In the 80s, at the height of protests in South Korea, the most radical student factions were the engineering students, because of their ties to the auto workers union. Never dismiss the radical potentials of those who are and will be part of the industrial proletariat.
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but without the philosophy they would never know what they are fighting for
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This is a bad take, because it implies that philosophy can only be good if it is better than some other discipline, and invites some kind of competitive ranking. Neither capitalist economics nor revolutionary inspiration are required to justify an academic discipline.
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"saying that a hammer is the best tool to deal with the problem of a nail invites some kind of competitive ranking."
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ah yes only philisophy undergrads have the brainpower necessary to understand leftism
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Make funny cartoons and do less of the generalizations about life actual philosophers get paid to do.
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As Colin Ward said: Many years of attempting to be an anarchist propagandist have convinced me that we win over our fellow citizens to anarchist ideas, precisely through drawing upon the common experience of the informal, transient, self-organising networks of relationships...
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...that in fact make the human community possible, rather than through the rejecting of existing society as a whole in favour of some future society where some different kind of humanity will live in perfect harmony.
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