Antonie Pannekoek, born on this day in 1873, was a Dutch astronomer, philosopher, Marxist theorist, and socialist revolutionary.

A respected Marxist theorist, Pannekoek was one of the founders of council communism and a main figure in the radical left in the Netherlands and Germany, active in the Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Communist Workers' Party of the Netherlands and the Communist Workers' Party of Germany.

Pannekoek is perhaps best known for his writing on workers' councils. He regarded these as a new form of organization capable of overcoming the limitations of the old institutions of the labor movement, the trade unions and social democratic parties.

He was a sharp critic of anarchism, social democracy, and Leninism. During the early years of the Russian revolution, Pannekoek gave critical support to the Bolsheviks.

Unlike some other progressive thinkers of his time, Pannekoek was also highly critical of social darwinism, derisively calling it "bourgeois darwinism".

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  • jabrd [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If I’ve already gotten omicron am I allowed to go out to bars without feeling guilty? Is there a certain amount of months I’m good for before the immunity from just getting it wears off? Can I double dip and get it back to back?

    ::: spoiler The truly sensational bit about this post is that the fucking US government can’t or won’t answer these questions so millions of people are going out on tinder dates a fucking covid directly into their partners’ skulls and honestly how can you blame them? We’re living through the fall of Rome and being told not to go to the orgies while every rich asshole in the world is rubbing it in your face that they’re using the money they stole from you to fuck the hottest people you’ve ever seen and they’ll also go to space to get away from your homely ass if you ever reach their security wall in your genuinely valiant effort to shank them to death with the sharpest object you could find by your desk :::

    • Parzivus [any]
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      3 years ago

      Realistically, getting COVID helps your body in the same way a vaccine does, teaching your body how to fight it. One is just very dangerous. Catching and recovering from Omicron theoretically makes you immune to it, since your body isn't gonna just forget, but it won't necessarily make you immune to Delta or whatever new variant rolls around.
      I guess the safety of it is just however long it takes COVID to mutate, so basically luck and time. Obligatory "I'm not a doctor" and this would only apply to you, not spreading it to others.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        theoretically makes you immune to it

        To the best of my understanding this is not the case. There are people who have been infected a number of times since the panini started. It might give you immunity for a while but my understanding is that it wears off within a year.