Constructive Criticism

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Aug 30, 2023
On the human mode of history (001)
Several interesting properties of the human mode of history: Humanity has the capacity for surplus labor. I.e., in $N$ hours, a group of humans can act on its environment to procure sufficient material …
Aug 30, 2023
Time After Time
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. – Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto Communism is the riddle of history solved. – Karl Marx, Economic and …
Aug 29, 2023
Book release: “The Elementary Concepts of Historical Materialism”
The cover Announcing a release of an English translation of Marta Harnecker’s Los conceptos fundamentales del materialismo histórico, or The Elementary Concepts of Historical Materialism in English. This book …
Aug 27, 2023
“Parametricity” is now “It’s Dusk Somewhere”
For many years this blog was called Parametricity. I am no longer that interested in type theory, so I am renaming the blog to reflect its new content, which is mostly Marxism. Still it is just the personal …
Aug 10, 2023
Walking Past the Apocalypse: The Material Roots of Anti-Human Philosophy in 2020s San Francisco
Most of us are familiar with the potential discomfort of passing a person begging on the street. Some stop and give some money or food, some stop to say they don’t have cash, most try to avoid eye-contact …