« In its struggle against these conditions criticism is not a passion of the head but the head of passion. It is not a lancet, it is a weapon. Its object is an ENEMY it wants not to refute but to DESTROY. For the spirit of these conditions has already been refuted. In and for themselves they are objects not WORTHY OF THOUGHT but EXISTENCES as despicable as they are despised. Criticism itself does not even need to be concerned with this matter, for it is already clear about it. Criticism is no longer an END IN ITSELF but simply a MEANS. »
« The state abolishes distinctions of BIRTH, RANK, EDUCATION, and OCCUPATION in its fashion when it declares them to be NON‐POLITICAL distinctions, when it proclaims that every member of the community EQUALLY participates in popular sovereignty without regard to these distinctions, and when it deals with all elements of the actual life of the nation from the standpoint of the state. Nevertheless the state permits private property, education, and occupation to ACT and manifest their PARTICULAR nature as private property, education, and occupation in their OWN ways. Far from overcoming these FACTUAL distinctions, the state exists only by presupposing them; it is aware of itself as a POLITICAL STATE and makes its UNIVERSALITY effective only in opposition to these elements. »
@aescling i mean, doodling on the back of the envelope, i don’t think it is difficult to claim that Marxism has had a significant measurable impact both on China and most of the Christian world, so the question is just if there is a thinker with a larger impact than that
@aescling my university recommended Karl Marx: Selected Writings ed. Lawrence H. Simon pub. Hackett, which begins with the sentences « Karl Marx is the most influential thinker of the modern period. Indeed, one could go further and claim that, in terms of sheer numbers, Marx’s ideas have had a greater impact on more people than those of anyone else in history, with Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammad his closest rivals. »
it doesn't rain often enough for when it rains not to effectively douse the poles in electrolyte solution
@aescling sure why not
@aescling it would be more fun though if our tools helped us do our work instead of making our work difficult
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this is a real pokédex entry for a real pokémon; yet nobody has written about it doing sex work yet
@aescling an adult high schooler but yes
@emmy understand git and how contribution workflows built around git and related technologies (e.g. github) operate
employ that workflow in some kind of project so that you have something to talk about in an interview
demonstrate an understanding of how your actions today can make things easier or harder for others, including yourself, in the future, and provide strategies you employ to make the correct decision
@aescling there's a stone mural warning people "when the absol appears, it is warning glalie froze over the spring and there will be a massive steam eruption soon" but the semiotics were lost and so people thought it was saying "absol brings disaster" instead
we were talking about the Flabébé episode and how it was really about the importance of pollinators
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