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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 12/02/2026

The collapse of the USSR was such a horrific disaster for the world at large. There's literally nothing to stop the US and the West on their genocidal rampaging and imperialist destruction. Cuba has suffered the consequences of the collapse the most. Be there a hell, Gorbachev and Yeltsin are there.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We all know the “three sources & component parts” of Marxism, but I’d argue that there is a fourth. That being the natural sciences, which Marx and Engels always made a concerted effort to engage with. You can argue all day about their success, but if reality isn’t dualistic, neither are dialectics

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I’ve been on a big enactive cognition kick which is clearly infecting my reading of Hegel because I see Hegelians give hot takes about Marxism and materialism and just think “oh this person doesn’t know enactive cognition exists”

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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

An Enactive Account of Labor - Andrea Gambarotto www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmP...

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An Enactive Account of Labor - Andrea Gambarotto

YouTube video by International Friends of Ilyenkov

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chris shambaugh @cshambaugh.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Two new open-access articles from Andrea Gambarotto and collaborators: Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back (w/ Thomas van Es): link.springer.com/article/10.1... Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue (w/ Ezequiel A. Di Paolo): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue - Synthese

Synthese - Enactive perspectives on habit reject mechanistic models and call attention to the neglect of this concept in computational approaches to the mind. Recent work has brought enactive views...

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

judging by some of the papers on realism that I’m seeing in enactive circles, it would probably do them a lot of good to read “Materialism and Empirio-Criticism” and replace the occasional word or phrase with something appropriately sensorimotor-ish.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I wonder how many philosophers and theorists have seriously examined their epistemological presuppositions in light of enactive cognition

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It’s very funny how many Marxists still insist Engels was wrong to see dialectics in science, meanwhile scientists have been using dialectics for decades and are only doing it more and more

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

My thing with anti-humanist Marxism is that it claims to be the “science” Marxism is supposed to be in opposition to humanism, and yet in light 21st century science on the topic of cognition, its claim to scientific accuracy is unsustainable. Enactive cognition ensures that.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Thought: The difference between western marxists and eastern marxists is that the former had representational views of cognition (the subject/structure dualism they insisted exists is inherently representationalist) whereas the latter had proto-4E views of cognition.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

the ontological commitments of enactive cognition are mutually antagonistic with the core presuppositions of neoclassical economics, particularly homo economicus. When you try to immanently examine homo economicus via enactivism, you just produce Marx’s Labor Theory of Value via enacted labor

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

“Concrete and abstract labor” as used by Marx is virtually identical to “enacted cognition” as used by enactive cognitive theorists. They’re theorizing the same thing on different levels of abstraction. The main point to note is that not all enaction is “socially necessary” as such

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☭Josh Mosh☭ @joshmosh138.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We really need to disabuse ourselves in this society of the notion that "speech" is just "ideas" and therefore harmless. Language is the greatest persuasive tool that we have, and those with large platforms don't just hurt feelings but can also motivate violent action with their words.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i open this app apparently at the exact moment it’s going to shit

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

boy i sure do never post here huh

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I do, ultimately, feel empathy for those who wanted to feel hopeful about Syria. I personally, deep down, hoped against hope things would somehow turn out fine, even if I knew they wouldn’t But I’m not gonna forget the slander against those who were pointing out the realities, including me

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Videos coming from Syria of executions of minorities. People are excusing it by acting as though those being killed were pro-Assad To say this is highly reminiscent of the rhetoric used to justify the deaths of Palestinians because they’re “Hamas” is an understatement

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

i’m trans. reporting this story nearly killed me. had to stop drinking and wound up on many friends “call to see if she’s ok” lists. please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

liberals will literally call you a tankie for having a position you’ve already been vindicated on

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

if this Luigi guy really is the Claims Adjuster, he’s perhaps the very first radical-median-voter

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

real shame too. i’d love nothing more than to show off my banger twitter drafts and unfinished imovie edits to pigs

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Amanda Yee 余美娜 @radiofreeamanda.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Rule of thumb: Anyone who uses the term “tankie” unironically isn’t worth listening to about anything. The fact they call those pointing out that what may lie ahead for Syria may be worse than before “Assadists” just shows their analysis is stuck in a Marvel cinematic universe of “good vs bad guys.”

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Red Madhi @redmadhi.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If you think of yourself as progressive or leftist but your political analysis is 90% talking about Trump, you aren't.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I feel no joy in being vindicated in the predictions I’ve made about Syria, nor amusement in the confusion of those who genuinely did not understand the full context. I mostly just feel frustrated and sad

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Reading about marxist feminism and seeing, in historical sexist rhetoric in marxist circles (a problem that still exists) similar patterns to ableist and chauvinistic rhetoric in modern organizations 🤔

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KB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

As usual, Fidel is spot on 🎯

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So many leftists are currently operating with the same “real life is like a movie” brain that libs and conservatives do

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

You guys have got to stop assuming people who live in a country are always experts on geopolitics as it pertains TO their country. Most people in ANY country are not extremely well-versed in the relevant geopolitical matters, meaning they can absolutely, very easily, be incorrect.

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Got added to a “feds” blocklist, an “assadists” blocklist, and yet another “tankies” blocklist, which is deeply funny to me tbh

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

See, this is how I know for a fact “tankie” as an insult has no real definition. They call me a tankie for pointing out all that has happened is an advancement of the Greater Israel project. Indeed, I am a tankie for opposing IDF tanks. And in the hours since this post, I have been vindicated.

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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

liberals: CAN’T YOU BE HAPPY THE SYRIANS ARE LIBERATED YOU TANKIES! smart people:

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

to be clear, Assad himself is as big a part of why this happened as anything. Just because he’s preferable to what is to come after his ousting, doesn’t mean his ideological and strategic failures that played a part in getting us here in the first place should be ignored

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Batshevik ☭🔻 @batshevik.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I think we need to be careful about the way we talk about communism sometimes, because while it is true dialectical materialism is objectively a universally applicable framework (something people should be wary of dismissing out of hand), there is often a euro-assumptive way of talking about it

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