User:Reversedragon/FirstNineThousand/900

901 - 1999

Historical events, texts, etc.
Final live version of this section: Items 1 to 1,000 / Items 1,000 to 2,000

901. MAI reading list / Anti-Imperialist Movement Marxist-Leninist reading list
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915. noble coup -> "noble coup" is my colloquial term for a political phenomenon where some particular socially-linked graph of nobility and their allies plot to replace a particular royal family or top of a feudal order. I'm not totally sure what the standard word for this is. one thing I'm closer to sure about is that in the handful of these I've heard about it seems like the nobility easily get divided. it isn't easy for them to all join together and create a new state around the nobility compared to them splitting into competing factions of nobility which may all be tied to a particular religious sect. it's weird how the patterns of nobility have similarities to the patterns of capitalists, and this seems to be partially responsible for the similarities between Catholic and Protestant conflicts in England versus progressive and Protestant political subpopulations in the United States.
916. revolution against feudal order / bourgeois revolution (Marxism)
917. revolution against capitalism / revolution that creates non-capitalist state but does not create feudal order -> this entry allows for the concept of a revolution forming a charcoal workers' state, although as far as I know that is entirely hypothetical right now and has never happened in real life for a period of longer than 3 years. (to be fair 3 years is pretty good compared to a couple months, but it's definitely not 70 years.)
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925. rift, split, separation, schism, expulsion, or fatal controversy / event of serious division between two sets of people / event of serious division between notable individual and group -> thanks Trotsky for showing me that expulsions and schisms are really just the same thing
929. metaphysical thought experiment
930. Materialist thought experiment
931. scientific thought experiment
932. historical-materialist thought experiment
933. existential-materialist thought experiment
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940. jamming proposition or question / jamming antithesis
941. jamming proposition -> seems to be a major component of 'pataphysics, but also of meta-Marxism
942. jamming question -> it bothers me that most people don't think a question is a proposition. it makes the task of non-binary logic unnecessarily difficult.
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949. your-choices vs. (pronounced vs.) yours-choice distinction / your-choice versus yours-choices versus yours-choice distinction -> a vital distinction to understand before anyone can properly answer whether "your choices matter". when people say "your choice(s)", are they referring to "your choice" individually, "yours choices" as every individual separately in parallel, or "yours choice" as many individuals combined into one group?
950. tiered levels of grouping / tiered grammatical plurality -> the concept of multiple levels of plural objects (seas of free-floating entities) as they are represented in language or propositional logic. I would say the majority of people are not aware of this concept and constantly gloss over it in both writing and comprehending writing. it is dreadfully common to simply toss out the weasel word "we" with no particular meaning in reference to some really vague group of more than one person and assume it makes total sense.
951. one-member concept / singular term [1]
952. group concept / collective term
953. subpopulational concept / particular concept / particular term
954. populational concept / universal concept / general concept / universal term / general term
955. global concept / global term -> a concept which applies to the largest possible scales of populations or generalizations, such as worldwide
956. concept about many separate individuals in parallel / applying to many separate individuals in parallel
957. concept about many separate groups in parallel / applying to many separate groups in parallel
958. concept about separate subpopulations in parallel / concept about several separate subpopulations in parallel
959. concept about separate nations in parallel / concept about several separate populations in parallel
960. method of defining a set
961. local characteristics or members / intensional characteristics / localized spatially-unique set members or characteristics of said members
962. entailed characteristics or members / extensional characteristics / extensionality across characteristics or subpopulations
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980. language register / language proficiency level
981. local vernacular term -> applies to contexts such as fandoms and that phenomenon where gender labels were exploding because nobody knew the difference between common terms, vernacular terms, and university-level terms
982. widespread vernacular term -> applies to contexts such as dialects of English
983. uncommon term
984. common term
985. technical term taught in grade school / scientific term taught in grade school
986. university-level term / technical term taught in four-year degree
987. university-level term widespread in particular ideology / technical term widespread in partisan ideology
988. graduate-level term / technical term taught in specialist degree -> one of the only one of these Items to not use "88" to mean anything whatsoever.
989. technical term within local research group / field-specific academic jargon term
990. ??
991. boxed-in theory -> the motif of a theory which has absolutely no idea what meta-ontology is and would never think of analyzing itself as an object
992. meta-theory -> I at first put "MDem reading list" here, but then I found out about metamathematics, and running across more meta-theories makes me so excited
993. MDem reading list -> just so I am not tempted to create another one anywhere else. not the definitive or ultimate one, but one I can compare and contrast with my MDem bibliography entry as a minimal version
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1000. plateau (philosophy) / plateau (schizoanalysis) / thing claimed to have no beginning or end / spatially-unique object which does not remain unique
1001. formatting device -> any kind of device which styles, tags, or structures text. Unicode encoding might count as a formatting device
1002. formatting rule -> a specific kind of formatting device which transforms written text into logical structure and possibly renders into some other kind of transcribed logical structure such as TeX or HTML
1003. basic bop formatting - ad-hoc markup language
1004. Markdown - markup language
1005. HTML - markup language
1006. prototype -> an early version of anything made for testing. not related to markup languages.
1007. Hue list classname - colors used in Hue lists, including any color-codings you can see on this one. not to be taken very seriously, often quickly chosen to distinguish nearby blocks of items from each other. instance of: CSS classname
1008. CSS classname -> instance of: formatting device
1009. Item usable as Hue list classname
1010. unique language
1011. English (en)
1012. French (fr)
1013. German (de)
1014. Spanish (es)
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1016. ??
1017. Russian (ru)
1018. Korean (ko)
1019. Japanese (ja)
1020. Chinese metalanguage (zho)
1021. Mandarin Chinese (cmn)
1022. Cantonese (yue)
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1024. ??
1025. North Korean dialect
1026. South Korean dialect
1027. Chinese character (hani)
1028. Traditional Chinese (hant)
1029. Simplified Chinese (hans)
1020. uncommon, constructed, or system-internal language / language possibly coded as mis
1021. simple English (en-simple) / en-x-pona / en-basiceng [2] -> I want this to be specifically upgoer-five style with a very small list of words, such that it's only a step or two up from toki pona, yet not so simple it's hard to read. the idea is almost to write the en-simple label and use it as guidance for the tok one. Wikipedia's 8000-word list should be useful
1022. toki pona (tok) -> implied to be either sitelen pona or sitelen Lasina
1023. toki pona, sitelen Lasina (tok-Latn)
1024. toki pona, sitelen pilin / sitelen emoji (tok-pilin)
1025. toki pona, sitelen jelo (tok-jelo)
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1027. taxonomic names dictionary (la-sci) - [3] [4]
1028. work citations dictionary (qww)
1029. Wikimedia message ID (qqx) - [5]
1030. (reserved for languages)
1040. (reserved for languages)
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1070. fantasy work
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1080. speculative fiction
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1082. utopian fiction
1083. dystopian literature / dystopian fiction
1084. anticommunist fable / anticommunist parable / "dystopian fiction" created to attack a progressive theory
1085. socialist realism
1086. metatransitional literature / meta-transitional realism / meta-transitional fantasy -> like socialist realism or science fiction, but for meta-Marxism
1087. afterlife fiction / Bangsian fiction
1088. horror work
1089. anti-imperialist fable / anti-colonial fable -> a rising genre of idealistic short stories which is specifically about either a kingdom Freely Deciding not to create global empire or some fictional population fighting against global empire's previous attempt to extinguish it. this concept does not encompass every story with national independence or anti-empire themes. the anti-imperialist fable is distinguished by a bizarrely strong focus on the notion of intersubjectivity and the whole narrative being driven by particular things being morally wrong and/or the universe naturally pushing back against what the narrative considers immoral. [6] I am becoming slowly convinced that the use or implication of this story genre is a major reason Pokémon appeals to people.
1090. hero's journey narrative / adventure story -> in practice, the definition of "hero's journey" is almost the same as the definition of "adventure"; that's probably what we would have called it if we'd just started at the everyday examples of a book about a dog finding its way home and then worked back to the Iliad. I feel like things turned out this way because of people trying really hard to justify their degree in classical antiquity. which it may well be they had to get to convince a bunch of crusty imperialists to let them study the arts.
1091. superhero story / superhero narrative
1092. fictional history
1093. evil empire narrative -> distinguishable from hero's journey narrative because it explicitly involves populations. may simultaneously be an anti-imperialist fable, or might not.
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1110. quantum water -> an imaginary metaphor in which quantum fields are literally water that separates into different puddles, and the point is to show how different water would have to be in order to be like a quantum field
1111. tennis ball -> keeps being used as a loose comparison for quarks in MDem scraps, which repeatedly explore how different a tennis ball would have to be to be like a quark.
1112. cue ball
1113. pool ball
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1118. eight ball
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1135. order of magnitude / scale of particular numerical base / power of ten / power of two / multiple of one
1136. multiple of number -> subset of: order of magnitude
1137. precise order of magnitude / repeatable number of things / stoichiometric number / specific average number of things -> counterpart to Property "replicated at order of magnitude"; subset of: order of multiple of number
1138. 1/137 problem (physics) / 137 problem (physics) -> mysterious constant which keeps showing up in a lot of physics equations. does it have a solution in some kind of physical-mathematical object, somewhat like the hypothetical theta field of axions that was to replace a theta constant? currently nobody knows.
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1150. Everything is made of something / Physics is when everything becomes other stuff / Physics is the study of everything being made of stuff -> A) the problem of what a black hole is rests on the definition of physics that matter and energy always become something else physical because everything is made of something B) unexpected consequence: knowledge is made of physical arrangements of things, leading to one logical proof against Maxwell's demon.
1151. When matter disappears it becomes something else / When matter disappears from a defined section of reality it usually becomes something else / matter conservation
1152. When energy disappears it becomes something else / When energy disappears from a defined section of reality it usually becomes something else / energy conservation
1153. Knowledge is made of physical arrangements of things -> seems odd to point out but invariably ends up being true. bits are physical arrangements of things. neurons are physical arrangements of things. printed words are physical arrangements of things. bibliographies and bookshelves are physical arrangements of things. data Items are physical arrangements of things. even signs are physical arrangements of things, although they're split across two substrates: the written work and the brain. both written works and brains are physical. the final leap not included in this proposition: ideologies and policies are physical arrangements of things, just as a written work is. knowledge of how to carry out Bolshevism correctly can be stored in an arrangement of words, or it can be stored in a physical population of people increasingly arranged into Bolshevism. however, a population of people which increasingly arranges itself away from Bolshevism and into another arrangement may lack the stored information of how to create Bolshevism the more it already does not resemble it.
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1158. Some things can be made of themselves / Some objects are small enough to be made only of themselves and not made out of anything smaller -> the claim that fundamental objects may exist in the universe although they are bound to be very, very small. do they exist as quanta? do they exist as whatever quantum fields are made of? do they exist at the Planck length? nobody knows.
1159. History is made of processes / History is made of objects and transformations / History is made of stuff -> Everything is made of stuff + series of events = this
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1180. How do you produce the ingredients of a black hole? / What kind of physical stuff would matter change into if it got into the interior of a black hole? / What kind of black hole stuff is matter converted to when it collides with a black hole? / black hole information paradox
1181. The physical stuff inside a black hole is unstructured energy / Black holes are gravastars; the stuff inside the gravastar is a maximally warped zero point energy -> I'm tempted to say the phrase "like one really giant quark" but I'm not sure that's scientifically accurate, since after all black holes aren't constantly disappearing or re-dividing. so I won't.
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1187. black hole
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1276. The Good Place
1277. good afterlife / Good Place
1278. afterlife
1279. The Middle Place -> appears in work: Cloud Eight
1280. bad afterlife / Bad Place
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1310. organization -> I feel as if this needs to be described more specifically to make it clear it's a material object and more than just a term
1311. action against society by countable group of people / incorrect action by countable group of people -> used in defining what protests are about
1312. street protest
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1331. Populations must be studied relative to their own traditions / cultural relativism proposition
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1337. subculture -> refers to any subculture, although QID references internet subcultures.
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1350. structural racism -> material phenomenon as described by real-world evidence, and not whatever papers and books say, should that somehow be a problem
1351. redlining
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1358. existence as empire / socioempire / gentrification results from small-scale empire / chunk competition across the spatial slot hierarchy (near-synonym)
1359. critical race theory / CRT
1400. scientific progressivism -> half-hypothetical, half-already-real concept that progressivism, as defined by Existentialists and Liberals, can be broken down into falsifiable hypotheses in the same sense as Marxist hypotheses of how nation-sized revolutionary movements succeed
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1419. drug prohibition / war on drugs / war on drug gangs -> there is a deep discussion to be had about how much a war on drugs isn't actually about drugs and is actually a nationalist local-war campaign on the entire existence of criminals
1420. drug legalization
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1486. historical fascisms / nationalist regimes recognized as fascisms by historians -> a somewhat deceptive term explicitly excluding the British imperialist framework but including falangism
1487. Axis powers of World War II -> Nazism, Italian fascism, and Japanese global empire
1488. Nazi germany / Nazism
1489. Fascist Italy / Italian fascism
1490. Falangist Spain / falangism / Francoism
1491. Imperial Japan / Japanese global empire
1492. British Empire / British imperialist framework (hypothetical)
1493. United States global empire / United States imperialist framework (hypothetical)
1494. Identitarian fascism / third-positionism / fascisms rooted in definitions of what culture is -> clearly includes Duginism; appears to include Francoism and United States Toryism, if you strictly define it as "fascisms which are not obsessed with genetics"
1495. new Russian empire / post-Soviet imperialist Russia -> under research; Russia as defined by Napoleonist Bauplan or new regime that took over after destruction of Soviet Union
1496. Duginism
1497. European New Right
1498. claimed characteristic of fascism / claimed warning sign of fascism
1499. list of characteristics claiming to define fascism / definition of fascism -> there are a ridiculous number of these. it may be worth encoding all the list-entries and connecting list-entries to the list, especially items they share
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1501. Tea Party axis -> United States Tory movement that emerged in the early 2000s, about 2007 according to some. before the early 2000s United States "conservative" parties had some claim to being right-Liberal parties, but then they went through a hard turn into solely being about taking the United States "back" from immigrants and people of the wrong religion. I use the term Toryism in reference to the concept of a faction that rejects the creation of a parliament because having democracy would give Catholics too much of British society. it's funny. even though the original Tories and Britain's modern Tory party are separate groups of people, they aren't ultimately that different in their values. and it only gets worse when you note the repeated event of some people in the United States choosing a party specifically in the hope it wasn't Catholic. did Toryism ever really have a beginning and an end?
1510. Umberto Eco's list for fascism
1511. cult of tradition -> claimed characteristic of fascism.
1512. rejection of modern culture / descent into depravity
1513. cult of action for action's sake
1514. disagreement is treason -> note that this has to be in a nationalist tone. Trotsky saying Stalin does this doesn't mean Stalin's Marxism is fascism. contrary to what some people may think. if you want to say Stalin's Marxism is bad, that's whatever, but you absolutely cannot act like Bolshevism and fascism are the same thing coming from the concept of a generalized dictator. they are different countable sociophilosophies.
1515. fear of difference
1516. appeal against low-ranks / appeal to a frustrated middle class
1517. obsession with conspiracies / obsession with the plot
1518. enemies are too strong and too weak
1519. pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
1520. in-group superior to the weak / contempt for the weak
1521. die a hero or become the weaklings
1522. machismo
1523. selective populism
1524. nationalistic buzzwords / newspeak
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1532. The Prince (Machiavelli 1532)
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1590. The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1590) -> Shakespeare play. comedy. notable for "abstract amoral world containing blatant misogyny" structure. trying to explain Dragon Ball made me remember it because I swear this is at least two characters' character arcs
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1604. Guy Fawkes
1605. Gunpowder plot of 1605
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1617. revisionist history (field) -> to be used for actual instances of updating the facts and making them more accurate
1618. progressive anthropology -> subset of: revisionist history (field); in my mind, refers largely to studies of ancient people-groups as done in Magic: a history
1619. inclusive history -> subset of: revisionist history (field)
1620. 1619 Project (2019) -> attempted education project by inclusive-historians
1621. Kimberlé Crenshaw -> one inclusive-historian off in a corner of the United States surrounded by a bizarre amount of controversy and discourse. I swear the whole PragerU video about "people segregating themselves at Black graduation" grew out of her drifting over to a different university when the group of people at the other university didn't want her there
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1729. A modest proposal (Swift 1729)
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1741. The German Ideology part 1A: Idealism and Materialism
1742. The German Ideology part 1B: The Illusion of the Epoch
1743. The German Ideology part 1C: The Real Basis of Ideology
1744. The German Ideology part 1D: Proletarians and Communism
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1750. United States constitutional amendment
1751. Amendment 1
1752. Amendment 2
1753. Amendment 3
1754. Amendment 4
1755. Amendment 5
1756. Amendment 6
1757. Amendment 7
1758. Amendment 8
1759. Amendment 9
1760. Amendment 10
1761. Amendment 11
1762. Amendment 12
1763. United States people will not own slaves (Amendment 13)
1764. Amendment 14
1765. Amendment 15
1766. Amendment 16
1767. Amendment 17
1768. Amendment 19
1769. Amendment 22
1770. Amendment 23
1771. Amendment 24
1772. Amendment 25
1773. Amendment 26
1774. Amendment 27
1775. taxation without representation
1776. United States constitution
1777. United States independence movement (1776) / American revolution
1778. Amendment 18
1779. Amendment 21
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1789. French Revolution (1789-1790)
1790. democracy (center-/right-Liberalism) / democracy as defined in center-/right-Liberal republicanism
1791. metric system / International System of Units (SI) / Système international d'unités (SI)
1792. French Revolutionary Wars -> right after the French Revolution, the republic brutally occupied a handful of other countries to force them into Liberalism (or at least early republicanism). this part of history is always forgotten especially when talking about World War II and the Cold War
1793. Thomas Paine treason trial (1792) -> there's something to be said about this in relation to the Moscow Trials. I'm not sure what.
1794. French First Republic -> very notable given there was a second one
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1798. sister republics (c. 1800) / French-revolutionary client states / Napoleonic client states -> republics which relied on French occupation to remain republics, or were fitted with monarchies loyal to Napoleon
1799. Napoleonic empire -> French civilization under Napoleon's dictatorship
1800. Napoleonism (meta-Marxism) -> may give this a different name later. a civilizational structure consisting of one republic — in some cases a democratic republic — and several client states under military occupation and/or client regimes controlled by the central republic. the puppet regimes may be republican or monarchist but they must be loyal to the regime of the central republic. arguably, the French Revolution birthed the Bauplan of Napoleonism and it's still alive and well, the United States still doing it
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1803. Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) -> second try at brutally enforcing early-republicanism over all of Europe. the Napoleonic empire walled away many countries' economies and made them so upset the other countries ultimately kicked out Napoleon and restored the French monarchy
1804. Hundred Days -> Napoleon comes back from exile to rule Europe again; every European country goes to great effort to stop him
1805. Bourbon Restoration -> restored French monarchy which remained until 1830
1806. Sixth Coalition -> Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia, united to defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig
1807. Seventh Coalition -> Sixth Coalition plus Switzerland and the Bourbon Restoration; each alliance contained many smaller territories too
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1830. Indian Removal Act of 1830
1831. Trail of Tears (1830-1850)
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1843. What is the relationship of Jewish people to German citizens? / Jewish national question / Jewish question (not Nazism)
1844. On The Jewish Question (Marx 1844)
1845. The German Ideology (Marx 1846/1932)
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1847. Communist manifesto / Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
1848. United States westward expansion
1849. "Go west, young man"
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1860. Confederate States of America (1861-1865) / Confederacy / The South
1861. United States Civil War (1861-1865)
1862. Jefferson Davis (Confederate president 1861–1865)
1863. Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
1864. Reconstruction (1863-1877)
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1867. Capital volume I (Marx 1863/1867)
1868. Capital volume II (Marx 1863/1893)
1869. Capital volume III (Marx 1863/1894)
1870. Capital volume IV (Marx 1863/1963)
1871. Theories of surplus value -> sometimes separated from Capital vol IV, sometimes grouped into it
1872. (further divisions of volume IV?)
1873. (further divisions of volume IV?)
1874. International System of Units (SI)
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1882. The Lady, or the Tiger? -> nice example of ambiguity in literature and the concept that ambiguity can be perilous. if you say it doesn't matter what the door is assigned to, there is a 50% chance the tiger will maul you. if you say it doesn't matter what person A believes or decides is behind the door, then person A knows whether the tiger will maul you and you have no idea. similar concept to: quantum Freddy, quantum leopards; see also: Vegeta effect
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1895. Caesar Antichrist (Jarry 1895)
1896. Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (Jarry c.1911)
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1909. Materialism and Empirio-criticism (Lenin 1909) [7] [8] -> a text that had textbook status in the Soviet Union. worth annotating entry with important motifs / propositions / Lexemes.
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1911. Course in General Linguistics (Saussure 1911/1959) -> approximate benchmark for finding the birth of "general-sense" structuralist philosophy (signifier-based ontologies pretending not to be ontologies) within the literal descriptivist study of linguistic structuralism. despite all the bad things one could say about the "Existentialist-Structuralist tradition" that would emerge later, structuralism was not a bad thing in and of itself; it began in the practical study of the elements of language, which is still useful in very similar forms to people of all ideologies to this day.
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1917. Russian Revolution
1918. German revolution of 1918
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1920. The State and Revolution (Lenin 1918/1920)
1921. Terrorism and Communism (Trotsky 1920)
1922. The trade unions, the present situation, and Trotsky's mistakes (Lenin 1920) -> this is one of my favorite history texts because it just, is so illustrative of all the incorrect things Trotsky did at many different times all wrapped up in one prototypical incident. every time I learn about some other Trotsky incident my mind comes back to this one. did you know about the incident where he couldn't properly slam a metal door? unrelated but very funny. he was always convinced he knew everything but always making dumb mistakes that showed he didn't even know what Lenin or the workers' movements were actually doing. it's two sided. it's funny Trotsky was so arrogant but sad that he was so bad at contributing to the things he thought he believed in. it makes you ask, is there some point at which having standards becomes being mean to people and saying they aren't good enough to be part of a workers' state, that they simply weren't born to be the kind of people you want? workers' states are supposed to be about uniting everybody and getting everyone to stop fighting, so what is our obsession with leaving people behind?
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1927. Being and Time (Heidegger 1927)
1928. Terrorism and Communism chapter 8 [TC8]
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1933. ministry rearrangements in the USSR -> makes timelines of ministries comically unreadable, but makes a lot of sense when viewed as graph theory
1934. forced population rearrangements in the USSR -> complicated. some of this was moving isolated farmers into collective farms & social structures; some overlapped with deportations
1935. deportations of nationalities in the USSR -> mainly I think of the Chechen & Ingush incident
1936. The Revolution Betrayed (Trotsky 1936)
1937. Moscow trials
1938. My visit described for my friends (Feuchtwanger 1937)
1939. testimony of Bukharin
1940. death of Trotsky
1941. World War II
1948. founding of North Korea
1949. founding of People's Republic of China
1950. founding of East Germany (1949)
1952. Lavender Scare / remove the lavender lads from the State Department (1952) -> one of the clearer examples which can be used to argue for hegemony politics; hegemony politics + homophobia = Lavender Scare
1959. Common Lisp
1962. Joint World Congress to reunify the Fourth International (1962)
1965. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
1966. Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
1970. Settlers / Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat / Read Settlers (slogan) [9] -> Maoist text totally appropriated by anticommunists and stripped of all Marxist content thanks to the existence of Existentialism. until the advent of "read settlers" it wasn't widely apparent that there was a highly established philosophical tradition resistant to change which was opposing Communism. now we know that there is a specific ideology which believes that everything in the world is made of prejudice or non-prejudice as a fundamental building block, way below the existence of the proletariat, way below the fact humans have to eat and have to occupy space, the philosophical tradition where life is primarily composed of morality and culture before you're even a human being or populations even exist. do not trust anyone talking about "hidden biases" or trying to turn "colonialism" into something that's in our minds. do not assume they care about finding out how anything actually works instead of trying to make everything ever about prejudice including things you would never think of, only to find that real people have no empathy and no interest in choosing not to be prejudiced. you think I'm being cynical or hyperbolic, but I'm being highly literal. intersubjectivity is literally an ability many people don't have, and presupposing they have it is sinking all progressivism.
1972. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism And Schizophrenia
1973. A Thousand Plateaus (Anti-Oedipus vol. 2)
1978. German reunification (1989)
1979. Losing Earth: A Recent History (Rich 2019) -> a recap of climate change investigations and debates. narrative-style and memoir-like, very readable
1980. The Excessive Subject: A new theory of social change (2010)
1981. The End of History and the Last Man (Fukuyama 1992)
1982. Childhood's End (Clarke 1953)
1983. Animal Farm (Orwell 1945)
1984. 1984 (Orwell 1949)
1985. Anthem
1986. The Giver quartet
1987. The Giver (Lowry 1993)
1988. Gathering Blue (Lowry 2000)
1989. Messenger (Lowry 2004)
1990. Son (Lowry 2012)
1991. dissolution of the Soviet Union -> as series of real concrete events
1992. Molecular Marxism / Marxist Molecular Democracy (MDem)
1993. GNU/Linux operating system
1994. mathematical simulation / programmatic simulation / simulation program -> this is an S0 because it is a data structure style thing, while only specific simulations would be Z
1995. virtual pet / virtual pet keychain / virtual pet game
1996. Tapers
1997. Petscop
1998. 3D workers' island
1999. ??

2000

2000. Item with primarily literal associations / Item with literal meaning -> Z items, and S items used as part of fictional facticities
2001. Framework believes model to be incoherent or wrong
2002. Probably no serious symbolism
2003. The Subject (exmat)
2004. social graph connection (non-unique)
2005. connection weight (society models)
2006. graph struggle -> the state of two or more Social Systems (SGS) competing to secure a finite physical or conceptual territory in order to have exclusive ground to realize their desired material arrangement of things or people (Material System or SPMS)
2007. material graph struggle / chunk competition (MDem) -> individuals or Social Systems (SGS) competing to secure a specifically physical territory
2008. mutually-exclusive filament-based construction / Filamentism (MDem) -> stochastic construction of a larger society through many small localized graph struggles
2009. violent material graph struggle / violent chunk competition (MDem) -> graph struggle at the expense of human life.
2010. expulsion from social graph / social rejection (mathematical) / cancellation (Toryism)
2011. class territory
2012. class territory owner
2013. class territory resident
2014. The Communist Necessity (Moufawad-Paul 2014/2020)
2015. feudal order
2016. duke
2017. marquess
2018. earl
2019. count
2020. baron
2021. manor lord
2022. Existential Physics
2023. duchy
2024. march (feudal territory)
2025. earldom
2026. county (feudal territory)
2027. petty nobility
2028. feudal manor
2029. principality / princedom
2030. kingdom
2031. emirate
2032. caliphate
2033. shogunate / bakufu
2034. empire
2035. global empire
2036. imperial colony
2037. site of proxy war / buffer state
2038. republic
2039. supranational federation
2040. business territory
2041. state business
2042. state business ministry
2043. party-nation
2044. workers' state / countable instance of Marxism
2045. countable Marxist movement / countable instance of Marxism
2046. Communist International
2047. plural Communist Internationals
2044. rival proletarian revolution
2045. class subpopulation
2046. nationality subpopulation
2047. demographic subpopulation
2048. ethnic subpopulation / Black community (Existentialism) / Latino community (Existentialism)
2049. religious subpopulation
2050. historical heritage subpopulation / cultural Christian subpopulation / secular-Jewish subpopulation
2051. LGBT+ subpopulation / LGBT+ community (Existentialism)
2052. disability subpopulation
2053. neurodivergent subpopulation / autistic subpopulation
2054. city or town subpopulation
2055. industry subpopulation / Artist subpopulation / musician subpopulation / grocery clerk subpopulation
2056. capitalist ally subpopulation
2057. proletarian ally subpopulation
2058. capable subpopulation / capable layer
2059. [S] class (spatial rank) / middle class / rich and poor -> spatial slot hierarchy; money is capital
2060. [S] class (repeated relationship) / Individuals are comparable because they belong to a class
2061. [S] class (subpopulation) / Classes become powerful through capable subpopulations
2062. [S] unskilled worker
2063. [S] skilled worker
2064. [S] Artisan type
2065. [S] Artisan layer
2066. [S] Careerist / social mobility (center-Liberalism)
2067. [S] Careerist layer / Careerist class
2068. [S] Refuse class / refusariat (outdated term)
2069. [S] labor aristocracy (Maoism)
2070. Liberal representatives / Liberal legislators
2071. Liberal government employees
2072. charity employees
2073. [S] Bureaucrats constitute a class / professional-managerial class / The Bureaucracy
2074. ruling population
2075. leaping State
2076. [S] shepherd ruling population / shepherd sheet
2077. [S] herd-of-cats effect
2078. [S] birdcage model / economy separable from republic
2079. [S] not a matter of black and white cats
2084. [S] worker / group of people said to qualify as "workers"
2085. proletariat / class of workers / working class / group of people who practically functions as capable subpopulation
2086. Proletariat includes unemployed
2087. Proletariat consists of unskilled workers
2088. Proletariat includes skilled and unskilled workers but not unemployed
2089. Proletariat excludes First-World workers
2090. Proletariat excludes Second-World workers -> Trotskyism
2091. Proletariat is singular and multiple countries can unite at once -> Trotskyism, some anarchisms
2092. Proletariats belong to localized subpopulations functioning as nations / Proletariats include Black-proletariat in prison / Proletariats may include center-Liberal proletariat and right-Liberal proletariat -> North-American Maoism, MDem
2093. Proletariats are plural and belong to specific national populations -> Juche-socialism, Maoism
2094. First-World workers will form capable subpopulation -> Trotskyism, Marcuseanism
2095. Second-World workers will form capable subpopulation / Second-World countries will become capable subpopulation -> Stalin Thought, MDem
2096. Third-World workers will form capable subpopulation
2097. Any educated people can form capable subpopulation / Proletariat is immaterial to forming capable subpopulation -> Marcuseanism
2098. Third-World countries will become capable subpopulation / First World defined strictly by neocolonialism / First World defined strictly by global structural racism
2099. multiple capitalisms in one country / multicapitalism (MDem) -> the concept that it is possible for a given country to consist of two or more totally separate populations of capitalists, which only appear to be one population because the borders are fuzzily defined and corporations leak from one side to the other. multicapitalism is suggested as the mechanism for how center-Liberals and Tories can become so divided to the death against each other when all the bourgeoisie should "theoretically" be on the same side. if multicapitalism is real, China would not have multicapitalism but the United States would. one of the few concrete things the CPC would have accomplished in terms of building Bolshevism or transition out of capitalism is not allowing multicapitalism to develop.
2100. countable area of capitalism -> capitalism as a countable object. in real life, it may be hard to pin down where the boundaries of these are, but that just means it's especially inappropriate to characterize capitalism as a "population". in some senses it can only really be an empire-border.
2101. Political economy only remains a science so long as nobody breaks out of capitalism / Bourgeois economists necessarily have a career of maintaining the rest of capitalism -> rock-solid statement by Marx from unfinished Capital vol IV, as well as probably other texts
2102. Different societies contain the same repeated patterns / societies contain repeated patterns in the manner of quantum fields
2103. Societies have developmental processes from one set of repeated patterns to another
2110. shovel dream / object or formation ideology / ideology or consciousness associated with a specific repeatable kind of population which is countable and separable and has a particular kind of internal structure / ideology or consciousness associated with a particular kind of materially-definable Social-Philosophical System -> Hyper-Materialist concept. the motif of a particular kind of object having a particular kind of model of the world and ideology because it is a particular kind of object. almost always the object is a countable, separable population of people, but it's funny to figuratively refer to other kinds of objects to get across a concept that somehow absolutely nobody seems to understand. Hyper-Materialism is when all similar shovels have a similar shovel dream, and all similar rakes have a similar rake dream. a collections of rakes may have its own unique collection-of-rakes dream, but in principle it can be calculated by modeling the interaction of the individual rake dreams. individual people, not being shovels or rakes, can change their shovel dream at will, but changing the shovel dream of one individual may not have much effect on a large group. Marcuse thinks it's as simple as changing all the individuals one by one but that doesn't necessarily go fast enough. you have to understand the existing layout of various kinds of material objects producing shovel dreams and think about what changes in the layout of shovels could produce the right ones faster. the terrible thing is there are no shortcuts here. you can't just go "here are the bourgeoisie, here are the proletariat, they only need to become aware of the possibly wrong model in this text". with the United States objectively not having the class structure described in Leninist texts, organizers really do need to understand the basic concept of shovel dreams and how to identify them and categorize them in the field.
2111. Material causes of capitalism are reflected in ideological patterns of Existentialism / Capitalism can be characterized by diagramming Existentialism and working backwards to the material causes of the ideology
2112. ??
2113. socialism in one country
2114. socialist transition
2115. era of socialism / lower-phase communism -> workers' state
2116. era of communism / upper-phase communism
2117. further transitions (Marx)
2118. creatorism (MDem)
2119. Particle Theory / Bauplan -> ideological nested-graph model
2120. Social-Graph System (SGS)
2121. Social-Behavioral System (SBS)
2122. Social-Philosophical System (SPS) / Particle Theory (MDem) / Bauplan (MDem)
2123. Social-Philosophical-Material System (SPMS) / Particle Theory (MDem) / Bauplan (MDem)
2124. realization / construction of society form
2125. "the hand bone is connected to the arm bone" / "Dem Bones"
2126. receiving node
2127. granting node
2128. Economic processes comprehensible through graph models / Economic processes will one day be comprehended through graph theory / Historical processes comprehensible through graph models
2129. economic graph model
2143. ??
2144. Trotskyism: Counter-revolution in Disguise (Olgin 1935) -> Soviet record of the history of Trotskyism up to the first attack. relatively comprehensive, although I would expect no less. it was amusing to me when they got the trade unions incident in there, which had been one of my favorite historical anecdotes — and even better when there were apparently several more factual details to how badly Trotsky screwed it up. good history text. the only problem is I have questions about how complete its class analysis is. of all the statements made, I wouldn't dispute any of them but I do feel like there are some crucial statements missing that might just explain everything. Trotskyism was born out of a churning creek of petty bourgeoisie that could never pick a side? true. Trotsky was never integrated into the Russian revolution? true. I mean, he himself complains about that, so there's no denying it. the behavior of creeks of petty bourgeoisie can be ignored and brushed off as a factor in the motions of history? false. creeks of petty bourgeoisie are not periodically generating entire new competing Marxisms and separating whole racial movements from nation-states to then call all Marxists racist? false. the CPSU tended to totally dismiss these layers of society as people who exist, which actually did make sense in a country like theirs where it was a small portion of the population, but it's a rather terrible thing to present this point of view to other countries where conditions are very different. even if this layer is "unimportant" you still have to understand its behavior, and effectively, give it something to do before it gets into trouble. though Trotskyists literally don't believe it (and we can guess why.) the United States is filled to the brim with "petty bourgeoisie" and the problem only gets worse every time capitalism has a crisis. it's like rather than consolidating the bourgeoisie, crises in capitalism actually result in big corporations exploding, destroying the proletariat, and wildly creating petty bourgeoisie.
2145. Trotskyism is the shovel dream of small owners / Trotskyism is the shovel dream of the petty bourgeosie (small owners; Artisan types; mainstream Marxism-Leninism) -> I think this is only half the explanation but I can't disagree. I think you have to model it as the shovel dream of a separate unique cluster of "petty bourgeoisie", a subpopulation as a countable object, to where there can be plural groups which fail to unify because they're fundamentally separate objects. but at that point you've basically got it. yes, the "proliferation of Marxisms" and "plurality" I keep talking about are some very petty-bourgeois problems. but I can't just walk away from these problems because the oceans of petty bourgeosie that create them all really actually exist and have to be studied. they're the numerous, insular, backward peasants of the modern world.
2146. ??
2150. The Spanishness Office -> within this wiki, first brought up in MDem "democulture" entry.
2151. There is no Spanishness Office -> the concept that culture cannot be changed through any deliberate effort, even by most movements. one could believe there is no Spanishness Office because culture is defined by the borders between populations, or because culture is produced through deterministic factors that individual will can't successfully pilot without a thorough science of society, or for any other number of reasons.
2152. There are ten million Spanishness Offices -> the claim that every time the motif of The Spanishness Office shows up, this is what it is bisimilar to: a bunch of free-floating corporations or institutions which may be conflated with the will of a particular owner, or a Tory Social-Philosophical System that has occupied a free-floating charity, each time raising the problem that the institution has its own "individual will" separate from society which is resistant to Liberal-republican "democracy" and resistant to almost everything. the problem isn't in asserting that there are Spanishness Offices, though there is a serious problem when people think controlling them is as simple as taking over just one when there are closer to ten million they might not successfully secure with perhaps some five million left over and wildly doing their own thing.
2153. Western Marxism is one big distraction -> it can be true there are Spanishness Offices and false that Western Marxists remotely understand them.
2154. ??
2155. ??
2159. ??
2160. ??
2170. ??
2180. ??
2190. ??
2200. retail shelves as global empire / retail empire (MDem) -> the motif of retailers always being a kind of star graph connecting to manufacturers that then connect to workers, often in Third World countries; each retailer is a microcosm of the relationship between the United States and other countries itself. "retail empire" is not in the tiny-civilization sense of "imperial republic of Walmart", more in the sense of the global scope of, for instance, the British empire.
2201. republic of Walmart / people's republic of Walmart -> the motif of large businesses behaving like small governments with departments
2202. imperial republic of Walmart -> the motif of emerging businesses behaving like small governments with departments specifically in order to wildly expand over everything like some kind of miniature Dutch empire finding the best part of Africa before anyone else can get it. the act of delivering a workable service at any cost and taking all the losses, until taking as great a territory as possible becomes a way to survive against the threat of other structures taking it. [10] imperial republics of Walmart are not typically broken up because of the way they operate as units against everything else and don't contain clear merger lines. I think the more of these you point out the clearer the nature of capitalism becomes. capitalism is the act of using people as tools to secure frontier empires against other empires, and it always was that way. capitalism is a social-darwinist fight between miniature countable Cultures to determine what kinds of culture are allowed to live and which ones are softly or formally prohibited.
2203. ??
2204. ??
2205. ??
2206. ??
2207. ??
2208. ??
2209. ??
2210. ??
2215. ??
2216. Nation-states are neither natural nor intentionally constructed -> the claim that, excluding all Marxist states, the process of people forming into nation-states is both artificial and largely not at all designed. many people make the mistake of turning undesigned-ness into a simple binary where if something is not designed it must be fully natural in the sense of either ecological or human, and if something is not fully ecological it must be as deliberately designed as a computer chip; you see this fallacy in both anarchism and Western Marxism. this is not the case. something can be totally undesigned and also harmful, just as something like indigenous agriculture could be designed and be ecological. some things which are ecological are undesigned, yet The Subject itself is arguably designed by itself while being a biological animal,
2217. Strikes are acts of courage / Some strike incidents have been absolutely metal / Strikes are perilous -> true fact but don't let it scare you. instead think about how crazy it is that owners look at strikes and can't see them as acts of courage.
2220. wave machine -> a particular kind of mathematical process or Algebra which provides various ways to describe the interaction of two events. named after Wavebuilder, but is actually the principle behind Wavebuilder.
2221. Determinism can form out of non-deterministic elements -> we already know this is possible, at least in a mathematical sense concerning material things that really appear unpredictable versus material things that really appear predictable. the most widely-accepted example right now is quantum mechanics. nobody really knows much about the individual particles, yet as things scale up all the particles form into predictable patterns. this is the key to building models of society and historical materialism.
2222. study of interacting objects instead of one at a time / study of two or more interacting objects instead of one object at a time -> I know the word "system" can be used for this, as in "complex adaptive system", etc. but the word system has been so totally exhausted into meaninglessness in social movements I feel like we really need to break things down more to where they are hard to misunderstand. also, this might be a Z Item because it seems like a realistic description of a kind of scientific field. it seems like it might already exist, even if it exists to a more limited extent than it really should.
2223. Nature is a multiplication table / All physics equations are actually multivariable functions -> here we go. one of the most genuinely solid propositions I've come to in MDem, that unlike everything else I have very little doubt about, and high confidence in. we teach mathematics and Newtonian mechanics entirely wrong. we should be teaching every physics function from wavefunction collapse to chemical reactions to throwing a rock as multivariable functions of objects colliding in the sense of two number lines colliding in a multiplication table style function to produce a three dimensional graph. this is the beginning to how we fix all of physics. this might lead to unifying quantum mechanics, Newtonian mechanics, and gravity. this is it. it sounds absurdly simple, and ridiculous that this could be the answer, but I think this is it.
2224. Punnett squares can apply to anything -> the claim that Punnett squares are a specific application of a data structure that can be used to model any event with multiple known outcomes
2225. ??
2226. ??
2227. ??
2228. ??
2229. rocket science (Western Marxism) / rocket science (molecular Gramscianism; Western Marxism as seen through meta-Marxism) -> the task of getting everyone to realize that the only thing standing between the United States and an eventual proletarian revolution is that people are convinced that the socioeconomy runs on Free Will when it ultimately does not; the task of making a plan to practically persuade everyone to apply this.
2230. Determinism separates center-Liberals from Communists / Determinism separates Liberalism from Communism / The greatest difference between Liberal-republicanism and Bolshevism is free will versus determinism -> once you understand "determinism" as limited portions of the universe performing "chemical reactions" rather than as universe-wide predetermination, it all clicks into place.
2231. Action transforms the abstract into the tangible / Practice transforms the abstract into the tangible -> the claim that it isn't the desire to do something but the intuitive or educated knowledge of the world and ability to apply that knowledge that allows people to transform their surroundings. this only makes more and more sense when you have a disability: you need knowledge of the reality of your body to dodge it, not just more Free Will.
2232. Determinism can get populations through war -> what is Stalin telling everybody not to fear because Marxist methods will pull through mathematically if not this. Marxism claims, although sometimes fails, to be able to mathematically solve wars and avert them by getting everyone onto the science of the best solution.
2233. Strikes are an act of applied science / Strikes are an act of applied determinism -> pretty much what Marx says, just put a little more bluntly. he says basically that workers' movements as a whole are something you can apply determinism to in order to better know the actual requirements to get the outcomes you want. maybe I'm wrong and that's only in Lenin? not sure.
2234. Being wrong means relinquishing wrong models / Admitting you're wrong requires giving up wrong models -> could be used in the context of either Marxism or science.
2235. ??
2236. ??
2237. ??
2238. ??
2239. ??
2240. Faith actually represents free will / Within religion, faith actually refers to confidence in the unyielding Free Will of an individual / The Neverending Story shows that faith, hope, and Free Will are all actually the same thing [11] -> looking at the bible, looking at Lacanian and schizoanalyst and chaos-magic nonsense, I sputtered to get this out, not sure if anyone had noticed it. then one day Lacanians say it unironically in clear words rather than spaghetti. thanks Lacanianism. thanks much for nothing.
2241. Will transforms the abstract into the tangible / Will is what transforms the abstract into the tangible -> chaos magic is straight-up Existentialism with a little ritual thrown on. this is one blatant definition of Existentialism. it has also made me realize, unexpectedly, that the "law of attraction" is Existentialism.
2242. Free will can get populations through war -> what seems to be one of the biggest claims behind Old Testament bible stories... and a bunch of old-style fantasy books. that the sheer will to not back down and to kill people for the army of Good is what brings victory.
2243. Strikes are an act of applied free will -> this is what I was complaining about way back in MDem v3. I had no idea how deep into all of this I'd have to go to finally have words for it.
2244. Being wrong means relinquishing freedom / Being wrong means giving up freedom (en-x-pona) / Admitting you're wrong requires relinquishing freedom -> derived Existentialist proposition, though I don't totally know what it's derived from. the reason people don't like to admit they're wrong. every time people are busy being wrong, they're also busy exerting individual will and effort to do what they want to do and be where they want to be. people are always told, try hard, believe in yourself, and you will surely be allowed to do anything. in practice, this saying isn't remotely correct. it's all too easy for somebody to try hard, go into physics, mess with string theory, create a wrong model, and end up getting bullied out of science simply for not magically being perfect and guessing the correct thing in a world where the material topics of science are getting so utterly esoteric that nothing can properly be tested before it's published. or try hard, try to create art, and suddenly a bunch of Gramscians or anarchists or postcolonial theorists show up and are like, you're not fit to make art, you didn't magically know what every prejudice and microaggression is when speaking in terms of the physical communication of information you couldn't possibly have known. my issue here obviously isn't that there are standards, it's just the way anarchists and Gramscians elevate socially constructed standards to natural law and expect people to automatically know things that require education.
2245. State businesses only hand free will to Stalin / State businesses are bad because they only shift the locus of Free Will to the state-business-owning structure -> world of Alert + state businesses are incorrect = this. I feel like this is one of people's biggest objections against Bolshevism, and argument for why it's "beyond the end of history in the hyper-future". deep down they think the only problem with capitalism is that owners have hoarded all the Free Will, while if workers had some of the Free Will everything would be okay. in reality.... that is not how anything works. in the real world, putting all the businesses into one structure, or even doing the absolute bare minimum of forcing all people to be part of one government instead of multiple governments of multiple capitalisms, actually opens up new routes for giving individuals agency. the Soviet Union was constantly using "proper channels" to fire its managers. the people of China periodically launch complaints on or fire their bureaucrats; literally you can create Marxism without Bolshevism and it works better than Liberal-republicanism. there is a specific reason people like this concept even though it's wrong. they're looking at things from a "world of Alert" point of view where because individuals exist at such a small scale of reality they think people ever joining up into a bigger structure to protect them from capitalists is senseless. they just cannot imagine why a bunch of workers would join into a country to guard against First World capitalists and their capitalists when otherwise everybody would be suffering horribly off in another land First World people can't see or imagine. the fundamental concept of a proletarian civilization or dictatorship of the proletariat is alien to them. now why is this? well, number one: beneath Liberalism everybody believes in Existentialism or anarchism, where everything about a civilization starts at individual Free Will and the "social construction" of individual choices. number two: much of the United States is fundamentally structured as polyartisanal production. everything is built in this way where all individuals constantly have to make choices even if that doesn't truly give them any freedom and only gives them responsibility; capitalists are constantly making choices and experts and contractors are constantly making choices. this leaves people totally blind to the concept that giant capitalists could have more decision-making power than they have and big corporations could be puppeting the republic as its real subunits. the first thing that should be done about this is to stop telling anybody about "the bourgeoisie" as a cloud of individual people and instead change the entire rhetoric to "corporations as whole structures have decision-making power and you don't, while Jeff Bezos directly owns and immediately makes use of the decision-making power you don't have — this doesn't mean you can break up corporations, this means Bezos makes three moves on the chess board for every move you make, and he will do terrible things to you before you even get to fire him". this is the basic solution to the "Spanishness Office" problem: tell people where the major Spanishness Offices are, declare that they will never go away before tragedy comes, and that it's necessary to not just "break them up" and choppify them to pieces but solidly and consistently stand against them for what will feel like a very very long time in Existentialist years. any fallacy as stupid as this one leaves me so possessed to write everything in "upgoer five". not because I think people are actually stupid but because I am just so tired of it being hard to communicate easy concepts to people and I wish making things easier to understand was as simple as writing easier sentences. ever felt that way?? anyway. people standing together in support of a proletarian civilization should not be complicated. and it actually only gets less complicated once you've finally untangled Western Marxism and the "Whiteness" debate and what Spanishness Offices are. there's a super clear incentive for the most stuffy, academic member of the petty bourgeoisie to side with proletarian civilization. but people are blinded from that because they're so damn obsessed with Free Will and Free Will being one of the fundamental mechanisms of society. that's the big hurdle, that's the giant leap, that's it. we practically know what the task of our "upgoer five" is, it's just a matter of getting through the real rocket science and writing up the diagrams. preferably easy ones.
2246. ??
2247. ??
2248. ??
2249. ??
2250. intelligent design
2251. creationism -> intelligent design which is brave enough to admit it's Christian
2252. Atheism makes people into Communists -> well... kind of, but not directly. it usually doesn't.
2253. Darwinism makes people into Communists -> haven't heard this one but I feel like it's in the back of some people's minds.
2254. Creationists should be Communists -> this is incredibly silly and yet you could totally destroy Idealism by complying with it and successfully arguing this.
2255. ??
2256. ??
2257. ??
2258. ??
2259. ??
2260. society as intelligent design -> with the great prevalence of utopian art and solarpunk alongside anticommunism and these strictly general-sense-psychoanalysis / almost-secular-christian ways of looking like things, I feel this motif is currently very charcoal.
2261. If markets can't be designed, why can animals? -> to be taken as a genuine jumping-off point to different explanations, not as a rhetorical question.
2265. ??
2270. ??
2275. ??
2280. Marxism contains both Good and Evil / Both Good and Evil exist inside a workers' state / If Good and Evil exist at all according to some particular definition of what they are, then Good and Evil exist relative to a workers' state population rather than relative to the world outside it / Claims about what is right or wrong within Bolshevism must be evaluated from inside Bolshevism / You are a Communist for the next two minutes (meta-Marxism swatch color) -> the claim that when a workers' state is created, all of the people inside it do not become evil, and instead the concepts of Right and Wrong will be defined relative to that country rather than what another country wants. this is a strangely difficult concept for the United States to understand.
2281. Marxist states are people-groups -> it's crazy that people need to be reminded of this, but they do.
2282. Communist laws are laws / Rule of law in a Marxist state is rule of law / When enumerating Communist atrocities, "enforcing Bolshevism" doesn't count -> I am so tired of the trope that Marxist states cannot have laws. the United States will go around labeling all kinds of things natural crimes and asserting it has the right to beat them up without any established government structure or laws permitting that. in such irony when supposedly absolutely everything inside the United States including its movements has to follow Congress and the constitution and some of us even get mad about case law and try to tear case law out. but as soon as Marxist states have laws that's bad, because they're not United States laws. I'm not sure there even is any such thing as the rule of law when capitalism exists, because the rule of law would be actually accepting that there can be a plurality of rules of law and they usually are not supposed to disturb each other.
2283. Stalin can speak about what is morally right in the Soviet Union -> this doesn't guarantee he will give the right answer, but it is to say that inasmuch as anyone is capable of choosing anything he is capable of choosing to discover the right answer within the information the country knows about itself. inasmuch as anyone can determine what is morally right in the Soviet Union, Stalin can.
2284. Trotsky can speak about what is morally right in the Soviet Union -> this is not an open question due to historical events. Trotsky could perhaps speak about what is morally right inside a hypothetical Trotskyist workers' state, but not about what is morally right in the Soviet Union, because to put it nicely, he blatantly violated that.
2285. Citizens of the Soviet Union can speak about what is morally right in the Soviet Union
2286. Liberalisms commit natural crimes on Bolshevism / If natural crimes exist, Liberalisms commit them on Bolshevism / If natural crimes exist, then Liberal republics can commit them on Bolshevism
2287. ??
2288. Mussolini can define what is morally right in Italy / Mussolini can speak about what is morally right in Italy -> intuitively false, but a little difficult to explain.
2289. King Vegeta can define what is morally right for Saiyans / King Vegeta can speak about what is morally right in the Saiyan kingdom -> Q22,88 as it relates to fiction.
2290. Trotsky can speak about what is morally right inside a hypothetical Trotskyist workers' state -> very complicated. potentially runs into vaguely similar problems to Q22,88 and Q22,89 — obviously not in terms of bourgeois / Roman-style imperialism, but in its own way. at the same time... do we want to squash Trotskyism and tell them they can't break from capitalism and create their own nation just because they haven't been allies of mainstream Marxism-Leninism? that seems a lot like what Trotskyism has done to us. it would seem the ethical thing is to support Trotskyism determining itself so that Trotskyists don't convert back to right-Liberals, which is definitely something that happens.
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2310. Awful people also have human rights / Bad people have the same human rights -> I don't like it when people use this to prop up Existentialist arguments. but taken by itself I totally believe it. rehabilitate criminals. redirect Trotsky. don't be mean to reactionaries in ways that will not be productive.
2400. Palestine is not complicated -> what it says. there are weird philosophical problems that you can get into with the United States and analogies about Ireland or Trotskyism, but there is no real way to complicate Palestine. Palestine is a matter of not killing the Palestinians. and that's it. but you want to know what's terrible? Rothenberg literally had a chapter about complicating Palestine. this is why I say so many bad things about Existentialism. I may love to talk about hypothetical civilizations, but not in order to pretend that's how you solve Palestine.
2401. needlessly complicating Palestine -> see: Palestine is not complicated
2402. ??
2409. In a world where all Palestinians were racist, it still wouldn't make sense to kill them -> you hear a lot of stupid arguments that Israel = Jews (how can it, when people now live in so many countries?), but you don't often see people address this. empire is not about whether people are nice people. bad people also have human rights.
2410. A monarchy spanning two continents is global empire -> not easy to dispute. an empire which is global in scope is global empire.
2411. A monarchy extending over a sovereign nationality is global empire / A monarchy spanning two nationalities is global empire -> murkier but often true. the Russian Empire extending over Ukrainians ultimately revealed itself to be global empire when it happened again. Spain or France conquering Haiti is global empire because even before we get to all the suffering it's an intercontinental distance. tangent: can we acknowledge how stupid arguing over Columbus is? regardless of what Columbus did or didn't do himself he marked the beginning of global empire in Haiti. look at Ireland and it becomes more than obvious that a few people appear before a lot of people appear. arguments about Columbus exist because people hate historical materialism.
2418. ??
2419. A country killing populations that stand in its way is empire
2420. The United States killing Native Americans in frontier wars was empire -> kind of obvious. "Manifest Destiny" describes the shape of an empire speaking in the old medieval sense, so it's kind of an admission of guilt. we get a very important truth from this: killing groups of people that stand in your way is empire.
2421. England occupying Ireland was global empire -> straightforward. the definition that filling Ireland with English people so they can all link together and realize the British Empire is global empire or "colonialism" materially. the British Empire is global empire, and the British Empire is the intended result of the process.
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2487. "modest" proposal -> a terrible idea framed as a great idea, either for comedy or to make some kind of point. used several times in MDem scraps to create B-Side chapters or scraps. original essay "A modest proposal" from 1729
2488. Returning land doesn't work / Returning farms to Black South Africans Will Never Work -> reactionary tries to claim that there is an equation for what race of people should own farms ... going for the angle that this will make the world worse because being Black is as destructive as being Stalin. (which, if true, would mean that Black South Africans are rebuilding their country and making it stable.) honestly goes to show that when people said Communism "will never work" it isn't unreasonable to think they did mean to imply that Russians or Chinese people controlling industry in their own region instead of people from other countries — I hate the word greed, but — greedily slurping up everything anyone has created will never work. ... (complete prototype notes after watching through claim again)
2489. Freedmen having democracy doesn't work -> there was a version of Q24,88 during US Reconstruction because of course there was. and it was even less true. in reality Southern Blacks were almost the ones rebuilding the thing but people still got upset
2490. The concept of "scarcity" is prejudiced / Scarcity is prejudiced (searchable) / Liberal-republican economics is legalized racism / Liberal-republican economics is the study of how to legally eliminate Black people from the United States / Liberal-republican economics is the study of how to legally wipe China off the face of the earth -> the claim that racism, anti-immigration, and other prejudices begin precisely at the concept that human populations can be studied and constructed through "the allocation of scarce resources", because it is ridiculously easy to vulgarize that into kicking some particular group of people off a plot of land and handing it to someone else being "more productive" or "more efficient".
2491. Everyone can change their racist uncle / If Free Will could end colonialism, everyone could change their racist uncle -> one of the single greatest ignored contradictions in United States discourse. if individuals have Free Will, then it's safe for everyone to directly debate reactionaries. if individuals don't have Free Will, and all of people's actions are retermined through either interactions between parts of their body or the relaterministic development of Social-Philosophical Systems, then it's fundamentally important to rearrange people at minute social levels to get them to think any differently. even a progressive party taking over a country at large scales will do nothing to change how people think if you don't rearrange the people themselves.
2492. People argue about Columbus because they hate historical materialism / Arguments about Columbus exist because people hate historical materialism -> really, really important. Marxists believe that people fail to see global empire because they don't understand the material patterns of history or societal development. Existentialists believe that people fail to see global empire because they are ""prejudiced"". they start invoking this weird little Artisanal ideal of a tiny ring of friends from different countries listening and learning, like that can fix global empire. then the more you look into it, the more you see it's actually just an appeal to Free Will and the notion that a rational actor will Freely Decide not to be Evil. but then you get to the problem of, how do you get somebody to accept any particular definition of Evil as real? you have no guarantee that any particular human being won't Freely Decide that being whatever you think is Evil is better. so Existentialists believe that Free Will leads to a bunch of people spontaneously Freely Deciding to change history, but in reality, what you get is a bunch of people arguing that Columbus arriving in Hispaniola means nothing for the future arrival of Spanish empire because individual human actions are arbitrary and can't be used to predict history. even after those events have happened, when it's hundreds of years later and we have the results, they say this. this is what Existentialism leads to. denial of global empire. identifying the causes of global empire requires rejecting Existentialism.
2493. ??
2498. ??
2499. The US South is a nationality held in colonialism -> first of all: I make absolutely no assertion this claim is true, I only think it should be investigated for its accuracy or falsity. what is the definition of a colony? a colony is a population of people forcibly held under the government of an empire for the benefit of that empire. in the prototypical examples, people may be turned into slaves or slaughtered to take whatever "assets" their area "had". colonies in general can be very screwed up. but not all colonies are the same. in some cases, England can descend on Ireland and start granting the whole thing to new or existing Protestants, and it takes a while for it to affect the whole country. there's nothing okay about that; it does amount to a medieval cold war where they're trying to eliminate the Irish because the Irish stand in their way. but think about it a bit. after the US Civil War, a lot of the development of the United States has revolved around chunks of socially-linked people trying to control parts of the US so they can further realize their vision of the US over the whole US. most notably racist reactionaries trying to drive people out of areas to have more control, but in modern times, also White center-Liberals trying to occupy as many slots as possible and do the same thing to reactionaries. that realization process of doing hegemony politics to supposedly defeat racism is a lot like the colonial process of realizing the British Empire over Ireland. mathematically speaking. and if you think this sounds really stupid? maybe it is. but I think in general like 90% of the people studying "colonialism" are trying to define an incoherent thing and have no idea how to distinguish it from things that aren't it. empires are real. messed-up wars to snatch people's lands are real. but how do you even tell whether groups of people should be somewhere or shouldn't? there's no Liberal economics for whether an island should be inhabited by one group of people or another group of people; there's no equation that says this island does best when Irish people or English people have it, barring some futuristic Marxist equation about empire bringing inevitable suffering or about the notion of self-contained areas and degrowth. the hard reality is that primitive accumulation is always happening and never stops happening. the sheer biological growth of populations prompts them to senselessly expand into each other and over the areas they each believed they owned and nobody really knows how to properly make sense of that. when do you deserve to live anywhere regardless of who you are, and when are you deliberately refusing to understand the existing population or trying to destroy it? the Protestants leveling Ireland to then realize the British Empire seems like a fairly clear case of going too far. but where does it actually begin? when do people belong to populations and people-groups regardless of how much they think they're individuals? when are people actually individuals who should be considered minority demographics? could Trotskyists be unfair "colonizers" of the Soviet Union just because there's a good argument both that they are taking stuff away from its otherwise united population to build their own rival civilization and they utterly refuse to understand Soviet culture? how do you know what Culture is supposed to own a region? with that in mind, could it be that people's approach to handling United States reactionaries is genuinely incorrect if they never really wanted to be part of the United States at all and yet everyone is trying to bleed their population for social programs and order their people to behave particular ways and say they shouldn't have representatives in the government they were traumatically forced to be a part of? these days Liberal democracy feels more like a weird new form of colonialism people are attempting to use "for good rather than for evil".
2500. ??
2505. Graph struggle can be used to establish standards / Machiavellianism is the assertion that graph struggle can be used to establish standards -> Plantagenet kings; Ukraine war; Gramscianism. model combines or unifies models: social graph - medium or vessel for - code of behavior ; graph struggle - instance of - method for distinguishing Good from Evil ; graph struggle - has logical result - social change
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2590. ??
2599. How to know a crow: The biography of a brainy bird -> non-fiction semi picture book. one of those things I entered in here mostly because I liked the pictures — much like with comics or TV shows. but this is also a simple example of a "nature documentary" and how to pick Signifiers or real-world concepts out of one.
2600. animal home territory (ecology) -> relevant to describing real-world crow behavior, Warriors series, chunk phenomenon.
2601. individual animal
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2605. ??
2610. petty bourgeoisie -> the non-fictional motif of a particular definition of a non-proletarian class mainly seen in mainstream Marxism-Leninism but maybe in Trotskyist texts. (that was a weirdly repetitive sentence but I'm not fixing it.) I think Trotskyists might get the definition a bit wrong versus what mainstream Marxism-Leninism says, though I'm not positive about that. I do know Trotskyists have this weird implied belief that them existing cancels out the existence of any other petty bourgeoisie because they're the good ones so bad ones must not exist any more.
2611. Indie games are the petty bourgeoisie
2612. Andrew Hussie is a member of the petty bourgeoisie -> again somebody people have become neutral about due to his tone-deaf "very White" writing early on. the Berdly style of writing, we've all done it, there's only so much shame in it.
2613. Scott Cawthon is a member of the petty bourgeoisie -> nobody necessarily likes him as a person (and they don't know him, so that's not an insult either, technically) but they definitely talk a whole lot about how a game made by one person can "change the landscape of games".
2614. Trotsky was a member of the petty bourgeoisie -> claim given in Trotskyism: Counter-revolution in disguise (Q21,44). a concept that always stuck out at me from the first moment I heard of him and that as a result I have to pretty much agree with.
2615. If Cuba contains a private sector, it contains the bourgeoisie -> this should be a prosaic statement but it apparently needs to be said. why does Cuba contain a bourgeoisie? there is a big, sprawling discussion to be had about why exactly workers' states give up and start regenerating the bourgeoisie. is this a process that stops on a particular date in history, or is it more similar to a life history event that occurs in the life cycle of an individual which thus needs to be countered continuously at each moment society regenerates? with meta-Marxism I have been slowly leaning toward the latter, toward the hypothesis that even if defeating the bourgeoisie in a Communist revolution can help, it isn't a one-time process. this does, fortunately or unfortunately, open up vague possibilities of there being methods to block the regeneration of the bourgeoisie in a charcoal-tinted transition process. it had better be pretty good though, given that anarchism itself has a tendency to regenerate the bourgeoisie.
2616. ??
2617. Toby Fox is a member of the petty bourgeoisie / Toby Fox was a member of the petty bourgeoisie in 2016 -> let's just drop some uncomfortable truths that should be perfectly obvious to any Marxist but are not obvious to any normal progressive who talks about "trans rights", "abortion", "the Republic of Gilead", and "fascism". (none of these are bad topics by themselves, but the thing is that you can probably already hear in your head the exact framing and the tone they're said in. that's the problem.) the great thing about this ontology project is we can drop as many of these ridiculously-specific claims as needed.
2618. ??
2619. Everyone in Deltarune is the petty bourgeoisie -> Asgore sticks out the most when the word "shop" is put next to him immediately but like, everything is a tiny business or teeny government institution. it's kind of just logically true the second you start thinking about it.
2620. United States people are born the proletariat -> I think there is significant evidence to consider this not true or very misleading. A) Stalin's interview described the United States as full of "skilled workers" that were "not relevant". B) currently the entire concept of progressivism is defined and controlled by the petty bourgeoisie; every "progressive" gets absolutely fierce and hostile at you if you so much as define progressivism starting with Materialism instead of Idealism. C) there is a copious discourse in right-Liberalism and environmentalism about "small businesses" and how there are supposedly enough small businesses to combat climate change by getting rid of big businesses. if true that is an absolute cascade of small businesses, a small business tsunami. D) every piece about "gen z" acknowledges that people are primarily doing gig work instead of actually getting employed. E) YouTube channels have exploded and along with them has exploded a terrible tendency for everyone to conflate tiny businesses with "labor", partly thanks to an unholy alliance between YouTube channels and "artists" that all have no idea what employment is.
2621. United States people are born the petty bourgeoisie / United States people are born the petty bourgeoisie, not the proletariat -> this claim refers especially to people born in suburbs. it may not apply to the entire United States at once. if it applies to significant regions of the United States as considered separately from other regions, then it should be considered true, although more propositions can be created to narrow it down and make it more precise.
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2666. ??
2670. ??
2679. If mathematics is purely arbitrary, Krillin can punch Chiaotzu for any answer
2680. Mathematics is an arbitrary painting from deterministic brushstrokes / Mathematics is an arbitrary house of deterministic cards -> equations work only one way but our choice of equations to use as models is arbitrary.
2681. Does two flames plus two ice cubes equal four ice cubes? -> jamming question to trip up philosophers who say that "two plus two must necessarily equal four" rather than realizing that mathematics is true according to definitions of regular rules. mathematics is one big field of multivariable equations, such as "z = x + y", which always work the way they have been defined to work, but cease to work that way as soon as we use a different definition, which is rather frequent. if we assume one flame melts exactly one ice cube, the flames and ice cubes problem can be phrased with negative numbers, and we have changed the definition of adding objects into subtracting objects just by saying that the same integer that can contain 2 can contain -2.
2682. ??
2683. Amazon bleeding authors is stealing / Letting Amazon bleed authors is stealing -> by itself, this isn't not true — I mean, the small shops are hard at work and the big mall owner is bleeding them into the ground with little benefit to them. reads like r/accidentallycommunist
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2685. ??
2686. ??
2687. ??
2688. Amazon bleeding authors is readers stealing / Letting Amazon bleed authors is stealing (implying that the readers did it) / When readers let Amazon take huge cuts of books that readers refund, the readers are stealing rather than Amazon / "Reading and returning a book is stealing" [12] -> there are days when I really wish I could delete "stealing" from the English language. I swear that whenever businesses use the word stealing it absolutely ceases to mean anything at all. I think part of what bothers me so much about the word stealing is.... in daily life, the word "stealing" is racist, and is used to justify shooting criminals to death, basically slamming them out of the United States and this mortal coil supposedly blessed by God straight into Hell. United States people have firmly established that people who "steal" aren't human beings and they all "deserve" to be burned in one big fire. so. uh. I wish people would stop using that word so casually to accidentally imply that every single person who can't afford a book is the spawn of Satan and basically deserves to be put in a gas chamber to protect the White race. that is almost the official, accepted connotation of the word "stealing" now. I'm sick of that, but I don't have the power to change what stealing means, so all I can do is tell people to drop the concept of stealing and not be in favor of that being a concept.
2770. Taxes are the same as buying a product / Taxes are basically the same as buying a product -> very common, but seems dangerous. if taxes are just buying a product, and we recall that buying a product is the act of dishing out a fraction of a social slot, then taxes are basically the same as handing out social slots. the withdrawal of taxes is the withdrawal of social slots. partisan arguments over taxes are arguments about the creation of social slots. most importantly, replacing taxes with private funding changes almost nothing; the only thing that changes is exactly one sponsor with one specific partisan viewpoint and set of requirements is connected to the "product" at a time.
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2772. ??
2773. ??
2774. ??
2775. ??
2776. Goku cannot decide what Vegeta does / Goku cannot Freely Will what Vegeta does
2777. ??
2778. Vegeta will inevitably do what Goku wants / Shenlong effect / Goku effect
2779. cat in superposition inside box / Schrödinger's cat
2780. quantum moons / objects have no color / Reality isn't real / funny metaphors for causality gaps / funny metaphors for stark-divisions jumped by fundamental particle interactions
2781. quantum dice / quantum coins / funny metaphors for wave functions
2782. quantum shoes / funny metaphors for entanglement
2783. box filled with overlapping lions / quantum Social-Philosophical Systems
2784. Starlight Glimmer paradox / Trunks paradox
2785. quantum lions (ally) / quantum Goku -> mathematical model in which potential allies that could extend a node into a graph appear in a probabilistic wave function of whether they will actually turn out to be allies; finding out someone is an ally requires quantum measurement
2786. quantum leopards / quantum Vegeta / quantum William Afton -> mathematical model in which hazardous enemies of a given graph node attempting to form into a graph appear in a certain probabilistic wave function of whether somebody will turn out to be a hazard or insistently unaligned versus an ally; finding out someone is a hazard requires quantum measurement, and this can sometimes be devastating because it gives said non-ally information and power that could aid the non-ally's graph in expanding and oppressing outsiders of that graph
2787. quantum Freddy -> similar to quantum William Afton, but with an absurd extra layer of precision; modeling hazards as unpredictably showing up at some particular point in 2D space according to the collapse of a probabilistic wave function
2788. Communist Bardock
2789. quantum Yamcha -> I don't have a good definition for this one but I thought it was funny. my working definition is, a node that when you collapse the wavefunction turns out to be useless for building graphs but is not hazardous
2791. ??
2792. Lattice model
2799. ??
2800. Subject-internal perception / Lived Experience (exmat)
2801. Subject-internal interpretation
2802. Subject-external interpretation
2803. map and territory fallacy
2800. Every citation should contain price information / Every citation should contain cost information -> I really do mean every citation in the world, not just every bop-format citation. field: graph economics.
2801. plagiarism
2802. What is plagiarism? / Who owns the ability to repeat factual information? / Who owns the ability to repeat literary motifs? / Who owns the ability to independently repeat culture in another nation-state / Who owns the ability to independently repeat culture in another nation-state without paying another country that it happens also wants to overthrow your government and destroy national sovereignty? -> everybody thinks they know what plagiarism is. anyone who owns a business or has a doctorate has absolutely no idea what it actually is or what it isn't; it's almost like the more educated you get the more confused you get about the question of plagiarism. here's the reality: the question of plagiarism is the question of what business territory owners will allow what other businesses or mere individuals to live and exist. that's precisely it. it's all up the whim of who likes who and who hates who. you're never guaranteed a license to exist even if you are willing to pay the money, it's all about personal relationships and court cases. there is no universal rule for what does infringe all copyrights or what doesn't infringe all copyrights. it's all about whether Bob wants Alice to be part of Bob's socially linked countable culture or wants to get rid of Alice. if Alice is Chinese, it's all about how much Bob wants China to exist or wants to wipe it off the face of the earth.
2803. large language model
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2808. reading arbitrary webpages and books into an LLM
2809. jumping over paywalls with ChatGPT -> it's funny in such a dark way that this exists; if you understood what LLMs automate, you'd see it coming from far away. I refuse to do it. [13] you can read a LithoGraphIca entry to get the same effect, or write one if you have access to the source, and more than one person gets to contribute to that. so, why does this exist? it exists because we've normalized an individual person with a lot of money buying an article being the only way to read articles. you know, a small shop putting out products assuming that everybody else has money to buy their products regularly when that might not at all be true. this incentivizes AI companies who are the only ones with money to send AIs to read everyone's articles, because even if they had to pay for the articles "legitimately" it would still be that they'd have the money and the readers wouldn't have the money. I am begging you if you have a Medium account with less than 100 followers to make your articles publicly available so an AI doesn't read them for people. ...this makes me realize. we should probably put in every single citation of a source whether somebody paid for it and a very vague idea of how much: new book, used book, paywalled article / paywalled or paid periodical. really, that should be in every single academic citation everywhere. we should push to get that into the official APA citation style guide to be frank. because that information is a fundamental part of publication, as much as the name of the publisher. field: graph economics.
2810. Nebula is a subscription streaming service... -> and eventually only AI companies will be able to pay for it, reading all the stuff in it with their machines and spitting it back out at the people who can only pay cents for content through ChatGPT. probably in the middle of a huge number of ads.
2811. YouTube is turning people into Communists (creating Communists, creating Marxists; abbreviated proposition) / The class structure or inner graph-economics structure of YouTube is conducive to demonstrating why capitalism does not make sense and Bolshevism tends to follow as the next step after capitalism -> sub-case of: Q28,17 Patreon types must learn that only businesses can pay businesses
2812. Mastodon is turning people into Communists (creating Communists, creating Marxists; abbreviated proposition) -> the claim that when microblog newsfeeds are created in a localized way for the people that use them rather than for one giant "mall lord", they turn into a structure where people casually share many things free as opposed to paywalled and unobtainable and the people of each particular localized social platform all operate as non-payers within a larger local government attached to a hunk of capital that acts as the only payer and that none of them directly owns; the localized social platform turns into a kind of generalized "state business", which is incidentally attached to a local countable culture in the form of the instance membership. this is definitely some kind of Bauplan. this is a mathematical structure which could be fit into theories of socialist transition. the only major issue is figuring out what "color" this Bauplan is. I would hazard a guess that it is actually charcoal, thinking about the way that people all over are so obsessed with creating these modular "state businesses" independently of existing corporate owners but independently of republican governments. that reads as very anarchist, in the sense of anarchism being connected to motifs of countable cultures extracting themselves from multiple possible "colonizing" forces, and these weird concepts that countable cultures inherently want to stand together just because they're all cultures.
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2817. Patreon types must learn that only businesses can pay businesses / Every small owner and subscription service must learn to accept that most people cannot buy their product and the only way their business will be viable is many business territories joining together and agreeing that government will decide which businesses pay for what business instead of individuals -> in a sense this is just a very long-winded way to describe Bolshevism. the only difference between this and flat-out "businesses will directly be part of the country and national constitution" is that it is a bit more molecularized, defining itself through graph economics of a small number of businesses linking to each other in a specific way rather than defining itself based on all the businesses in a whole country at once. honestly, to a smart person it should be totally equivalent though. like, this is just a small scale model of Bolshevism that if it makes sense in the first place would quickly apply to a whole country and not just part of it. this is basically a proposition for molecular Stalin Thought or molecular Maoism, something like that.
2820. Patreon type -> we can define this somewhat precisely, it's a specific real-world phenomenon. Z0 Item.
2821. YouTube creator
2822. video creator contractor / YouTube creator contractor -> a YouTube creator contractor is a gig worker who is contracted to make something for YouTube creators.
2823. video creator employee
2824. Nebula creator
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2891. R.D. has not done meta-Marxism correctly -> pre-emptively creating this so nobody can collapse Q28,98 into being false specifically because R.D. has not allowed meta-Marxism to expand to the point it can practically be more than one person. to falsify Q28,98 you have to prove something which does not pivot around R.D., like that meta-Marxism can never become a science, or can never serve the purposes of being a predictive or explanatory model that it is trying to achieve.
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2898. meta-Marxism is a concept, not a person / meta-Marxism is an ontology, not a person / R.D. is not the only one who can do meta-Marxism -> some people are going to need this reminder. meta-Marxism is a pile of hypotheses and a scientific method (in prototype, at least) by which the hypotheses can self-correct and evolve. the meta-Marxism that adjusts itself to match reality is meta-Marxism. if R.D. doesn't update meta-Marxism to be empirically accurate, then R.D. is not a top-tier meta-Marxist. meta-Marxism is an embryonic attempt to create a field of science. one could say this about the original Marxism as well. one could also claim, to varying degrees of success, that Marxism never became a science and always fell back down into the realm of philosophy. that's where meta-Marxism is right now, but if it is successful, it and Marxism will both climb out of the philosophy pit together.
2899. rejected meta-Marxist hypothesis
2900. meta-Marxist hypothesis / Molecular-Marxist hypothesis / MDem hypothesis -> category of all MDem axioms/hypotheses. for the 2900s range, focus more on MDem as a hypothetical SPMS inside which these statements are best tested versus anywhere else instead of general meta-Marxist statements that could theoretically be tested by any movement imaginable
2901. Inventions are purposeless without a permanent caretaker or institution / Inventions cannot be valued by any society as a whole
2902. Capitalism is the division of a country into 300 million nations per 300 million individuals / Capitalism is the division of countries into one countable Culture per one individual -> this sounds really weird at first, but it is the only good way to explain why Existentialism exists and why it so tightly ties diversity and tolerance to the existence of Artisan types or bourgeoisie. watch Elemental (Pixar 2023) and you will really see this as the unintended message - society really needs every Culture specifically because it needs more types of businesses, but also, every Culture is a product for consumption to serve specific purposes needed by others, and every Culture must go through intense "selection" to never ever be similar to others and be exactly what some arbitrary set of un-sorted people needs in order to be successfully fit into society and tolerated. worse than that, some people in the class of Artisan-types/Directors/Careerists/"entrepreneurs" are allowed to think and create countable Cultures, and some people in the layers of customers and employees are strictly not allowed to think, only allowed to join a Culture or leave a Culture
2903. Capitalism is a system where cultures compete to be human / Capitalism is a system where countable cultures compete to be accepted as part of the world, specifically referring to a particular conception of the world pivoting around some particular country population, economy, and territory, and the countries directly connected to this pivot (the world defined as a Term:Filament-axis) / Filamentism proposition -> a basic definition of capitalism as Filamentism — the process by which multiple possible people swap into an open social node to construct society at the expense of all the people who didn't make it in there — relative to the whole world.
2904. Messing with free will is messing with culture / Interfering with free will is the same as interfering with culture / An attempt to change Free Will is synonymous with an attempt to change culture -> seems random at first, but the more you apply it the more you see it's basically the case. these days, attempts to impose culture on Africa are typically seen as bad because Free Will. attempts to force the hand of any particular individual Subject, defined by Free Will, are frequently taken as a violation of culture, as with "disabled culture" and "autistic culture". the autonomous will of an individual Subject is already understood within Existentialism to be the same as culture. look at Lacanians identifying individual will with an individual human being's tower of signifiers (as deterministic as that might sound on the surface) — individuality is culture. with this said? this hypothesis is also appropriate for meta-Marxism if the definition of culture is tweaked just a tiny bit to refer to an existential-materialist Subject, or socially-linked material populations that can be modeled as containing existential-materialist processes.
2905. Society is made of smaller pieces / Society has material components / "The social" is made of smaller components -> Rothenberg came so close to saying something genius and then swerved back into stupid. so, Existentialists get credit for the notion of an "atomic" model of society as made of individuals, although I'd prefer a less crude "molecular" model which is capable of recognizing groups and structures and also the proletariat. (the "capable proletarian subpopulation".)
2906. (mdem hypothesis)
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2908. Hierarchies are material objects / Hierarchies are material objects, not ideas or attitudes -> this is one of the major pillars of Hyper-Materialism. a population-to-population hierarchy of one population oppressing a whole other population happens for material reasons before people rationalize it with attitudes. what can trip people up about this is that they don't have good frameworks or language for describing two free-floating populations in an all-directional contradiction against each other where because both populations eat and occupy space, their competition produces a dynamic, all-directional spatial slot hierarchy of every individual against every individual which can lead up to real, tangible oppression that appears to be based in whole discrete populations but actually isn't. (the way that sentence will sound like spaghetti to normal people is, by itself, telling as to how uncommon it is for anyone to be taught this or think this way. if anyone already understood this concept it would be a lot easier to describe in plain language.) if every Black individual competes and every White individual competes and it happens only by chance or factors that shouldn't be related that a lot of the Black individuals end up behind, whatever The Media says, all the White individuals will simply continue pushing them out because "locking their doors" is in their best interest as individuals. 2,000 White individuals see one Black individual and they all individually lock their doors and even help each other keep out the Black individual because three White individuals each trust each other although they do not trust him. the creation of racism between whole populations is an emergent effect that easily traces up from the isolated behavior of individuals as they all vie for their daily bread and their finite job slot. unfortunately it seems that many Marxist parties have not figured this out and are still presenting prejudices through Idealist models rather than creating Materialist models. so this proposition has to stay violet even though most of its content is fairly crimson.
2909. The State is the apparatus of Ideological State "Apparatuses" / "Ideological state apparatuses" wield The State as their apparatus, not the other way around / There is no such thing as ideological state apparatuses -> see entries such as "pillows are not ideologically neutral"
2910. It's easier to imagine the absence of elephants than the successor to elephants -> jamming proposition used to get people to realize why "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism". it's far harder to imagine anything actually having transitioned into or given rise to something else than it is to imagine that thing just being broken or gone. an end-of-the-world scenario is actually just the absence of civilization in the form of Social-Philosophical Systems, which in a sense has definitely been the case on earth before. all civilizations have not been before they've been, and in some cases they've also not been after they've been. in contrast, civilizations transitioning to new class compositions or fundamentally new structures has been rather rare. can most people without a biology or science education make reasonable guesses about the species that could descend from elephants, down to all the physiology and details that make up a Future Elephant, or is it easier to imagine a particular elephant being gone from a photograph, or a photograph of a dead elephant?
2911. It's easier to imagine the end of the world than a correct course of history -> the heart of why it's "hard to imagine the successor to elephants". the literal version.
2912. It's easier to imagine impossible matter fractals than the end of capitalism -> a much funnier realization than the elephant proposition that came to me when explaining Avogadro's number. how is it there are multiple sci-fi stories about universes being atoms in bigger universes, or universe-timelines being quantum foam to a bigger universe (thanks Project Palisade), but nobody is able to imagine countries being objects and people being chemistry, much less able to imagine that being a neutral thing. Childhood's End: horror story. The Shuteyes: though neutral about Communism, still a horror story. every center-Liberal-approved theory about many people changing society: treats them as many individuals at once, rather than a larger object. every news article: still thinks people are part of one big object called Our Democracy, even though by every other remark anyone has ever made people are just a bunch of completely unpredictable helium atoms that don't belong to anything bigger? like, if people are all individuals, how are there even countries? why hasn't Canada spontaneously merged into the United States?
2913. Why hasn't Canada merged into the United States? / Why hasn't Canada spontaneously merged into the United States? -> a question that sounds silly but is actually a really good question, philosophically. if Existentialism is true, Canada is a bunch of individuals, and the United States is a bunch of individuals, and they're all unpredictable and can choose to collectively do anything at any moment, so why do they always wake up every day and form Canada and the United States respectively? as well, you see some anarchisms talking like there could be a world without borders. not the postcolonial anarchisms, clearly, because in those you effectively have to fill up big protest spaces through and around the territory of marginalized people-groups and essentially enforce a populational border. but in other anarchisms... if the world could function without borders why is it the case Canada still exists. the more history that happens, the more it will be that any general category of thing that is actually likely to happen will have already happened before you were even born. so if as many people have already been born as there have, why aren't we already living in the world where there isn't a Canada? a couple billion years go by and you get dolphin-shaped things multiple times. a couple of centuries go by and you get Marxism multiple times, and even the teeniest shred of Trotskyism off in the corner as a possibility that happened. so why don't countries spontaneously merge into each other through a bunch of individuals flooding between them and all the people suddenly saying "I guess we don't have separate governments"? personally, my best answer is that countries are socially-linked graphs of people and labor connects people into structures that are required to be there and function well for workers to ever be able to take them over. so if people started flooding between the United States and Canada it would be harder to work out reasonable solutions to housing them, providing health care, and getting them what they need, even assuming nobody hates each other. every human right depends on people being connected into exactly the correct graph structures to have everybody producing enough stuff, and that's why people don't flood around wildly, because on some level they vaguely understand that they have to contribute to building towns correctly to have what they need, and even if they don't have much agency it still seems like they have more agency staying where they are than through going to a lot of effort to go somewhere else. at least it seems that way.
2914. Mathematical equations are culture / Mathematical equations are ideas in the same sense that postcolonial anarchist ideas against prejudice to better society through Idealism or poetic solarpunk art or good "culture" are ideas -> I cannot think of a single reason this wouldn't be true. especially when people like Lacan and Deleuze are always pulling the trick of misusing math. there has to be some reason Idealists would reject this but I absolutely can't think of one right now.
2915. Idealism forbids itself -> I first noticed this with Lacanianism a year or two ago before most of this research started. I was so confused how Lacanians could think both that ideologies and political theories were bad because you can't predict The Subject — political theories are so totalizing and extreme that Lenin saying anything other than that people can believe literally whatever ideology and model of society they want to is bad — and yet put out a political theory of their own whatsoever. it just really didn't seem to me that somebody who could do that without at least stopping and mentioning the contradiction had a brain that was working logically. only after doing a whole lot of surface research into Idealism did I finally understand what exactly I'd uncovered. so here's what the actual problem is. Idealism says that everything has to change because people get better ideas. Idealism also often but not necessarily says either that individual minds or countable cultures are sacred, or alternatively that individual minds are not accessible and not possible to easily operate on. this creates the contradiction that to be an Idealist you have to go around ordering people to change the way they think, but at the same time you necessarily believe that every actual method of changing the way people think is inadequate because all the problems arise deep in people's minds where you can never access them. this seems to be the way it always goes — Idealist Bob says that the United States is screwed up because everyone is racist, he proposes a plan to change it, Idealist Alice shows up and gets upset because Bob's plan to stop racism is prejudiced against disabled people, or said another way by acting in the real world Bob is not accessing the real problems in people's minds. and you repeat this infinitely every time another Idealist movement shows up and looks at other Idealist movements. it's like to believe in Idealism and actually fix anything you'd have to live in Deltarune and jump out of reality into the Dark World where you can stop the Roaring Knight, because if you're in reality you can never access the true source of problems which is the single continuous world formed by everyone's minds. and even there. you look at Deltarune and the Dark Worlds contain contradictions. every time you try to build a model of ideas being the fundamental building block of populations it always comes back to materially separate people and separate groups of people interfering with that and being at least equally as fundamental. I have no idea why people are so determined to make the world into a single mind-plane. is it the core human obsession with culture and poetry? is that it? if so, why is nobody smart enough to realize that every single attempt to unite people against "prejudiced culture" for a "postcolonial culture" could always, mathematically, inevitably, as a repeating pattern reproduce the general shape of prejudice just because it is a group of people and because Gödel's incompleteness theorem? what am I missing? why is it forbidden to replace Idealism with math and physics equations? are mathematical models not ideas? or am I thinking about this too hard and is the answer just that Idealism will always destroy itself because Idealism forbids Idealism.
2916. (mdem hypothesis)
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2919. Is Trotskyism a form of Bolshevism? (rhetorical question) -> jamming proposition used to get people to evaluate whether Toryism is of the same category as historical European fascisms. if Trotskyism wants a world government of allied Communist-aligned populations, wants to create soviet structures or unions, and wants to make all businesses state businesses, is it Bolshevism? a meta-Marxist would say yes. a Trotskyist would say yes. an anarchist would probably say yes. a Lacanian with enough background information would probably say yes. so, if Toryism believes in binding many arrow people around a strong axe leader, believes in removing immigrants and foreigners and "non-patriots", believes in restoring the empire to its former glory as an ostensibly-unified countable culture, and believes in conquering lands distant from the empire such as Palestine, what do we call that? can we just agree to call it a named nationalism, even if it hasn't fully realized into the Material System of fascism yet?? the only real reason people don't believe this and don't believe it in a genuine way is the toxic influence of Existentialism — the philosophy that countable cultures such as "Bob the individual with a particular mind-internal culture and Free Will" and "the gay community" and "the Catholic community" are fundamental units of society but "the class subpopulation of capitalists", "the socially-linked faction of progressives", and "the socially-linked faction of Tories" are not. if countable cultures are the most important thing on earth then "the White Southern-Baptist Christian community who all want to vote for Trump and want the immigrants out" will always inherently be more important than "the political coalition of Black people and gay people", and it will always have the incentive to say "we're not the same demographic identity of people as the people clustered around Mussolini or Franco, so we can't be fascists because those are the people with Fascists on their name tag and we have Tea Party on our name tag" "also, you can't predict what we'll realize into as The Tea Party because historical materialism is bogus, so really how do you know we're fascists, how do you even know".
2920. Finite packaging facilitates gaining attention -> pokémon. scp reports. vines. video essays. books. perhaps even propositions. I hope chopping all philosophy into atomic propositions is the thing that works to get people actually thinking.
2921. Is topology a threat to Marxism? -> jamming question used to illustrate the difference between non-Marxist theories that are merely outside Marxism and non-Marxist theories which are anticommunist.
2922. Bibles are appealing because they number propositions / Biblical verses and proverbs are just numbered propositions / The way to create a "Communist bible" that people far and wide can easily reference has little to do with compilation into a book and is simply to take a lot of propositions and number them / Science can learn from the bible by numbering propositions in order to keep track of standing versus rejected hypotheses
2923. (mdem hypothesis)
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2930. Ethics is almost impossible / Morality is almost impossible / Vegeta effect prevents naïve diffusion of morality / Individuals can never be forced to accept morality or ethics -> bound to be one of the most controversial ones, but the point of it is to test it and see if there is any way it can be clearly untrue
2931. Every moral statement is a scientific prediction / Every moral statement is a determinist hypothesis -> for instance, if we say "all Floridians should learn about the history of racism and stop being racist", that is a prediction that there is a deterministic process of every single Floridian going through education and then doing a particular more-or-less identifiable pattern of behavior to not be racist. if it is not possible to list out a repeatable procedure that can and will be followed by absolutely everyone, however general the outline, "should" becomes meaningless and the moral statement is unenforceable.
2932. People accept ethical standards when they wish to maintain relationships / Subjects accept moral standards when they want to maintain relationships / Subjects might reject moral standards when they do not want to maintain relationships
2933. Morality is a form of culture and identity / Morality is carried on Social-Philosophical Systems / Morality is carried in the bonds of social graphs / Morality is an internal characteristic of free-floating groups rather than individuals
2934. Moral oughts are indistinguishable from material imperatives -> the hypothesis that "Trotsky must fit himself into Stalin Thought to build the Soviet Union" (a material imperative, to keep the Soviet population from disintegrating and going to other continents) is an equivalent kind of statement to moral imperatives like "Progressives must vote for the Democratic party" or "Floridians must learn a correct history of racism" — they are claimed to be the same because in each case, there are situations where somebody is handed an imperative but in practice that person is horribly suited to materially follow that imperative, and then becomes branded as a terrible person. if this hypothesis is true, then it means some moral imperatives are morally dubious under a more objective, worldwide, and consequences-based formulation of ethics; if the enforcement of morality leads to what logically should be immoral outcomes, the system of morality contains incorrect moral assumptions. to be fair, simply knowing that some moral or material imperatives are incorrect does not tell us what the correct ones are, for instance what one is supposed to do with Trotsky or exactly what should replace Democratic Party campaigning to successfully unify people.
2935. (mdem hypothesis)
2936. (mdem hypothesis)
2937. Culture exists as the relationships between individuals / The real uncountable culture was the friends we made along the way
2938. Gramscianism and Deng Xiaoping Thought are related -> the more I would think about it, the more I would realize, huh, it's almost like one of them is tiny and one of them is big and that's the only serious difference. aside from that it's only similarities. the bourgeoisie rush to defend the borders or frontiers of a countable culture to protect ethnic groups from being dominated or dispersed across the world by outside populations, and Marxist theorists have to reluctantly let it happen. (or at least they believe they do.) the process of securing frontiers from outside populations naturally results in a shepherd sheet of theorists and bureaucrats, but doesn't naturally result in proletarian structures. (it's only my hypothesis that Gramscianism would produce another China, but I think there's decent reason to think that, as far as the "there's just a capitalism inside it and no Bolshevism" part. you point out that Gramscianism is just a bunch of progressive bourgeoisie squabbling against reactionary bourgeoisie and it's like, yeah, how else could it go? I'm hesitant to say the same thing about Stalin's Marxism though, considering it didn't have the same result as Deng Xiaoping Thought and there was actually some Bolshevism in it. the content that ideologies realize is very important to me. so if Stalin's Marxism realizes Bolshevism even somewhat, there had to be something right in that historical period that Stalin couldn't possibly ruin by getting everyone onto his cause. now, as for Trotskyism... I consider it very suspect for never actually realizing any of its content, but I give it a couple points for constantly claiming the internal structure of the Soviet Union was wrong and thereby implying it does have specific content it wants to realize instead.)
2939. Ethics is the same thing as objective morality -> how do I avoid statement definitions turning into word definitions and keep statements independent of what written words they are about
2940. How can Stalin and Trotsky coexist in the same reality?
2941. If ideologies can coexist, they should be mutually consistent / If ideologies can exist in harmony, they should be ontologically consistent across each other / Compromise is nothing, ontological consistency is key -> one of the biggest, most central claims of meta-Marxism. this is the claim that if Trotskyists and Stalin followers can exist in the same world, then we should expect mainstream Marxism-Leninism to correctly model the historical emergence of Trotskyism and its persistence after being exposed while Trotskyism correctly models the emergence and persistence of socialisms-in-one-country; this is the claim that if US "Democrats" and "Republicans" (center-Liberals and Tories) can coexist, they should each have completely accurate models of how the other behaves which they can use to predict how to peacefully resolve their differences. obviously this sounds rather laughable for Liberalism. but for Marxism, the notion that mainstream Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism could update themselves to correctly model each other and all other ideology-populations as potentially independent entities wouldn't sound anywhere near as far-fetched. it's actually quite baffling why after generating so much new history without prior precedents Trotskyism would never have switched to correctly explaining its own material real-world history as an emerging "nation" or constellation of workers' states and realizing that there are steps in between what has actually happened and the purported end state for Trotskyism of a global civilization that they take out of Lenin's 1920 writings.
2942. Every time human beings assign meaning to an image it generates a group of people potentially in fierce conflict with other groups of people -> part of the mathematical definition of "Social-Philosophical System".
2943. Leninism does not have a binary truth value -> the claim that a theory of Leninist movements or of workers' states can be incorrect on small things without being incorrect on everything, or in a case like Trotsky, incorrect on most things without being incorrect on everything. Leninism is subject to Gödel's incompleteness theorem just like formal logic, physics equations, computers, books, and minds. this makes the judgement methods people use of trying to apply the categories of "proletarian" and "bourgeois" as if they were flat-out categories of Good and Evil or True and False inappropriate for judging the basic possibility of a given theory or movement realizing or becoming a historically-relevant entity that must be studied even if such a group is unwanted by some particular Marxism. it's possible to get so caught up in the prospect of realizing a proletarian civilization that you stop doing historical materialism and descend into Existentialism, becoming unaware of things that could completely prevent your success.
2944. Applying any claim to Trotsky eventually yields the correct answers / Applying any philosophy to Trotsky eventually gets you to the correct answers -> one of my very favorite jamming propositions. this one gets me through the hard times. this proposition sounds so stupid at first like it could never be true, and then you try it, and you realize there's something there. I'd give an example, but I have a problem that they're all turning into actually okay propositions that might be worth making into their own Items.
2945. Trotskyism is the prototypical oppressed group -> the claim that focusing on Trotskyists failing to fit into the Soviet Union gives insight into processes such as racists insisting they're oppressed, or movementist movements of marginalized identities horizontally oppressing each other in a circle
2946. Trotskyism is the prototypical prejudice -> the claim that specifically focusing on Trotskyists refusing to understand mainstream Marxism-Leninism gives insight into processes such as racism and xenophobia
2947. (mdem hypothesis)
2948. (mdem hypothesis)
2949. No proposition has a binary True or False answer / No proposition has a binary True or False value / Propositions generally should not have a binary True or False value / The way to fix logic is to replace binary outcomes with sheer tests of consistency -> you don't fully break out of the Gödel trap this way because practically nothing ever could do that anyway. that part is not what matters. ideally the point of logic isn't to derive facts about reality in a vacuum but instead to perform a basic sanity test of whether statements you already have could possibly be correct or are almost definitely wrong. arguably, that is the thing that logic actually excels at even as it is inappropriate for many other things.
2950. (mdem hypothesis)
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2953. Freedom allows oppression to thrive / The more freedom people have, the more freedom they have to oppress each other -> something neither Western Marxism nor anarchism really want to acknowledge. the problem of the United States is almost precisely that individuals get upset at each other for various reasons and then they spread out apart from each other so far that they gain more power over each other and become more oppressive. Western Marxism dances in circles trying to find the "ideological state apparatuses" that allow this while anarchism thrashes around trying to find and destroy the Spanishness Office that ruled individuals could do this. it becomes relatively obvious neither of these angles make sense if you simply understand what a shovel dream is. (this may be the same proposition as Q29,54 but I am not totally sure.)
2954. Anarchy is the most authoritarian thing there is / Anhierarchy causes individuals to become sovereign States over themselves that, through their ability to reject interactions and relationships, remove self-determination or internal "mind democracy" from other individuals, superficially similar to the way anhierarchy between nation-states creates First-World coercion producing Third-World "tyranny" / Anarchy Is The Most Authoritarian Thing There Is (slogan) -> slogan associated with unfinished MDem chapter "ProblemOfAnarchy"/"rain". the concept is that when there is no government the horizontal actions of individuals merely replace and perform the same regulatory actions government would do, because all populations of people have similar basic needs and they will all use the means available to them at the moment to achieve those needs. relationships and relationship boundaries are forced to play the role of The State, and in certain senses relationships become "authoritarian". can also refer to more general processes of Filamentism where if there are no central decisions the process of a population structuring itself takes the form of every surrounding individual repeatedly dealing out punishment until the target individual miraculously figures out how to do exactly what they need and have the capacity to do it really well. most technically, this slogan is referring not to particular Anarchist Social-Philosophical-Material Systems called "anarchy", but to the structural open-plurality of anektiry — but very few people throughout recent history have bothered to give the concept of anektiry or anhierarchy its own proper name, hence the colloquial use of "anarchy" in these edgy slogan phrases.
2955. (mdem hypothesis)
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2961. Individual decisions cannot manufacture Freedom
2962. Empowering the individual is impossible without a science of society -> everyone acts like individual choices can fix everything. everything. but most of the time that's impossible to pull off because making the correct individual choice requires having information about what the choice will result in, that none of us actually have. you can directly throw Gödel's incompleteness theorem at that claim. it's impossible to reason your way to the correct decision when reasoning never perfectly grounds itself in reality. so in effect, it's impossible to use individual decisions to create Freedom. there we go, first decent logical proof against Guattari. as ironic as using propositional logic may be given what I just said. that doesn't matter right now.
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2970. A Subject is an autonomous lifeform that eats and occupies space / A Subject is a conscious lifeform that makes decisions based on its biological needs
2971. Existing daily is an extreme position, not a moderate one / It's infinitely more ideologically moderate to not exist than to exist / All mortal lifeforms who eat and take up space are extremists -> the claim that because all existence is subject to the chunk phenomenon, nobody can actually "mind their own business" without being considered an extremist by somebody and royally pissing somebody off. everyone potentially conflicts with the existence of other people just by existing, because all goals are descriptions of changes to material reality, but some people won't want those changes, and may even be offended. with a particular morality, this transforms into the Buddhist proposition that when people come into conflict it's just better not to have goals. without that particular framing, this turns into the mathematical model of Filamentism, in which people's ability to align onto particular goals either increasingly builds social graphs or leads to vicious competition over who will be allowed to fill each open connection within the structure.
2972. (mdem hypothesis)
2973. (mdem hypothesis)
2974. Trotskyists must eat and occupy space before spouting Trotskyism / Anarchists must eat and occupy space before building an anarchism / Poststructuralists must eat and occupy space before tearing apart signs -> jamming proposition. funny way to say that thought comes after being, or that chunk competition is fundamental. both of those sound pretty abstract. but it's harder to dispute the remark that first of all people eat and occupy space.
2975. Liberalism is all political systems / Liberalism is the combination of every possible political faction into one country including Marxism and Anarchisms
2976. Every ideology perceives the absence of others as Freedom / Every ideology perceives the absence of other ideologies as Freedom -> the major reason I believe that "proposition NO" is unlikely. Trotskyists think the absence of mainstream Marxism-Leninism is Freedom, as do Anarchists. but Tories think the absence of Anarchism is Freedom because there are very specific kinds of things they want — some of them very ugly, like deliberate socioempire / Chunk Enterprise. sometimes this goes all the way into the gutter, with White people just thinking the absence of Black people or Palestinians is Freedom, etc. it depends on how much people let "culture" rule their population and buy into the concept of countable Cultures as fundamental to human existence while nation-states are not.
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2990. Existentialism is why we never automate bosses -> intersubjectivity-theory Existentialists always insist that society changes because people Freely Decide to behave with empathy, but the contradiction in this is that for that to have any chance of being true you have to deliberately design society in tyrannical ways where the destiny of a lot of people is in the hands of one person that you hope is really really nice. if you truly make society depend on a whole lot of separate people at once it tends to behave in deterministic ways rather than the thoughtful rationalist way a single person might think. intersubjectivity Existentialists are likely to also be fine with the notion of schizoanalytic Escape, so they're going to love the notion of creating more capitalists to absorb people who are unsatisfied with current corporations by virtue of the fact the new ones are really really nice and they're supposedly going to spend their donations toward better political ad campaigns. the whole problem and fallacy of Existentialism is that it is all about dividing society into plural populations where the individuals supposedly see each other "as equals". Existentialism is when Twilight Sparkle and her five friends are such good friends that when they see Starlight Glimmer and how she is not linking up with people and being nice to them in exactly the way Twilight has friends, they mark her out as a threat to all their friends.
2991. If intersubjectivity actually worked, there would never have been a Cold War / If Existentialism actually worked, there would never have been a Cold War -> one of the major themes that Existentialism is constantly pounding through people's heads is that the normal, original state of things is for human beings to automatically and immediately experience empathy toward anything different [... angry redacted] Existentialism never caused anybody to experience mandatory tolerance of the USSR in this sense, or any Marxist party-nation.
2992. (mdem hypothesis)
2993. The Soviet diaspora was the second Trail of Tears -> literally nobody today notices the contradiction that all the progressive theories in the United States are about "culture" and "multiculturalism" and "prejudice" and arbitrary groups of people metaphysically tolerating each other in order to be perfect and not commit sin, but at the same time, the dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in a bunch of people diffusing out of their towns or national populations to become citizens of other countries, showing that materially speaking nobody really has the inherent right to be part of A Culture and the chunk competition of all individuals to claim their most appropriate spots in the world inherently dissolves Cultures and creates intolerance of identities. on the ground, Cultures are not distinguishable from socially-linked populations arranged into material objects, and arguing to literally dissolve the way people are structured into a population is indistinguishable from declaring people have the wrong culture and a particular named Culture should be illegal.
2994. The United States forced workers' states to consent to capitalism / The United States forced the Soviet people to consent to capitalism -> if capitalism is freedom, then rape is love.
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2998. Teamwork is nothing, ontology is key -> a little hyperbolic and potentially controversial by itself. but look into it deeper and you'll start to see what it means. people believe capitalists build successful business territories because the capitalist is a capable strong individual. they don't, they succeed simply because the answer was correct and people did the correct answer. at other times, more Existentialist people want to believe that just having a bunch of people together believing in each other achieves something. not necessarily. whether we're talking about a business or a movement, all the people in it have to do the correct answer or nothing happens. the correct answer to a problem simply is. it can be found by one person studying reality tirelessly or it can be found by a bunch of people in a party, but it's correct because it's true to the real world, not because a smart person said it or somebody believed in it really hard. Jeff Bezos is not key. Jeff Bezos' workers are not key all by themselves. Stalin, Trotsky, and Guattari are not key. the correct answer, the correct ontological model of how to arrange people, is what's key.
2999. Power vacuums begin with order vacuums / All class society begins from Filamentism / All class society begins from competition for parts of graphs to be the first to be connected to other parts of graphs