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        Sometimes I forget to count my blessings and I get caught up in focussing on this marxism stuff too much, and it can wear me down. I find participating in a society that I just can’t get behind extremely frustrating and if I then also forget to touch grass, things start to look greyish in my mind.

        It is a nice week. I am healthy. My party is having a festival this weekend. It’s going to be great weather all week. I am in a good spot. I should just keep that in mind as well.

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        “Russian people are warmonger creatures”

        But if I say that about the reptilian Anglo menaces, suddenly I’m a genocider who wants yacub’s spawn forcibly removed from the country

        Weird how they can only parse how fucked a comment is when it’s aimed at them

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        In one way they’re consistent because they love landlords, slaveowners, fascists as long as they’re in a united front against the accursed gommies.

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      I literally only disagree with two of those. How the hell is the final level “two individuals didn’t kill an extremely specific and high number of people.” Even if you’re not a “tankie” it should be obvious that this could the claim could be eliminated on technicality (Stalin killed 45/55 million instead), or just a basic recognition that an individual can’t be solely responsible for millions of deaths. Even if neither, some of those people were Nazis, and it’s good to kill Nazis.

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    I haven’t read a Marx text in a while and I kinda forgot how frustatingly difficult he can write. At least Lenin figured you can at some form of humor to your text without them becoming goofy.

    Plus I always struggled more with the philosophical parts of Marxism versus economics, science and things about the state etc. No idea why I started with the philosophy stuff first now.

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      Marx is far more difficult for me to read through than Lenin, which is why I have read little from him directly so far. What are you reading now? I am going through capital volume 1 at the moment.

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        Marx is difficult I think because of his background and who he was and who he intended his works to be communicated too. He was purely an academic speaking in academic language writing, in most cases for other academics. Thats why if you read his personal letters, he seems to speak more like a human would, and if you read his publications intended for reading by everyone (like the communist manifesto) he does engage in allegory and imagantive writing to accent his points (…there is a spectre haunting)

        Meanwhile Lenin had to be able to communicate with the educated russian class, but also the rank and file of the revolutionary army as well as the Russian serf class; he knew most of his writing had to be understood on the terms of the less educated as a whole class but intended to educate everyone to the level that they could understand him removed from western academic language, to his benefit I think; detatching from liberal academic language is a revolutionary thing in itself.

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      Materialist philosphy is so cool honestly, I read a great materialist theory on reincarnation recently that argued since our conciousnesses are material things that we can be sure exists, as we pilot one, our conicousnesses themselves where made by material conditions and those conditions will repeat given an infinite amount of time.

      Which means we’re all trapped in this infinite conciousness loop called reality weeeee.

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        Isn’t that just the “if you have infinite monkeys banging on typewriters you’ll eventually get Shakespeare” thing, though? Not that consciousness can’t be revived, but it’s pretty unlikely for the same one to form again.

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          but it’s pretty unlikely for the same one to form again.

          But it already formed once, why is it unlikely it would happen again?

          Its more if you consider infinitie, you get the heat death of the universe then persumably a ‘reset’ of conditions with another big bang, repeat on an infinite timeline and eventually the same conditions that make you repeat. A materialist look on this would consider this ‘copy’ of you the same if everything that happened prior to you becoming you happened again.

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          there are similarities and it deffo takes some inspo from it; but it also is an interpetation of re-incarnation/meta-physics that tries to incoperate modern understandings of physics into its analysis which makes it a little different; I suppose the difference and what makes it materialist vs Nietzch is that this theory is open and will adapt to new devolopments in physics + our understanding of the edge of the universe, and also that some of its assumptions like ‘material circumstances created your concisousness’ rather than it being something else.

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        It wasn’t too overphilosophical by Marx per se. I was reading on Marx’ and Engels’ critique of Hegel and it send me down a rabbit hole of Hegel, Kant, Marx and some rando’s at 10 in the evening after working 9.5 hours. Some things are easier on a clear mind.

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      At least Lenin figured you can at some form of humor to your text without them becoming goofy.

      Part 3 of the German Ideology has some amusing roasts of Stirner.

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    Harvested my first tomato from my indoor plants today. It was the size of a marble, but tasted pretty good.

    Tomorrow is our party’s festival. It’s at the beach, with thirty degrees. Should be a big party, excited for it.

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      I would also like to know this. There appears to be an autobiography written in English but not one written in Spanish. At least I couldn’t find it. Suspicious.

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    Funny thing about Survival of the Fittest. People who hold that as a social belief always assume that they’re going to be “the fittest”, never even crosses their minds that self serving ideologies can turn on you.

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      Funnily enough, this topic is covered in classical literature - “Crime and punishment” by Dostoevsky. But everyone focuses on stupid ass religion metaphors and bs about self-sacrifice.

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      Lotta folks watch movies about cool and hip grifters who outsmart everyone and get away with everything, and start thinking themselves the same. They think they can just get a credit and not return it, “beating the system” like the hip, cool, smart cats they are