/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9552683
>the soviet union called itself communist and was bad, and so everything calling itself communist is bad, regardless of what communism "is." any attempts to clarify or demarcate what we mean by "communism," or rationally assess the social driving forces of history and the failures of mass social movements, must be vigorously and uncritically resisted
>humans respond to incentives. the incentives to create a state to engage in violence are persistently present in the normal functioning of markets, and so we reasonably expect to observe this.
I can't tell these two apart! It's like I'm seeing double!

>>8865109
>an essential characteristic of Marxism points towards bleeding out science with the bourgeois state and frustrating scientific advancement, which is why I've deliberately said "Marxists" instead of "government redistributing" or even "liberals" or "conservatives"
>but that contradicts the basic knowledge that Marxism is an effort to resolve the contradictions of capitalism, such as those between use value and exchange value, or private profit and social need, which regards the state as inherently a device of class rule
>haha wow did you just try to define Marxism?! you're fucking dead, kiddo!