We need to stop with the praxis. It's a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage
And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them?
Every successful political movement is evangelical
Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, realized, applied, or put into practice. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practising ideas. This has been a recurrent topic in the field of philosophy, discussed in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Ludwig von Mises, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paulo Freire, Murray Rothbard, and many others. It has meaning in the political, educational, spiritual and medical realms.
Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved
We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved
That's just a specific kind of praxis though. Praxis is about doing things to change the current state of things. It doesn't proscribe only teaching theory. You can be doing praxis without saying anything academic.
"Trying to actually take actions to bring about change is not useful, and we should discard it. Instead we should focus on the important thing: complaining about Drumpf online".
This is just shooting yourself in the foot. It's important to directly engage with the masses, explain why we do what we do, fight for improving material conditions, while educating on liberatory ideology. Ideology is a tool, one that helped Russians, Chinese, Cubans, Vietnamese, Koreans, Laotians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and more defeat impossible odds and move the wheel of history forward. Throwing away the tool, blunting it, hiding it, and instead focusing on generic improvements loosely and decentrally, has never once resulted in successfully replacing capitalism with socialism.
Marxism-Leninism is the ideology that has liberated billions of working people around the world. It makes sense to uphold the ones who put the teachings of Marx and Engels into practice and synthesized Marxism-Leninism, not just Marx and Engels themselves. The "Five Heads" of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao are seen as the most important contributors to the actual real ideology that has been put into practice to liberate billions in the former USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, and many more countries.
Even returning to the subject of this post, dialectical materialism, Lenin wrote Materialism and Empirio-Criticism and Stalin wrote Dialectical and Historical Materialism. The former is an in-depth look at dialectical materialism and how it stands up to bourgeois science, and the latter is an easily understood primer meant for those who wanted to grasp the basics.
Yeah fuck those guys who brought freedom to millions of Russian feudal serfs and beat the nazis, respectively. I only take advice from historical cool guys, like Winston Churchill
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Gray_Warden@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 283d
For those that don’t know, this is a fun play on the “Serenity Prayer”.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 283d
no it's not, it's dramatically better!
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 282d
Was Marx an alcoholic? I heard, from my good friend Bruce, that a bunch of other philosophers were hard drinkers.
sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 283d
culprit@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 283d
Kill the Meme Cop in your head.
RiverRock@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 283d
So do it, and let the marketplace of ideas decide it's worth
astutemural@midwest.social · 3 pts · 283d
Cope harder lmfao
theneverfox@pawb.social · -8 pts · 283d
We need to stop with the praxis. It's a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage
And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them?
Every successful political movement is evangelical
culprit@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 283d
what do you think praxis means here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process)
theneverfox@pawb.social · -7 pts · 283d
Yeah... I'm using the word very intentionally
Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved
culprit@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 283d
That's just a specific kind of praxis though. Praxis is about doing things to change the current state of things. It doesn't proscribe only teaching theory. You can be doing praxis without saying anything academic.
theneverfox@pawb.social · -8 pts · 283d
It's perception. Like I said, hide the praxis. It must not be perceivable
Hell, discard it even. It's more important to focus on immediate material issues than loudly dream about a better world
Praxis is not useful in this day and age, it's a liability. If it's your driving force, learn to pretend it's not
culprit@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 283d
You are fantastically obtuse in your perception of a word that means doing direct action to create material change.
theneverfox@pawb.social · -10 pts · 282d
And you don't understand what being effective means.
You're why we're fucked.
RiverRock@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 282d
You're both very wrong and very strange
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 281d
"Trying to actually take actions to bring about change is not useful, and we should discard it. Instead we should focus on the important thing: complaining about Drumpf online".
How is the weather at Eglin?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 282d
This is just shooting yourself in the foot. It's important to directly engage with the masses, explain why we do what we do, fight for improving material conditions, while educating on liberatory ideology. Ideology is a tool, one that helped Russians, Chinese, Cubans, Vietnamese, Koreans, Laotians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and more defeat impossible odds and move the wheel of history forward. Throwing away the tool, blunting it, hiding it, and instead focusing on generic improvements loosely and decentrally, has never once resulted in successfully replacing capitalism with socialism.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 281d
Yes, hello officer
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 282d
"MLs dont treat their political ideology as a religion, thats stupid!"
The MLs:
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 282d
Dialectical materialism is a tool, not a religion. The text is a play on the "Serenity Prayer," it doesn't mean communism is a religion.
culprit@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 282d
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 282d
You literally wrote a prayer to your ideology
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 281d
Big "science is just another religion!" energy.
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 281d
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 281d
Are you 12?
Bababasti@feddit.org · -10 pts · 283d
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 283d
Marxism-Leninism is the ideology that has liberated billions of working people around the world. It makes sense to uphold the ones who put the teachings of Marx and Engels into practice and synthesized Marxism-Leninism, not just Marx and Engels themselves. The "Five Heads" of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao are seen as the most important contributors to the actual real ideology that has been put into practice to liberate billions in the former USSR, China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, and many more countries.
Even returning to the subject of this post, dialectical materialism, Lenin wrote Materialism and Empirio-Criticism and Stalin wrote Dialectical and Historical Materialism. The former is an in-depth look at dialectical materialism and how it stands up to bourgeois science, and the latter is an easily understood primer meant for those who wanted to grasp the basics.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 283d
who, besides the communists, practice dialectic materialism?
RiverRock@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 283d
Yeah fuck those guys who brought freedom to millions of Russian feudal serfs and beat the nazis, respectively. I only take advice from historical cool guys, like Winston Churchill