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[-] MorelaakIsBack@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

the absolute most godawful, instantly-punchable expression for a thumb-headed pigfuck cop to wear is sheepishness

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Thumb head probably goes to church on Sundays too and thinks about how he's a good christian arresting a literal man feeding the hungry.

[-] cucumovirus@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Similar to how Hegel criticized the christian call to "help the poor" because it presupposes a constant existence of poverty in order to feel good about its (ineffective) charity. A quote from Losurdo's Class Struggle:

We are reminded of Hegel’s critical remarks on the Gospel commandment to aid the poor. Losing sight of the fact that it is a ‘conditional precept’, and absolutizing it, Christians also wound up absolutizing poverty, which alone could confer meaning on the norm enjoining aid for the poor. The survival of poverty was a precondition for Christians, or at least some of them, enjoying a sense of moral nobility attendant upon their aid for the poor. The seriousness of help for the poor should instead be measured by its contribution to overcoming poverty as such.

[-] FanonFan@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Good reference, thanks for sharing

Gonna have to add yet another losurdo book to my shelf

[-] cucumovirus@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

No problem! I've been reading through pretty much all of Losurdo's translated books recently and enjoying them all quite a lot. Class Struggle deals directly with Marxist theory, and it's definitely one of my favorites.

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