/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>711981
You wouldnt get it

>>711981
>Why does this Santa looking nigha call himself scientific
one needs to understand 19th century german culture. what usually gets translated as "science" into english is the german word "wissenschaft" which back then referred to a synthesis of STEM and humanities. Also the germans were very opposed back then to the "English Method" of science, empiricism, for being too metaphysical/idealist and not dialectical/materialist. Marx and Engels were very much typical Germans when it came to this attitude, due to their Hegelian upbringing. So when you hear Marx/Engels call something "scientific" they mean that in the sense of dialectical materialist wissenschaft and not in the sense of bourgeois-funded experiments that follow the empiricist ontology and the hypothesis/experiment/theory paradigm, (which is what people are usually referring to in modern times when they say "science").

>>711983
Is Wissenschaft a means of gaining knowledge about the world or not? If yes then why is he speaking like a religious prophet? How much good did Wissenschaft serve him if 100+ years later capitalism reigns supreme?

todd mcgowan has said before that he believes capitalism most likely just cycles through various crises, creating war and fascism, over and over again. thinking that capitalism *becomes* socialism is dangerous because it puts all eggs into one basket, and if the basket breaks, so do the eggs.

zizek has also dismissed someone like nick land as "utopian" because he perceives a teleology to capitalism; as if all this chaos serves a higher purpose. its cope, basically. and zizek has rightfully criticised marx's "communism" before as basically being "capitalism without capital". all the benefits without the losses. there is no such thing.

>>711983
You are putting too much effort in replying a Siberia-level (shit)post.

>>711987
Hahaha, his response was an amalgamation of poorly strung together buzzwords of misused terms. That this counts as effort to you says a lot.

>>711987
I don't mind. I like writing things up for the sake of discussion. that post probably took 2 minutes.
>>711988
Tell me what I said that was wrong. I'm open to learning.

>>711986
Zizek is the biggest pseudo-intellectual I have ever seen. His criticism of Marx is simply ‘why is Marxsh not a mystic’.

>>711984
You exceptionalist manifest destiny burger imbeciles are a sight to behold, always.