“All nature,” says Engels, “from the smallest thing to the biggest, from grains of sand to suns, from protista (the primary living cells — J. St.) to man, has its existence in eternal coming into being and going out of being, in a ceaseless flux, in unresting motion and change.”
Wait no thats not what protista is, right? Like that doesnt seem true.
Protista is a specific thing in 19th century biology and today and it is not “the primary living cell”. Its a type of eukaryote that is neither plant, fungus or animal. It is a sort of genetic midpoint with ill defined borders.
When Engels wrote this it was even more nebolously defined with various competing definitions, but I believe the most common was something akin to “something that is alive and isnt a plant or an animal”.
He’s basically saying from tiny insiginificant lifeforms to humans.
Wait no thats not what protista is, right? Like that doesnt seem true.
Protista is a specific thing in 19th century biology and today and it is not “the primary living cell”. Its a type of eukaryote that is neither plant, fungus or animal. It is a sort of genetic midpoint with ill defined borders. When Engels wrote this it was even more nebolously defined with various competing definitions, but I believe the most common was something akin to “something that is alive and isnt a plant or an animal”.
He’s basically saying from tiny insiginificant lifeforms to humans.
Idk, you’re the doctor or something, tell Stalin that he was wrong.
I would but stalin wont answer my calls.
Dear Stalin, I wrote you, but you still ain’t callin’
I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom
That seems like a dangerous proposition.
So basically, enshittification is dialectical. Fascinating.