preach

I do think leaving diamat to specific philosophy studies and instead teaching people about contemporary geopolitics and economics would make society much less susceptible to liberal propaganda.

I don’t think diamat is central to Lenin at all. If you think it is, please explain how.

I’m sorry to say but Stalin’s ramblings about it are complete gibberish, he will for instance say “all things in nature change and diamat is about change so diamat is a natural science” which is not what makes a theory scientific (that would be the application of the scientific method which has nothing to do with diamat).

Diamat is completely unnecessary to understand geopolitics and economics and a few modern economists I’ve read e.g. John Smith, Paul Cockshott, Zack Cope, never even mention it.

But I didn’t read much Marxist theory, I can’t say I’m well read in general, frankly I don’t remember a lot from what I learned in childhood and I don’t have that much time and energy to read dense theory nowadays so I’m open to have my mind changed, just not by pompous proclamations and thinly veiled accusations of “revisionism” like in your reply.

(Edit) Kwame Nkrumah also didn’t need dialectics to formulate neocolonialism. The list goes on.

Also a nice false dichotomy there between diamat and liberal economics, very productive.

wot

nope, i’m too old for podcasts

we had to learn diamat in the USSR, I wish they put more effort into teaching contemporary geopolitics and economy rather than dry philosophical bullshit that has little to do with real world. Looking back, Soviet society was astonishingly politically illiterate and I think this is part of why people so easily let go of achievements of previous generations.

diamat was by far the most hated subject. the boredom was palpable. you don’t need diamat to understand how the world works is what i meant.

How why would you describe gravity in terms of dialectics?

people would rather avoid joining death squads than have their homes bombed to smithereens, more at 5

diamat sucks, change my mind

no

we need emoji of Zelensky ringing the NYSE bell

As stated in the explanatory note to the bill, currently, English is (…) one of the six languages of the United Nations

Hmmm I wonder if among the other five there’s a language a huge percentage of the population ALREADY FUCKING SPEAKS, a language that quite ironically is ZELENSKY’S FIRST LANGUAGE, a languge they wanted to suppress so badly they first removed it from print and then made it illegal for regular citizens to bring books in that language across the border?

https://web.archive.org/web/20181215121309/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/14/ukraine-publishers-speak-out-against-ban-on-russian-books

By the way exact same thing is happening in Georgia, Russian language which is widely spoken is being banned and instead English language is enforced but only a small percentage of the population has the ability to study it.

It’s even worse there because unlike Ukraine (and despite being a much smaller country), Georgia is quite ethnically diverse and many ethnic minorities don’t speak Georgian OR English, they speak their own fucking language and Russian…

A founding member I might add.

And that installation was build on the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic with no doubt many conscripts themselves Ukrainian (certainly not all cause large undertakings like this always had soldiers sent from all over the USSR)

This is literally what Putin said like a couple of weeks before the attack, “the response can be asymmetric”:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn44r9zjnpjo

That’s also Ukrainian heritage and an irreplaceable scientific marvel you blithering idiot.

CW: literally sexualised children in the 70s-80s US advert campaign:

https://youtu.be/l7IP5SV6GqQ

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/f9/31/50f931fa2083d0f581908e355d618c8e.jpg

https://www.bygonely.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Loves_Baby_Soft_ads_1970s_and_1980s_7.jpg

thank you for the detailed explanation!

I think the beach wasn’t the intended target… Weren’t the missiles shot down and the debris fell on the beach?

Thank for correcting bigbigchungus! I thought it’s honey-knower my whole life

Same thing in Slavic languages, but they replaced arkto with “the one who knows where the honey is”, medved (med = honey, ved = knowledge) “honey eater”, thank you for correcting comrades!

diamat sucks, change my mind

Langley