#dialectics — Public Fediverse posts

Join me in reading Ned Blackhawk's amazing history, The Rediscovery of America. Along the way, I bet we discover a few things about ourselves and our current crises!

Find the reading schedule and video reflections along with a glossary here:

https://waywordsstudio.com/project/blackhawk-rediscovery-of-america/

#nedblackhawk #therediscoveryofamerica #democracy #readingguide #reflections #chapterreflections #history #literacy #indigenoushistory #settlercolonialism #americanhistory #dialectics #survivance #tropesofdiscovery

𝐍𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐰𝐤: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 - 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 -

Full video, glossary, and more on the website.

Reading Guides on Waywords, one chapter and reflection video about every two weeks.
https://waywordsstudio.com/project/blackhawk-rediscovery-of-america/

#democracy #readingguide #reflections #chapterreflections #history #literacy #indigenoushistory #settlercolonialism #americanhistory #nedblackhawk #therediscoveryofamerica #dialectics #encounterhistory

Chapter 2: On American Feminism

In the thirties, after the Depression, women sobered. Flapperism was obviously not the answer: they felt more hung up and neurotic than ever before.

So Lefebvre and Lenin then
“ There is no reason not to quote Lenin again ‘The beginning - the most most simple, ordinary, mass, immediate "Being”: the single commodity (Sein in political economy). The analysis of it as a social relation. A double analysis, deductive and inductive - logical and historical…“ …Henri Lefebvre quoting from Lenin’s On the Question of Dialectics.
#marxism #spectacle #being #dialectics everyday life #politics #philosophy

@workingclasshistory

.. given how things turned out it might seem a "naive gesture" in a way .. however it could also be something of a learning curve for ..um .. the "Marxist project" going forward 'n' all ...
#politics #society #paradigmshift #Marxwasright #propaganda #nudge #thought #dialectics #capitalism #decay #greenwashing #deception #hypocracy #truth #lies

When people finally reach enlightenment

#marxism #marxismleninism #dialectics #dialecticalmaterialism

Das ist ziemlich überzeugend.
"Very simply put, here’s what I believe happened: In the process of accumulating enormous wealth, the tech-oligarchs created the conditions for their loss of social power and, when they realized this, they got a big dose of class consciousness and turned furiously reactionary"
#Oligarchy #Musk #Trump #dialectics #Marxism #Materialismus
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnganz/p/what-happened-here-c9f?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2jfbt

Wealth and poverty don't exist so shamefully in contrast, they're in a dynamic interrelationship, because it's wealth that creates poverty.
- Michael Parenti, Lecture, "Terrorism, Globalism and Conspiracy (2002)
#Parenti #Dialectics #Capitalism

Institutional virtues include but are by no means limited to the political, economic, and social virtues of direct democracy, horizontality, free association, communality, and intercommunality/federalism. Institutional virtues also include qualities such as mutual-aid distributive justice, justice more broadly (justice as related to the criteria of freedom and equality), practical reasoning (phronesis on an organizational and collective level), wise development and use of technics (techne), deliberative/communicative virtues, the virtue of unity in diversity, etc. Various virtues that Aristotle described–such as phronesis, techne, episteme, and justice– are not reducible to being mere properties of persons; they can also be properties of collectives.

Institutional and relational qualities can shape one another and can round one another out. For some examples: direct democracy with a form and content of horizontality is distinct from direct democracy that is entangled with hierarchy, domination, exploitation, and oppression. Direct democracy without deliberative/communicative virtues will negatively impact decision making and decisions made. Communal self-management without federalism and intercommunal mutual-aid can lead to and/or be caused by vices of parochialism and xenophobia. Self-managed production without distribution according to needs leads to distributive injustice. Horizontality without free association would inhibit the kinds of options people should have about what groups they join and what activities they do. The right kind of equality in the right ways is distinct from equality of squalor or equal rights to compete within an unjust/hierarchical system. Institutional virtues are the right kinds of specific qualities, in the right ways, in the right contexts, for the right ends. Some good institutional qualities can develop lopsidedly, yet only be made sufficiently virtuous through the mutual flourishing of multiple institutional virtues as a gestalt. Sometimes an institutional quality may merely approximate the virtue thereof rather than be sufficiently virtuous– and sometimes this happens because it is not rounded out by other institutional and/or relational virtues and gradations thereof. And even when an institutional quality is sufficiently good enough to be virtuous, it does not make it perfectly/ideally virtuous; virtuous qualities can be further rounded out and are in need of being developed overtime and recreated in differentiated and emerging contexts. And even in a good-enough society, there are additional good institutional and relational virtues that can be developed.

Given what human needs are and what human wellness consists of, flourishing virtuous institutional and relational qualities entail, include, contribute to, and are in harmony with non-hierarchical rights and duties and an expansive realm of permissibility. In contrast to statist and liberal notions of good rights so in vogue within social contract theory, good rights would at least include rights to the means of production, rights to the means of existence, rights to the means of horizontal politics and economics, rights to participatory activity and free association (and the means thereof), as well as freedom from hierarchy, domination, and exploitation. Good duties at least include the duties towards the above rights for persons and groups. Good rights and duties by themselves are not sufficient for their actuation– they require sufficient means thereof. And good rights and duties far from exhaustively encompass what is good; merely acting within such minimal bounds is not enough for a person or group to act wisely. Good rights and duties benefit from and contribute to a wider array of institutional and relational virtues. Sets of good rights and duties are institutional virtues themselves (as properties of institutions that contribute to the flourishing of volitional beings), are related to other institutional and relational virtues (in terms of cause and effect AND in terms of containing some dimensions of other institutional and relational virtues within such good rights and duties), and can be evaluated in relation to coherence and correspondence to webs of institutional and relational virtues.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/gestalt-of-the-good-2023-remix/

#ethics #normativeethics #philosophy #politicalphilosophy #virtues #virtueethics #morality #freedom #equality #moralrealism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #socialism #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #communalism #socialecology #dialectics #dialecticalnaturalism

As a placeholder for future discussion: hope we can talk about nuance in exchanges between humans. #Thoughtfulness #DivergentThinking #YesAnd #Dialectics #NonBinary

Ask Prof Wolff: Defining Historical and Dialectical Materialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGPSKZgFH70

#Socialism #Marxism #DialecticalMaterialism #Materialism #Idealism #Dialectics #Philosophy #Hegel #Marx

#reflexive #verbs = #hegelian #dialectics = #nwo
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#reflexive #verbs = #hegelian #dialectics = #nwo
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