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I started reading "wages of destruction".

>>24003
And then we have the final aspect of Eugene's typical theatrics, to declare, in total doom, that anything he dislikes (or, in most cases, misunderstands) is ontologically evil and going to destroy or set back the human race to a disastrous degree. Just more paranoid conjecture being shoveled as a blanket statement down our unwilling throats.

>>24004
Now go 'filter' yourself, retards.

>>24003
Typo corrections since this site has no editing feature:
>less concerned with *ecology
>an effect *doesn't cease to count
(oh, and on that note, the contradiction, in case it wasn't obvious, concerns your original statement against the premise that 'all is life', as by your own standards any activity in existence would now constitute the threshold of categorical life)
>if the basic level *was merely a non-thing, it would remain inert
>as *purely being the reflection of cognitive interfacing
>*born out of cognitive *consequence
>of the *thing's innate intelligibility
>would mean *that they are phenomenally symbolic and contingent upon interpretation, i.e. the very *premise you're now attempting to discredit
>all attempts at defining life will bode symbolic registration, to *hope otherwise would be to exist outside of language and cognition
>by anything other than where your own standards would leave *you
>In *an *a-posteriori manner
>the presence of particulars does not mean *reducibility to their essentialization
>operating *according to causal interrelations
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>>24003
Oh sweet Jesus, I do not care about your bullshit.

Everything you say is a giant sand castle erected to defend the central conceit of "the gene" as an unknowable-yet-imminent foundation of life, and by extension all that exists. It is you who needs to uphold the almighty "gene" for petty and stupid reasons. If genetic material does not conform to an insane and contradictory outcome to possess a "master key" to justify this ruinous social order, then the theory must be thrown out until "history is corrected".

I'm trying to break out of the ruin of stupid thinking like yours. It is probably impossible, because anything contrary to the eugenic creed is automatically inadmissible in this Satanic world-system. But, we can speak among each other, for what little good that does.

I don't need to know much about this new theory you present because I've heard the hectoring and the excuses a million times before. It always exists to uphold the imperious claims made about "life", which are immediately used to justify invasion and pressing the nerve. A Satanic race cannot change.

To bring this back to the original topic, the point I'm making is that "life" does not entail the loaded definitions of such that are presented ad nauseum in the academy, always with a pseudo-religious fanaticism. I say "pseudo" because we know the only religion these people believe in is Eugenics, and every false theory that is erected is a lie for public consumption rather than anything anyone uses. Eugenics itself makes predictions about reality that must become true. If "genes aren't real", then there is no Christ as far as they care. It would be the end of everything for them.

My point is that life simply doesn't mean what the ideology requires it to mean, and speaking of living things is a very limited proposition. I would say based on that that viruses aren't living, because by definition the virus is inert material until "activated". At most it would be a highly abstracted "life-form", and at some point you have to ask if it is the virus that lives or some disease or outcome of the virus's activation that is granted its own force in our theories of knowledge. The root of the question comes back to the original genetic myth and beliefs in essentialism, rather than anything life does or any way we can speak of life-forms.

The human being isn't just "genes" or a carrier for genes. The development of its body, its bones, and the history of a human, has its own existence apart from "genetic purpose". The same is true of any life-form, even if the life-form exists primarily as an abstract notion of such, like speaking of a particular disease as a "life-form" perpetuating itself. Most diseases, though, aren't life-forms at all or entities with their own existence. Diseases inhabit hosts, and what a body does in response to a disease is primarily that body's response to a condition, usually to "process" the disease. Something like smallpox never leaves the body, and that's why it confers life-long immunity, but the ailment passes after some time. Perhaps the disease leaves a permanent mark on functioning, but the immunity arises because you're still carrying it. Not every disease does this, but the smallpox family does. When you look at the "holy genome" of a human body, you're going to find a lot of alien material that isn't "supposed" to be there.

I recon they're part of the logistics part of production. Like they enable the ones that are directly producing commodities to do so in some form or another.

Fuck Stalin

我也来自中国。这个网站让我体会到了一些更本土化的东西，不是被什么逆天营销号或者反动自媒体转述的东西，算是拓宽了视野吧。这个地方对中国人来说真像一个荒地，你可能遇见别的中国人，但是你们只能说再见

Just jump in. The prison notebooks is just his random thoughts, it's not like really dense complex arguments for the most part. The hardest part is sorting through the weird terminology he uses to evade the prison censor. The edition I have has a lot of explanatory footnotes.

>>23832
This

There are a lot of contradictions in christian doctrine (think cosmology and the existence of evil), that when properly addressed reduce it towards a semantic non-sequitur, i.e. saying material reality "is god" is meaningless. As i understand it though, catholicism and orthodoxy derive their legitimacy from their legacy as religious communities. Here i say their growing irrelevance and age-old use as a tool to justify the status quo undermines this legitimacy, the proof is in the pudding so to speak.

Also read >>23788 Feuerbach and Marx to get the best of philosophical atheism. tl;dr Religion reflects society and ubiquitous criticism of it back as a sedating spirituality https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1886/ludwig-feuerbach/index.htm

>>23793
>this is why every atheist is also a moralist
Good and evil are christian as well as specifically catholic categories, therefore the problem of evil is an internal logical contradiction endemic to their doctrine. Look at https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05649a.htm for a taste of the mental gymnastics involved.

>>23795
You're being obtuse here. Obviously in some form the categories of good and evil existed long before christianity, most notably in zartoshti and manicha.
>being present in christian doctrine means it can't be in anything else
<what no set theory does to a mf
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>>23797
>>23796
Christianity has become so genericised that criticising it means you criticise the fiber of moral conscience.
And yet, Christians complain about being hated by the world?

>(someone like adam green is guilty of this, while richard spencer seems to be becoming more nuanced)

Adam Green?
Know More News?

Check out Anwar Shaikh's book. It's a self-contained revival of classical economics based on sound systematic reasoning and actual empirical evidence.
He also has a lecture series on YouTube if you prefer that: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB1uqxcCESK6B1juh_wnKoxftZCcqA1go

>>22761
baby tier:
Marx: Wages Prices and Profit
Intermediate tier:
Capital volumes 1-3
advanced tier (requires linear algebra, probability, statistics and other math:
review: Mathematics for planning an economy by cibcom. Not specific to cybercom/planning but a good review of general math for political economy.
Farjoun and Machover – The Laws of Chaos
Sraffa – Production of Commodities by means of Commodities
Kalecki – Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy, 1933-1970,1971
Classical Econophysics by Allin Cottrell, Greg Michaelson, and Paul Cockshott

bump

Bump

Bump with hypothesis: the violence of decolonization movements is directly proportional to the violence of the colonization they oppose.

Botswana would be interesting as a case study of a territory that peacefully transitioned from a British colony to a bourgeois liberal democracy with almost no political violence.