@St_Rev @soapjackal rejection of essentialism is good for warding off many practical evils
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@St_Rev@soapjackal to see "white", "man", etc as tokens of position in a social power relation, rather than sets of real traits1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@soapjackal means you're free to hate the power relations & their effects without existential malice toward any class of real people1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@schakalsynthetc@soapjackal Right. Essentialism gets pathological quickly, and useless sooner.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@St_Rev@soapjackal & this *is* Marx 101, but that didn't stop any of the actually-existing communist revolutions from being what they were1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@soapjackal most participants in any mass political mobilization are not communists but kum-munuss1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@soapjackal intellectuals may have been the "real" (read "good") kind but they're irrelevant on the ground, so, same difference2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@schakalsynthetc@soapjackal So peace is hopeless and society is doomed to constant, pointless infighting.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@soapjackal basically yes, is the conclusion I'm coming to1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@soapjackal which recommends an "in praise of passivity" type of morality - do what you can when you can, in local scope2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@schakalsynthetc @soapjackal It's certainly what I try to practice.
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