• TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    old Russian crank wrote about Marxist thermodynamics

    I remember this guy, he was trying to reach the same conclusions of thermodynamics through dialectics. Kind of weird crank stuff, didn’t add anything new to either Marxism or thermodynamics AFAIK.

    The Saito text that mentions thermodynamics and Marx’s thoughts on classical thermodynamics and the political economy of energy and planetary metabolism was “Karl Marx’s ecosocialism”, which deals with late Marx’s reflections and the unpublished 3rd volume of Capital.

    Regarding Posadas writing weird stuff about the SU it’s likely that some kind of distorted version of scientific news from the SU got repeated so much that he actually read “Soviets discover rays faster than light”, when it was some theoretical or particle physics report that didn’t do anything like that. The article was written during the peak of soviet secrecy and paranoia so unfounded rumors must’ve been all over the place