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    2 months ago

    Does anybody understand what this meme is trying to say? I feel like its pretty obvious

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      2 months ago

      Neil DeGrass Tyson rails femboy doomers from behind while debating science or something idk.

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      2 months ago

      Some kind of commie drivel that’s literally incomprehensible since the last nail in the coffin of scientific Marxism in the 70s

      You can even see identity politics held at the gunpoint to make it more appealing to minorities though no one knows how those matters relate to any of this

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        2 months ago

        So no, no one understands it.

        What was the last nail, exactly? I don’t see how swapping out neo-liberal drivel with “scientific Marxist drivel” would be any improvement

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          https://josephheath.substack.com/p/john-rawls-and-the-death-of-western read it

          I want to emphasize that several of the greatest minds in political philosophy of the 20th century spent the better part of two decades working the salt mines of Marxist theory, trying to make the “exploitation” critique of capitalism work and every single one of them gave up and became an egalitarian. Surely that should count for something! Anyhow, there’s no need to take my word for it, the library is full of books.

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            Wow 70 years of history is so flat, it just folds right up in your pocket like that, stunning. Its possible you’ve left a few details out

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            The ussr managed to get nearly all of the firsts in the space race while spending less than a tenth of what the US spent to lose nearly all of the firsts in the space race.

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              Cool cool what did that earn them by the 70s? How well off were they into the 80s? Switching to oligarchy capitalism didn’t help them, though, they still used the Energia Engines from 1988 until 2017, but where they really struggled was Chemistry and Medicine.

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          https://josephheath.substack.com/p/john-rawls-and-the-death-of-western Here, amazing essay from renowned prof

          I want to emphasize that several of the greatest minds in political philosophy of the 20th century spent the better part of two decades working the salt mines of Marxist theory, trying to make the “exploitation” critique of capitalism work and every single one of them gave up and became an egalitarian. Surely that should count for something! Anyhow, there’s no need to take my word for it, the library is full of books.

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            Some academics became liberals after having flirted with Marxism. This is relevant why exactly? I mean, I can cite many great minds who remained Marxists and even advanced the theory. Ever heard of Paul Cockshott? Alan Contrell? David Zachariah? Emanuel Farjoun?

            These guys (and some others) actually worked on Marxist economic theory and modernized it. They lived through the collapse of the USSR and remained steadfast in their beliefs. And I haven’t talked about countless other minds in anthropology, history, contemporary social studies and philosophy who have used dialectical materialism as a foundation to achieve great results.

            And so I want to emphasize something.

            every single one of them gave up and became an egalitarian.

            Is blatantly and literally false.