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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You kid, but I have wondered on occasion what it would be like if Capital were rewritten in the style of the Dao De Jing — how laconic could you make the ideas before they break down completely?

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Paul Cockshott has a few interesting videos on how Marxism in the west has created its own difficult jargon because it's been pushed by masturbators in the academia.

[–] Lurkmore@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

No matter how much you read or understand, someone is always going to come along and show you an essay from a century ago proving you wrong. Your classification and understanding of the issues is fundamentally misguided because you don't understand some niche schism that has absolutely no bearing on anything tangible to our world.

We've built a monolith that now stands unintelligible to the masses. Sure you can join our movement but first I need to to slog through 3 massive volumes of dense theory, then read everything written, by x,y,z, leader, and don't forget the rebuttals. It's almost impossible to get into because it requires years of dedicated study. It's worth it, but it ends up being an unending intellectual persuit more than anything.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I haven't coined too many Marxist/Marxian terms in my conlang, but one thing I've tried to keep in mind when I have is to "dejargonize" and basically have each term be its own definition to whatever extent possible. The first example to come to mind is sotaňogestkruňiya ("commodity fetishism"): with-birth wealth-ness to-head-collection, i.e. "innate value ideology". I think that's a much clearer term for the belief that commodities' exchange values are inherent to them than a term that assumes you have the cultural context of 19th century anthropology.

Also, something something Cockshott masturbation

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A guy named cockshott starting off such a banger passage with a sentence about masturbation is amazing.

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dont think he used the word masturbation, he's ancient and crumbly lmao. I'm just paraphrasing and adding some emphasis

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

He said jorkin the gorkin

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Capital isn't even particularly difficult. It's repetitive to a fault really. He repeats the concept of the Labor Theory of Value until you're good and damn tired of it, then it becomes a history lesson on working conditions in late 19th century Britain.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It has been said that a recurring issue in works written by philosophers is that they tend to repeat their ideas often. This is to say that philosophers' writings frequently return to previously-discussed concepts and rephrase them. To use the German, philosophers often employ what is known as Wiederholung, essentially meaning "doing the same thing again".