Was Marx an alcoholic? I heard, from my good friend Bruce, that a bunch of other philosophers were hard drinkers.
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
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"MLs dont treat their political ideology as a religion, thats stupid!"
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doing material analysis and direct action to change the world is just like praying to a higher power, I am very smart
Dialectical materialism is a tool, not a religion. The text is a play on the "Serenity Prayer," it doesn't mean communism is a religion.
For those that don’t know, this is a fun play on the “Serenity Prayer”.
no it's not, it's dramatically better!
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
This is just shooting yourself in the foot. It's important to directly engage with the masses, explain why we do what we do, fight for improving material conditions, while educating on liberatory ideology. Ideology is a tool, one that helped Russians, Chinese, Cubans, Vietnamese, Koreans, Laotians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and more defeat impossible odds and move the wheel of history forward. Throwing away the tool, blunting it, hiding it, and instead focusing on generic improvements loosely and decentrally, has never once resulted in successfully replacing capitalism with socialism.
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.
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
So do it, and let the marketplace of ideas decide it's worth
Kill the Meme Cop in your head.
Cope harder lmfao
^ when you definitely understand what memes are