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360 posts and 56 image replies omitted.>>2651382I mean you probably dont need absurd qualifications to teach adult literacy night classes right?
this isnt a bad idea. let me go look up the logistics of it.
>>2651382 >>2651387went ahead and applied to a few positions that would take me with my current credentials (bachelor). thanks for the advice anon. at the very least if the PhD doesn't pan out, or I don't get a professorship after (very likely) i imagine i can find satisfaction in doing this
I consider myself a materialist, but there's one issue I cannot resolve. Fucking butterflies of all things are the one issue that give me issue.
You see, butterflies can somehow remember being caterpillars. That is, if you train a caterpillar that thing X results in reward or punishment, the butterfly will remember it too.
This is despite the fact that their entire body, including their analogue to a brain - the cerebral ganglion - is entirely dissolved and destroyed into a puddle of liquid gloop within the chrysalis, with a new body and brain analogue is created from scratch.
How can those memories or sense of self persist without relying on some notion of the butterfly having some immaterial essence or soul?
Help me out here….
>>2654721Maybe they have that memory written into their genes or something.
Does racism necessarily also imply chauvinism towards other races?
What would you call someone who categorizes people by race, but does not believe that one race is superior or better than others?
>>2655588race realist is the term, no?
>>2654721the answer is simple. butterflies have souls and we humans do not.
just kidding >>2651187you win and crush other factions including the one youre protesting against in the most pr friendly way possible(pr friendly depends entirely on the context of the situation) read: a miracle
>>2651349same for me. i wanna be an animator and its slave mentality is upheld as gold standard and disrupting this fragile ecosystem by demanding any and all human dignity would be threatened with the complete self-annihilation of the entire industry itself. i dont mind that but convincing people to even fight seems like a lost cause and i might die if im surrounded by bootlickers who have similarly thrown away their lives but sucker up to continue the fantasy
>>2655597>How do protests actually work?>You win and crush other factions.What's the mechanism by which you win though? Where's the power at play? I get that it is normative e.g. you're operating by the rules of society, and within that frame besides organizing it may be the most effective action, or an effective action because it allows for organization, perhaps for electoral change. I just don't get the mechanism by which any threat is felt.
What would it realistically take for Xhitter to go down for good or at the very least lose most of its' influence and outreach on culture/politics?
>>2655857ruin their posts by spamming nonsense and scat images every time they post and turn it into a trend.
>>2655610there's no mechanism unless the military is on your side
>>2642771I guess it depends how you define it but a lot of colonialism genuinely thought they would be improving the land by putting it to use, having no understanding of like long term soil health or anything like that, leading to events like the dust bowl in the US.
>>2381106Materialist reason for why so many rich fucks become perverts like Epstein's coterie
>>2659500The wealth and power that allows them to act out their, probably far more widespread than you'd like to admit, misogynist fantasies.
Should communists tolerate all religions?
Why is it always MLs and their offshoots that always use cultish language like "immortal science" and childish insults?
If I wave my arms fast enough and jump off a building will I fly?
>>2660124I think China's working on that right now. Maybe in 5 years you'll be able to. But only in China.
>>2660124If you identify as bird, yes.
>>2660130I bet they will give that technology to North Korea, although South Korea needs it even more because when ever they try to fly off buildings they get the 10th highest suicide rate
>>2660504>10th highest suicide rateSource?
>>2660528Wikipedia, so that's how you know its true
>>2659500>Materialist reason for why so many rich fucks become perverts like Epstein's coterieOf course rich people with normal sex life aren't that interesting and thus less newsworthy. But there is another reason:
To do illegal deals together, you need trust. Those writing the laws know that, so they offer lenient sentences and even rewards for breaking out of such deals and telling authorities. And the people wanting to make these illegal deals know of that countermeasure, so they look for other group activities that don't offer much or anything to those breaking with the group. Doing those other activities together builds trust (mutually assured destruction) for the illegal business activities.
I believe decriminalizing homosexual activities between consenting adults has the effect of reducing corruption. Likewise with a more liberal approach when talking about drug usage. Where I live you can't threaten people with sharing stories about smoking weed as it gives you no power to blackmail. But a group of capitalists can still enforce group cohesion and solidarity by doing the more fucked-up things that are still taboo, and thus gain an advantage over capitalists not in the group.
Joining a rape-and-murder cult is the capitalist's equivalent of joining a union.
>>2664634>Joining a rape-and-murder cult is the capitalist's equivalent of joining a union.There is something to be said for occult groups being one of the ways the Bourgeois organizes themselves as a class especially back when absolutist monarchies were still a thing so they met in secret societies like the Bavarian Illuminati and free masons.
At antifa protests, I often see satanist flags, but why? Is there a connection between lefties and satanism, or is it just crtique of religion as whole?
>>2664807Probably a critique of religion. I imagine a lot of them may actually be metal heads as well.
Who's Joe?
>>2664807I suppose there is a connection to anarchism, Bakunin described Satan as a liberator figure. But LaVey's Satanism is largely Ayn Rand-inspired and not leftist.
>>2660005>Why is it always MLs and their offshoots that always use cultish language like "immortal science" and childish insults?Because it was Enver Hoxha who started refering to Marxism, Communism, etc as an "immortal science", and so it was only ever Hoxhaists / Anti-Revisionist Marxist Leninists who used it with genuine belief. That said, I think most of the time Leftists use it today it is intended with a degree of irony.
On the other hand Bordigists literally believe in the theory of the invarient line, which is the claim that Marxism as presented by Marx and Engels is perfect and infalliable.
>>2667085Lenin thought so too
>>2395249>And isnt a slowdown just a man being tired?well unions used to do organized slowdowns as sort of a precursor to a strike. Individual slowdowns are just wage hustling but if everyone's slowing down simultaneously it still robs the employer of their surplus value.
>>2667148When you treat something as untouchable and unquestionable, as the perfect truth with no room for doubt or growth, then what you practice isn't philosophy or politics but religion.
Marx also proclaimed the world revolution would start in 19th Century Germany and that in the USA and Britain the Proletariat would seize power via peaceful means.
Do not put ideology before material reality.
>>2667156the history book workers of Tianjin goes in depth into factory slowdowns("soaking mushrooms") under imperial japanese occupation, in some cases they'd literally have a look out or two while everyone else was basically smoking,reading,napping,etc
>>2667186You are a modernizer.
>>2605246That's fucking cursed
Could the Soviet Union be reunited if we all ask nicely enough?
>>2667310Lukashenko would be down for it, no one else would be
>>2667326is Lukashenko even a communist or is he just an ultimate Russophile
>>2667201Calling me Bordigists' favourite slur just for recognising Marx wasn't correct on 100% of his predictions is crazy.
Dogmatism and treating every prediction Marx made as infallible and then denying reality when it doesn't occur as predicted is cult behaviour, not Marxism.
Spend less time on r/ultraleft, read theory or go outside.
>>2667669But you are a modernizer. How is it not true that you are a modernizer?
>>2667688You're just spamming buzzwords you don't even understand the meaning of.
Recognising Marx was a human and not a God whose every prediction was infallible isn't being a modernizer. It's recognising reality - while being a genius for sure, some of his ideas didn't come to pass. You are literally choosing ideological purity over physical reality.
And if you are willing to deny your very eyes and ears then nothing I say will get through to you.
>>2667186Yeah, but capitalist welfare state isn't revolutionary
>>2667707there's a few trolls on here who have canned responses meant to waste your effort and time.
Materialist explanation for sports and sports journalism? Materialist explanation for journalism?
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