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that's cringe

I didn't even read it

Ight.

Well, yeah. Real Marxism would be cringe to a liberal.

How convenient that the biggest "human rights abuses" are coming from the geopolitical enemies of the western capitalist class.

Further, kind of hypocritical to make a meme that simultaneously champions leftism and "human rights" - a term that Marx decried as bourgeois, and really isn't used in class analysis. It's an idealistic way of viewing power and rights.

In order to understand Marx’s position within the history of the Rights of Man, one needs to understand On the Jewish Question in its entire logical connectivity: as a grand scheme within which the critique of the Rights of Man fits contextually. In this essay, Marx launched his first attack on “civil society” and its impact in fostering “egoistic life”; he avowed that “man […] leads a two-fold life, a heavenly and earthly life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private individual.” Since the sphere of egoism, in all its “abstract” arbitrariness, separates man from his community, and since the State was the political child of civil society, Marx wrote, the only way to destroy both was to destroy the parent: civil society. It followed, then, that the Rights of Man, which demonstrated an ontological conflict yet still existed in a “spiritual” relation with the State, were consequently “nothing but the rights of a member of a civil society, i.e., the rights of egoistic man, of man separated from other men and from the community.”

Given that the Rights of Man were political rights, they were deeply ingrained within the illusory sovereignty of the State. And since the State was the child of civil society—the society which Marx wished the demise of—the Rights of Man would be automatically abolished along with them. It is made obvious here that the establishment of a political state devoid of concepts such as law, privileges, and rights should become the only way to achieve the final stage desirable for society: a stage described by a political program leading to the emancipation of mankind and resulting in a recognition of their species-being, all to the detriment of bourgeois ideology.

Allen Buchanan has taken this argument even further by claiming that the goal of Marx’s critique of ideology was to highlight the fact that “capitalist conceptions of justice, like other juridical conceptions, presuppose certain factual generalizations which are usually taken for granted.” These generalizations present themselves as an illusion of symmetry between the worker and the exploiter—the free competitive market—that the capitalist puts in place. The free competitive market was, according to Marx, supported and maintained by the Rights of Man that had been articulated in the French and American constitutions. These rights were not eternal truths about the nature of man. Making an example of the right to liberty, Marx saw such rights as the root cause of “the separation of man from man.”

This meme is not leftist. This meme is textbook liberalism.

and in a situation where things can go wrong

This is a really good point. Never thought of that. There's really no limit to how adaptable a tampon can be in an environment where a leak can be catastrophic.

Yep, and we'll do it again. The only way to appease us is to push actually progressive, non-genocidal candidates. Good luck.

If you think curves and pillars are hard to represent in software, you'll be aghast how hard they are to represent with hand drawings.

Your typical architect or engineer of the era would need a kit of dozens of French curves to achieve proper specs in the drawing.

I think auto cad's role in minimizing residential craftsmanship pales in comparison to pre-fab techniques, fewer craftspeople, high volume assemblies, necessity for faster builds, less old-growth timber availability, and a philosophical shift in the economics of home building that now lean more towards speed and mass production.

Sort of interesting that left side dude is sporting the hitler 'stache

I mean I know that. I never said it was an easy switch.

It is a costly, cumbersome process. What better way to make this costly, cumbersome process more attractive than to put a chokehold on global oil supply?

I mean they did nab Venezuela's oil right before all of this. They may be using the Iran war to throw a wrench into global supply and thus make Venezuelan oil more attractive. The geopolitical value of Venezuela's oil undoubtedly spiked at the onset of the war.

Lmao you're doing God's work out here rehabilitating the totenkopf's image. Just.... why? Other than the obvious reason...

I still see it as a just a pirate symbol.

Do you also call everyone that owns a dog a Nazi

Holy mental gymnastics, batman. He was a fighter, a WWII buff, a marine, a mercenary, who bragged about "fun wars", and got a Nazi tattoo in a former Nazi-aligned state, and beyond universal healthcare, he really isn't even terribly progressive or radical. If the boot fits....

This bizarre type of simping for milquetoast, neoliberal, suspicious candidates is how y'all keep ending up with the likes of Hillary and Biden - who inevitably cede their power to increasingly right-leaning candidates. This refusal to demand better for the Democrats (and further, admonishing those that do) is how we keep diving deeper into the fascist decay.

Just a matter of time until one of these "once-in-a-lifetime" climate events triggers a positive feedback loop within an understudied or unconsidered corner of climate science.