• OneMeaningManyNames@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 months ago

    Material in the sense of the basic physical quantities like length and charge? No. You need to add a splash of ethnography in your materialism.

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      3 months ago

      basic physical quantities like length and charge

      You know that those are also social abstractions of complicated phenomenon too right? Or did you not read about what a social construct was because sociology is a soft science for girls? /s

      Also have you ever opened up Capital or Imperialism and looked at how many basic quantities they use when constructing their analysis?