mathemachristian [he/him]

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Cake day: September 15th, 2023

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  • I had a bit of a think about it and perhaps the problem was my expectations of it. People kept posting about how it revolutionized their entire life and how they interact with people which hadn’t happened for me.

    But what that might have been is people thinking about their day-to-day life in a more abstract manner, or rather bridging the gap between abstract theory and how it presents in reality, because I remember having such a revelation from my introduction to mathematical thinking.

    Because taken by itself set and logic theory, the backbone of math, really aren’t that awe-inspiring, but being able to reduce complex problems to a set of easily formulated axioms certainly made me approach real life issues in a different manner. It’s how I fell in love with the field itself.

    And so just like set theory seems rather mundane on its surface even though it forms the backbone of the entire field of mathematics so it’s with dia-mat.

    A couple of carefully chosen minimal axioms that form the backbone of the whole field, making them vital to study for anyone who wants to learn about it, that are supposed to be obviously true since they are taken for granted, i.e. without proof or even much justification.

    Also I’m thinking about changing engels for stalins intro to diamat so it’s 1. wagelabor and value to kind of get a feel of what it’s all about, 2. diamat to make sense of state and revolution and then 3. state and revolution as the “magnum opus” or whatever.




  • Diamat is the backbone of Marxism, period. Without a clead understanding of it, along with Historical Materialism, it’s incredibly difficult to understand and analyze Imperialist conflicts correctly, and helps put geopolitical struggles in clearer light. Just my 2 cents.

    I really don’t know what it is I’m missing there and keep feel like I didn’t understand it properly but don’t know what it might be since it all seems straightforward and boring philosophizing like logic calculus and set theory I had to do when starting studying math.

    Do you think it’s related to them selling printed copies on the site?

    Idk, but every link to an outside site like their lulu.com store has a google.com URL prepended so google knows what you (your to google pseudonymous you) clicked when you left the site.


  • About diamat: Hmm I guess I never really understood the big deal about it, it just seems like the standard toolkit when trying to understand something.

    about google: Basically it allows google to put a cookie in your browser. Google gets to build a better profile of your browsing habits and in exchange the site owner gets to see some data about the users browsing habits pertinent to their site. Like where do most of their users come from, a search engine or some other site using google analytics, how many unique visitors etc. You get jack shit.

    Google can and does sell your profile which might contain personally identifying information to others like government agencies or employers so it’s the last thing I would expect on a website trying to radicalize people.

    Here’s the disclaimer you get to see once: