Yeah that checks out a lot.
IzyaKatzmann
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I'll do my best to be charitable to Russell, only for the interest of other readers.
Malthus and his notion of competition was broadly accepted by Adam Smith (labor theory of value, etc.) AND Darwin, prolewiki has an excerpt from Charles Darwin's autobiography where he mentions the impact of Malthus' Essays on Population on his thinking during his time on the HMS Beagle.
Marx was well enamoured and impressed by Darwin's theory of evolution & Origin of Species. Marx sent Darwin a copy of Capital, if I remember because he saw it as an evolution or building upon Darwin's work (which I would agree with, just not sure if that's exactly what Marx said or intended).
If Russell disagreed with competition, and preferred cooperation, maybe the criticism has a bit of weight, if you exclude like a bunch of context (which honestly it sorta seems the later Russell would do frequently?? idk I haven't read him too much).
I like much of Bertrand Russell's writing. And jeez he had some huge L's. Don't look into what he thought would be a good use of nuclear arms post-WW2.
Jeez, I feel so gullible, the propaganda and lies are really EVERYWHERE aren't they? Just how prudent does one need to be...
the link at the end of your comment is paywalled, any chance you could share the content here?
Wow, what an awful thing to do to her.
would love some notes
hey, could you send some sources my way about the altman thing? i remember reading about it before, and i have a few techbro's who are always going off about altman
for a prospective dev (for contributing & who is learning...) what should one look into if they wanted to add support for another markup language? like typst! or uhh pandoc so whatever markup language one writes in it can be put in the appropriate format!
*eats popcorn*
I feel like mom and dad are talking and I am sitting nodding along
you know it
me inside:
Oh yeah completely fair, I agree. I was spitballing, because I have a special place for Russell (his problems of philosophy was my first book on philosophy years and years ago)