https://twitter.com/RandallOtisTV/status/1340313416322445314?s=19

        • CountryRoads [fae/faer,it/its]
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          4 years ago

          The State and Revolution has some truly timeless passages. Even 100 years ago, social democrats were championing voting as the solution to all of life's evils.

          • volkvulture [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/obsc/obsc.htm

            nerds & non-nerds alike should know about and read this one too

            Lenin blows my mind with just how broad his considerations are & how razor sharp his wit is, all the while keeping the main point focused on real-life practicality & economy & utility within the writing

              • volkvulture [none/use name]
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                4 years ago

                yes, Lenin dunks on Lassalle without using the n-w*rd

                imo it proves something more fundamental about how Western thought is bound up historically & made useless by thinking the past is naturally obscure or impenetrable

                but the point being made as I see it is that philosophy should be a tool to help us notice iniquities & change the world, and not merely idly interpret these things. & I think even Heraclitus communicates that point where all these fancy lads since the Enlightenment can't understand it at all