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
Anti-authoritarian, bleeding-heart Stirnerite,
. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.
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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
Marx as shibboleth, Marx as sunk cost, Marx as price of admission, Marx Marx Marx Marx eggs and Marx. Ugh!
I have an unwritten rant about this. In early modern science, every paper needed to end “and this proves God is good.”
Have to suspect the point was that it was becoming increasingly obvious that God was not good, so swearing allegiance was mandatory.
Some authors somehow convinced themselves and the whole paper actually did aim there; in others, it’s just a pro-forma tack-on.
Social science and humanities papers are now all required to end “and therefore Marx was right & the all-good Revolution is coming.”
It seems to be harder for contemporary writers to perform the pledge in bad faith than it was for early modern scientists.
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.
My hope is that the requirement exists only because it’s so obvious that Marx, like God, is nonsense…
Thus centering Marx in one's nominal life's work becomes a strong indicator of creativity and intelligence, because that shit's hard.
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...
...rather, melting down everything that wasn't the eternal essence of socialism. Me, an idiot: melting down actually everything is good.
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