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How to decide what to read? Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:22 No.3675 [Reply]

What is your process?
Do you use reading charts?
Do you decide based on Recommendations?
Aside from the obvious Leftist ones, which are the good and which are the bad Publishers?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:24 No.3694

>>3675
Well when I had to start somewhere it was lists and recs from boards. Like one time I came across a quote from Hesse's Siddhartha on 420ch and ended up reading a bunch of his work. Or I'd visit what I've heard is canon/classic, so I did that and would then see where the text ramifies out to, like contemporaneous or within the same nation (e.g. enjoyed Dostoyevsky, went on to Tolstoy and Gogol). It's much easier to decide where to go next when it comes to philosophy and theory.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:27 No.3711

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>>3677
>Solzhenitsyn
He's not even considered a good writer in Russia. No, in fact he's an atrocious writer and his pretentious attempts at inventing his own neologisms, meandering prose with no rhyme or rhythm, and endless exposition dumps with ambitions of a wannabe 20th century Leo Tolstoy constantly fall flat on their face. All the bullshit aside. Don't know what to think of the rest of the list from this.

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2 yards linen = 1 coat 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:04 No.4097

>>3711
Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is an excellent book.
>…inventing his own neologisms, meandering prose with no rhyme or rhythm, and endless exposition dumps with ambitions of a wannabe 20th century Leo Tolstoy constantly fall flat on their face.
This does not describe the book at all.

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2 yards linen = 1 coat 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:04 No.4101

>>3675
>What is your process?
When I had access to a university library + a lot of time, I searched through the library catalog for certain topics then skimmed various books on a single subject, discarding the ones that didn't seem useful and noting the names of the rest for further study.

What I do now (since I only have access to what I can find on the internet) is to do the same thing by searching online using whatever platform is available, plus using authors sources and footnotes to find more books to read.

This is a good way of compiling info on specific topics.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:05 No.4103

Usually recommendation from friends. But if they got none, I go to boards that make recommendations I'm interested in and I start reading from there.

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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:53 No.3371 [Reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Soviet_Encyclopedia
The third (last) edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia was translated into English for a western publisher almost concurrently with the Russian encyclopedia's publication. Given its obvious significance, it's surprising that not a single volume has circulated online like many other books.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:02 No.3477

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:02 No.3478

>>3477(me)
it should be noted however, that the encyclopedia edition is of the 70s

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:14 No.3596

On a related note, we should also go over US Senate reports on the USSR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181227211950/https://www.jec.senate.gov/reports/87th%20Congress/Dimensions%20of%20Soviet%20Economic%20Power%20(227).pdf

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2 yards linen = 1 coat 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:04 No.4096

>Given its obvious significance, it's surprising that not a single volume has circulated online like many other books.
It's not surprising at all. Many "official" texts published in the USSR, especially the late USSR, were a mishmash of state-approved ideology and dogma. I tried reading Brezhnev's autobiography (or just biography?) and it was absolutely worthless. It was full of truisms like, "He always works well with others, and always asks for everyone's opinion before making a decision."

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:17 No.1350 [Reply]

Is there any Marxist historians you recommend?

>inb4 Grover Furr

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:24 No.3690

>>3689
is it good I've been planning to read it

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:24 No.3691

Jairus Banaji's Theory as History is very, very good; highly recommended if you want to understand the purpose of Marxist historiography in the 21st century.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:24 No.3693

Franz Mehring

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:33 No.3762

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Mario Liverani, Uruk
https://archive.org/stream/LiveraniMario1998UrukTheFirstCity/Liverani%2C%20Mario_1998_Uruk%2C%20The%20First%20City_djvu.txt
Marc van der Mieroop, The Ancient Near East
https://www.pdfdrive.com/a-history-of-the-ancient-near-east-ca-3000-323-bc-e194493783.html

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:03 No.4087

>>1350
Trotsky

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Historian 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:19:02 No.203 [Reply]

What are your opinions on this book? I'll keep mine to myself for now, I'm genuinely curious to see how it is viewed in leftist circles.

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Historian 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:19:02 No.206

Baby's first book in revisionism. But its an okay book but very over simplified and doesn't really go too much in depth. The author himself is a classic revisionist historian so keep that in mind.

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Historian 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:19:02 No.207

More Marxist than Marx himself.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:21 No.3669

There was another thread that popped up about this, and it was fairly decent, so I will copy paste the replies here:

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There are many critiques of this book, it's very controversial, but good read non the less. I think you should read it and then read some critiques. There are often threads on /his/ about it /lit/ and /pol/ also love to hate it.

You can find a bunch of reviews and critiques of it with a little bit of googling, so I recommend read it, think about it, and read some critiques.

Here:
https://www.marxist.com/a-review-of-jared-diamonds-guns-germs-and-steel.htm

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The author himself is not a Marxist, but from what I can gather, the book is a decent layman introduction to the concept of historical materialism and how it can be applied as a lens to assess the comparative development of civilizations. Unfortunately, some of the claims made by the author are backed by research that's more than a bit shoddy, and reactionary critics love to pick on the book for that reason, but it's pretty clear most of their ire stems from the fact that they are uncomfortable with having their racial essentialist worldview attacked so directly.
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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:33 No.3759

While I agree with the other posters here, I think that since no one else has posted about the problems with the book, I will do so briefly. I don't mean to dissuade anyone from reading it, and if memory serves most of the problems are concentrated towards the end:

Ultiamtely Jared Diamond works within a liberal paradigm/discourse, and this paradigm is enamored with competition conceptually. Ultiamtely this stems from liberalism being wedded to capitalism historically and ideologically.

Therefore, the book is rather myopic about imperialism and colonialism (which are logical consequences to coutnries competiting with one another, since being able to extract excess resources from a faraway third region that is colonized gives advantages in war, trade and domestic stability); That certain countries are poor because they have been plundered and continue to be plundered by others does not cross his mind all too much.

Further, that the totalizing nature of competition under capitalism can actually result in constraints on economic development, including on technogical discovery and innovation are mostly passed over.

And this is why the book is often accused of geographic determinism (though i nreality it isn't stricly); That is to say, in order to avoid outright racial or cultural chauvinism, he defaults to saying that the problem is the lack of liberal institutions in poor countries, and that this lack has near exclusive geographic determinants ultimately.

This is the consequence of not having an understanding of capitalism and imperialism as systems with internal logics, combined of course to middle class first world apologia.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:33 No.3760

I think he's too determinist and doesn't focus enough on economics apart from technology trade. Like sure, Europe based on geography will be in a much better spot than Subsaharan Africa but if we're just going off technology, resources and geography, China would have "won".

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:20:52 No.1121 [Reply]

recommend me books of underground socialist/anarchist movements, files and biographies of people who were involved.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:20:55 No.1152

>>1488
Check'd, Nazi.

Bonnot Gang were just a bunch of gangsters and murderers.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:28 No.3719

the unseen by nanni balestrini

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:29 No.3721

can anyone recomend books about asian (korea and japan) and western eruopean far left movements in the 70s and 80s

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:30 No.3734

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Pls need help Cinoscraft 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:18:45 No.69 [Reply]

Please guy
You can recommended book of history of africa ? in pdf format of course
Pls… in spanish much better

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Étienne 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:18:46 No.71

>>69
There is a nice book on the country of Burkina Faso (from independence to after the 2014 revolt) called «Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest and Revolution» by Ernest Harsch, really good read.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:21 No.3672

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZufnczFBU4

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:23 No.3680

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"Libgen" es la mejor página para conseguir libros digitales y gratuitos. Algunos archivos podrían no subirse aquí por estar muy pesados, busca allí por tu cuenta.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:25 No.3698

>>3680
Basado

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:27 No.3709

Para una historia semi-biografica de Sankara especificamente, el libro de Ludo Martens es muy bien y creo que hay una traducción en castellano.

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studying mysticism/esotericism vs studying cosmology,physics and maths Anonymous 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:17 No.3626 [Reply]

I'm a celibate man(thus have high brain power)and i want to find the ultimate truth to life.
I have limited time and two options:
>stuyding esotericism,magick,mystic treatises and meditation techniques,the vedas,medieval books etc

OR

>cosmology,neurology,biology,history of life on earth,maths,etc

Which should I devote my time to?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:20 No.3660

>>3626
study logic and scientific critique, then post-critical science shit, learn meditation but as a tool to make your mind sharper thats all, it will give you no knowledge (Except about … meditation), and then get into whatever the fuck u want, u should be insulated from wasting too much time on obvious bullshit if u start out by learning how to think and learn properly.
for "truth of life" tho, read philosophy ffs, all the esoteric stuff is only really appealing to people with inflated egos because you can read whatever you want into it and feel like a genius and like ur learning hidden knowledge. Philosophy (good philosophy…) does the same shit that (honest) mystics and religious figures tried to do, but in more plain language for the modern world

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:20 No.3666

>>3658
Start with the Africans.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:22 No.3674

Unironically (whether or not that's in the spirit of this thread) every human should know a lot about a little and a little about a lot. So pick what you want to be an expert in, and read/discuss/investigate deeply in that, but also acquaint yourself with what we've learned more broadly and bring a bunch of different perspectives to bear on what you know best.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:25 No.3696

Why not both?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:26 No.3707

>>3626
One gets you cred on the most mid-wit level boards on 4chan while the other can net you a job, and an actual understanding, albeit still probably reductionist, understanding of the world.

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history of the world Historian 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:19:14 No.292 [Reply]

What does /roulette/ think of the markovian view of marxist/althusserian historical materialism presented by the immortal scientist in his review of althusser's philosopher of the encounter, as well as in his book "how the world works".

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Historian 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:19:14 No.293

I thought that picture was a joke? Please don't tell me there are people who truly believe such nonsense.

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Historian 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:19:14 No.294

>>293
read the first pdf attached

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:23 No.3681

in order to make the state machine materialist, it would need to have a copy of that diagram for all combinations of relevant material conditions (plus connecting arrows). While it is technically correct, I don't think it is particularly useful.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:25 No.3699

>>3681
Obviously this is insufficient as a COMPLETE model, but it's clearly not trying to be. It's expressing the idea that conditions potentially ripe for capitalism more frequently arise than actually do transition to it, which seems largely accurate to me - though of course (1) you could no doubt as mentioned get greater predictive accuracy by adding additional variables and (2) this leaves unexplained what constitutes the different state and why transitions between them should occur. It's not like Marxists have neglected these questions, though, so I think it's worth seeing if FSM-type models can produce anything useful if you noodle around with them.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:25 No.3700

>>3699
They can't, this is some horoscope level bullshit.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:02 No.1227 [Reply]

Do you prefer physical or digital books /edu/?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:07 No.1845

>>1227
Physical but cause Coronalol, digital so I can use Sci-hub

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:07 No.1846

>>1227
Digital

Though if the apocalypse happens I might regret that

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:52 No.3366

>>1227
physical always.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:52 No.3368

I can't read online. I print out PDFs sometimes though instead of buying.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:21 No.3670

Either digital copies or hardcover physical books.

Paperbacks are pure degeneracy and counter-revolutionairy ;)

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Ethiopian elephants Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:20 No.3656 [Reply]

Did the ancient/medieval Ethiopians domesticate the African elephant? In many historical records, the Abyssinians/Aksumites are mentioned to use elephants for military purposes, but were these African elephants or Asian elephants? In modern-day Ethiopia, or in fact anywhere for that matter, there is no sign of domestication of the African elephant. However, African elephants have been extensively used in ancient times for military purposes, for example by the Carthaginians.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:20 No.3659

thank you for your contribution to this board my friend

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:20 No.3661

>>3656
phroo :DD

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:20 No.3662

>>3656
Those war elephants were probably from a now extinct western subspecies of Asian elephant, or northern subspecies of African forest elephant.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:20 No.3663

Are elephants comrades?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:20 No.3664

>>3663
Of course.
We shall help them develop their brains and social minds until they are our equals.
Like dolphins
UPHOLD POSADAS