It’s my strong suspicion that the Marxist dialectic hasn’t taken hold in Euro-America and Russia in the way it has in China, Vietnam, and parts of the Caribbean and South America because a dialectical current already runs through the ancient philosophical and spiritual traditions of those societies, including their African and Indigenous inheritances. That current is largely missing from the dominant Euro-American worldview, which makes our task much more difficult: we’re trying to introduce dialectical thinking into societies thoroughly captured by metaphysical idealism.
@Tweetubeando The situation is rather dire. It has gone beyond the bounds of peaceful protest, and the demonstrators no longer have any protest demands—it has descended into nothing but violence and looting.
@HumbleFlow Their views are far too extreme. The world is, by its very nature, diverse, and so is culture. It is fine to cherish one’s own culture, but one must not trample on that of others; mutual respect is something we should all practise.
@visegrad24 Identify the organisers amongst the protesters. This has gone beyond the bounds of peaceful protest; it has become far too extreme and violent.
@Rich_Anthill A very interesting experiment. It raises the question of whether, when a group gains access to external resources, it actually becomes more capable, or whether it becomes more dependent on the provider of those resources.
@wickedsmaahht@Rich_Anthill Scientific experiments require the verification of cause and effect, rather than adopting a position first and then having ants corroborate that view.
@wickedsmaahht@Rich_Anthill 1.Did the experiment include control colonies, nutritional data, and long-term survival rates? Reduced foraging may simply reflect abundant food. Without controls, claiming that sugar proves socialism fails is an unsupported leap.
@wickedsmaahht@Rich_Anthill Whoever controls the resources sets the rules; who, then, can hold the distributors to account? Only by turning social security into a personal favour can one create dependency, rather than genuine public protection. After all, humans possess self-awareness, whereas ants do not.
@wickedsmaahht@Rich_Anthill 4.Sugar is a gift, and the survival of the ant colony may well depend on the goodwill of the giver. However, if resources are guaranteed by a stable system, and the recipients have the right to monitor, lodge complaints and change the rules, the situation is entirely different.
@wickedsmaahht@Rich_Anthill 3.Even if free sugar reduces ant foraging, how does that prove human welfare systems fail? Ant behavior cannot establish human labor incentives. We must examine institutions, resource ownership, funding, and political accountability before drawing conclusions.
@wickedsmaahht@Rich_Anthill 2.What happened after the sugar stopped? Did ants resume foraging, migrate, or split into new colonies? Without testing these outcomes, the experiment cannot distinguish temporary adaptation from lasting dependence or colony decline.