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each term of the proposition has to be revalued..revalue 'determination' towards the setting of limits and the exertion of pressure, and away from prefigured and controlled content.. revalue 'superstructure' towards a range of cultural practices and away from reflected reproduction.. 'the base' away from a fixed economic abstraction and towards dynamic processes in real and economic relationships with contradictions
— Mar 22, 2026 05:12AM
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Laya
is on page 102 of 288
"Darwin himself did not take a consistent position on any of these applications. In a letter he observed ironically that he had just received in quotes 'a squib' printed in a newspaper showing 'I have proved might is right and therefore that Napoleon is right and every cheating tradesman is right' - obviously a reaction to one of the first and crudest kinds of social darwinism."
Interesting stuff
— Mar 26, 2026 12:35PM
Interesting stuff
Laya
is on page 102 of 288
"In a sense we can provide a very adequate analysis of social darwinism in terms of errors of emphasis it makes on extending the theory of natural selection to social and political theory I think it simplifies the matter a little too much in that biology itself has from the beginning a strong social component. We have to think of this dialectical moment between two areas of study."
- In Social Darwinism
— Mar 26, 2026 12:32PM
- In Social Darwinism
Laya
is on page 85 of 288
Abstraction of a multiplicity into a singular and personified concept of nature was a leap in consciousness and underlies the double definition of nature as both physical object and also as immutable characteristics that are fundamental and explanatory. Gives rise to paradox on whether nature is a complex system of mutual cooperation or competitive brutality. Both ideas are present in pol theory -Ideas of nature
— Mar 24, 2026 06:32AM
Laya
is on page 63 of 288
"The superficial attraction of this position [ref. McLuhan]..rests on characteristically rhetorical isolation of 'mass communications' from complex historical development of means of communication as intrinsic, related and determined parts of the whole historical social and material process."
- From essay 'Means of Communication as Means of Production'
— Mar 18, 2026 12:47PM
- From essay 'Means of Communication as Means of Production'
