@GabrielDuquette @nydwracu Because they work so hard to cast it as just another poor little oppressed group, victims of colonialism etc.
@schakalsynthetc @GabrielDuquette @nydwracu ...a Law of Nature, then All We Have To Do is overthrow capitalism, & all allies serve the cause
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@St_Rev@GabrielDuquette@nydwracu this is one where I'm all "ok surely we can admit Marx was totally off base here can't we I mean c'mon" -
@schakalsynthetc@GabrielDuquette@nydwracu But it's the spike that holds the entire thing together. -
@St_Rev@GabrielDuquette@nydwracu not so sure about that, but I'll grant that tossing it out is arguably a pretty heavy modification -
@St_Rev@GabrielDuquette@nydwracu cf the exchange with Land about teleology being an overwrought version of modal possibility and necessity -
@St_Rev@GabrielDuquette@nydwracu seems obvious that not every possible state of the world is immediately accessible from any other -
@schakalsynthetc Not following you. Never understood modality in philosophy. -
@St_Rev ah, well, thinking of cellular automata will at least get yr intuitions pointing in roughly the right direction -
@schakalsynthetc I probably know what you're talking about, I just can't parse this context. - 9 more replies
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