mah [none/use name]

😌

  • 8 Posts
  • 43 Comments
Joined 11 months ago
cake
Cake day: August 21st, 2023

help-circle




  • My opinion: people need to chill. and also to understand that English is used by different people in various contexts. Not everybody grasps the subtleties of the language. For instance, if discussing something like “a product highly recommended for our discreet female audience” or stating “no problems have been encountered in the department for female prisoners” is considered appropriate, somebody might feel that writing “To look at a female’s behind” (as seen in the original r/therewasanattempt post) is also acceptable. And it’s no big deal.

    Also, it’s a typical Anglo-Saxon harry potteresque LIB magical thinking, and obsession, with language, magic words and formulations. Censoring words just make them stronger. Stop being fucking puritains stupid ameriremoved. Scarlet letters never work. Changing words doesn’t change the world, activism about language is just LIB slacktivism to feel smug and superior, and ultimately keeping the status quo as it is.













  • Yes, Polanyi was not a Marxist, and literally nobody would say he was. He had distanced himself from Marxism at a personal level after an initial flirtation with it in his youth. Polanyi turned away from Marxism in the years leading up to the First World War.

    Certainly, he was somewhat of a socialist, though his theory differed significantly from Marxism. His theory revolved around conflict, similar to Marx’s theory; however, the terms, dynamics, and mechanisms were all distinct. Upon rereading “The Great Transformation,” it becomes clear that the second Karl (Polanyi) had deviated considerably from the first Karl’s (Marx) fundamental insights on various critical points: the emergence of capitalism, the origins of the Industrial Revolution, the dialectics of commodification, the exploitation of labor, concepts of value and money, class power, and class struggle.

    Some Marxist authors were indeed inspired by Polanyi, as with the already mentioned Burawoy, Nancy Fraser, etc. However, that doesn’t retroactively make Polanyi a Marxist. Aside from that, Polanyi was very religious; he converted to Protestantism and remained a Christian for the rest of his life. He leaned much more towards being “communitarian” than “communist”.

    edit: https://sandbroo.faculty.politics.utoronto.ca/why-polanyi-and-not-marx/ here’s a text with a better explanation.








  • l’éducation nationale a vraiment fait un bon travail avec toi, tu répètes bien les choses. Bravo. Mais ta conception de la république est naïve (si on est gentils) ou plutôt stupide…

    Les racines intellectuelles et politiques de la démocratie chrétienne se retrouvent principalement en France, avec des philosophes tels que Jacques Maritain, le père de la démocratie chrétienne européenne.

    Et le peuple, OUI, le bon peuple français, qui est “loin” d’être représenté par le “gouvernement actuel”… je me souviens des manifestations pour tous sous ma fenêtre. et je me souviens de Marine Le Pen, arrivée en deuxième position au second tour des élections… avec sa France chrétienne.

    Tout cela pour dire : on ne peut pas ignorer la religion en France. vraiment pas. et nous ne sommes pas SI différents d’autres pays, comme Piketty l’a bien expliqué.