If I take a medieval painting or novel and point out how it reflects the religious views (for example) of the time, that’s expected. But if I take a modern movie and point out how it reflects the liberal views of bourgeois society, suddenly there's an issue with that
The problem Ive always had with spontex is the apparent contradiction between his commitment to TCs communization theory and his openness towards political organization. I dont think his core theoretical commitments could lead anyone to this point, so its unclear how he got there
@secondposition If you consider us fascists, then please also give us 1.6 million tons of grains, 900,000 tons of petroleum, 500,000 tons of iron ore, 200,000 tons of phosphates and 140,000 tons of manganese.
It would help us as much as it did the Nazis
I see people around my age here who are already well versed in multiple areas of philosophy, history, cultivated in the arts... I don't care if I'm better than the average yeast-people. I'll never be truly great at anything. I want to learn and understand, I want to do something
On this day in 1939, France and the UK declared war on Germany, marking the start of the Second World War.
Simply:
* 15,000 Welsh folk died because Westminster had committed Britain to defending Poland against Germany.
📷 Abertawe (Swansea); Press Agency.
In my country we HATE our family, our food is DISGUSTING and we eat it COMPLETELY ALONE, we see those who died in war as IDIOTS, we are EXTREMELY LAZY, we are not humble AT ALL, our weather is EXTREMELY PREDICTABLE, and EVERY SINGLE ONE of our words can be translated into English
The degree to which one needs to understand dialectics in order to understand marxism is dramatically overstated as a matter of routine, and if I was to be cynical, I would say that some people do this on purpose to obfuscate and mislead on things like, say, modern china.