I wonder whats Stalin's take on how to deal with people with "conservative values"
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
Imagine thinking "the social" and "the economic" are two magically separate realms that don't intersect and about which you can have totally different beliefs, lol. Not just liberalism, but this sort of thinking goes back even deeper into "Western" thinking. This is the consequence of the "Western" metaphysical tradition. This is what understanding dialectics cures you of, but the hegemony of metaphysics that produces shit like this is what makes dialectics hard for people to understand.
Looking at society through a scientific lens, one would come to the conclusion that social values are a reflection of material conditions. Nobody just magically becomes a transphobic asshole, it's a successful redirection of anger towards fellow workers by the ruling class.
True. But that doesn't mean we should show any tolerance towards transphobia, racism, etc. Actual solidarity and support for total liberation for all is the only way to combat the divide and conquer strategy. All this patsoc shit has been tried before; I'd recommend reading Settlers, Black Bolshevik, George Jackson, and shit like that for good explanations of why it's a dead end.
I completely agree, just because someone's ignorance was taken advantage of doesn't mean we should infantilize them. Showing any toleration for their bigoted bullshit just gives merit to it. And thank you, I'll check those out
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How did Obama convince you to back down? What did comrade Chris Paul say about it?
Barrack threatened henceforth to cancel Taco Tuesday permanently. CPUSA is now a religious organization that channels its energy into getting Chris a ring before retirement
Agree on the philosophical point, Western metaphysics is rooted in a dead and non-dynamic worldview.
It's also fascinating to me that "Eastern" metaphysics still does get recognized by Westerners when it comes up, but only as an exotic curiosity. Even though it's based on a pretty normal and fundamental observation that things can be relative or change over time.
For example the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy pages on topics like human nature and free will are just categorizations of Western philosophers' positions. They even say they ignore other traditions on purpose lmao (how can you describe humanity without consulting humanity itself?). A naive young mind reads these things and assumes they need to pick one of the categories they're presented with, and that's the end of that
Something that always infuriates me is when philosophy from other parts of the world gets dismissed as being just religion and not "properly philosophical." Like, thank god "Western" philosophy was always totally non-religious, amirite?
Economics departments in shambles