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those of us living in capitalistic societies recognize that this is a more advanced state of control than we currently experience. control itself is neither good nor bad, however. just as capitalistic society can provide life-saving medical treatment or deny it, communist society can equally quash both white-supremacists and queer culture. the important question at hand is whether you think the decision regarding which societies should be supported (and which not) should be handled as a matter of state, or through some other mechanism. this is a particularly relevant question today, as we find that traditional mechanisms for dealing with these questions have run headlong into some severe crises

according to foucault, the state has undergone an evolution from “making dead or letting live” to “making live or letting die”; he terms this second situation “biopower”

many anarchists and libertarians want to return to the first state of affairs, and consequently seek to reduce the influence of the modern state; these are all, in one sense or another, neo-feudalists

marx instead would say that the state has not gone far enough. it has concerned itself with the lives of its citizens, yes, but only their INDIVIDUAL lives. it does not protect, and indeed acts at the expense of, their SOCIAL lives. the communist is consequently not concerned simply with making live or letting die INDIVIDUALLY, but with making live and letting die SOCIALLY. the communist state takes as its prerogative the nurturing of certain manifestations of social life at the expense of others

they do matter, and they matter especially when you have some socialists coming in with dogma or trying to instil a universal social life predicated on white western ideals of what society should look like

what time has shown however is that many socialists have very different ideas of what this social life should be like or how it should be structured

these questions do not stop us from organizing against a neoliberal regime which seeks to quash all human social life indiscriminately, but considering they are the reason we fight (for socialism) it would be folly to say they don't matter

one thing i do agree with early marx about is that socialism is the struggle for the SOCIAL LIFE OF MAN, a struggle in which we can ALL BE UNITED through a SHARED COMMON INTEREST which need not be manifest in the INDIVIDUAL OR EGOISTIC LIFE of INDIVIDUAL PERSONS

solidarity means SHARED COMMON INTEREST

if you aren't fighting for yourself then you aren't fighting for anyone

hm, i am experiencing emotional distress

on the other hand, it would likely be faster to write and also would look really cool

i think it would probably not be insignificant and require devising/learning initial/medial/final/isolate forms for all the letters

wondering how much work it would take to make my already incomprehensible handwriting a cursive script

conduit bending apps are among the top paid productivity apps on the iphone

how will i spend my evening i think i will talk to nobody ever and slowly descend into poignant sapphic loneliness

suppose i have a finite numeric value less than 1 and greater than or equal to 0, like 0.231

i build a loop which, in each step:

- multiplies the value by 10
- drops the integral component so that only the fractional part remains

e.g. 0.231 → 0.31 → 0.1 → 0.

the loop finishes when the resulting value is 0

clearly this algorithm will terminate for any value in decimal space

will it also necessarily always terminate for any value in floating‐point space?

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