By criticizing an entire community as not completely, thoroughly materialist or not completely read in "intellectual tradition", they've ironically gone completely around and become idealist.
It's actually a non-criticism, since of course we are supposed to (and strive to) beat the idealism out of us that we grow up with. It's already a given -everybody knows that.
So it looks like they are just using that and their "intellectual tradition" to pat themselves on the back.
I've read a bit about the transition to serfdom post-Rome and this is generally correct, and is certainly the correct way to think about it.
There are some additional concerns when it comes to large scale slave society like Rome was, among other things includes stuff like geographic and technological limitations (roads, ocean, ships, animal and human muscle power), biological limitations (slaves die under horrific conditions). Basically a web of things that long term suggest an expanding slave society (or slavery itself) is unsustainable, and that the transition to serfdom is based in the eventual material need of the ruling class to transform labor from slaves to serfs as slave influx becomes less, and thus they become more expensive.
Then there are things like debt that polarize economies and change human relations, and steer economic policy to serfdom as well. Geography can influence the policy towards emerging peasantry, too - like if there is too much free land then you'd want your peasants to bound to your land. And the opposite: if there isn't free land then your peasants can have more rights and mobility.
Just thought I'd add these additional concerns to a really good post.
Do you have anything to read about Chinese "feudalism" or whatever Marx called the Asiatic MOP? It's so hard to find anything and I basically know nothing at all about what is going on at that point in time/space. My hunch is that geography is really really important.
The downvote count is counting votes for genocide
Maybe even
trillions
of deaths
I floated around several different jobs. Never found anything I liked so I decided to move back in with my parents so I can do the last few things I need to change careers/apply for physical therapy school, and I'm older than you.
I don't know if there's any otherworldly insight to it other than I just really love exercise and training.
When I was working other jobs, I felt like two different people. I had my job that I honestly didn't give a flying fuck about, had no motivation, made me depressed and just couldn't force myself to be interested in. I had to pretend to care while surrounded by people who did care.
And when I was doing my physical training for the sports I love I was/am a completely different person- much happier and learning new things because I care.
On mental health: I think not being in a career adjacent to my passions really, really hurt me. It's not like I've solved my depression but I can wake up now with something to look forward to, a path that I actually want to walk on.
It was passion that I had to build on but there was always an interest in exercise even before I can say I developed it into a passion. I was previously going to college for physical therapy, changed direction, but built my passion and now coming back to it, it all seems to make sense. Maybe there is something you have enjoyed in that past that you can return to build on?
And the big thing I can say is try not to get too down. This isn't uncommon nowadays for people around our ages.
Don't think of these years as wasted years, but learning years. I always felt like I was spinning my wheels and there's a lot of truth in that. My parents always wondering what I was doing etc., is a terrible burden. But maybe in a way, I wasnt ready to go down that road since I hadn't the passion for it yet, and the world didn't make sense to my neurodivergent brain because I hadn't learned Marxism yet, either.
And I suppose while we're at it (to use Marxist terms), my experiences and internal contradictions weren't strong enough yet that they'd need to resolve themselves by producing a new decision to go back to school.
I became an ML the day I found r/GenZedong lol. Didn't get banned from anything.
"Barbarians raid another state for their plane"
The socdem failure is now complete. When I left them I was but the learner now I am the master.
I hate breadtube.
Shucks it wants me to download an app
In for more NBA players discovering China is a cool country