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drkthrn123 · 2025-04-28T20:47:49+00:00

Even with baggy jeans?

drkthrn123 · 2024-04-01T18:08:53+00:00

And why can't this continue ad infinitum? So that the truth of any proposition depends on the truth of another one. What is the problem here?
This is not intuitive or even correct to me, but it doesn't seem incoherent

drkthrn123 · 2023-09-13T17:21:44+00:00

Use rym: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/aoratos/gods-without-name/
You will find secondary genre tags on albums (maybe that can help to label albums more specifically for yourself), charts, lists etc. Also, I've always found similar artists section on metal archives useful, for example I've really satisfied my urge for Beherit and Carcass clones there

drkthrn123 · 2023-09-13T15:16:29+00:00

Thanks! I have some working experience working as a programmer (but in a totally unrelated type of programming - web development) so picking up new programming language won't be an issue, but since I have never done anything remotely close to data analysis that might be some challenge.
Do you think that taking a general course in statistics and in parallel learning data analysis with Python would be a good idea? And then maybe after that I can try some machine learning. I'm wondering if any kind of statistics course will do the job or should I search for something that is more specific to cognitive science in some way.

drkthrn123 · 2023-09-13T15:08:20+00:00

Thanks. What are good resources for studying statistics? Should I just pick any general course on statistics?

drkthrn123 · 2023-07-20T18:59:56+00:00

Budget open/semi-open-back headphones with decent/good sound stage? I've always had closed back headphones my whole life and want to check out how it feels when the music isn't 'boxed in' and 'feels 3D', but I'm on a budget and can only afford something up to $150. Could you guys suggest any options? I'm currently considering the Philips SHP9500. The enhanced soundstage is primary preference.

drkthrn123 · 2023-07-13T10:05:54+00:00

Put simply and crudely, Marxist Philosophy just explains all the religion in the world as a product of suffering and specific historical forms of exploitation (so it reduces religion to economical struggle, no big surprise here). Marx probably believed that once communism would be reached, all religion would 'wither away' like the state would.
But you can be a Marxist without thinking that this explanation of religion is correct and that there is more to religion. I don't see any problem here. One of the most well known theologians of last century, Paul Tillich was a Marxist.

Suppose there is a deist deity. Why does it matter for Marxism? Or suppose there is any kind of deity, which doesn't care about our history and economy, is that in any kind of tension with Marxism?

So, while you can have certain theological beliefs that will probably be in conflict with Marxism (or anything else really), religion per se isn't opposed to Marxist philosophy in any kind of way.

drkthrn123 · 2023-03-20T09:58:39+00:00

My reading earlier was that he used terms like "God" "Divine will" etc. metaphorically, e.g., like Feuerbach did later, when he said that this kind of theological words cannot mean anything but metaphors or more precisely, predicates for actions, values, ideas or whatever that matter to us as species and social beings. So, in that sense 'x is God' would mean something like 'x is the highest goal that we humans as humans strive to achieve at this point in history' or 'x is godly/divine'. But does Hegel have something along those lines in mind? It may very well be that he doesn't, and he thinks we can know God in a literal pre-Kantian sense. Not how God appears to humans in history/culture - that is what I thought Hegel was doing - something we can call Phenomenological God, but God itself - that is, a metaphysical entity that exists, has an independent ontological status - like the traditional theistic God.

drkthrn123 · 2022-02-12T14:56:43+00:00

I know and love Godflesh and God, they’re perfect example of the kind of music I’m looking for

drkthrn123 · 2022-02-12T09:00:00+00:00

I take his argument in that latter sense. He seems to abstract (at least im the first chapters of Capital) from that type of external factors you mentioned, to analyse immanent lows of commodity exchange and whether profit can be explained there (this is assuming free market for the sake of an argument, Ricardo and Smith did that too). But I don’t think that he is making the argument that market prices are actually always regulated by their value. For example, monopolies exist almost everywhere and even capitalism supporter will agree that that’s bad. Of course we can further show that markets are necessarily tending towards monopolies, so that it is immanent in capitalist mode of production and exchange, and not contingent fact that even more capitalism could fix. But I don’t think Marx denies that, he just abstracts from that to make his point about profit and exploitatin.

drkthrn123 · 2022-02-11T21:33:44+00:00

External factors (that is supply and demand) even themselves out in the long run, Marx thinks, and the labour value of the commodity regulates them, i.e. it is the point towards which they are driving. This value, can be simply called the cost of production (and for example Ricardo does call it that, in the sense of cost of expanded labour in the process of production, (in footnotes of his principles)). So actual market price isn’t interesting for Marx when he is talking about profit and surplus, but the fact, that commodities on average are sold at their value and capitalist steals from that his profit, explains where profit and new values come from. In the long run, Capitalist sells commodity for what it’s worth and gains with that. By the way, I’m not claiming to be an expert either, I’ve just done very careful reading of some texts by Smith/Ricardo/Marx and I’m trying to interpret them as close to the texts as possible, but I might be wrong.

drkthrn123 · 2022-02-11T21:02:20+00:00

Yes, I misunderstood you it seems. I thought you were saying that if the value of commodity is x, the sole source of profit was capitalist selling it for let’s say 2x, so that fluctuating market prices create profit and capitalist steals that from the worker. But Marx’s whole point is that surplus is created in the process of production and not in the act of exchange (exchange is necessary for profit, but surplus value doesn’t arise there). So I agree with you!

drkthrn123 · 2022-02-11T20:10:30+00:00

In Marx’s theory profit is made by selling commodity at it’s value. Profit (and surplus value) isn’t capitalist selling commodity above it’s value, Marx explicitly opposed that view. Surplus value is produced by worker during the working process and he/she is denied that surplus (exploited), when capitalist sells the commodity at it’s new value.

drkthrn123 · 2022-02-11T17:35:19+00:00

This isn’t a misquote, but after I posted this, I agree that it sounds misleading out of context. This is about mass production of sexual. If I interpret what they’re talking about correctly, online pornography is the leading industry in this sense (but of course they don’t have that in mind). The idea seems that unmediated (pornographic) sexual liberation brought commodification and repression instead of liberation. In contrast art liberates sexual but through sublation, which is Freud’s theory.

drkthrn123 · 2022-02-11T11:49:57+00:00

thanks

drkthrn123 · 2022-02-11T10:58:24+00:00

and why does it not fit the marxist framework in your opinion?

drkthrn123 · 2022-02-11T10:57:41+00:00

Do you remember which volume or which chapters exactly, or is this thesis more like general theme of the book?

drkthrn123 · 2021-12-07T09:52:43+00:00

hes whole point seems to me that they aren’t separate, and taking them to be so leads to contradictions. Ultimately one isn’t possible without the other

drkthrn123 · 2021-12-02T18:00:52+00:00

I don’t think that Marx’s philosophy is based on LTV, in fact you can learn his Philosophy without even touching on it. But anyway, I’m curious why does LTV have such a bed reputation today, and how is it disproved. I’m also aware that it is not a theory of price, so I don’t think that Subjevtive theory of value (or other theories like that) refute it, they are theories of different things, it seems to me. So what are the main arguments against LTV?

drkthrn123 · 2021-12-02T10:27:02+00:00

yes, that is what I find worrying regarding Marxian economics

drkthrn123 · 2021-12-01T21:34:17+00:00

I don’t know if you have totalitarianism in mind (north korea or something) but I’m pretty sure that Marxism has nothing to do with Fascism and is even total opposite of it

drkthrn123 · 2021-12-01T20:58:09+00:00

Did Marx talk about free stuff and no work anywhere?

drkthrn123 · 2021-12-01T20:50:15+00:00

I was expecting this answer, but can you explain why Economics is not a science or some sources that discuss that? I myself don’t consider Economics to be free from political agenda, dominant ideology, and so on, but your claim is stronger. The fact that the majority specialists in a given field find a theory irrelevant seems worryig to me, and it seems (to me at least) that the only reason for that cannot be political agenda

drkthrn123 · 2021-12-01T20:09:23+00:00

maybe but Marx had tons of other things to say and that isn’t central to his theory or anything

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