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Replying to @St_Rev
Better version: every time someone brings up Marx in these things I want to yell "I have no need of such a hypothesis!"pic.twitter.com/aPwVQIeWO9
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Replying to @St_Rev
Marx as shibboleth, Marx as sunk cost, Marx as price of admission, Marx Marx Marx Marx eggs and Marx. Ugh!
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Replying to @St_Rev
I have an unwritten rant about this. In early modern science, every paper needed to end “and this proves God is good.”
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
Have to suspect the point was that it was becoming increasingly obvious that God was not good, so swearing allegiance was mandatory.
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Some authors somehow convinced themselves and the whole paper actually did aim there; in others, it’s just a pro-forma tack-on.
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Social science and humanities papers are now all required to end “and therefore Marx was right & the all-good Revolution is coming.”
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
It seems to be harder for contemporary writers to perform the pledge in bad faith than it was for early modern scientists.
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Yeah, the faith pledges are jarring when I notice them. Like there's a hole in the whole piece and then I realize it's socialism-shaped.
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My hope is that the requirement exists only because it’s so obvious that Marx, like God, is nonsense…
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Replying to @Meaningness
Thus centering Marx in one's nominal life's work becomes a strong indicator of creativity and intelligence, because that shit's hard.
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It was a real shock to me when I realized how intense eg the Situationists' faith in socialism was; they weren't melting down everything...
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