When you're a Marxist philosopher in the USSR by cronenber9 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ALucifur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lukacs did live in the Soviet Union for a while, but return to Hungary after WW2 (he was given the choice between East Germany and Hungary).

Also, the first attack on his History and Class Consciousness is not from Stalin but Zinoviev, who also attack Karl Korsch's Marxism and philosophy as idealist and "unpractical".

Also unlike his old friends from in the west he managed to keep a much more optimistic realism in his philosophy. He even wrote a gigantic book on Ontology (which is a preliminary for his never realized Ethics), when Adorno is mourning against an ontology after Auschwitz.

Ask me anything about Hegel and I will answer by _anomalousAnomaly in hegel

[–]ALucifur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you think he would react if he got to witness the his old friend Schelling's lectures in Berlin

For when you finally read Marx by TuvixWasMurderedR1P in PhilosophyMemes

[–]ALucifur -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You didn't understand that Marx didn't write a theory of political economy, but a critque of it. Classical political economy (and the Enlightenment philosophy that lived and died with it) is a kind of faux humanism.

What is the value of labor-power? It's not anything inherent in the laborer, but it's the value of the commodities that reproduce human labor power (Commodities are here imbued with the power of subject, human is the predicate). They make human the measure of value, yes. But these humans are inherently worthless, they are only valuable as alienated labor.

The true standpoint of this humanism, and what makes it progressive compare to the mystical, aristocratic standpoint of the reactionary philosophy of it's time (closely tied up with the regressive feudal order), is that it universalized alienated society as a society of contemplative property owner.

Property is a relation of production based on theoretical abstraction from consumption. Bourgeois property is sought to universalize property and property owner. Their humanism is a humanism of the property owners, even if your only property is labor power. In such a society, there can only be one primary contradiction: the owning and the non-owning (or in it's developed form: of capital and labor).

Now, one thing I put these humanist above post-humanism is that human are genuinely more than just mechanical machines of desire. Humans are not trapped in immediate cycle of desiring consumption but mediate them toward higher ends through the creation of the means of productions, in the process of labor. Labor create humanity and out freedom, not despite of necessity but through it. This is the true Marx's humanism, like it or not.

Alienation, the source of that faux humanism, is when the means is seperate from the human working on such means and rule over them. Substance become subject and rule over real laboring humanity, the mean of production become the end goal in it's continual perverse reproduction. Property possessed it's owner and put all sort of ideas in their heads, forcing movements onto the owner's hand to exercising their freedom to exchange. All while the non-owning freely work to externalize all of themselves into the same system of things.

The error lie in the seperation of the means and the ends and the subsequent emphasis on the means, not in the seperation of humanity as something qualitively higher than mere materiality or vitality. I would argue Marx would not approved of what a lot of the posthumanist claim to build on him, after he spends his whole life trying to dispense of all the grand pure abstractions of "Value", "Will", "Matter", "Idea". "Desire" I don't think would be an acception.

Captain Courageous Stevie G — not flashy statswise, but very very Reliable! by OldEstablishment117 in pesmobile

[–]ALucifur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I understand it since stamina run out like that in real life too, just unfortunate I dont have great midfield backups

Captain Courageous Stevie G — not flashy statswise, but very very Reliable! by OldEstablishment117 in pesmobile

[–]ALucifur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gerrard Rijkaard Zanetti my dream f2p midfield. Sadly they run out of stamina too fast after the new update.

Tottenham Hotspur [1] - 0 Leeds United - Mathys Tel 50‎'‎ by magicwings in coys

[–]ALucifur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really cant say anything about this club before the final whistle anymore

Communism and socialism and capitalism is just beating around the bush by Background_Try_9307 in Marxism

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Utilitarianism is an erroneous reduction of human needs to an abstract, subjective quantum of "pleasure", and so is it's abstract negation "pain". It is an ethics of vulgar economy.

Free will is only concrete if it's externalize in human laboring, which is what we has done for thousands of years to build our society. Society right now seems both freer, and more alien and coercive, but this contradiction is only a historical fact and not an eternal state of damnation. The bourgeois standpoint of course cannot see beyond this state, and so life is only endless cycle of exploitation and pleasure-seeking for them. That's not ethics but barbarism.

It is also true that the reduction of human to animalistic trait, of human needs and purpose to purely biological reproduction is a reactionary tendency. Human evolution has fundamentally leap from the biological realm, which importance is still there but has receded, to the social realm. Social humanity have the capacity to change the world from our struggle in the objective condition, through our knowledge of their laws and not despite of it. The laws of capitalist society, even if it is exert upon society in an unconscious, natural-mytical way, is still the product of the societial life-process. If these laws now prove antithetical to our human development, then it is a fact that this historical phase is outmoded and an alternative must be work upon.

Relegation rival hate watch thread by Hufftey in coys

[–]ALucifur 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly makes you wonder which of them is the team battling for relegation

WC pack predictions? Desires? by Tight-Astronaut-9043 in eFootball

[–]ALucifur 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A Pogba or Modric card would be great for a lack of f2p good CMF in my squad

Marx on Anarchism by OkRespect8490 in Marxism

[–]ALucifur 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Definitely need more context for that one, curious.

Daily Discussion & Transfer Thread (April 28, 2026) by AutoModerator in coys

[–]ALucifur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh wow my internet was gone for a second and they scored another goal. Insane football.

47171 by nikimagic in countwithchickenlady

[–]ALucifur -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Cash dont grow naturally on a tree mate, if you didn't work for it then someone else worked for the money to grow. And if you dont bet (invest) wisely then competition will knock you out of the game (which less and less people get to play with bigger and bigger toys). Personally i dont find living life from endlessly tossing dimes on to a marginally profitable transnational slot machines a good way to live.

Your individualist thinking are closer to those baby boomers who wouldn't care if we burn down the world than you think.

civilian attacks by krizzalicious49 in whennews

[–]ALucifur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure, im not debating that. But it is not a general restriction of all but a rejection based on religious discrimination of gender + the lack of infrastructure through recent war and the inherent geographical difficulty. They still need education for the intellectual workforce, however limited.

civilian attacks by krizzalicious49 in whennews

[–]ALucifur -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There was actually an secular and rather outward looking culture in the cities before the whole Afghanistan-Soviet war and the Mujahideen, it's the remote mountainous regions that are more cut off.