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@rah@[email protected] said in a cross-post:
"How do you feel about the Russian Federation's treatment of them?
How do you feel about The Plastic People of the Universe? How do you feel about the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic's treatment of them?"
Anyone have an answer? I'm not that well-read on this subject.
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who is them tho
I am pretty solidly a communist but still pretty hung up on general leftist aversion to freedom of expression.
I've read a little bit about the Paradox of Intolerance and it does make sense (as much as a paradox can I guess), but it just bugs me that at the end of the day, whoever is in power gets to define "intolerance" and their definition might not match the majority's. And the majority might not be right either...
Some people would consider me intolerant for being against circumcision and piercing of infants' ears, because those are deeply-held cultural traditions for some people.
Reactionary and hate speech makes me fuckin sick. Yet I'm terrified that attempts to officially ban it just fuel persecution fetishes in people who practice it, and cause them to go further down their rabbit holes and drag more uncertain people with them.
I'm at least not crazy for worrying, right?
How can I get better at understanding contradiction? Specifically identifying contradictions, I'm still struggling a bit with the dialectical part of dialectical materialism.
Contradiction is the inability of a complex system to internalize new data and new conditions
For example the labor vs employer conflict and capital expansion vs the natural world are the two biggest contradictions inherent to capitalism
Liberals maintain that the acquisition of new data can somehow offset the new conditions and resolve the contradiction, always, no more matter what, like magic
While materialists argue the system can't internalize data that contradicts the interests and incentives that animate the system entire (because that would negate the point of the system), which is Capital Accumulation
Basically if any new data that offsets capital accumulation is introduced to a system that is fueled by capital accumulation, far from what the liberals claim the contradiction is not resolved, it's in fact heightened
To understand and spot contradictions you have to understand the nature of the specific system at play and what primary mechanism animates it. For capitalism that is profitability, everything in the system revolves like planets around that dark bronze heart
So contradictions and the orientation of the system can be spotted when you see something that either services profitability or opposes/limits it
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