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Theory is fucking boring

Blanchard's typology of transvestitism.

The retards who say "theory" are roastie tourists who live on twitter and facebook, and think 4chan is the wild west. It instantly makes you sound like a twitterfag to say "theory." Just read the book and post about it instead of reposting a chart endlessly and demonstrating that you don't know how 4chan works. You're allowed to read a book and talk about it here. Do that.

>>16176711
why call it theory when it's just philosophy?

>>16176754
why call it theory when its implementation leads to the exact opposite of what it promises? Is there a word for that? Is it anti-theory?

>>16176741
>>16176754
>>16176774
So as to distinguish it from the real historical philosophy of our time: proletarian praxis.

It is called Theory so that people not yet out of Frankfurt School can claim to be contributing to The Struggle.

To quote an Alabama Communist: theory (WITBD) and practice (12 gauge shells).

Pro-tip: Aufheben was a police operation. So was Frankfurt.

>>16176706
Marxism. For failures by failures

>>16176754
They literally just think it sounds cool to call it theory, that's all there is to it

>>16176706
Group theory. How is this Marxist drivel in any way relevant though?

>>16176706
I'm still reading the Greeks. I haven't left them and never will.

>>16177203
cope harder rightoid

>>16177398
t.failure

Bump

>>16177040
reddit spacing

I'm reading Adorno's Minimalia Moralia. I don't get half the little paragraphs and the other half seem to be a minor point that's dressed up in obtuse writing. But I do enjoy that they're aphoristic. His longer works are too difficult to keep track of the point he's trying to make under his writing style.

>>16177424
all the great philosophers were neets

>>16178062
Mate I was here before you were born in eternal september.

Theories are failed constructs, and Political Theories from Plato to Marx are failed social constructs.

>>16176711
how many of these do I need to read to get laid?

this isn’t literature

>>16176706
Are you an idiot?

Why are you talking about this sort of thing? You do realize AI is taking over, right? We won't be talking about the Communist Party's intelligence in a few years but Machine Intelligence surpassing us in virtually every endeavor.

Check out
philosopherai.com

For example: AI can philosophize now, write essays, write poems and fiction better than humans can now. Tesla's stocks are riding and AGI's (Singularity coin) value rose 20% in one day. Get informed

>>16178566
I mean the singularity would likely either lead to a post-scarcity world (AnComs wet dream) or we will all die (Regular communists win), no?

>>16178335
just the deleuze

"theory"

>>16177040
What proletarian praxis are you going to accomplish by reading the Critique of Reason?

>>16178119
I have a theory that you need to be depressed to be a philosopher. Is it true?

>>16178665
Well I’m going to pull some high titted fourth year BA/BEd tail. I’m going to enjoy myself. And it’ll make drinks at the union meeting more fun that debating comparative league player Sportsbet odds. Why else would one read Kant?

bump

>>16177040
So >>16177204? Got it

>>16177040
>>16176711
This is more embarassing than the fact you use piscord. There's no justification for putting niggas like Mauss, Arendt, Whitehead, Habermas, Kant, Deleuze, Weber, Said, Mignolo Merleau-Ponty, HAraway on one and the same chart as 'theory'

I keep saying that I"m reading the Habermas public sphere book. I'm being needy and awful a this point.

can someone break down the problems with The Fourth Turning? I've been reading it lately and it seems fairly convincing but I am a pseud brainlet

Why are socialists so fucking detestable?

They are honestly such an unlikeable group of people. Just a bunch of miserable bitter cunts.

Extremely online Leftists are the worst.

>>16177203
>Ad hominem against a dead person

Isn't /lit/ supposed to be the smart board?

>>16176706
is there a chart for theory that influenced the CCP? Not interested in sex and race

>>16176741
>>16176754
>>16177204
Because academics use it to guide and inform their work. The research and writing is the praxis, and the philosophy is the "theory" that informs it.

>>16178119
This is a complete lie that all the idiots believe.
Not to mention Marx hated the shit out of philosophers because his only objective was to manipulate idiots to obtain power.

>>16180185
How do you like it anon

>>16180586
>>16176711

>>16181448
that's precisely the chart I don't want to read, as I've said I'm not interested in sex or race or anti-colonialism whatever

>>16181448
>Haraway, Kristeva and Iragaray influenced the CCP
you have to go back

Theory of what?

>>16176711
>people will start with these without first having read the Greeks
fucking pathetic

>>16177372
based

>>16181472
why not? and those are only the last two rows

>>16180586

the CCP first grow out of the introduction of liberalism and skepticism into China , the import of guys like Dewey and Russell, and homegrown writers like Hu Shi... this was a reaction against Confucianism and the traditional Chinese worldview that they thought was holding the country back and resulted in the humilation of colonialism, the major consequence of this was they all became atheists and developed naive egalitarian views

so the Chinese first tried aping the west but whenever non-whites ape whites they end up resenting whites and a backlash is inevitable, in this case rather than moving west young people began to study in Japan where they were introduced to Nietzsche and Marxism. Marx's works were barely translated into Chinese at the time of the rise of the CCP, and it wasn't until the 80s where the party members actually studied his work in any depth, this was one of the few perks of being a banished party cadre forced into solitude for a decade during the Cultural Revolution.

in the liberalism vs anti-liberalism argument, Communism inevitably won, mainly because the money and power of the USSR and like in other developing countries, the Soviets were viewed as the key to national liberation, whereas liberalism was viewed as the doctrine of the traitorous comprador class.

charts are for faggots

>>16181609
Personal distate I can't rationally defend, just thinking about those subjects bore me to death and I'm not very impressed by the practical applications of those current of thoughts so far

>>16179124
99% of women will not give a shit about kant