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What, this? Oh, this is my Ruler of Dialectic Materialism—I use it to smack the knuckles of anyone anthropomorphizing technology so they stop feeling warm and fuzzy enough to allow capitalism to ram it further into our lives.
#socialism#capitalism#technology#“Hey Alexa should I”—SMACK#“This is my IOT Roomba I call it cute names and dress it u—”SMACK#“Poor little chatbot all it wants is to”—SMACK#“I have positive feelings towards printers”—SMACK#dialectic materialism
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DON'T say "mancave," that's Cringe
Instead, say "boyhole"
Hope this helps 🤗
#mancave#boyhole#dialectic materialism#it means the same thing#hot take#how many twunks can fit in your boyhole?#tara says shit
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You can't call yourself a Marxist and be ideologically opposed to trans people, those are incompatible modes of thought.
gender identity theory is incompatible with the Marxist scientific method.
believing your thoughts determine your reality is a product of subjective idealism. Marxism is not idealism but dialectical materialism, there is an objective reality and objective material conditions from which human consciousness stems. we exist as material, physical beings rather than immaterial conscious spirits. subjective consciousness is subordinate to and dependent upon the material world.
the correct Marxist position is not "i feel i'm a woman therefore i am a woman" but "i am objectively female, and this makes me a woman".
#marxist feminism#marxism#gender abolition#gender identity#transgender#gender#dialectical materialism#marxism leninism#marxist leninist#marxist theory#original posts
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If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluated not from the standpoint of "eternal justice" or some other preconceived idea, as is not infrequently done by historians, but from the standpoint of the conditions which gave rise to that system or that social movement and with which they are connected.
Josef Stalin; Dialectical and Historical Materialism (1940)
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Also I realize that the answer is probably just reading enough period sources but as a linguist I really do need to pick Patrick O'Brian's brain about where in the world he got his different speech patterns from
#mostly just fascinated because they are mostly not based on modern speech patterns#and maximum respect to him for that period pieces should be in period language and that includes different sociolects/dialects#but i'm just really really interested what he took them from. like i want to read the source material#also as someone who knows virtually nothing about irish english i didn't notice most of stephen's irish speech patterns#until after reading the golden ocean which makes them much more obvious#but i'm curious if (1) they're recognizably modern and/or period irish and (2) what the irish people here think of them#generally inclined to trust him on it because it's unexpected enough that i feel like it's probably at least slightly based on sources#i just have no frame of reference for it#anyways when i say that i need to talk to patrick o'brian you have to understand that this would be minimum 50% of the conversation#the other 50% would be asking him about the catalan references because i am nothing if not predictable#perce rambles#aubreyad
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#united front#black panther#erik killmonger#marvel#mcu#marvel mcu#dialectical materialism#generational trauma
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Sources and Components of Marxism Leninism
Classic English Political Economy ➡️Political Economy of Capitalism and Socialism
Classical bourgeois German philosophy➡️Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Utopian Socialism and Communism ➡️Scientific Communism
1975
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introductory excerpts on intercommunalism:
Introduction
Intercommunalism is an ideology which was adopted by the Oakland chapter of the Black Panther Party after its turn away from revolutionary nationalism in 1970. According to Huey P. Newton the development of intercommunalism was necessary "because nations have been transformed into communities of the world."[1] Intercommunalists believe that most forms of nationalism are obsolescent, because international corporations and technologically advanced imperialist states have reduced most nations down to a series of discrete communities which exist to supply an imperial center, a situation called reactionary intercommunalism. They also believe this situation can be transformed into revolutionary intercommunalism and eventually communism if communities are able to link "liberated zones" together into a united front against imperialism.[2] Intercommunalism is a lesser-known aspect of the Panthers' legacy as much of its development occurred at the height of the party's suppression and reorientation towards survival programs.[3][4][5]
Reactionary Intercommunalism
Newton believed that imperialism had developed into a stage of reactionary intercommunalism. Reactionary intercommunalism is typified by the development of a tiny community of elites with a monopoly on technology and state power within a single hegemonic empire (currently the United States).[15][5]
This 'ruling circle' is different from the Bourgeoisie, which the Panthers treated as a much broader phenomenon. Newton said that "[t]here are very few controllers even in the white middle class. They can barely keep their heads above water, they are paying all the bills, living hand-to-mouth, and they have the extra expense of refusing to live like Black people." The Black bourgeoisie in particular is a "fantasy bourgeoisie" which could be rallied to a revolutionary cause through sufficient education.[12]
The ruling circle's monopoly on technology and education is important to maintaining reactionary intercommunalism, as it prevents the rest of the world's communities from fulfilling their material needs independently of the center, leaving them dependent on the Empire for advancement.[15] The ruling circle uses 'peaceful co-optation' more often than military invasion to reinforce its aims.[5]
Reactionary intercommunalism allows for no independent national sovereignty, as the dominance of the global hegemon means that all nations bend to the 'weight' of its interests.[4] Instead nations have been reduced down to constituent communities, or "a small unit with a comprehensive collection of institutions that exist to serve a small group of people." Each of these communities "want to determine their own destinies," but can only do so by joining into a revolutionary bloc. All of the communities have no superstructure apart from global capitalism, and while they have different economic conditions they are all 'under siege' by the same forces.[15][4][5][10][9]
Newton believed that if allowed to continue, reactionary intercommunalism would bring more and more of the world's population into the lumpenproletariat, including white workers. However he did not think that this would end racism, in fact he thought white workers would increasingly blame their exploitation on minorities, especially the increasingly proletarianised third world.[5]
Revolutionary Intercommunalism
Intercommunalists believe that Revolutionary Intercommunalism will come about when communities are able to break the technological monopoly of the center. Through technology, communities would be able to solve material contradictions and "develop a culture which is essentially human." Even though the Panthers disavowed the nation-state as a viable form of revolutionary political struggle, they continued to support state socialist countries such as China, North Vietnam and North Korea against American Imperialism. Indeed, they were considered the vanguard of revolutionary intercommunalism through liberating territories and establishing provisional governments ahead of the global turn towards revolutionary intercommunalism.[16] However such states could still be co-opted into reactionary intercommunalism through the introduction of western markets.[5]
While the party no longer believed in Black nationalism, they continued to believe that Black Americans would play a special role within the struggle for revolutionary intercommunalism. Due to the Atlantic slave trade, Newton believed that Black Americans were the "first real internationalists" due to their mixed cultural origin and wide dispersal among a range of communities. Since he believed Black Americans constituted a significant force for revolution within the United States, and the destruction of the United States seemed to be a prerequisite for world revolution, the Panthers continued to view Black Americans as "the vanguard of the world revolution."[17]
Criticism
Intercommunalism was strongly opposed by some Black Panthers, especially those invested in the Party's strategy of forming internationalist alliances with foreign states. Cleaver denounced the Oakland chapter as the 'right wing' of the party for their rejection of guerrilla warfare. Assata Shakur was also critical of the theory's rejection of nationalism, saying that "The problem [with intercommunalism] was that someone had forgotten to tell these oppressed communities they were no longer nations." Others, like Mumia Abu-Jamal thought that intercommunalism was a terrible rhetorical strategy, as few understood the theory and many disliked Newton's public speaking. The differences over intercommunalism were also exacerbated by FBI wire-tapping and fake letters sent between the Oakland and Algiers sections of the party.[9]
#intercommunalism#communalism#black panther party#theory#marxist#leftist#dialectical materialism#black power#history#bipoc#united states#wikipedia
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even other artists devalue Craft or view it as fundamentally lesser due to hundreds of years of western imperialism (if we understand imperialism to be the highest form of capitalism) and among Craftspeople there's this endless argument where some really want to emphasize that We Are Artists and Our Work Is Art just like "fine artists" as a way of "lifting" Craft out of its roots in folk traditions, domestic art, and other things associated with women and nonwhite people often referred to as a more "primitive" form of art (I hate the word primitive but it's used a lot in this context), whereas others fight to emphasize that Craft isn't a bad word and these associations are not sources of shame but something to be respected and valued for its own sake rather than trying to appeal to what the western art establishment™ defines as art,
but artists are unbearable as people myself included so it's impossible to talk about any of this without someone
1) going on about the nuances between the individual and the institution wrt institutional critique (yes I get it you went to art school)
and 2) someone else deciding to make the conversation about "what is art exactly, how do we define art" (boring, there will never be an answer that is satisfactory for everyone, about as useful as trying to find a universal definition for god or gender or love, also see #1)
and few are willing to discuss how this, like most things, is a labour/class issue and ultimately regardless of whether you are defined as a fine artist or a craftsperson your labour is still being devalued and exploited and "craft" is seen as lesser because the people who do it are typically from groups with less labour protections (the working class most generally but esp working class women, immigrants, racialized people, workers in the global south, etc) and the solution to that is, as always, a strong working class labour movement. unfortunately many artists esp those working in craft are self employed and have been successfully taught to view themselves nowadays as "business owners" or "owner of a small business" or "entrepreneurs" so trying to explain to them that they have more in common with some digital artist doing 80 hour crunch weeks at a video game company than with the CEO of Anthropologie is like pulling teeth
#if you wont read lenin or learn about dialectical materialism at least look into bauhaus craft theory please god i am begging#if you can write speeches about the nuances between the individual and the institution you can read about dialectical materialism#it wont kill u i promise
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Ultra-left dogmatism and right-wing revisionism create and reinforce each other. Commandism and tailism create and reinforce each other. Centralist cults and ultra-democracies create and reinforce each other. To advance the struggle you must advance these contradictions, not just pick your favorite error.
#socialism#communism#Marxism#Marxist theory#democratic centralism#communist party#dialectical materialism#opportunism#dogmatism#revisionism#Marxism-Leninism#Maoism#Trotskyism#Left-Communism#commandism#tailism
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Is Renly always wearing Tyrell colours a reference that he's the bottom?
#Jaime calls Loras the bottom but through the power of dialectical materialism and literally analysis I prove he's wrong#asoiaf#renly baratheon#loras tyrell#house tyrell
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Trigun - Inspired by the movie "Wise blood"?
(maybe the book too but havent read it)
Anyways, first I thought it would just be funny to point out some surface visual references of charachters which prolly are too generic to be proof of anything.
I mean ehh thats generic enough-
Well that too-
Well the hat and crazy eyes are there
Well the last more recalls Vash's own injurys
(think there is a scene in his Eriks disguise that match more)
But ok, one could say that this is as arbitrary as any other of my posts that dont deserve to be posted - Until I saw the full movie and got that there may be a deeper and more interessting connection
So trigun is know to have atleast Christian-adjasent themes and the author, even if never or not anymore Christian, seems to have a familiarity and interest with it that goes beyond the usuall japanese "wow cool crossess" and pop kabalah stuff (like NGE and shit or persona having all those occcult demon shit)
So what does it have to do with the movie? Well it is one exploring a theme that seems to be simmilar, even if Wise Blood presents it in a more macabre, black-humor, less sentimental and uplifting way
A world without God - or better said Christ/Love/Forgivness
Triguns whole point about Vash not killing anybody IS in the end an expression of the want of the world to be able to heal, to get better, to people to connect in a true way, of going beyond tricks and self serving rational scientfic interests
Thats why Knifes is kinda a representation of cold, uncarring survival of the fittest, of evolution, of the rule of superior beings by force and cold calculation and deception.
To make a parralel to the movie, it shows a man who cant see Christ, the power of redemption of something beyond himself and his own interests and striving - even if he feels justified by partly believing the things he rejects.
But in the end without them, it becomes a self fullfiling prophecy - his "Church without Christ" - without healing of the blind and resurection, without redemption - it condems him to that, making him blind and dead, and his atempts at repenting for killing some guy for a petty reason futile - not even being able to recupareta the love he gets from a landlady.
The theme of a fake preacher is then what is reflected in Wolfwood in Trigun, who is also just a killer, trained by another one, who can in the end find redemption in death and doing the right thing, even if it has a tragedy to it.
And in a way that illuminates Vash's whole journey more, why he couldnt give up and why it was important for him to find love and not become a more suffisticated monkey in a zoo who's hand only his brother would want to shake...
And thats why Vash not killing is actually cool and good and not stupid - cause of a random movie that butchered a book that prolly was tottally different.
But why the self.depreciation? Isnt apreciating the world and creation, "art", not a dialog, a call and response of unlikely meetings?
If not: Yeah...Sorry
#trigun#wise blood#wiseblood#christianity#analysis#comparison#thematic comparison#dialectical materialism#yeah...sorry#didnt read the book so sorry if that would make more sense#anyways interesting movie#for a moment you think its gonna be a corny oh bad people help each other movie but nah lol#also funny but also sad#and shows how many old gems there are I and most others havent seen#also yeah I wanna quit social media as I said but this was too interesting to not share even if I alone care lol#but trying again even if I fail after two days like allways lol pray for me post-ironically
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Bourgeois economists try to justify the existence of unemployment under capitalism by references to eternal laws of nature. This was the aim served by the pseudo-scientific fabrications of Malthus a reactionary British economist who flourished at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning ‘of the nineteenth century. According to the “law of population” invented by Malthus, the population, from the very beginning of human society has increased in geometrical progression (as 1, 2, 4, 8, etc). but the means of subsistence, owing to the limitations of natural resources, have grown only in arithmetical progression (as 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) This, said Malthus, was the fundamental cause of the existence of surplus-population and of starvation and want among the masses of the people. The proletariat, in Malthus’s opinion; can free itself from poverty and hunger not by abolishing the capitalist system but by abstaining from marriage and artificially restricting childbearing. Malthus considered wars and epidemics beneficial, since they cut down the working population. The theory of Malthus is profoundly reactionary. It is a means whereby the bourgeoisie justifies the incurable taints of capitalism. Malthus’s fabrications have nothing in common with reality. The mighty technique which mankind has at its disposal is capable of increasing the amount of means of life at rates which cannot be overtaken by even the fastest growth of population, But this is prevented by the capitalist system, which is the real Cause of the poverty of the masses.
political economy, part two: the capitalist mode of production, chapter IX: accumulation of capital and the impoverishment of the proketariat; the industrial reserve army. 1954
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The real lesson of october 7 is that leftists really do have no issue with any means to their ends. It's the only meaningful take away.
Rape, genocide, ethnic cleansing, suicide, exploiting mental illness and racism are all acceptable and for all t to be done for a group that would treat them like they treat jews if that had the option to do so.
To betray everything within them for the sake of death, including their own death to follow.
Death is what they seek. Yours and theirs. Leftism when you look at it historically is a long drawn out suicide.
#politics#philosophy#leftist antisemitism#leftist hypocrisy#leftism#breadtube#dialect#materialism#marxism#post modernism#isreal#free palastine#palestine#october 7th#oct 7 2023#oct 7th
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I would think the Lin Kuei was linguistic since It has people from different sides of the world besides China (Cyrax and Smoke as prime examples) and also likely doing missions or business outside of china, but then again I’m mostly going off of Bi han knowing 3 languages in one of the live action movie so I cling to it mostly as a headcanon
Bi-Han in Mortal Kombat film (2021) was a truly nice addition to the widely understood lore and I love that this film allowed characters to speak in languages other than English. On other hand this highlights how games barely pay attention to cultural differences or use different languages as nice nuances and nods to characters’ origin.
That said, Lin Kuei education was never truly explained in great detail but tie-in material does imply Lin Kuei warriors are very likely to speak more than two languages - their native one and English. Maybe not every member of the clan will be a fluent polyglot, but for example, in one of the old Mortal Kombat comics "A Cold Day in Hell", Kuai Liang was presented as living in Japan. His place didn’t look like some special hideout but normal flat, so we could assume he worked undercover there.
Now, MK1 Kuai Liang is currently living in Japan too, so most likely he and Tomas either already knew Japanese, as Harumi and supposedly her parents are an old family’s friend or are learning the language alongside building their new clan. As I assume a great number of the new members of Shirai Ryu recruited by Scorpion and Smoke are in fact Japanese, so speaking their language would help in communication.
(Also, if Kuai Liang and Bi-Han spend some time with Harumi’s family when they all were children, Sub-Zero too could be speaking Japanese, or at least be familiar enough for basic communication).
Then there is a chance that in Liu Kang’s timeline, Bi-Han and Kuai Liang (and Tomas) could also speak or be familiar to some degree with their cryomancer ancestors’ language - unless this is official dialect of Lin Kuei and so the Standard Chinese/Mandarin language - or whatever other dialect is official language there in Liu Kang’s timeline - wasn’t their first choice of communication at home.
Now, lets add to that the fact that original Lin Kuei are implied to recruit potential new clan members in Czech (Europe) and Botswana (Africa) while original version of Kuai Liang & Bi-Han’s father operated for years in America (though not specified if USA or just somewhere on the continent), we could say that Lin Kuei operated worldwide, so it is logical to assume members of the clan were specialized in some languages more than others. But the sources go further, Lin Kuei operated in Ourworld too,
in old comics ("Kitana and Mileena") even taking part in Shao Kahn’s conquest of Edenia, which happened +/- ten (outworld) thousand years ago. And I doubt during that time anyone in Edenia knew English.
Games make it look like everyone, from the gods, to residents of any realm speak English, but that actually makes no logical sense. So thought I don’t think there is any source outright saying how many languages are taught to Lin Kuei warriors, movie!Bi-Han spoke at least three, and most likely Kuai Liang knows as much, either in obscure source material or MK1 (a dialect used by Lin Kuei stationed somewhere in China/Asia, Japanese and English). Cyrax and Tomas have a great chance to speak a similar number of different languages (their native ones, English and a dialect of Lin Kuei). Hard to say about Sektor, but he is at least fluent in English.
Again, not really a hard, direct source as we don’t see any Lin Kuei talking much in anything else than English, but there is a solid ground to assume Lin Kuei warriors would learn additional languages out of pragmatism and need.
#mortal kombat#lin kuei#my replies#i'm here for mk characters speaking their native languages#and i feel like lin kuei being fluent in more than two languages has a ground in source material even if none outright say how well educate#were lin kuei characters#also additionally#bi han as noob saibot most likely learned whatever dialect is used in netherrealm as he spent there like 20+ years#bi han#kuai liang#smoke#cyrax#oh the irony that kuai liang again is living in japan#while lin kuei are hunting him down
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I’ve been struggling to grasp an understanding of dialectical materialism but I think this morning I had a breakthrough thanks to a really great video by Luna Oi on YouTube.
Part of why I did not get it, was because it kind of aligns with the way I view that world already and so I felt like I was missing the the point.
Science works because it understands that a single person is prone to error and bias. We have to work to prove ourselves false and only when we fail to do that is when we are moving closer and closer to the truth. This can not be done by individuals. We have to work together to keep each other in check and focused!
This is mirrored in dialectics. We have to work together understand the world, and then debate problems to move closer and closer to solutions.
I still have a lot to learn. While the ideas are beginning to stick, the investigation has just started.
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