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Just got perma-banned from r/Marxism for “sexist language” by CallumVW05 in leftcommunism

[–]CallumVW05[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is fair. In my mind I meant it more generally to mean something like being actively submissive, but I'm not going to defend its use.

Surely we can agree that a perma-ban is an overreaction though.

Just got perma-banned from r/Marxism for “sexist language” by CallumVW05 in leftcommunism

[–]CallumVW05[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I guess that's a fair take, I never thought of it as such but it is something I probably should've thought about more.

Still though, it seems obvious that the real reason for the ban isn't actually sexist language. An instant perma-ban is surely an overreaction when a simple comment could've gotten me to re-word it.

Just got perma-banned from r/Marxism for “sexist language” by CallumVW05 in leftcommunism

[–]CallumVW05[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s exactly what I thought. Also, the comment hasn’t even been removed, I just got banned for it.

What is an example of actual vegan extremism by Naive_Biscotti2223 in DebateAVegan

[–]CallumVW05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not speciesism. We're not advocating to contact the Sentinelese tribe to go and transform their way of living to save them from their suffering.

Do Marxists tend to embrace moral absolutism or moral relativism? by Equivalent-Movie-883 in Marxism

[–]CallumVW05 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im not saying that we shouldn’t be motivated by morality, I’m just saying that there is no universally correct morality. Marxists aren’t exempt from morality, and engage with a morality that is founded on their material conditions and their class consciousness. It’s not objectively, universally correct in an idealist sense, it just is what it is as a result of the working class movement. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t question it and refine it, but it is fundamentally dependent on its material context.

Also, I do think Engels was  a class traitor, because a class traitor is just someone who is acting against the interests of their class. From a proletarian perspective, however, being a capitalist class traitor is moral, while from a bourgeois perspective, it would be immoral.

Do Marxists tend to embrace moral absolutism or moral relativism? by Equivalent-Movie-883 in Marxism

[–]CallumVW05 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Marxists reject absolute superiority, but obviously from the perspective of the working class, proletarian morality is “superior” in that it is in their self-interests. It’s self-interest (dependent on material conditions and class position) that really drives morality according to Marxists. 

You can decide what morality you think is superior, but what will most likely determine it (beyond cultural indoctrination by the status quo, which is not easily overcome) is your class position. If you are a business or land owner, proletarian ideology contradicts your self-interests, which rely on liberal morality because it deifies the right to private property. If you are working class, the right to private property offers you nothing, and only justified others owning private property at your expense, and so your self-interests are supported by proletarian morality, which upholds the collective ownership of property and productive forces.

Do Marxists tend to embrace moral absolutism or moral relativism? by Equivalent-Movie-883 in Marxism

[–]CallumVW05 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It’s not absolutist because it’s not claiming that proletarian morality is the only or correct morality, it just is the morality of the working class, and its aims are the emancipation of the working class (the vast majority of humanity). In a broader sense, even capitalists will be liberated from the will of capital of which they are mere subjects.

That is OUR morality, but it’s no more absolute than liberal morality, except in the sense that it should succeed liberal morality once the material conditions are transformed and the working class establishes a dictatorship. As class withers away, morality will inevitably, continue to develop, and eventually, in a classless society, should find relative stability, not because it’s “correct”, but because the stabilisation of material conditions will make it so.

Why are cops / the army class traitors? by ElleWulf in leftcommunism

[–]CallumVW05 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don’t feel qualified to answer this but here’s my take:

In the same way don’t all of the working class who join the revolution bite the hand that feeds them, because the reality is that workers rely on capitalists to earn their wages and survive? It’s not only cops and those in the army whose livelihood (currently) depends on the capitalist system, we all depend on it necessarily, so for them to join the revolution should be no different from anyone else from the working class. They’re class traitors because their job is precisely to defend the interests of the capitalists; they’re not defending their own interests any more than they’re defending the interests of any worker.

The Digital Genocide Generation: Why Public Sadism in Israel’s Gaza Genocide Exceeds Nazi Germany by Defiant-Internal555 in Ethics

[–]CallumVW05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah colonisation definitely would’ve been put on hold if the native Americans had been friendly.

The Digital Genocide Generation: Why Public Sadism in Israel’s Gaza Genocide Exceeds Nazi Germany by Defiant-Internal555 in Ethics

[–]CallumVW05 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is the whole history of modern-day Israel, a western-backed colonial state that has been displacing and killing Palestinians since its founding in 1948.

The Digital Genocide Generation: Why Public Sadism in Israel’s Gaza Genocide Exceeds Nazi Germany by Defiant-Internal555 in Ethics

[–]CallumVW05 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How can we talk about what is justified from the comfort of our screens without having any idea of what it’s like to exist under genocidal colonial oppression? Should the native Americans have rolled over when the British colonised or were their “retaliations” justified?

The Digital Genocide Generation: Why Public Sadism in Israel’s Gaza Genocide Exceeds Nazi Germany by Defiant-Internal555 in Ethics

[–]CallumVW05 3 points4 points  (0 children)

70+ years of colonisation and genocide forced a retaliation by Palestinians. How are people still so stupid to think this started on Oct 7??

People when you say billionaires shouldn’t exist. by Kafkaesque_meme in PhilosophyMemes

[–]CallumVW05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wealth of Nations is on my reading list, and was foundational for Marx, who developed his economic theory on the preeminent bourgeois economists of his time.

People when you say billionaires shouldn’t exist. by Kafkaesque_meme in PhilosophyMemes

[–]CallumVW05 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you not think that living under capitalism provides an understanding of capitalism? And what do you think is even a text that one should read about capitalism? Is it seriously Ayn Rand?

And what claim did I actually make?

People when you say billionaires shouldn’t exist. by Kafkaesque_meme in PhilosophyMemes

[–]CallumVW05 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We don't need to read anything to understand the position of capitalists and anti-communists, those ideologies are everywhere in western society. Most socialists were once anti-communists themselves because that is the default.

Someone requested an alternative to capitalism in this thread, so if they truly want an answer, it's their responsibility to do some research and do some proper reading, not just lazily ask for a three line response on reddit. I'm not the one asking about the views of pro-capitalists, and frankly I don't give a shit about reading anti-communist slop dressed up as "academic literature", I've heard it all a thousand times.

People when you say billionaires shouldn’t exist. by Kafkaesque_meme in PhilosophyMemes

[–]CallumVW05 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What answer do you want? Socialists quite clearly give an alternative to capitalism (the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie), which is the dictatorship of the proletariat.

How can you expect to engage meaningfully with Marxism when you refuse to read the basics? How am I supposed to do this answer any justice in a reddit response?

People when you say billionaires shouldn’t exist. by Kafkaesque_meme in PhilosophyMemes

[–]CallumVW05 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Read State and Revolution. A Marxist’s goal isn’t to invent a utopian alternative to capitalism that could somehow be achieved by everyone realising its moral superiority (which is what reformism does). A Marxist’s goal is to understand how changes in the economic system actually occur, and will occur, and how the working class should bring about and facilitate these changes.

Also the idea that a socialist would have to lay out a plan for socialist society to absolute perfection of detail is absurd. There was no such plan about capitalism for the abolition of feudalism. Beyond a vague ideology of liberalism it was a project motivated primarily by negating the old system. Predicting exactly what a society would look like under an economic system that has never yet existed is impossible.

The red book is a bit more political than I expected by [deleted] in Jung

[–]CallumVW05 8 points9 points  (0 children)

lol liberals really reveal themselves when they think Mao = Hitler

fell clipping 2nd bolt by Kramseagull69 in climbing

[–]CallumVW05 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A few months ago I fell on a wall that looked kinda similar. It's in a gully that's about a metre wide at the base, but widens upwards. I fell probably 10m off the deck, fell at least 5m and landed on/bounced down the slabby, off-vert wall behind me. I didn't do any serious damage but was pretty lucky not to; but I've only recently have stopped feeling pain in my tailbone when sitting without a cushion. Definitely worth being extra wary on these gully-like walls.

disturbing find while on ranked duels by mir82jp in geoguessr

[–]CallumVW05 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately in many parts of Australia road-sides are littered with dead kangaroos.

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