well insofar as galileo thought himself consistent with aristotle by disproving aristotle's claim that the sky is immovable, sure. but this makes galileo a partisan of science, not aristotle (who, himself, was that); hence communists partisans of history, not Enlightenment.
The fact that I'd be arrested for showing "female" breasts in public, but then put into a men's prison because I'm "not a woman". Goes to show that we are only considered women when it justifies harm but never considered women when it would protect us from it.
In truth, the Enlightenment was anything but emotionally barren. It was deeply concerned with sympathy, human feeling, and the practical improvement of earthly life. The Romantics largely manufactured the opposition between reason and emotion, turning it into a false dichotomy.
This is what I remember whenever I doubt the validity of marxism: the communist movement has been nothing but a ghost for generations, and even now it haunts the most powerful men on the planet. The Party is still here, and it’s not going anywhere.
Marx would, of course, reject this entire framing.
Capitalism is not “based on” a moral commitment to voluntary exchange. The task of critique is precisely to distinguish the system’s self-understanding from its actual social constitution.
@HeathenEngineer@Bonesdrawstuff I understand the show had no obligation of being accurate in that regard. Regardless, the design sucks, and taking more inspiration from historical sources of the timeframe in question would help.
One is too quick to deny persons from the past their aesthetical sense.
after telling students their tents violated school policy, UVA administrators discovered the tents do not actually violate school policy so they simply changed the school policy without any notice whatsoever.