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do you have any posts explaining dialectics?

if not, what is dialectics? i have several friends interested in the study, but not so interested as to read Lenin or Stalin, im hoping to 1.) study more for myself, and 2.) have a simple explanation i can send to people

you are very good at these things

Dialectics revolve around contradictions and how to resolve them. I'll take an example first and then define it more precisely.

There exists a contradiction between the interests of the proletariat, a class defined by its exchange of its labor power for a portion of the value produced, and the capitalists, a class defines by its private ownership over the means of production and its dominant position over the proletariat through salaried work. It is in the proletariat's interests to reap the full value produced by its labor power, and it is in the capitalists' power to continue extracting part of that value and sustain that relationship through the myriad mechanisms of class domination. If you take both of these facts, fundamentallt at odds with one another, informed by history and its previous, comparable class societies, you can arrive at the conclusion that, fueled by that constant and irreconcilable contradiction, the proletariat will aim to rid itself of the "leech" that is the capitalist class, and with it create a new society on the foundations of its class interests

The dialectical process, that oft repeated thesis, antithesis, synthesis, is not putting two concepts together, it's not thesis and antithesis, nor is it taking the common elements of each concept or object. It's placing the contradiction, the dialectical relationship between them, at the center of the analysis, and synthesizing a new conclusion, which might or might not have common elements with the contradictory elements. A dialectical relationship is like a conversation (hence the name), the elements influence, limit, allow and develop each other. It's similar to the kinds of relations that govern the biosphere. For instance, the soil and the vegetation on a slope. The soil, via its chemical components, allows and disallows, or rather, facilitates and hampers, the kinds of vegetation that can grow on it. At the same time, the vegetation, through its mechanical stabilization via its roots and through the organic matter it contributes to the soil (hummus), also modifies the soil to be closer to what it prefers. If there was no vegetation, soil on a slope is washed away after a few rains. If there is no soil, there can be no vegetation. The vegetation and the soil allow each other's existence, and they also modify each other.

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im a little behind you timewise, but it is your birthday in your timezone!! happy birthday!!!

thank you buggy!!

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5, 14?

5: what made you start your blog. already answered here!

14: what's something you've always wanted to do but maybe been scared to do. there's some comrades I've always wanted to ask out bc they're soo fucking pretty

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✒️ ~ •°○•°●

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ask game: 37

37: Is it easier to forgive or forget?

I think it's easier to forgive, because that is a conscious effort that once it's done, it's done. But forgetting requires the passage of time, and rather than advancing past something you're just betting on not remembering something, which is impossible to do consciously

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why did you start studying geography? :p

Pretty much since I can remember I've always tended to memorize a lot of things by imagining them in a map. For example, when I first learnt about the world wars in primary school, around 10/11 years old, I memorized which countries were on what side by memorizing a map of them, same with the colonization maps in Africa, Asia and South America. This is a very simple thing but it's how I'd best describe my natural "instinct" to always place as much information as possible onto my mental maps. If you're telling me about a place you went to, I'm imagining the itinerary on a map and then committing THAT to memory, not just the raw information. Whenever I navigate somewhere, I'm imagining the street map as if I was looking at a GPS, I don't really memorize routes like "turn left, go straight for 5 mins, etc" or however else normal people do it.

So my lifelong habit of always thinking about the territory lent itself pretty well to studying geography in uni, I had a geography class the last year of high school and that only cemented my confidence, although it was more descriptive than I would have liked. Now that I'm learning more about it I'm also finding geography is, in spirit, very similar to marxism, because it looks at phenomena in a hollistic way, we learn a bit of other more specialized sciences (biology, geology, metereology, environmental studies, etc) and synthesize all of that on the basis of the territory. It can go deeper into the root causes of things like depopulation because it takes all of that into account, similar in form to the way marxism takes from a lot of disciplines to arrive at the root of what it studies.

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💌🍷<3~

hmm, I got a feeling you already have a sense for what I love about you ;). Your mead is really cool too though

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copied from @chexcastro. the people in the creep folder as just those of you I'm studying. I don't think you're creeps unless that's a good thing for you <3

@txttletale @elbiotipo @anxiousbugs @czerwonykasztelanic @jeannie-youre-a-tragedy

@yellowparenti @deadbodyrave @estrellasrojas @mityenka @libertineangel

@numantinecitizen @zhou-enlai-for-president @sheetz @cardassian-artistry @sunset-synthetica

@strelnikov @piralea @catgirlcommune @fermatpascalotp @kousssera

@cagandante-communistoide @psychotrenny @spaghettioverdose @thenyanguardparty @aristotels

@sadomarxist @gabajoofs @yourlocalfallofthewest @imsobadatnicknames2 @sylvia-on-the-run

@zhengzi @hazeltongzhi @chexcastro

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tagged by @catgirlcommissar

tagging @anxiousbugs @czerwonykasztelanic @zhengzi @jeannie-youre-a-tragedy

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(tagged by @czerwonykasztelanic)

Post 4 pieces of art you like and make a poll so that people can vote for their favourite, then tag 4 friends to do the same.

The Red Flag, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, 1983

V.I. Lenin and N.K. Krupskaya in the Tretyakov Gallery, Alexey Alekseevich Kulakov, 1961

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) Standing, Mikhail Buzhiy, 1959-61

Labor USSR, Rosalia Rabinovich, 1930s

These aren't necessarily my absolute favorites of all time, I just only have communist art downloaded

tagging @anxiousbugs @chexcastro @chainsaw-dick @jeannie-youre-a-tragedy