• RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 years ago

    Hold the fuck on, this person has a degree in philosophy?

    People in the imperial core study philosophy and somehow don’t read Marx? How the fuck can they understand anything of 20 century philophy let alone history without it?

    Good lord.

    Also, you don’t become leftist becaus of some ultra nerd shit you read trying to be edgy, you become a leftist out of spite of this fucking world after reading a teaspoon of history or just watching the homeless walking in the street whule there is a fucking TV show about superyachts in the background.

    • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 years ago

      In many curriculums, he’s not mentioned at all. I took a class on political theory and he wasn’t mentioned once. I took another on European history and he was mentioned twice, once during the industrial revolution when the proffessor said Marx was wrong because thwre were factory managers, and again with the October Revolution. He was briefly mentioned in an intro to sociology course by my professor, but we spent significantly more time on Weber. He’s been systematically torn out of curricula.

      Edit: I legitimately think it was wiped per the University’s orders too because the sociology professor was involved in DSA. Likewise in an international relations course, my professor had a May 1968 sticker on his laptop. He mentioned Lenin and Imperialism once and then continued on like it had never been said. I did see a sociology adjunct tell some students (not his) to read the Manifesoto though.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 years ago

      People in the imperial core study philosophy and somehow don’t read Marx?

      #JustAngloThings

      In most of Europe they still read Marx a lot.

      • duderium [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        3 years ago

        There’s seemingly a very weird division between what’s studied within and without the Anglosphere. Students on “the continent” study Freud, Lacan, Marx, and Hegel, but you will only hear these characters mentioned with contempt (if at all) in Amurka. We’re stuck instead with Plato, Foucault, and George Orwell lol.