Scratchin Mamba

4y

"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it."

Scratchin Mamba

4y

"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it."

Scratchin Mamba

4y

"During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it."

space0cadet

4y

@sniper (i think it was you) thanks for recommending (a while back) mistaken identity by asad haider, really nice book

VA7a

4y

Is there a difference from reinforcing Capitalism and thriving under Capitalism?

space0cadet

4y

think you're going to have to expand a bit more on this one chief

VA7a

4y

To preface this, I’m toasted rn but:
Would you say
Advertisers, Pharma execs, and the rest of the wealthy corporate bourgeois are completely different than successful ethical farmers, workers and entertainers who earn a significant amount of wealth?

Scratchin Mamba

4y

I guess you can say more ethical for sure, with cooperatives being the most ethical.

But by definition there really is no way to participate in the economy without reinforcing the system that the economy works under. (I was gonna say besides strikes but even that is actually a refusal of participating in the economy.)

The only thing that can really make a difference is political action.

space0cadet

4y

Marxism Leninism liberated entire countries from the chains of imperialism. Not Mutualism, not Localism, Not Libertarian Socialism. Marxism Leninism. Even with all of the mistakes, it's a real, actionable ideology. Those other ideologies are just navel gazing bullshit. Idealism.

space0cadet

4y

Marxism Leninism liberated entire countries from the chains of imperialism. Not Mutualism, not Localism, Not Libertarian Socialism. Marxism Leninism. Even with all of the mistakes, it's a real, actionable ideology. Those other ideologies are just navel gazing bullshit. Idealism.

Yuzzy

4y

New copypasta

sniper

4y

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my sociology prof said one of the worst interpretations of marx i’ve ever heard

said marx had nothing to do with communism

marx was about “checks and balances”

couldn’t differentiate between “communistic countries” (state capitalism) and communism itself

the guy also did an entire tangent on social darwinism and how it’s ok because people that can change and adapt (can get out of poverty) deserve it while the others will stay and die without discussing any surrounding conditional factors, and dismissed critiques of meritocracy as of being luck-based as just “lol guess you didn’t go over the obstacles enough”

just basic neoliberal “meritocracy” s***

the weird part is that the guy was cognizant of social statics and social dynamics and actually did a good explanation of the factors that cause revolution in society