Batshevik ☭🔻
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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
January 22, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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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My new article, “Marx’s Concept of Life,” is now out in EJP.
Marx's Concept of Life
This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork ...
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September 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My new article, “Marx’s Concept of Life,” is now out in EJP.
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”
January 22, 2026 at 5:38 AM
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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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...
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...
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...
link.springer.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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...
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...
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.
January 19, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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.
I wonder how many philosophers and theorists have seriously examined their epistemological presuppositions in light of enactive cognition
January 19, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I wonder how many philosophers and theorists have seriously examined their epistemological presuppositions in light of enactive cognition
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
January 19, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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
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.
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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.
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.
January 12, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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.
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
“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
January 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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
“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
January 12, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“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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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.
September 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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.
i open this app apparently at the exact moment it’s going to shit
September 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
i open this app apparently at the exact moment it’s going to shit
boy i sure do never post here huh
September 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
boy i sure do never post here huh
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
But I’m not gonna forget the slander against those who were pointing out the realities, including me
December 11, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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
But I’m not gonna forget the slander against those who were pointing out the realities, including me
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
To say this is highly reminiscent of the rhetoric used to justify the deaths of Palestinians because they’re “Hamas” is an understatement
December 10, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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
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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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.)
please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)
i spent a month investigating how republicans could cut off access to trans healthcare for most americans, and how democrats can likely stop them — but it’s unclear if they will.
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
tw: president of wpath warning of mass suicides
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:27 PM
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.)
please share it. (i’m ok now that it is done.)
liberals will literally call you a tankie for having a position you’ve already been vindicated on
December 10, 2024 at 11:11 AM
liberals will literally call you a tankie for having a position you’ve already been vindicated on
if this Luigi guy really is the Claims Adjuster, he’s perhaps the very first radical-median-voter
December 9, 2024 at 7:23 PM
if this Luigi guy really is the Claims Adjuster, he’s perhaps the very first radical-median-voter
real shame too. i’d love nothing more than to show off my banger twitter drafts and unfinished imovie edits to pigs
December 9, 2024 at 6:26 PM
real shame too. i’d love nothing more than to show off my banger twitter drafts and unfinished imovie edits to pigs