• Lemonade [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    12 hours ago

    Yes but nobody in my outreach group uses it and we even had an hour long discussion into why the word was useless. It’s a buzz word co-opted by leftists radicalized on the web that use it frequently to have some weird pissing contest over “how much praxis” they’ve done.

    It stands for the practical application of ideological principles, it’s just a shortened version of that. It should just be “helping peoole” ffs.

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      9 hours ago

      It stands for the practical application of ideological principles, it’s just a shortened version of that. It should just be “helping peoole” ffs.

      These are literally two different concepts. “Praxis” is the application of theory (as you say). “Helping people” is meaninglessly vague. I’m seriously confused by the argument that “praxis” is useless but “helping people” is somehow a specific, useful term.

      it’s just a shortened version of that

      All words are shortened versions of longer explanations, that’s why dictionaries exist.