Private space. I used to share one room with my siblings. It was alright as a child, but I don't want to go back. And I know that many families around the world have very little space for two, three or four generations living under a roof.

Yes and this also means it can happen given an economic crisis or crisis of legitimacy, proper organizing and the right balance of power between classes.

it isn't a spontaneous thing that occurs once a certain threshold of suffering is reached.

Absolutely! It's weird how often this simplistic "threshold of suffering" view of revolutions is just assumed without any theoretical basis. It explicitly goes against Lenin who rejected spontaneity and insisted on organizing.

A historic materialist analysis of revolutions does not rely on anything as subjective as suffering. It is concerned with objective contradictions inherent in the mode of production, class analysis, class consciousness and organizing. And no, suffering alone does not suffice to create class consciousness. Without organizing it can lead to despair, passivity or fragmented resistance.

In a successful revolution, seeds of class consciousness lead to political action which leads to more class consciousness which leads to more action and so on.

And those seeds are planted right now in the boring everyday struggle. In every strike, protest and action. And organizing them builds structures and alliances from which a revolutionary potential might someday emerge.

Capitalism is not sustainable and keeps producing crisis and moments that can be captured. History is full of those moments when the ruling class seemed invincible - right up until they were overthrown.

It sounds similar to [citation needed], which is often used on Wikipedia.

Because they are old. Ghosts are just the anthropomorphic manifestation of people's fear of growing old. Religious framings are just an add on.

Trauma and grief can't run their course if your mind is so senile and your short term memory so feeble, that you're basically forced to live in the past. Forever repeating old arguments, reliving past trauma and never overcoming old fears. With your mind so set in it's tracks, that you can't even imagine leaving the place where you lived all your live — your "old haunt" so to speak. How could you live in the present, if you can't even recognize your own children half of the time? But the long term memory often still works. Ghosts are real and if you're lucky enough to live that long you might well become one. Of course aging isn't always like this, it can be graceful and dignified but when it isn't, that's what people are afraid of.

People are scared, when they see older relatives acting stranger every day, especially in times before any way to diagnose Alzheimer's and other forms of neural degradation. They might seem like they are not quite here anymore, like the person they were had long since died and yet, something lingers. Ghost stories are a socially acceptable way to express those fears.

Just observe the effects ghosts have on their victims: first, they are reminded of their own mortality. Then their hair suddenly turns white or gray or falls out, they lose sleep, wake up tired or grow old over night. They might lose their mind or die themselves. That's all just normal aging.

Here is a handy key to select monsters and their meaning:

• ghosts 👻: aging, death, old people
• vampires(folk believe): plague, infection
• vampires(literature): landlords, feudalism
• zombies(modern): alienation, capitalism
• witches: women who stand up to patriarchy
• Frankenstein's monster: the proletariat gaining class consciousness (no seriously)

I recommend the podcast "the horror vanguard" for details.

And just to come full circle:

Baalbek, named after Baal, is an ancient city in the Beqaa plane in Lebanon. It was known as the bread basket of the Roman empire. The Romans build the largest temples outside of Rome there and allowed worship of Baal to continue in the large entrance building in front of the Jupiter temple. The temples stood in good condition for centuries and are now under threat by IDF bombing, which has already come as close as 500 meters, while every building in the city has been declared a target and it's people ordered to evacuate.

Wow, I hadn't realized it's gotten so bad. I use duckduckgo and just tried it. I also got some of these. A little fewer though.

I got fascist undertones from My Hero Academia and stopped reading long ago. Was I wrong?

I get it, but code isn't usually included in publications. Unless it was put on GitHub.

Totally agree on dialectical materialism, though there is no such thing as a universally accepted scientific method. I say this as a scientist working in a technical field: science in capitalism is ripe with contradiction.

Maybe, "philosophy is useless" is a philosophical statement though.

Yes! Finally someone else who is amazed by this! It's crazy to think, that magnetism can be understood as nothing more than a relativistic phenomenon.

Wow, that's really good advice 👍 I'm on boardgame geek and hadn't thought of that.