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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

We need to stop with the praxis. It's a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage

And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them?

Every successful political movement is evangelical

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

what do you think praxis means here?

Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, realized, applied, or put into practice. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practising ideas. This has been a recurrent topic in the field of philosophy, discussed in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Ludwig von Mises, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paulo Freire, Murray Rothbard, and many others. It has meaning in the political, educational, spiritual and medical realms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process)

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social -2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah... I'm using the word very intentionally

Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

That's just a specific kind of praxis though. Praxis is about doing things to change the current state of things. It doesn't proscribe only teaching theory. You can be doing praxis without saying anything academic.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social -3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's perception. Like I said, hide the praxis. It must not be perceivable

Hell, discard it even. It's more important to focus on immediate material issues than loudly dream about a better world

Praxis is not useful in this day and age, it's a liability. If it's your driving force, learn to pretend it's not

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You are fantastically obtuse in your perception of a word that means doing direct action to create material change.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social -4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

And you don't understand what being effective means.

You're why we're fucked.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

You're both very wrong and very strange

[–] Gray_Warden@mander.xyz 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

For those that don’t know, this is a fun play on the “Serenity Prayer”.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago

no it's not, it's dramatically better!

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Is this a meme?

Can I just post shit I like here?

Next I'm post "water is a basic human right" and "racism is a horrible thing we should work to remove from society"

Really easy when memes are now just anything I like

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago

So do it, and let the marketplace of ideas decide it's worth

[–] astutemural@midwest.social 3 points 10 hours ago

Cope harder lmfao

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago

^ when you definitely understand what memes are

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 9 points 14 hours ago

Kill the Meme Cop in your head.