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I Hate Western Philosophy (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by ArcticFoxSmiles@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I am learning the business side of western philosophy for a college class and I can already tell I hate Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and basically every Greek philosopher.

Edit: To clarify things, I do not hate all of Western philosophy like Karl Marx just the more mainstream parts which are being taught in American academia.

This is a vent post and I was using hyperbole and being dramatic. I am sorry for the confusion.

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[–] ArcticFoxSmiles@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have not read Lenin's notes on Hegel, but I have read Lenin before such as The State and Revolution and Imperialism, Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, What Is to Be Done?, and the Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism. I am good at reading his political writing, but I stumble among anything economic which the Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism had much of, although I also stumbled upon Karl Marx's Wage Labour and Capital.

[–] TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I recommend you to read it. Not because it's as important as other Lenin's works^[to be clear: it's not useless. You can learn how Lenin learned. It's just not very practical] (you can safely skip it) or very informative (other Marxists like Mao have already done the job to take important insights), but because it's hilarious that sometimes Lenin goes like "wtf is this" at some paragraph written by Hegel.

hence the "lol" since Lenin's confusion is way more informative than modern academics.

Here's an example:

Two important things: (1) Die Objektivität # des Scheins[39]

Note: "NB: unclear, return to it!!

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 4 days ago

Lenin is so sassy, they are entertaining works.

[–] ArcticFoxSmiles@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 4 days ago

I will look into it.