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“What all these gentlemen lack is dialectics.”

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I'm excited to share this project with the world, representing months of work. We are publishing reviews of fiction and nonfiction from a Marxist perspective, with a section for original translations coming soon!

[Dialectical Library @DiaLibraOrg]

For our inaugural post, @alicirce reviews Jack London's lesser-known socialist novel, The Iron Heel.

https://t.co/sKmnzaZlit

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@makbethel

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@ygzgzot Engels was definitely a dog guy 🤭

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Incredible Engels lore

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@BolshevikBeyond Also very skeptical of psychoanalysis. Tutt had one on once to discuss Kanye and hand to god it was like a full hour of this guy just saying shit.

[kaffe @probablykaffe]

i was told only the specific workers of key infrastructure can shut it down and we have to bend to their will

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@MrTaha @RodericDay Ettingermentum—the person Josh was responding to

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@Communization_ If I wanted to read more about the ideological commitments of Communization & Endnotes, where would you recommend that I start?

[Roderic Day @RodericDay]

The Brookings Institution, sometimes ranked the most influential think tank in the world, laying out plainly in 2009 how "international criticism and Iranian retaliation" could be "deflected away from the United States and onto Israel."

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https://t.co/pbERaFpjZB

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@Yulianpoe @ASPertierra https://t.co/obaTNbkRMH

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real subsumption

[22 U.S.C. § 2304 @RefrmDemocracy]

Tammany Hall is a Petco

[Dante Muñoz @TheDanteMunoz]

Mogged lol

When you actually go to China, speak with Chinese people about their own country’s struggles, and do research on the subjects this western propagandist chaotically spews out, his answer is completely rational and clear.

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@BolshevikBeyond @die_rizzen There is no discontinuity between human and animal. Either in labor or mental abstraction. Human thought is such a quantitative difference from animals that it becomes qualitative.

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@BolshevikBeyond @die_rizzen The critique of Marx that he was dismissing the interiority of animals is a correct reading IMO. Marx was wrong, less than Hegel and it’s not fatal to his argument but it requires correction.

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@BolshevikBeyond @die_rizzen Bees are social laborers with semiotic systems!

https://t.co/Ciq4jSgJgk

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@BolshevikBeyond @die_rizzen I don’t think you can justify that interpretation from the text. Marx is inverting Hegel’s discontinuity between human/animal due to labor. Marx rejects this, because animals do labor, so he moves the discontinuity to the mind.

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@chicxxlunar I think to suggest this misunderstands Marxism or Anarchism or both at once. It’s important to understand why they are mutually exclusive.

https://t.co/XEls9sWAd5

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@workertenant The chapters are structured differently but there is an appendix that maps the differences.

[isaac Samuel @rhaplord]

Guns, Germs, and Steel

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@NiaFrome Arthur 1983 “Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and a Myth of Marxology” is a nice summary of Kojève’s misreading

[Vanessa Jaye @vanessajaye]

This is the danger of only learning Eurocentric history

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@alicirce It’s a fast read, not especially difficult material. Mostly just reasserting the historical context of hegemonic philosophy that would prefer to present itself as eternal.

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Shuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy” is a great read, and explains all sorts of annoying things you encounter today.

[matty matt @noetic_emetic]

i’m sorry but this is extremely funny (*700* pages)