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2018-12-16 16:31:23 UTC  

@Xinyue do you think it's better to organise a society by building families or without it? do you think that institution can be destroyed?

2018-12-16 16:31:56 UTC  

anything can be destroyed tbh, except matter-energy it seems, but yeah it can be destroyed but I don't think that it should be

2018-12-16 16:32:13 UTC  

now family is an abstract concept

2018-12-16 16:32:36 UTC  

I think family can be quite easily described as a relation of real living beings

2018-12-16 16:32:49 UTC  

a very specific relationship that is

2018-12-16 16:32:52 UTC  

it is a way of organization innit?

2018-12-16 16:33:07 UTC  

Its a way of organization that naturally happens around the parents and their offspring yes

2018-12-16 16:33:15 UTC  

a special kind of bond

2018-12-16 16:33:20 UTC  

due to the nature of the thing they organise around

2018-12-16 16:33:36 UTC  

and you agree that it is something that can be destroyed, and that matters

2018-12-16 16:33:50 UTC  

so ideas in our head really matter..?

2018-12-16 16:33:53 UTC  

it can be destroyed yes, why couldn't it be? its entirely possible to destroy this

2018-12-16 16:34:40 UTC  

they are ideas which have root in the world of matter. my parents are beings composed of matter - their organs, their brains, etc. - and of course I am such a being of matter as well. that we even have a family to begin with is rooted in matter. its not an abstract relation

2018-12-16 16:35:04 UTC  

ideas emerge from matter, our brain

2018-12-16 16:35:33 UTC  

if you cannot distinguish between ideas and matereal all these words are useless mate

2018-12-16 16:36:42 UTC  

this is pretty much a deconstruction of the English language for the sake of including EVERYTHING within the folds of the category of Material, for ideological purposes πŸ˜‚

2018-12-16 16:36:46 UTC  

as *Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism* puts it: consciousness is a property of matter organised in a particular way (that is, the brain). I tend to subscribe to this viewpoint. This is why materialist view on ideas understands their emergent character in direct causal proximity to the world of matter, whereas the *idealist viewpoint considers the ideas as primary and the world of matter as emergent from ideas.*

If you think that ideas emerge from matter, you are materialist.

2018-12-16 16:39:29 UTC  

ffs capitalism isn't an "ideology", it's an economic system

2018-12-16 16:39:52 UTC  

most of the people operating the capitalist order at the moment are essentially "ex" trotskyists and their ilk

2018-12-16 16:39:56 UTC  

Yes, to be precise. Same is true of socialism. However, it is often in final hand argued for in philosophical terms

2018-12-16 16:44:40 UTC  

Not a fan. I don't go out of my way to think he was a complete failure because, contrary to the anarchist position, he wasn't and in fact he was a byproduct of the conditions of Russia at the time, but I certainly wouldn't like to emulate his politics and I am of the de-Stalinization Gang

2018-12-16 16:45:33 UTC  

also the death toll of Stalinism wasn't like muh millions but more like 600,000-700,000 people

2018-12-16 16:46:20 UTC  

un-woke thinking

2018-12-16 16:46:32 UTC  

what a normie

2018-12-16 16:46:38 UTC  

the famine deaths can't be really counted as intentional murder nor can the deaths in Gulag *during the war years* which was the majority of Gulag deaths. but those 600K-700K people who were shot to death can't be argued away - they must be acknowledged and their deaths be criticised

2018-12-16 16:46:55 UTC  

Manufactured Famines are Murder

2018-12-16 16:47:15 UTC  

"muh holodomor" - which almost no mainstream historian would agree with

2018-12-16 16:47:27 UTC  

argument from authority

2018-12-16 16:47:33 UTC  

the new generation of Sovietologists pretty much demolished the anticommunist lies

2018-12-16 16:48:13 UTC  

given the tilt of historical narratives since the 60s in mainstream academia, that's probably the worst argument to make as well

```"muh holodomor" - which almost no mainstream historian would agree with```

2018-12-16 16:48:20 UTC  

it left us still with the uncomfortable figure of 600-700K, which will be the sin of the Stalin era, but it certainly isn't the "muh millions" that so many fucking anticommunists peddled over and over again

2018-12-16 16:48:48 UTC  

there's no evidence for holodomor. there's evidence for famine, but not mass murder

2018-12-16 16:49:05 UTC  

@Xinyue hello kameraden πŸ˜ƒ

2018-12-16 16:49:06 UTC  

You don't like to hear about that because they were the direct result of policies that you support

2018-12-16 16:49:44 UTC  

```there's no evidence for holodomor. there's evidence for famine, but not mass murder```


do you consider yourself better than Holocaust Deniers?

2018-12-16 16:50:26 UTC  

even Timothy Snyder, the author of "(muh) Bloodlands", in the end rallied behind this line, that USSR didn't really kill that many at all, even during Stalin

Timothy fucking Snyder

2018-12-16 16:51:00 UTC  

i don't even know who that is or what that represents

2018-12-16 16:51:00 UTC  

the anticommunist position is almost dead if Timothy-fucking-Snyder has abandoned the old guard

2018-12-16 16:51:15 UTC  

oh he's like a right-wing demagogue of a historian

2018-12-16 16:51:32 UTC  

Bloodlands was (in)famous for drawing moral parallels between USSR and Nazi Germany