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1. Prasanna Venkadesh (prashere@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Mar-2018 00:53:40 EDT Prasanna Venkadesh

   Today's progress on the book. Yesterday, I shared a page from the book that highlighted the worst of caste practices.

   Today, tracing back to the roots of social reforms and other movements in Kerala, introducing a spiritual guru named Sree Narayana Guru who was born on a lower Ezhava caste and subscribed to "Advaita Vedanta" philosophy.

   Unlike traditional vedanti's, Sree Narayana Guru didn't ignore the world as Maya or the existence of caste oppression as illusion. He sought to fight back.

   1. Kamalavelan (demonshreder@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 22-Mar-2018 03:02:43 EDT Kamalavelan

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      @prashere This changed world was unavailable to Swartz. To Elbakyan, it was obvious what to do with Sci-Hub. She would gain help from hackers all around the world to keep the ship sailing ( eg https://whereisscihub.now.sh/ this came up last week).

      Here I could only accept that world was as it was and Swartz did the best he could but was murdered. This acceptance, created in me, an empathy, which fueled my ideals. This would be impossible for me without the practical methods of Advaita.

      1. Prasanna Venkadesh (prashere@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Mar-2018 03:17:11 EDT Prasanna Venkadesh

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         @demonshreder I was expecting your reply :-) Materialism doesn't say idealism is wrong but it just says ideals has to be super imposed on material world, for material is primary and ideals are formed on top of the conditions of the material world.

         Subscribing to the same philosophy Hindu Reformists sort to change the status quo. I am worried today we have lost that kind of action.

         1. Prasanna Venkadesh (prashere@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Mar-2018 04:03:26 EDT Prasanna Venkadesh

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            @demonshreder https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-6/mswv6_30.htm

   2. Kamalavelan (demonshreder@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 22-Mar-2018 02:54:44 EDT Kamalavelan

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      @prashere Karma is the reality of the world. Where Aaron Swartz failed, Alexandra Elbakyan succeeded. They were very similar in their ideals and approaches but the primary difference (IMO) was that TPB wasn't raided one more time. The last raid of TPB which caused it to shut down for 2-3 months, gave birth to the swarm of FOSS infrastructure popping up everywhere, people coming together to share resources against a common enemy eg. https://github.com/unblocked-pw/unblocked-pw.github.io