Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online?

• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Absent your attempts to make it insulting and pathological, that’s called passionately opposing injustice. Being dispassionate is not inherently more “sane” or “reasonable,” having emotions is human and some things should provoke emotional reactions.

  But of course, my response was quite calm and well reasoned. You’re the one who can’t keep pace with that and have to resort to these petty insults in an attempt to discredit me, because you have no logical response to my actual points.

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  • InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know people who actually do contribute positive changes to the world.

    They don’t sound like you.

    You’re a keyboard warrior trying to spin narrative such that a hegelian dielectic becomes an all consuming manichaean .

    If you ever actually read Marx, you clearly never understood it.

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      More personal attacks, because it’s all you’ve got. Funny how I’m the one criticizing civility fetishism but I’ve been considerably more civil this conversation than you have. Maybe you should try practicing what you preach.

      Also funny that you think you understand Marx, who famously called for, “Ruthless criticism of everything that exists” as if he’d be clutching pearls over me calling out Jonathan Haidt.

      What is now happening to Marx’s theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. Today, the bourgeoisie and the opportunists within the labor movement concur in this doctoring of Marxism. They omit, obscure, or distort the revolutionary side of this theory, its revolutionary soul. They push to the foreground and extol what is or seems acceptable to the bourgeoisie. All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!).

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