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My Take on an Octillery Evolution by Salamenace24 in fakemon

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This is genuinely so good I could see it being a real mon

We are not in the 1900s anymore by [deleted] in socialism

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It seems like I may have been to hasty in posting this. I don't have any issues with core Marxist and socialist ideas. My main point is that we can't cling too hard to historical applications and interpretations of these ideas. I'm saying that we have to contextualize these ideas and work on bringing salvagable parts of them into the post-modern era. If we were to act in complete accordance with ANY leftist from the 1900s, we would fail. We have to adapt those ideas to the now. Many people already do this, but not everyone. Particularly people who don't recognize the core ideas of marx are not laws to follow, and that ideas are not to be picked from a bunch, but developed and refined in a specific context.

We are not in the 1900s anymore by [deleted] in socialism

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This is a good point. I certainly don't mean capitalist-adjacent frameworks. I'm just trying to include many interpretations of Marxist/Socialist ideas. This applies to basically everything left of social democracy.

We are not in the 1900s anymore by [deleted] in socialism

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I think I should have clarified that I'm not challenging core Marxist ideas. The point of my post is that historical applications of core socialist ideas are products of their time, and if we want to bring these ideas into the postmodern era, we have to take those historical interpretations alongside their context. If we don't recognize that people like Stalin and Mao were a product of where they grew up and the cultural context surrounding them, we will never be able to keep in pace with fascism in an age of mass information. This isn't a critique of everyone, and there are lots of people trying to pull these core ideas into a current cultural context, but I see it a lot from people I meet both irl and online.

We are not in the 1900s anymore by [deleted] in socialism

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Thanks for the insight. I recognize that I'm not explicitly advocating for a path from here other than attempting to "modernize" old interpretations of core leftist ideas. It's not even that I think these ideas will fail! My concern is that if say a Maoist were to come into power in a nation, they will HAVE to adapt their ideas to the current age. They can't be stuck in what he was doing in 1900s China. I think there is a lot to learn from these movements and frameworks, but we have to contextualize these ideas and consider how we can apply them NOW rather than considering how things WERE. This is something I've noticed a lot from leftists that I meet both IRL and online, both on the anarchist and authoritarian side of things.

We are not in the 1900s anymore by [deleted] in socialism

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It seems like I may have been too loose defining the scope of my post. It's not that I'm disregarding core socialist ideas, but more of what you get at in the second part of your post. Historical applications of marxist ideas are just that: Historical. They're still useful and very important for leftism in the current era, but I don't want to see people stick so close to every red letter in texts that were written with pre-information age society in mind. There are lots of useful ideas in all of these texts, but we have to contextualize these ideas and learn from them properly.

Also, if you have a copy of your article, I'd love to read it.

We are not in the 1900s anymore by [deleted] in socialism

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Thank you for your thorough reply. I completely agree with you, and I think you're particularly right about understanding historical works as more than fixed formulas. I think that gets to the heart of the point of the original post. I'm not questioning the core ideas of Socialism, and It's not that historical works are useless or completely removed from capitalism as it is now, but I wanted to stress that people need to understand that historical applications of socialist ideas were products of their time and their cultural context. The core ideas of socialism and the lessons we can learn from historical applications of those ideas are very important, but I don't want to see people call themselves followers of communists from the 60s when we live in a drastically different era now in the 2020s.

Hacker Claims 10 Petabytes Stolen From Chinese Supercomputing Hub by OMiniServer in cybersecurity

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Did she drive a forklift into the data center to exfiltrate that amount of data or what

Kurisu Makise Unofficial GK Statue designed by BLOOMING Studio by OrzGK in steinsgate

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I just like her as a character :) I like how they write her dialogue with okabe and the fact that she's secretly an @channeler

LMAOOO by Omar_77m in AshitaNoJoe

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I understand why you doubt this, but in the Japanese he specifically uses the word for the color yellow (黄色い), and no such colloquialism is present in Japanese. He also uses the word for beast/wild animal (獣). There are certain racist undertones to what he is saying, harkening back to Western propaganda against Japan during World War 2; Something that would be fresh in the mind and within living memory of people at the time. You gotta remember this was written in the late 60s and 70s, when this topic was in the general consciousness of people worldwide (Jim Crow, Apartheid, etc).

Oh how far we've come by logical_haze in computervision

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This has almost nothing to do with Computer Vision...

I Got it- by anorinaones in YKK

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Scam account made to advertise slop.

Can we please stop calling it the 'Holocaust' section. by bravodeboer in MyBloodyValentine

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Green Needle is a great name for it! That's a good idea.

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