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OurToothbrush

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  • Flight instinct intensifies

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  • Stuff like this is the expansion of the state the Lenin railed so strongly against.

    Why not just have the beeper let the nurse know? Do you think the nurses aren't washing their hands intentionally? Only report it if they're like, constantly not doing it! The goal here is surveillance and punishment not improved sanitation

  • I hope this time I get across

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  • It isnt funny when people are both racist and transphobic and accuse a cis black woman of being trans for the crime of doing well at the Olympics

  • Japan is on the verge of a $400 billion fire sale of U.S. debt. This could break the back of the Treasury market and devastate Americans’ finances.

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  • A Japanese communist movement literally tried, they were put down by fascists.

    Also Russia isn't communist lol

  • It's like a not very liberal regime

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  • If you see anyone outsourcing their critical media analysis on world news, you are encouraged to report them.

  • I hope this clears things up

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  • It seems like Marxism isn’t a science so much as a philosophy about sciences.

    Conversely Marxism applied to politics is an attempt to apply that model as rigorously as possible given the constraints the people doing the method are under.

  • Protestation

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  • Okay, well your "anti-autboritarian" ideology gets anywhere you'll have my support, until then I'll support socialist projects that actually work within their limitations.

  • Protestation

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  • Honestly at this point it seems like you're not really engaging with the material: your more reasonable concerns are straight up addressed in the material listed.

    Where I am I can openly say nearly anything about my government, and I won’t be forced into a camp, and re-educated.

    Do you see this as a good thing? I'd rather live in a society that re-educated people who were saying Nazi shit tbh

  • I hope this clears things up

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  • Marxism and MLism as an ideology is fundamentally about studying the relationships between things through: looking at past history and current conditions, hypothesizing, and testing that hypothesis.

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  • basic physical quantities like length and charge

    You know that those are also social abstractions of complicated phenomenon too right? Or did you not read about what a social construct was because sociology is a soft science for girls? /s

    Also have you ever opened up Capital or Imperialism and looked at how many basic quantities they use when constructing their analysis?

  • Protestation

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  • However they operate as a capitalist market that is tied to the government. Their special economic zones operate in ways that even places like the US find under regulated. They have people running corporations and making billions in private capital, while investing their capital in shares/futures/etc markets.

    https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/

    https://youtu.be/M4__IBd_sGE?si=AQOKB0e9RRIuIxhw

    also a dictatorship that ultimately controls everything.

    http://us.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zgyw/202112/t20211204_10462468.htm

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  • This wasn't even true under Dengism, can you seriously look at their percentage of private sector now and say they're capitalist?

  • I hope this clears things up

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  • But sociology describes ideas, not material properties

    This is a fundamentally idealist way of viewing sociology, although most sociology you're exposed to is idealist in nature.

    Anyway, my point was that neither a system of government/economy nor pushing ideas are ways of describing the world.

    ??? What does that have to do with Marxism? I think the disconnect here is that you do not understand what Marxism is, you have only had second and third hand exposure to it.

  • I hope this clears things up

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  • Marxism, in the common understanding is a scientific theory of social reality

    You're talking about "the common understanding" which is ironic in the context of this discussion.

    The fact that it is an economic reductionist theory of social reality does not mean it is physics.

    I would agree with you if I shared your shallow understanding of the subject. Have you read anything rigorous about dialectic materialism or historical materialism?

    Also do you think social reality isn't a material reality? That is a rather odd position to have?

  • I hope this clears things up

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  • No, that is specifically idealist activism, not materialist activism. Also sociology is a science that follows similar methodology as "hard" sciences

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  • "Science describes some material reality" "science describes some reality"

    You put dialectical materialism in the latter category?

    Also scientific testing+Marxism and bullshit idealist debates are not in any way similar in methodology

  • Something everyone agrees with until you name it

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  • You do realize you're just parroting ideas that were put in your head as a child right?

  • What's an immediate turn off in a person?

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  • People who this is targeted at and don't get it when you explain it.

    Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn't that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?

    It won't do!

    It won't do!

    You must investigate!

    You must not talk nonsense!

  • Something everyone agrees with until you name it

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  • You haven't seriously engaged with Marx if you think the stuff he wrote isn't still relevant.

    Not meant as a diss, but please actually engage with his body of work before making this criticism.

  • What would you like to change about Lemmy culture?

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  • It’s focused after they realize what is effective.

    No, it wasn't. Have you read any of the first hand accounts of the BPP?

    But at this point I feel like you intentionally missing the point.

    The point of movements is to accomplish things. Solarpunk isn't a movement if there is no theory of change.