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 No.1395[Reply]

What can you guys tell me about "Time Travel"?
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 No.1432

In a way, going to the future is possible if you move at relativistic speeds.
Going to the past would require moving at above the speed of light.
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 No.1520

>>1395
worst movie plot
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 No.4568

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>>1423
Here's not much better.
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 No.4577

>>1396
This is the plot of Steins;Gate.


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 No.4202[Reply]

I can't concentrate when reading on a computer screen, is it a bad idea or nah? Ideally I'm only going to buy cheap used stuff I find.

Another question, should I try to get the absolute best translation and publisher or is does it not matter what edition I get as long as I freaking read something?
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 No.4243

>>4239
Hardcover is better because the book is far less likely to get torn or the cover itself wear out. Paperback books are known to be cheap because they're shoddy 90% of the time.
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 No.4244

>>4239
>>4241
Adding to this I'd also get a hardcover if it's a reference work that you're going to be opening often.
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 No.4245

>>4203
Ok, but Realtalk.
I was planning on ordering some Cockshott to read it in physical, but this whole "will be put on a List" is worriesome
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 No.4246

>>4245
tbh cockshott is very low risk. It's basically all computer science, maths, planned economy shit, as opposed to 'let's kill and maim every land owner' and so on
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 No.4540

me too anon. used bookstores/op shops are great, and if your area has based unions they occasionally have some prole literature.


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 No.3049[Reply]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apGViv909eo
>Let's talk about a hard truth about voting and community networks….
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 No.3481

>>3367
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZyBuf1h5I
>These three rules will help you OVERTHROW CAPITALISM! [Dialectical Materialism Part 3]
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 No.3483

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4dnmtlVXak
>3 Ways To Hold A Communist Meeting
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 No.4324

Book drop @ >>4317
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 No.4524

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 No.4371[Reply]

I feel like the busywork is college is draining my desire to live. How do people make it through four years of this?
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 No.4387

>>4371
You don't.
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 No.4512

>>4371
Just deal with it, you don't want to be struggling to survive if you have the chance to get an education to get a better job and therefore more money for praxis. Think of it as your mini long march of your individual life to become less of a wage slave, assuming your degree gives higher salaries. Many proles work jobs, raise kids, and also do college, so you can too comrade. I hope you are finished on time good luck
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 No.4515

that’s what I thought at first, and now I did so poorly that I’m doing it in 5 years
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 No.4516

Had the same thing but I managed to scrape through with the grade I wanted in the end.
>>4512
I like this though
>Think of it as your mini long march of your individual life to become less of a wage slave
But it'll depend on what motivates you. What motivates you comrade?
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 No.4517

Same as >>4515 and I also owe my university a lot of money, so chop-chop if you don't want to end up like me.


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 No.304[Reply]

A thread for informative content of all types
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 No.3363

>>449
Reminder that the rail/train thread is on >>>/hobby/
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 No.4520

>>304
>>3363
As is /k/ and the permaculture thread


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 No.4479[Reply]

>The author voices concern that the philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels failed to incorporate women's oppression into their critiques of capitalism.
What is "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" for $300, Trebek?
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 No.4490

>>4489
obligatory dumbass tankie post
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 No.4491

>>4490
Not him but what's so dumb about it? And I hope, that you know Zetkin and Kollontai are not Tankies
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 No.4492

>>4490
>Hurr ur tankie
1) That's not an insult except in the minds of childish thorylet ankids and their infantile fantasies
2) There is no argument. Feminism is a goal, not a method, and to practice it is to practice identity politics and therefore, go against Socialism
3) The practical results of the USSR demonstrate success. In the USA the Suffragettes barely achieved anything other than 'voting' and 2nd/3rd wave feminism was mostly liberal contrarianism that porky used to pit men against women creating sectarian divides based on mostly bourg pseudoscience. In the USSR women had maternity leaves and accommodations for them, they could take ANY work they wanted but were also not pressured to choose tradionally masculine labour just to be contrarian. They had equal rights and their place in the labour force appropriately complimented men, just as men complimented them, rather than competing over nothing. Women in the Red Army were usually nurses but NOTHING stopped them from being ordinary soldiers and killing Nazi scum, nothing stopped them from leading factories and being awarded for heroism and labour.

That is real women's rights, and not some imagined whining.
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 No.4494

>>4492
>only "theorylets" dislike MLs
lol
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 No.4495

>>4494
Leftcoms and ancoms who aren't bad faith idealists disagree with MLs and may oppose them, but do not resort to petty emotional "hurr ur tankie", in-part because this argument is easy to flip right back at them and also in part because it is immature and not an argument, as you still don't have one.


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 No.4281[Reply]

Anyone know of good books on leadership as an academic field? Analyses of different styles and structures of leadership are welcome as well. None of that self-help, entrepreneurial, hero worship, or landfill literature BS that so often dominates pop culture. Thanks friends.
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 No.4282

https://www.psychology.org.au/inpsych/2017/august/power
Check the citations for this article to begin with
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 No.4287

Lars T. Lih's Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context comes to mind. It's a massive, 880 page tome that includes a new translation of what is probably Lenin's "most misunderstood revolutionary text"
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 No.4314

>>4287
>"most misunderstood revolutionary text"
How so?
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 No.4459

>>4287
>Lars T. Lih
aint he a trotskyeet


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 No.4431[Reply]

What is the primary contradiction inside Academia? Is it between the Sciences and Humanities or something else?
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 No.4433

>>4431
>What is the primary contradiction inside Academia?
wdymbt
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 No.4435

same as rest of the society from what I hear, profitability versus productivity.
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 No.4438

>>4435
Yeah but judging from that alone, you can't differentiate the various Disciplines
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 No.4440

The contradiction in academia is disagreement on how best to reproduce the bourgeois and labor aristocracy
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 No.4450

>same as rest of the society from what I hear, profitability versus productivity.
ding ding ding, although this takes on particular forms in academe

Since the middle ages academe has always been defined in large part by an attempt by intellectuals to wrest themselves independent of the control of territorial and economic powers and their demands so that they can think. You can condemn this as a bunch of elite nerds trying to evade social responsibility so they can jerk off, or celebrate it as the human spirit trying to comprehend higher things and achieve species-being against the petty squabbles of local elites, but either way it's been a pretty consistent feature of how academia has developed, and in particular struggles over what institutional forms and so on are adopted. (Actually you can see this struggle extending back even further into monastic organization, at least in the West and I would very strongly wager in Sufi lodges and Buddhist monasteries as well though I'm less familiar with those.)

Over the past several decades the autonomy of the universities has been very thoroughly eroded:

1) The usual funding mechanisms - an exponentially increasing number of paying undergrads, with little overhead - has disappeared.
2) Outside political forces want the university to justify itself in outside terms - contributions to innovation in the economy, and so on. Partnerships with various actors for funding has resulted in the usual alternative to the autonomous university/monastery to seep in - private patronage.
3) Internal "productivity" metrics have gotten more and more standardized for research academics (# papers published and citations gotten, in journals whose impact rating has been similarly quantified) and teaching (with teachers, just like other service workers, getting rated by students-cum-customers). You're seeing some pretty blatant attacks on the spirit of tenure done under the heading of wokeness (a heading which in most cases I suspect mostly masks attacks on academics who find themselves unpopular for far more petty reasons), but either way economic forces are eroding tenure anyway.

My idle hope is that people who want to think will be able to build new institutions that can withstand this (a tension that will be easier, but still a struggle, to realize under socialism) but if you look at the internet, 1) censorship cynically justified as merely an attack on a fPost too long. Click here to view the full text.


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 No.966[Reply]

Educate me on weapons
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 No.1686

>>1668
dont this this fucking retarded plus steady aim only recquires normal strenght
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 No.1694

>>1686
Something tells me the only retard here is you, though feel free to prove me wrong.
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 No.2012

>>1668
Yes, but not necessarily bricks. US Army had us use our canteens for example.
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 No.2222

>>1668
>Is it really that heavy/straining to aim with a rifle for a prolonged period of time that this is necessary?
Try it yourself. Hold something 5lbs (~2.25 freedom hating units) out with an extended arm for as long as you can. Isometrics will kick your ass.
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 No.4444

/k/ is on >>>/hobby/


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 No.2030[Reply]

I want to learn more about the dogmatism that surrounds Stalin in socialism by looking at the actual historical evidence. I know there are books by Grover Furr that discuss this subject. but I want to additionally know what are some books with direct counter-arguments to Grover Furr's claims, and which of Grover Furr's books I should read first.
any suggestions?
pic unrelated.
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 No.4421

>>4420
Oh and one more thing: What's suspicious to me is that while they call Furr an irrelevant crank, the academic history community has gone out of their way to excessively debunk Holocaust deniers like Irving. With Furr, they don't do this, which gives the indication that there is probably some meat to his arguments.
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 No.4422

He was the asshole of the group. He didn't have a firm line and shifted often to the position that was to be favored by the majority. His first concern was to secure power for himself and then everything else was to be done.
He also kinda turned marxism-leninism into a creed, not to be further developed.
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 No.4423

>>4422
However this is to say, the "opposition" was no real alternative, as they were a bunch of armchair fags loving to endlessly debate, yet not doing anything proper. They wouldn't have industrialized the country in time and probably would be annihilated by nazi Germany. They were dengists before Deng (especially Bukharin).
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 No.4424

>>4423
However again, Trotsky was calling for more power to the industry already at the end of 1922, when NEP went into full force and he was against a huge compromise with the peasantry.
Trotsky established the victorious Red Army, he could perhaps also be competent in dealing with Nazis - maybe even more so and would avoid catastrophic defeats in Minsk, Kyiv, Leningrad …
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 No.4425

>>4420
I recall Grover Furr early in his research went in expecting some of the liberal propaganda to be true and was shocked at how it was mostly made up and that gave him his conviction that it's all bullshit

You can hear the shock in his voice when he says it, like he was reliving that moment of truth


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