Ye upon hearing this:

Spinoza goated

I know you don't fw Deleuze but his one book on Spinoza is a good read and intro if you don't want to jump into Ethics. I'm pretty sure it was Althusser who tried to replace Hegel with Spinoza in the Marxist tradition (Ilyenkov tried to synthesize the two).

@Scratchin_Bandit is it actually true that in ethiopia slavery was first banned under mussolini's italian occupation? I don't know that much about ethiopian history, so is it just a case that slavery was somewhat of a misnomer or is there something i'm missing there

I mean yeah overall I hate Deleuze, but I do find concepts like deterritorialization/reterrritorialization interesting and useful. I might check that out, I see he has two, which one do you recommend? I was also thinking about just reading this lecture series of his on Spinoza which he did the same year as those books apparently.

deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/seminars/spinoza-velocities-thought

I’m just finishing this one “Spinoza in 90 Minutes” book the host of RLR recommended I start with (he really into Spinoza) , and while it’s helpful for providing historical context and a vague outline of his thought it doesn’t go deep enough at all for me to feel like I really understand his philosophy outside of very broad stroke things. So Deleuze might be a good jumping off point in that regard now that you mention it

It was first put into law during the occupation period, but leaders were already in opposition to it before and made efforts to reduce it since tewodros

Menelik for example issued a decree to abolish slavery but there were exceptions for prisoners of war and as a punishment, for people who owned slaves too ironically

And in terms of it being a misnomer i wouldn't say that's the case, it wasn't anything like chattle slavery but it was slavery nonetheless

yeah i was really confused reading about the history of slavery in ethiopia, i couldn't get a clear answer on what was going on with the country's policy prior to WW2. i know there were attempts at abolishing slavery far prior to italian occupation, but I don't fully understand why they didn't work? I know Selassie had decrees about slavery like 4 times in the early 20th century but i don't fully understand why they didn't actually abolish the concept. Was it an economic dependence thing? because then i got to reading about Menelik and it was like "yeah he made modernization attempts which also worked toward abolishing slave trade...except for the mass slavery of PoWs and civilians of campaign territories ". in fact i barely understand why the italians stopped it

thoughts on hoxha?

Did a lot of good and stood up to Khruschevite revisionism which I of course commend

That being said he had a lot of chauvinist tendencies (peep his nonsense critiques of Mao) and fell into many of the same trappings as Stalin. I know people itt think this term is stupid but he really did typify “dogmato-revisionism”

Protest on campus just started they're occupying the hall of one of the libraries

Already two police buses and 3 cars and more showed up on campus

Goated thread, must watch

A British MP called Macron an “anglophobe” for saying he’d veto their NATO secretary nomination

express.co.uk/news/politics/1700669/Ben-Wallace-Fury-as-anglophobic-Macron-seeks-to-veto-Defence-Sec-for-major-NATO-role

don’t got much of an opinion on him but there’s an albanian com sci prof at my uni who’s love him lol

i had known a philosophy professor who told me that all of deleuze's books on other philosophers were great intros and have been on my list for a bit so if ur interested it prob wont be too annoying to read the deleuze book on spinoza

based take

ight I might give it a go, one of them is only like 120 pages anyway

Bro this shyt is insane they sent in police with armed vehicles on campus and literally dragged the students & staff protesting out

Peep @occupyeur on ig

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F*** this university man f*** is wrong wbthese crackers

HOLLANDA FAŞISTLER

My Kosovaran friend keeps sending me Albanian nationalist memes ironically

the passive voice here is crazy

Guess that answers the question if Nietzsche would have liked Deleuze reading of him lol

Bro fr seeing dis shyt irl made me hate this country uni everything so much more

Had a girl i know come out of that library crying to me because she had a bunch of masked up cops tell her to go away

Havent been this mad in a minute fr

want some grenades and ARs?

Hope y'all are safe brother