socialistbusdriver [he/him]

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  • socialistbusdriver [he/him]tomusicDa sind wir aber immer noch
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    8 months ago

    We are still there. The state is still there, that the workers built.

    deeper-sadness

    One of the verses mentions "Springers Gänsefüßchen-Land" which sounds like it means Springer's goose feet nation, but apparently goose feet is one way to say quotation marks. Apparently Axel Springer (a publisher) required the use of quotation marks around the name DDR in a refusal to legitimize it.












  • Thank you! Those of us in the West absolutely benefit from the global order! The fact that labor costs are lower in the periphery reduces the cost of living in the core. The proletariat in the core is therefore given a choice between cooperation with capital which brings it's own benefits, or it could risk joining with the people in far away countries with whome they can't speak the same language, to gain an uncertain benefit.









  • I think psychohistory is certainly not dialectical, but i don't know that that means Asimov is anti-dialectical though. Marx use of dialectics are an admission that the sort of reductive analysis that science relies on isn't possible on a society. You can't easily cut society up and analyze part of it in a vacuum. I think Asimov asked the opposite question (instead of what do we do if we can't be reductive) he asks what would be needed to be reductive. Hari Seldon is given everything he needs to do that. He gets access to a robot who has access to history long since forgotten, and who is capable of reading and manipulating minds, and who has done so for the purpose of changing history. He further had access to all of the psychological and mathematical knowledge of the empire.


  • socialistbusdriver [he/him]toaskchapoTrue crime question
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    2 years ago

    I know this wont really hit the mark for OP, but others who clicked on the thread might find interesting. The Murderville podcast is sensationalized in slightly different way. They examine a case where someone has likely been falsely convicted of a murder and walk through the evidence, investigation, prosecution, etc. Kinda like backwards true crime I guess, since they focus more on the likely innocence of the convicted person, rather than catching the bad guy.