the problem with dialectical materialism is eventually you run out of other people's materials.
God this shit makes me furious. It's the smug sureness in being completely wrong, for me.
News flash: Marxist analysis has been tested during the majority of successful proletarian revolutions across the world for the last 100 years and has been proven correct in almost every aspect.
history is not dialectical, because people speak more than two languages.
"Thought-based analysis isn't science".
Theory is literally everything that is science. Knowing how fast an object falls to the ground means nothing without someone telling you why and how.
Marx was able to juggle all these concepts inside his head but I can't so I'm going to be smug about the veracity of "thought experimentation" on twitter.
until you are testing hypotheses you are not doing science
Why do we teach kids this garbage definition of science? Literally some of the most famous scientific achievements, like Einstein's work on relativity, and Darwin's work on natural selection, did not involve any testing of hypotheses. Neither do large parts of the social sciences, or most of computer science, or parts of psychology and linguistics, or some of the more speculative parts of physics, or loads of other things that are clearly science.
newsflash: Astronomical spectroscopy is all bunk because it's not testing a hypothesis. I guess nearly everything we know about composition, temperature, density, mass, distance, and luminosity of our universe isn't "science"
pack it up astronomers, you're just quacks now
Love it when people who have absolutely no fucking clue what they are talking about try to go off on something lol. Literally no Marxist thinks this.
Twitter is great for this since nobody can actually explain anything, and comments that slide in with a "dunk" are highly rewarded so you see a lot of attempted (and missed) dunks
News flash string theorists: you're not actually fucking scientists, fuck you.
Recently watched the neil turok perimeter institute presentation about simplicity and he snuck in a mega-dunk on string theorists into his talk lol
