitably on the whim of the people in power, and there is an absolute limit to what it can achieve.
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 11:25 |
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Whats that saying? "I don't want the gay homeless man to die because he is gay, i want him to die because he is homeless."
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 11:28 |
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Prav posted:and got re-elected only thing americans love more than racism is war
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 11:40 |
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https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/960939794472882176
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 15:19 |
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White Rock posted:The point is that arguing for socialism and arguing for equality under capitalism (equal opportunities but not equal outcomes) are two distinct things and we shouldn't confuse one for the other. Yeah I mean most people in socialist orgs already understand this, its not really practical advice. PSL and SAlt both participate in fight for 15 for a reason, it's about building a base through organizing over issues.
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 15:26 |
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Dying North Koreans a sign US diplomatic strategy works, Tillerson says, via RT Same story via Reuters if you have hangups about RT.
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 17:08 |
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quote:“We are not going to take any responsibility for the fact that he (North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) is choosing to make his own people suffer,” Tillerson said.
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 17:17 |
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Wheeee posted:if there's no threat of force then nobody will care https://twitter.com/ciagofundme/status/954388350051454976
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 21:46 |
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Jason Unruhe Explains Juche (ASMR)
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 22:25 |
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Karl Barks posted:Jason Unruhe Explains Juche (ASMR) https://twitter.com/NoContextUnruhe/status/937088802975297538
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 22:28 |
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What's the general consensus on World Socialist Web Site (WSWS)? They just posted a piece making GBS threads on Noam Chomsky and "pseudo Marxist" David Harvey for comments they made regarding Afrin and I thought it was sorta trash and wondered if anyone had a more informed opinion.
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 22:55 |
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Hilario Baldness posted:What's the general consensus on World Socialist Web Site (WSWS)? They just posted a piece making GBS threads on Noam Chomsky and "pseudo Marxist" David Harvey for comments they made regarding Afrin and I thought it was sorta trash and wondered if anyone had a more informed opinion.
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 23:03 |
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/01/pate-j27.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/11/28/marc-n28.html
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 23:03 |
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it will never cease to blow my mind that the man who's parents fled europe to avoid the holocaust among other things then publishes a piece that shits on antifa for daring to exist before the literal gas chambers are constructed and in use and then people still treat him as a serious academic
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# ? Feb 7, 2018 23:10 |
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what does cpusa do these days
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 03:48 |
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GalacticAcid posted:what does cpusa do these days literally nothing worthwhile
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 03:51 |
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too bad. that logo & name are too good to waste
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 03:58 |
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GalacticAcid posted:what does cpusa do these days CIA stuff
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 03:58 |
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I donated 60 bucks to them last year since they were doing some community outreach thing in Chicago. Since then I receive random phone calls from someone about going out to lunch since they're "travelling through town". I have never answered their phone calls. I'm probably on a list somewhere.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 04:04 |
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Hilario Baldness posted:What's the general consensus on World Socialist Web Site (WSWS)? They just posted a piece making GBS threads on Noam Chomsky and "pseudo Marxist" David Harvey for comments they made regarding Afrin and I thought it was sorta trash and wondered if anyone had a more informed opinion. Holier than thou dipshits masturbating themselves raw to the thought of a 100% ideologically pure world revolution they lead and that only they are smart enough and correct enough to take part in. e: also their positions on China and Russia appear to be that neither country can do any wrong. sub supau fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Feb 8, 2018 |
# ? Feb 8, 2018 04:18 |
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While I don't disagree with WSWS being not-good, I also don't think we should take it for granted that Noam Chomsky can also have bad opinions.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 04:25 |
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pobodys nerfect
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 04:26 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:While I don't disagree with WSWS being not-good, I also don't think we should take it for granted that Noam Chomsky can also have bad opinions. He said it was bad to punch Nazis.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 04:27 |
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out: C.H.O.A.M. company in: N.O.A.M.C.H.O.M.S.K.Y.
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 04:41 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:While I don't disagree with WSWS being not-good, I also don't think we should take it for granted that Noam Chomsky can also have bad opinions. Noam Chomsky visiting the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum while the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays in the background .avi
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 04:46 |
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Unruhe means restless in German
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 04:47 |
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Postoyevsky posted:literally nothing worthwhile this isn't true
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 04:58 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:He said it was bad to punch Nazis. well you gotta put yourself in his shoes. any attempt to punch a nazi would cause his old man knuckles to vaporize
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 12:13 |
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R. Guyovich posted:this isn't true i would guess it varies by city?
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 16:42 |
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Serf posted:well you gotta put yourself in his shoes. any attempt to punch a nazi would cause his old man knuckles to vaporize David Harvey would punch a nazi. He teaches in prisons, i bet he knows how to make a shiv
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 18:30 |
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donnie's getting soft https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/961616572417757185
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# ? Feb 8, 2018 19:10 |