What are dialectics and how does the dialectical process work? This episode in the Fundamentals of Marx series begins to cover some of the main points in dia...
We all have agency for what we can control. We don’t have agency for that which we do not. Belief that you can’t control anything limits what you can do. trying to exert control to move things in a better direction in your life and others tells you where your agency ends. That is why praxis should inform knowlege of what is possible at that time. Failure merely indicates the limits of what that action can do at that time. When one action fails, try another.
You may be awake when most others want to stay asleep. We here are the types that seek the truth of what happens even if it is uncomfortable, but what reason do you seek that knowlege? Do you learn to validate your feelings of helplessness? Or is it that you learn to find weaknesses in what keeps capitalism going to sieze power and build socialism?
You seem to know that you can’t accomplish much by yourself and that your power can only be used with a group in conjunction with other proletariat.
The real question is what are you going to do about it? What actions can you do to help the proletarian struggle? Whether or not you succeed or fail benefits humanity either way, as long as it as we can record it in history. Your desire to not read history means to disconnect yourself from the history of the proletarian struggle. Failure is important to understand why things break. The USSR under Stalin and Mao’s China were successful in some ways also.
We all have agency for what we can control. We don’t have agency for that which we do not. Belief that you can’t control anything limits what you can do. trying to exert control to move things in a better direction in your life and others tells you where your agency ends. That is why praxis should inform knowlege of what is possible at that time. Failure merely indicates the limits of what that action can do at that time. When one action fails, try another.
You may be awake when most others want to stay asleep. We here are the types that seek the truth of what happens even if it is uncomfortable, but what reason do you seek that knowlege? Do you learn to validate your feelings of helplessness? Or is it that you learn to find weaknesses in what keeps capitalism going to sieze power and build socialism?
You seem to know that you can’t accomplish much by yourself and that your power can only be used with a group in conjunction with other proletariat.
The real question is what are you going to do about it? What actions can you do to help the proletarian struggle? Whether or not you succeed or fail benefits humanity either way, as long as it as we can record it in history. Your desire to not read history means to disconnect yourself from the history of the proletarian struggle. Failure is important to understand why things break. The USSR under Stalin and Mao’s China were successful in some ways also.