• Raphaël A. Costeau@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    I am paraphrasing a phrase that was attributed to Engels: “Socialism or Barbarism”. I do not think there is a problem in using barbarism for the likely return to tribalism in the case of capitalism falls for itself, it has a problematic etymology, (like vandalism, for example) and it was widely used in a racist way, but I do not believe that using it, with the meaning defined in Origin of the Family, has any impact on the permanence or absence of racism.

    • Maeve@lemmygrad.ml
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      18 days ago

      I understand. I’m not faulting you. It was just brought to my consciousness in the last month of two. I didn’t have a word to suggest, other than vile, heinous, abhorrent, etc but they fall short.