You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I can see it when I look at them side by side but I would have never seen it by itself
Maybe that's why this meme is so popular now; when you apply it just right it's almost subliminal
imagining giving people wildly inappropriate stands is fun. your friend really into goth? their stand is Chattahoochee. your friend like country living and the simple life? their stand is The Smiths
i decided to turn to the left-leaning Radikal Kommunist Kool Kidz that i follow on tumblr to find out how i reconcile my dislike of capitalism with Marx being a fucking dickweed
You know, the funny thing about Marx is that half of his assertions are, as you say, kind of these over-idealised and abstracted notions of what class struggle is from the perspective of a sheltered upper middle class economics scholar, but the other half, at least in the Manifesto, really just constitutes common sense: Public education is good, implicit class systems are bad, revolutions tend to eat themselves alive within thirty years, and so on.
Which is the nice thing about post-Marxist thinkers, at least the sensible, non-vicious/ridiculous ones like Gramsci. They take all the sensible parts and run with them, or reinterpret the silly parts in ways that are actually applicable to reality in some way.
^ Now, not reading Das Kapital, I get—it's huge and boring as fuck—but the Manifesto? What now?
from what i remember of the manifesto it was in large part complaining about people Doing Socialism Wrong, so on the one hand it's a useful picture of socialism, but on the other hand it is fucking tedious.
of coruse i can't articulate a difference between "socialism" and "communism" so, like, fuck me
As I recall, Socialism was the intended intermediate state between the status quo (where the bourgeois owned the means of production) and full Communism (where there were no class distinctions and the workers owned the means of production). What Socialism actually entailed beyond that depended on who were you speaking to.
I would feel gross quoting Popper about Marxism, because even though he makes a valid point, he is a terrible, terrible historian of political philosophy.
He worked in street construction for a short amount of time, but was unable to cope with the heavy labour. Continuing to attend university as a guest student, he started an apprenticeship as cabinetmaker, which he completed as a journeyman. He was dreaming at that time of starting a daycare facility for children, for which he assumed the ability to make furniture might be useful. After that he did voluntary service in one of psychoanalyst Alfred Adler's clinics for children. In 1922, he did his matura by way of a second chance education and finally joined the University as an ordinary student. He completed his examination as an elementary teacher in 1924 and started working at an after-school care club for socially endangered children.
Most controversially, however, he said that since the vocabulary and basic assumptions of competing theory don't talk about the same things, there is no way to directly compare which theory is better. For example, "energy" simply doesn't mean the same thing for Newton and Einstein, so there is no experiment you can run to decide on the properties of "energy", and which is more accurate. He claimed that science, like evolution, progresses towards nothing in particular, contrary to the common view that it progresses towards the Truth.
i don't think i agree with this.
Einstein does more accurately predict the way nature behaves than Newton does, even if you can't directly compare their vocabulary
so science gradually tends towards more comprehensive theories over time
granted i am arguing based on just reading a brief synopsis of this person's ideas
it's kind of weird how the predictions of einstein and newton are pretty close, like, really close, given how different their theories are. einstein is dependent on not having absolute coordinates, newton is dependent on having them. that's, like, major philosophical differences. they might as well disagree about god existing.
so uh i dunno. i don't like the "closer and closer approximations" view of science. newton isn't an approximation to einstein. the equations kind of work out like they are but the underlying framework is really, really different in ways that make you sound stoned to explain, and the framework has more to do with how we go on than whether you multiply things by a Lorenz factor does.
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why this
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
How is this meme blowing up this largely? What's next, a revival of All Your Base and Rickrolling?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Understandable but odd.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
the verdict: none of them have read Marx
not one
nada
zilch
but naaahhhhhhhhhhhh
yep that's exactly the advice i needed thanx
i must "git gud"
so basically the conclusion here is that people deal with marx being an asshole by not having a problem with it because they, too, are assholes
of coruse i can't articulate a difference between "socialism" and "communism" so, like, fuck me
i like it when someone articulates something i was kinda thinking but hadn't congealed in my brain yet and then i read it and it snaps together
it's a nice feeling
Einstein does more accurately predict the way nature behaves than Newton does, even if you can't directly compare their vocabulary
so science gradually tends towards more comprehensive theories over time
granted i am arguing based on just reading a brief synopsis of this person's ideas
so uh i dunno. i don't like the "closer and closer approximations" view of science. newton isn't an approximation to einstein. the equations kind of work out like they are but the underlying framework is really, really different in ways that make you sound stoned to explain, and the framework has more to do with how we go on than whether you multiply things by a Lorenz factor does.