On 2021-01-18 19:11, John Young wrote:
"iterate forward" is promisingly constructive action.
"Discover the truth through practice, and again through practice verify and develop the truth. Start from perceptual knowledge and actively develop it into rational knowledge; then start from rational knowledge and actively guide revolutionary practice to change
both the subjective and the objective world. Practice, knowledge, again practice, and again knowledge. This form repeats itself in endless cycles, and with each cycle the content of practice and knowledge rises to a higher level. Such is the whole of the dialectical-materialist
theory of knowledge, and such is the dialectical-materialist theory of the unity of knowing and doing." -- Mao, On Practice, 1937
Indeed, there is no other way.
Not so much name-callingly destructive "sinomane telecommunist."
The white ragers here feel justified in this kind of behaviour, just like the other white ragers of #AllLivesMatter and #NotAllMen fame. The very accusation of bias or chauvinism is treated as insult; how very dare you say that of me!! And so this justifies
random unhinged insults in return, as we see here. It's very import for them to portray me as bad person, possibly crazy, rather than engage in the difficult process of confronting their own chauvinism and bias.
And of course, there cognitive dissonance means they can't hear what is actually being argued; dialectic materialism and proletarian internationalism. They instead pepper their responses with fallacious absurdum barely above calling me a chink-lover, and weak-minded
strawmen about "party lines" and "out of date" bad think, all expressed with the most cornball hollywood tropes.
Demanding moderators to regulate is hardly insightful, more inciteful,
downright spiteful.
I'm confident the hand-shake deal I made with Pit and Geert over swigs of Advocaat while taking shelter beneath the ruins of the Telegrafenamt as we fought in the trenches with the resistance in The Second Browser Wars. I'm entitled to shock and awe nettime
once every decade, and neither Ted nor Felix will risk relegation to the tickle gulag.
However, I never resist moderation.
--
Dmytri Kleiner
@dmytri
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