This is not a quote from Dialectical and Historical Materialism.
It is in my copy. Don't ask me why it's written in yellow crayon.
Please dunk harder so I can screenshot this and post it to the dunk tank later
Flicker, by Theodore Roszak
Fiction, this is one character talking to another
This legitimately sounds like something that would be written in r/truefilm today, minus the commentary on alienation caused by capitalism ofc. Probably on a post complaining about capeshit
I very highly recommend this essay by Stalin. It really breaks down the dialectical and historical materialism to an understandable read. It’s on marxists.org but I don’t have the link atm.
This is not a quote from that book. This is the closest thing I could find:
If there are no isolated phenomena in the world, if all phenomena are interconnected and interdependent, then it is clear that every social system and every social movement in history must be evaluated not from the standpoint of "eternal justice" or some other preconceived idea, as is not infrequently done by historians, but from the standpoint of the conditions which gave rise to that system or that social movement and with which they are connected.
The slave system would be senseless, stupid and unnatural under modern conditions. But under the conditions of a disintegrating primitive communal system, the slave system is a quite understandable and natural phenomenon, since it represents an advance on the primitive communal system.
Absolutely, it's very well written and easy to understand. Stalin definitely did a good job of simplifying some complex topics.
It's next on my reading list. After I finish Stasi State or Socialist Paradise
If you haven’t already, Left-Wing Communism An Infantile Disorder is fucking great. So is Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution. Very relevant to today
Sounds like he's describing your average hollywood blockbuster.
