/edu/ - Education

It was in 628-630 after the treaty of Hudaybiya when Muhammad sent letters to every Arab ruler and notable non-Arab ones. At that point Muhammad had basically defeated Quraysh militarily, controlled the trade routes going to the Byzantine empire & Europe, and was well-known throughout the peninsula.
Exceptions to that were other Hijazi tribes and the Ghassanids who were vassals of the Byzantines, they were conquered militarily after Mecca.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_career_of_Muhammad#Other_letters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_after_the_occupation_of_Mecca

Of course, since this was a diplomatic expansion based on "trust me bro" and Muhammad's reputation, the Arab rulers did revolt after his death and then subdued. You might argue that this was when the Muslims actually controlled the peninsula.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridda_Wars

>>21596
but why was every other Arabian power, seemingly so easy to conquer then Quarish?

>>21597
Shit snowballs, I guess. They had more men & money by the time of the ridda wars.
Also if you look further into it, the Muslims weren't soloing the tribes in these areas, but had a bunch of local allies supporting their rule against local enemies.

>>21597
the quraysh were wealthier and ruled over a large metropolis
contrast that with agrarian tribes in the middle of nowhere

>>21607
Oh, and not to mention that rote activity has been shown to be robustly more cognitively taxing than actual formalized tests of intelligence, as per more direct neuroscientific research. Haeir is involved in neuroscience, but from a psychometric background. This is an important technical difference.

>>21608
But I am a radical IQ denialist who also happens to believe that, as is heresy, the scale being 'measured' is actually ordinal rather than interval, so the implications here, far from denying human difference, reorient our understanding and render the supposed hierarchy non-linear.

>>21554
he is a race realist in that he believes races are real, but he doesn't believe that there is a hierarchy of intelligence.

>>21607
Sounds pretty interesting what you are talking about. Can you list some litersture I can get into to get a better understanding of the subject?

>>21614
Paul sackett would be a good start.

>>10452
>Evald Ilyenkov
I like some of his stuff but he's a bit too much of a hegelian for me. I lean towards the anti Humanist stances, kinda like althusser though I think his structuralism leans too far much into postmodern positions and his comments on political economy can be retarded especially on the productive relations. their was a brand of anti Humanist sentiment within the early Soviet Union though (prolekult specifically, though I have my issues with them).
>>10650
> i never read any hegel, only marx+lenin+stalin
Have you ever thought about reading Plekhanov before?

>>12647
Say what you want about Althusser, but he put anti-humanism into practice

David Bakhurst - Discussing "Ilyenkov's Hegel" from "The Heart of the Matter"

Nov 26, 2023 David is author of the ground-breaking "Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy: From the Bolsheviks to Evald Ilyenkov". He is George Whalley Distinguished University Professor and John and Ella G. Charlton Professor of Philosophy at Queen's university, Ontario.

In this discussion we focus on his essay "Ilyenkov's Hegel", from his latest book "The Heart of the Matter: Ilyenkov, Vygotsky, and the Courage of Thought". The essay helps to situate Ilyenkov in his philosophical context and explore some of his goals and motivations.

I saw + read this article, have very minimal thoughts about it. Anyone else seen it?
https://cosmonautmag.com/2023/08/what-contradictions-cannot-be/

It critiques dialectical logic, specifically the concept of 'contradiction'. Specifically goes against Ilyenkov a few times too.

Personally it wasn't that interesting, from the start it makes clear that the only contradiction they will be talking about is formal contradiction, like "it is sunny today" vs "it is not sunny today". And later on it quotes Marx and mentions how when Marx says 'contradiction' he really could have just called it a social conflict or something. This is basically my view as well - it's not that useful to talk about contradictions, we have in the material realm, conflicts, and in the linguistic/theoretical realm, unresolveable issues of definition, of identity and non-identity and their interrelation. To me that's the heart of dialectics, the fact that any given thing's claim to total integrity as a concept is ultimately indefensible, yet difference is still maintained. That's the kind of 'contradiction' I see, the contradiction between the truth of any definition and it's failure to faithfully capture the reality it attempts to enclose, either because of deficits, broadness, or internal difference. It's all about that difference and identity. Do these concepts come before those of formal logic? It seems like a meta-logic, because the question of contradiction is of an abstract claim about reality being contradicted by another exactly opposite claim, it's about the negation of the original claim, and the paradox between that negation and the relative validity of the claim. Anyways I might be off on this last thought idk.

Some of you should go tabling sometime.

Nice thread OP. I've been becoming a leftist only very recently mostly because of youtube videos and truth be told I rarely if ever feel like reading nonfiction. To me reading ten bazillion pages of theory just feels beyond fucking boring, so stuff like this is what I live for. Thanks.

>>21590
if you don't want to read capital, then just read "Wage Labour and Capital" which was specifically made for working people to have a brief idea

>>21590
I've been on this board for like 6 years and never read anything but the manifesto, you'll be fine :^)

>>21570
>just shooting this out there for no reason
Fuck off
https://www.quora.com/How-true-is-it-that-the-Russians-raped-two-million-German-women-in-World-War-II/answer/Chuck-Garen#

>>21575
do you get paid to post garbage like this or you just have severe brainrot?

>>21576
Even worse, he does it for free because he's a literal NPC.

>>21575
none of these points you made are based on facts and just spewing shit like enemy at the gates, a movie, is a documentary.

>>21573
>The barbarism of the Soviet occupying forces can best be judged by the fact that many thousands of Hungarian men were raped or forced to unnatural excesses by Russian women soldiers. The Reds established a recreation camp near Kecskemét for more than thirty thousand sick and convalescent women members of the Soviet army and the police forces. From this camp, for instance, the Russian women banded together at night and swooped down on the surrounding hamlets, kidnapping the men and sometimes holding them captive for days.
Hawt

>>20884
Oh it's the same here, and I assume that's the way it's taught everywhere, I was just too dumb to actually learn it when it was taught…

How are you supposed to read maths books that do not have exercises? Exercises are usually good enough to hammer the content into my brain but when there are no exercises I just forget it as soon as I am finished reading.

What do I need to study for operators? Stuff like "factoring an operator". I understand the analogy but I would like some justification for it.

>>21545
I mean what field of maths is this included in, linear algebra?

Can someone explain to me what "Third curvature" is, how it is different from Total Curvature (I'm not even sure about that either) and how it relates to Space-Time?

>>10146
This children's cartoon is literally how grown ass adults in Yurop and Murica actually see this crisis.

>>10288
kiddie things for infantile people

Anyone have Russian translations they need?

Help with Vietnamese translation of US propaganda during the 1960s? Thanks
(Posted in SEA thread here:)
>>>1744976

>>21534
fuck man I tried three times to link that post. Is this right?
>>>/leftypol/1744976

>>21468
>where do i start?
>i don't speak russian
well, it's not some political theory. you can start wherever you want. Limonov was predominantly novelist and poet and then politician.

But since you don't speak Russian, I can only recommend you "It's me Eddie" because I don't know about any other of his works being translated to English.

>>21468
>>21480
It's Me Eddie is very very good.

This is en exerpt of It's Me Eddie, which is a story about his experience in New York in the 80's. This is set in a cafe he worked where bankers and rich mediamen frequented.

>"It is they who have introduced a plague into this world."
>"The plague of money."
>"The disease of money."
>"The plague of buying and selling is their handiwork."
>"I hate this system."
>"And I am not ashamed that my hatred has sprung from my wifes betrayal."
>"I clear away your leftovers, while my wife fucks. And you amuse yourself with her for the sole reason that there is inequality."
>"She has a cunt for which there are buyers - you. And I don't have a cunt."
>"I'm going to blow up your world."

hahahaha

cuck

>Limonov

Obligatory:

Don't bother understanding it. You'll only be trying in vain to understand basic and obvious truths contained within a gigantic mess of utter schizophrenic nonsense. You may as well read ancient scripture.

>>21419
>Don't bother understanding it. You'll only be trying in vain to understand basic and obvious truths contained within a gigantic mess of utter schizophrenic nonsense. You may as well read ancient scripture.
Lol how I feel about every wanna be prophet Euro philosopher who makes up pages of jargon..

>>21415
Read a secondary text first maybe?

>>21419
Lmao this exactly

>When I got to Kant, I couldn't understand a thing, not a single thing: "transcendental idealism," "numena," "phenomena," "antinomies," "categories"
This but with Hegel