Paul Cockshott has a few interesting videos on how Marxism in the west has created its own difficult jargon because it’s been pushed by masturbators in the academia.
No matter how much you read or understand, someone is always going to come along and show you an essay from a century ago proving you wrong. Your classification and understanding of the issues is fundamentally misguided because you don’t understand some niche schism that has absolutely no bearing on anything tangible to our world.
We’ve built a monolith that now stands unintelligible to the masses. Sure you can join our movement but first I need to to slog through 3 massive volumes of dense theory, then read everything written, by x,y,z, leader, and don’t forget the rebuttals. It’s almost impossible to get into because it requires years of dedicated study. It’s worth it, but it ends up being an unending intellectual persuit more than anything.
I haven’t coined too many Marxist/Marxian terms in my conlang, but one thing I’ve tried to keep in mind when I have is to “dejargonize” and basically have each term be its own definition to whatever extent possible. The first example to come to mind is sotaňogestkruňiya (“commodity fetishism”): with-birth wealth-ness to-head-collection, i.e. “innate value ideology”. I think that’s a much clearer term for the belief that commodities’ exchange values are inherent to them than a term that assumes you have the cultural context of 19th century anthropology.
Paul Cockshott has a few interesting videos on how Marxism in the west has created its own difficult jargon because it’s been pushed by masturbators in the academia.
No matter how much you read or understand, someone is always going to come along and show you an essay from a century ago proving you wrong. Your classification and understanding of the issues is fundamentally misguided because you don’t understand some niche schism that has absolutely no bearing on anything tangible to our world.
We’ve built a monolith that now stands unintelligible to the masses. Sure you can join our movement but first I need to to slog through 3 massive volumes of dense theory, then read everything written, by x,y,z, leader, and don’t forget the rebuttals. It’s almost impossible to get into because it requires years of dedicated study. It’s worth it, but it ends up being an unending intellectual persuit more than anything.
I haven’t coined too many Marxist/Marxian terms in my conlang, but one thing I’ve tried to keep in mind when I have is to “dejargonize” and basically have each term be its own definition to whatever extent possible. The first example to come to mind is sotaňogestkruňiya (“commodity fetishism”): with-birth wealth-ness to-head-collection, i.e. “innate value ideology”. I think that’s a much clearer term for the belief that commodities’ exchange values are inherent to them than a term that assumes you have the cultural context of 19th century anthropology.
Also, something something Cockshott masturbation
A guy named cockshott starting off such a banger passage with a sentence about masturbation is amazing.
I dont think he used the word masturbation, he’s ancient and crumbly lmao. I’m just paraphrasing and adding some emphasis
He said jorkin the gorkin