• AutomatedPossum [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The main reason econ and poli sci majors are so obsessed with Sun Tzu and especially Macchiavelli is that the actual good sources on realpolitik are Mao and Lenin and that’s considered too dangerous for them, so they get the safe stuff, the utterly nihilistic and immoral Borghia bootlicker and the “archers are kinda good for killing at a distance” drivel instead of having State and Revolution on their reading list.

    • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      All the better.

      How does that saying go - never interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake?

      Plenty of these poli sci majors are going to be opposed to the revolution, if not most of them. I can’t imagine many econ majors are going to make it through liberal ideology ✨but reified with statistics✨ and end up on the right side of history.

      Let them study garbage and produce garbage takes and make a mess of everything. Paper tigers etc. etc.