My problem with Marxism writ large is that despite knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that reason is extremely limited and flawed, Marxism is more or less a hyper-rationalist extension of Leftism based on the idea that human reason is objective and the absolute truth.There is no space for the idea that the correspondence theory of truth does not hold. There is no space for the idea that scientific governance is an abomination. From the Marxist perspective, the most dangerous thing imaginable isn't capitalist reaction. It's things like the is-ought problem. Anyone who understands that logic and reason are hallucinations and not to be trusted represents a cacodaemonic force of ruination.It's not unique to Marx's brand of Leftism, his own ideas are built upon a more primordial foundation of Left-Politics, as the Left of the French Assembly absorbed many of the contemporary rationalists of the age. Keynesian economics also suffer from this issue.When Marxists point to the success of China, they will lay a bouqet at the feet of scientific governance. Knowers know though, it was precisely the irrational and intuitive aspects of governance which has seen the CPC bring China into good graces. The Rhetoric is hollow cope.
>>18487088well that means you should perish, since if you are not a leftoid you are a "rightist" according to leftoids, literally everyone perishes in fact
>>18487450you either support social stratification or you dont.
Ok lol.
>>18486876When people say irrational intuition is a valid source of knowledge and a necessity to get as close as possible to the truth, it raises a core question. How do you know whether a thought or impulse seemingly born of intuition is true, how do you know its a real tap-in to the essential underlying truth of reality and not just a meaningless brain fart, if not by subjecting it and subordinating it to reason, in effect still allowing reason to be the sole determiner of truth, with intuition essentially a random generator of hypothesise to be threshed through reason.
>>18486876i don't have a problem with marxism
*moggs the entire Abrahamic tradition with just one stanza*
>>18488665That's literally what they're called
>>18488644Good thread. This excerpt is wiser than anything in the bible.
>>18488644>Gilgamesh finds special plant that gives you immortality>while he's sleeping a random snake eats it then runs away>Gilgamesh glumly goes back to his city defeatedWas there a reason he couldn't just, you know, go and get more?
more like bilgamesh lmao
>>18488644ahahah no
How do historians interpret old songs by black singers in which they call black people nigger, coon, darkies. There was an entire genre of music between 1870-1910 where songs were written in the perspective of a black character and were racial caricatures. But what is suprising is that there were many composers that were black themselves but wrote songs in which black people were called nigger darkies.How is this explained by historians?
>makes humans in his image>is mad when humans want to do their own thing and not worship I don't see him worshiping anyone, or anyone telling him what to do. Seems to me like the humans he got are exactly the humans he wanted (made in his image). We really are just like him, and he's a retard who doesn't even know what he wants.
>>18488391Because lucifer is a bastardized Prometheus.Christians need to pretend the sky father is loving and perfect though so we get Yahweh out of their book.Its bizarre that they went out of their way to make Yahweh the most abusive shitty father on the planet but then call him loving. At least the Hellenic polytheists could admit Zeus isnt perfect and Prometheus is a hero>>18488354St Augustine is the original i had fun but now let me tell you how its all bad grifterI enjoy the entire section on the Maga Mater cult and his seething about trans women priestesses >>18487262Yahweh is bastardized ZeusLucifer is bastardized Prometheus and Jesus is a rabbi they slapped Dionysus' divinity onto
>God is mad.Which verse says this
>>18487262Lol.
There's no good argument to be made that god is anything other than malevolent.Especially after he stole credit for the making of the universe, which by all measurements has existed long before he did.
>>18487262how can someone that does not exist be mad?
It is weird how Christianity originated in one of the most brutal periods of history where people thought crucifixion, human sacrifice, gladiatorial combat games, and extermination of rivals was acceptable. And then Jesus came about preaching goodness toward other people.
>>18489751Salvation from damnation is a psyop. In truth humanity has done nothing wrong and the fact that Christians think humanity is flawed in any way is proof they are a death cult who hates humanity and all arts and culture.
>>18489586In that time in the mediterranean there was only a few cool individuals like john baptist across the whole thing
>>18489815>the fact that Christians think humanity is flawed in any way is proof they are a death cultlmao
>>18489586no actually not weird at all
In terms of euro history japs are enchanted by, Victorian British is like 80% of their fascination.
>English is NOT a romance language even though it's easier for a native speaker to learn a romance language than German
>>18489399English isn't any kind of romance. The core grammar words of English are all Germanic. You cannot speak or write English without Germanic verbs, pronouns, prepositions, and articles. The Latin and Greek words introduced via French are mostly supplementary vocabulary. If you really wanted to, you could speak English without using any Latin or Greek words at all, though it would sound very stilted, it would be grammatically correct and comprehensible English. You can't do the same with latin vocab.Good luck writing in English without any pronouns, no is/am/are, no prepositions or articles, all of which are Germanic.
>>18489413It doesn't matter how many unneeded loan words are romance, the language's grammar and essential vocab are all Germanic.
Current post utilizes romance vocabulary exclusively. Peruser potentially notices artificial post vernacular flavor. Consequently, original poster confirmed faggot.
>>18489520>Peruserlmao. This also isn't grammatically correct. Such and such confirmed whatever works for internet meme speak. But the lack of even one to be verb is simply wrong. The lack of articles is also only theoretically acceptable here. In practice it is clearly wrong.
>>18489145i don't think that's true
Why do people always bring up that homosexual relations in Ancient Rome were pedophilic but you can read in a lot of texts that adult males were prostitutes, slaves that had to service their owners and concubines?
probably projection, most had homosexual experiences when they were in high school in the showers with the zesty fruity boys, all full of teenage hormones, they then try to bury it forever, but it is difficult to forget such an exciting experience
Cherry picking. They also forget how young girls are so popular with the straight men no matter the era but whatevs.
>>18489592it's the same thig
>>18489592Homosexuality is an act not an inherent quality, yes by this logic any man can be a homosexual and most men are in fact slightly homosexual. If you disagree, you're coping.
Would it have been possible for Sparta or at least for a Spartan General to establish an Empire after defeating Athens in the Peloponnesian War? Why did it fail?
>>18488473They did. It was called the Spartan Hegemony and lasted until 371 BC.
>>18488473Sparta was the dominant land hegemon before Athens was relevant, it later beat Athens by leveraging into an power on land & sea, and it later tried to invade Persia by crossing into Asia Minor (Agesilaus II's expedition, which got foiled by Persia financing rebels back in Greece)Phillip/Alexander weren't the first to unite the Greeks in an invasion vs Persia, just infinitely more sucessful
>>18488473Sparta did have a short lived empire, but the reason why it didn't last was due to the fact their actions caused others to really hate them, and their entire system made it nearly impossible to sustain it especially since their citizen pool kept shrinking
>>18488473Not really, there would've been no way for Sparta to convince other Greek city-states to actually support them in maintaining local peace and power. This was something the Athenians attempted as well, with mostly bloody consequences in the Delian League, even though the Athenians were arguably more able to project power from Athens.In addition, the Spartan army was in some ways hamstrung by the Spartan fear of helot uprisings, which did indeed happen like with the Third Messenian War.Also consider that Sparta generally had a smaller population than Athens and other city-states, and simply did not have the manpower to handle an empire.In short, Sparta did try to have an empire. But it's hard to have an empire when you can't really convince people to actually work with you, you're always afraid of your slave class revolting, and you just don't have as many men as other city-states do. Compare to Rome or Macedon that were militarily powerful but actually had the bureaucratic, logistical, and social apparatuses to support an empire.
>>18488473no
Those proto-plebbitors are cowards who can only kill unarmed foes. Funny that they hate cops despite acting like them, going on power trips and attempting to subvert and genocide white men.
>>18487877Ask the Communists the same question on two different days, expect two different answers.
>>18487853the trials were against criminals and people from the former government accused of massacres and crimes against the population, you can find more details on those trials. It wasn't a Jacobin Terrror. Again, americans are being fed the propaganda number from the cuban lobby. Why do you think the american government and their allies are the only ones supporting sanctions against Cuba?
>>18487879Leninism calls for total intolerance towards other ideologies and social classes, and their total physical eradication. Physical eradication obviously meaning death, not even reform or transformation. All the revolutionary commies LARP as Lenin, and this means mass killings. See Afghanistan for another classic example
>>18488038Historical materialism is a meme. There was never any transition from feudalism to capitalism, capitalism is simply just the trade of goods and services
>>18485496they don't
Since the big 250 is coming up, I've decided I'm gonna do a daily thread thing where I post each president we've had in the US of A so farSo first up is George WashingtonWhat do you think about the cherry chopping chud?
>>18489557>he won because he didn’t lose and was carried by France and SpainReally? Honestly for a country that is (or really once was) a global superpower with unprecedented hard and soft power, that’s a really mediocre origin story
>>18489563Yes and Fagshington only got the British to surrender because of France and Spain
>>18487888>Did he ever tell a lie?I know the incident is portrayed that way but what it really means is he knew he was caught and wouldn't be able to lie his way out of it.
>>18489531The British were also operating a long way from home and it took weeks for communications to pass from America to England. The American colonies were additionally rough frontier country and hard to fight in.
>>18487833he was not a true president
This is true.
>>18490204None of them could have done it alone.
>>18490204Why is Austria above Russia as a victor ? It kept getting crushed every coalition they started. They were basically annoying mobs for the french to farm for xp.
>>18490204Britain defeated Napoleon and saved Europe, then defeated German autism twice to save Europe, but for some reason I'm not allowed to work in the EU. Ungrateful shits
>>18490219Our benevolence will be the end of us
>>18490215Essling was a pretty big deal but I did not make this meme, I would have put Russia higher
>10th century Prague was one of the largest slave markets in Europe>The Bohemian dukes regularly campaigned in Poland and Ruthenia to capture slaves>Up to 35k slaves were taken during the reign of Boleslav I. alone>Some areas of Poland and Ruthenia were utterly devastated by these slave raids>The early Bohemian state was largely funded by the slave trade
Poles are honorable negro. Ukrainian are slave to Jewish masters.
>>18488552>>Some areas of Poland and Ruthenia were utterly devastated by these slave raidsWhere can I read more about this
>>18488905this
>>18488552Same for Kiev.
>>18488552This is still ongoing btw, the dastardly Czechs are trafficking thousands of Eastern European women in order to force them to star in Czech porn flicks.
I was given perfect Love.I was created whole.I have not truly separated.My reality remains untouched.What God gave cannot be lost.
>Winston Churchill said in 1955, “Nehru is the light of Asia, and a greater light than Gautama Buddha.”Was Nehru really that important? Greater than the Buddha? Why did Churchill respect him so much?
>>18489146Nehru was porking Churchill just like the Mountbattens saar
>>18489146As an Englishman, I respect my based Hindu allies. The problem are the muzzies who spread anti-English values such as misogyny and antisemitism
>>18489146We love based Hindus like Nehru, simple as
>>18489146he never said that
>>18489146Polemics aside, to what extent is India's long-term failure vs. China Nehru's fault?
Now that the dust has settled, was he onto something or was he a schizo?
>>18488657For any would be occultists out there I have four advices for you that will take you further then pretty much anything else. You need to meditate an hour a day. You need to be in the gym and preferably lift but any exercise routine will do. Follow the yoga sutras of patanjali and practice yoga through that path. Then finally read learn and understand lacan on a basic level where you understand his structure of lack desire big other subject split by language etc. study his positions as well. This will get you further then any western system could ever dream of.
>>18488776(With lacan it's important to understand how to traverse the fantasy, this changes your relationship with the big other and the symbolic world and allows you to act in a different way in accordance with the symbolic world and relate to it differently, you can't escape the symbolic world you inherit through language
>>18488776where does masturbation to animal cartoons fit into this system?
>>18488657The mystic swims where the psychotic drowns.
He was right about EVERYTHING.
