Re: <nettime> The Left Needs a New Strategy

[Dmytri Kleiner <dk@telekommunisten.net>]

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about "party lines" and "out of date" bad think, all expressed with the 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.



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Dmytri Kleiner
@dmytri
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