• aleshasmiles
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    Could just as easily be “Orientalists when they realize they use Arabic numerals”

  • Lemmy_Mouse
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    This is actually a self-own more than anything else. They take a political position for an ideological position, showing they know little of communists. (The idea of systemic economic progression)

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      It’s a bit of a shocker for some people to hear that marxists supported some librul bourgeois revolutions because yeah, capitalism is more progressive than feudalism. It has just become a fair bit more nuanced in our times when “liberalization” of a country probably means it becoming enslaved to some country in the imperialist core, probably the US.

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    I despise the capitalization of “I” in the English language. It’s believed it’s all because Geoffrey Chaucer didn’t like how “i” looked when he wrote the Canterbury Tales in the 13th/14th century and since it was apparently a big deal back then it just stick and more and more writers started doing it. Fucking jackass.

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    “capitalists when they realize that they talked about their ‘hard work’ when the work is done by people who has ‘work’ in their class name”