This is something I thought ever since I read the beginning of the manifesto.
The periods in which serfs, plebs and slaves lived and tolerated their masters is a long one. Actually most human history has been people arrange, adjust and be content with their oppressed status, wherever they realize it or not.
Is the human history not just coping with the cards that are dealt? Like I get that contradictions will never be solved - but at what point do we even need to resolve the contradictions and just be content with what is there?
They did not tolerate shit
They did not arrange themselves to be content
They could not fight it. That's it. The slaves in a plantation were isolated from other plantations. There was not All-American Slave Congress, no Slave Union. No way to coordinate actions. No way to start an analysis, record it, and have future generations inherit it and enrich the analysis.
Life is mostly cope. Maybe all cope.
>>2628752some slave owners were nicer than others and even became friends
>>2628759Some bourgeois are nicer than others and even become friends. So?
>>2628763>>2628762just saying that it's another coping mechanism that humans use.
>>2628767You are using 'cope' to describe man's instinct for survival. This is Anthropology/biology/sociology/psychology 101.
>>2628750There was some middle-aged wanker in one of my classes who discussed with the professor for ten minutes whether 'hitherto' was redundant. I couldn't tell you what they decided.
>>2628775Mayhaps thoughbeit.
It the same way mater attempts to fill a vaccum or roll down a hill, contradictions are an instability and will approach a more stable, non-contradictory state.
>>2628783Vulgar mechanism. Bukharinism. Kautskyism.
>>2628803Please shut the fuck up. You clearly have nothing to go off by except your flimsy philosophical understanding that is biased by sectarianism.
Communism seeks to abolish the contradictions of capitalism. This won't solve all human contradictions, but sone contradictions of capitalism are the result of human contradictions.
If we abolish capitalism we abolish it's contradictions, if this results in the abolition of racism, sexism, and so on, then that's good, if not, we can figure out how afterwards
>>2628826It heightens human contraditions actually. Or lays it bare.
The mechanics of making money as the only common goal for humanity masks so many issues and is very convenient actually.
>>2628873
Exactly, however we understand that the contradictions of capital must be abolished, that's why we are communists.
>>2628826If you believe material dialectics is true then there is no endpoint where all contradictions are resolved because contradictions are intrinsic to reality and will always in all circumstances emerge.
>>2628876You mean that you desire them to be abolished.
>>2628886No, as capitalism contradictions are something capitalists themselves can't resolve, it's a ticking time bomb
>>2628752Rare serious post from chagos. Just imagine being a slave in that time. You dont know if there are others like you out there. You are isolated and unaware of larger society
>>2628750jfc the kind of readings you get when you approach marx from a philosopher point of view lol
>>2628750The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy in the universe inevitably increases. Over vast timescales, this leads to heat death: maximum entropy, uniform temperature, no energy gradients. All differences, physical, chemical, and even societal (rooted in resource and information disparities) will eventually dissolve into equilibrium.
>>2628897All my posts are always serious. You just have to put your bias aside and take it at face value.
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