• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    Was Marx an alcoholic? I heard, from my good friend Bruce, that a bunch of other philosophers were hard drinkers.

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    We need to stop with the praxis. It’s a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage

    And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them?

    Every successful political movement is evangelical

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      This is just shooting yourself in the foot. It’s important to directly engage with the masses, explain why we do what we do, fight for improving material conditions, while educating on liberatory ideology. Ideology is a tool, one that helped Russians, Chinese, Cubans, Vietnamese, Koreans, Laotians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and more defeat impossible odds and move the wheel of history forward. Throwing away the tool, blunting it, hiding it, and instead focusing on generic improvements loosely and decentrally, has never once resulted in successfully replacing capitalism with socialism.

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      what do you think praxis means here?

      Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, realized, applied, or put into practice. “Praxis” may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practising ideas. This has been a recurrent topic in the field of philosophy, discussed in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Ludwig von Mises, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paulo Freire, Murray Rothbard, and many others. It has meaning in the political, educational, spiritual and medical realms.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process)

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        Yeah… I’m using the word very intentionally

        Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

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          We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

          That’s just a specific kind of praxis though. Praxis is about doing things to change the current state of things. It doesn’t proscribe only teaching theory. You can be doing praxis without saying anything academic.

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            It’s perception. Like I said, hide the praxis. It must not be perceivable

            Hell, discard it even. It’s more important to focus on immediate material issues than loudly dream about a better world

            Praxis is not useful in this day and age, it’s a liability. If it’s your driving force, learn to pretend it’s not

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              “Trying to actually take actions to bring about change is not useful, and we should discard it. Instead we should focus on the important thing: complaining about Drumpf online”.

              How is the weather at Eglin?

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              You are fantastically obtuse in your perception of a word that means doing direct action to create material change.

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    Is this a meme?

    Can I just post shit I like here?

    Next I’m post “water is a basic human right” and “racism is a horrible thing we should work to remove from society”

    Really easy when memes are now just anything I like

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      who, besides the communists, practice dialectic materialism?

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      Yeah fuck those guys who brought freedom to millions of Russian feudal serfs and beat the nazis, respectively. I only take advice from historical cool guys, like Winston Churchill

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      Marxism-Leninism is the ideology that has liberated billions of working people around the world. It makes sense to uphold the ones who put the teachings of Marx and Engels into practice and synthesized Marxism-Leninism, not just Marx and Engels themselves. The “Five Heads” of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao are seen as the most important contributors to the actual real ideology that has been put into practice to liberate billions in the former USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, and many more countries.

      Even returning to the subject of this post, dialectical materialism, Lenin wrote Materialism and Empirio-Criticism and Stalin wrote Dialectical and Historical Materialism. The former is an in-depth look at dialectical materialism and how it stands up to bourgeois science, and the latter is an easily understood primer meant for those who wanted to grasp the basics.