Dialectical and historical materialism are the basis of Marxism, but are usually explained in dozens of wooly pages.

Here are some short definitions for practical people

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reality principle

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This is pretty obvious but has anyone written on Burning Man as a ritual of collective disavowal by tech people? E.g., the burning of 'the man' as a symbolic rejection of the capitalist processes that in reality form their lives and provide the $ necessary for the ritual

Happy to announce an updated translation of Marta Harnecker's 'The Elementary Concepts of Historical Materialism' with some previously untranslated material, now in nicely typeset PDF and EPUB form

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Class struggle is a “reform” project: it is about internalizing the dialectic of history (which usually requires the death of the biological or social organism to progress) and achieving the same progress through the conscious euthanizing (and then reprogramming) of social roles

Is mathematics the art of giving the same name to different things (abstraction), or different names to the same thing (creation of artificial subdivisions of the unitary reality of mathematical truth to render it suitable for human comprehension)?

Wrote a poem on the plane

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Don’t even have to engage with the arguments- just look at the scoreboard.

Opportunism has never once led to socialism. Never.

Bread and roses? How about bread and olive oil — now that is a slogan i can get behind

Really recommend visiting Cuba to any and all comrades

Feel blessed to have so many juicy books in my queue

It’s really fortunate that coke and pepsi are red and blue- is this just because red and blue are the two most normal colors so it’s what everyone picks first? Why are the the most normal?

First thoughts on Søren Mau 🇵🇸's 'Mute Compulsion' after reading the first few chapters

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