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is this true? Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:06 No.1835 [Reply]

but even if it's not, is this something that's possible? how do you develop the hermeneutics to read this fast?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:23 No.2023

>>1835
WTF, you don't read at least 100 pages of information everyday? Repent, sinners. No wonder the civilization has decayed so much. Cease all the unnecessary normie activity everyday, instead focus on attain wizardhood

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:24 No.2031

>>1835
skimming

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:14 No.3046

>>2031
Given that he wrote notes on the side of the page often, I would reckon otherwise.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:18 No.3072

>>1835
You probably read an equivalent amount of content on your screen every day

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:21 No.3095

>>1854
I think this is one of those rare brain conditions that is actually a positive benefit. My ex was diagnosed with it, but I can't remember the name of it.

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How to improve English writing? Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:40 No.1561 [Reply]

I am an ESLer. How do I improve my English writing? My grammar, and punctuation is terrible. My writing vocabulary is terrible as well. Sometimes when I write, I take a long time because the right word or phrase is not on my mind. I have a large passive vocabulary, but I don't know how to use it, and turn it into active vocabulary.
I am looking to improve my writing ability to a level where It would be easy for me to write papers for academic journals, and conferences.
If you have any recommendations, please do post them.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:07 No.3001

>>1561

Learn Latin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJctKy_r6s

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zt19wzsW-

c&list=PLU1WuLg45SiyrXahjvFahDuA060P487pV&index=4

Buy this book

https://www.amazon.com/They-Say-Academic-Writing-Readings/dp/0393631680/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=they+say+i+say&qid=1598602100&sr=8-2

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:07 No.3002

>>3001
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zt19wzsW-[Remove]
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=linga+latina+playlist

c&list=PLU1WuLg45SiyrXahjvFahDuA060P487pV&index=4

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:16 No.3061

>>3001
>>3002
Why learn Latin? Could I learn Greek instead?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:16 No.3063

>>3061
Because Latin makes up like 80% of a our vocabulary whereas Greek only 6%? And those 6% came to us through Latin.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:17 No.3066

>>1561
Might sound obvious but read more books? Including fiction (ones that are considered to be well written that is)

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Historian 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:19:13 No.287 [Reply]

Would anime today be better if Americans rightfully executed the Emperor for his war crimes after the second world war instead of blaming it all on Hideki Tojo?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:15 No.3051

Japan surrendered. There would have been no grounds to execute the head of state.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:15 No.3053

>>3051
They could have easily executed him for the war crimes he was responsible for. In fact the Americans had to do a lot to deceive the judges at the Tokyo trial into sparing his life.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:15 No.3054

>>3053
Yeah. The Nazis got the worst of it in comparison, yet many of their crimes were left unpunished.

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Recall the words of Twain Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:15 No.3055

What do communists do with inbred parasitic royalty?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:17 No.3064

>>3055
We shoot them or make them spend the rest of their life as janitors doing it for FREE

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:05 No.2980 [Reply]

I've been reading a lot about classical economics, or classically-trained economists (mostly cause I live in a small town and my local library only has capital and i feel im not ready yet for that). How much classical or "mainstream" economics should I read before getting into marx and marxist theory proper?
I should mention Im only doing this in the first place cause I'm a literal brainlet when it comes to economics so I'm trying to learn basic economic concepts in order to build on later with the marxism.

Also when it comes to philosophy, should it go plato-→aristotle-→hegel–→marx? Or should I add a few more or maybe skip some? pic unrelated

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:06 No.2987

>>2980
Depends how smart you are. Capital is pretty easy (the language of the first chapter is quite difficult though. Honestly just skip it and come back later), if you have read any classical economics go for capital right now.

If you want the most basic Marx reading I'd recommend Critique of the Gotha program, as it's very basic and easy to read. In general I find Engels/Lenin is easier to digest. To understand the philosophical background, I recommend this short read
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1886/ludwig-feuerbach/index.htm

After this and the first 2 books the other guy recommend, I think you would be more than ready to read Capital.

But it does depend on the angle you're going for, if you're interested in philosophy, definitely read Hegel. However if you're interested in economics, as it seems, I would deem Hegel a waste of your time right now and just read the link I sent. From philosophy you need to be well acquainted with these terms though as a Marxist (start from the link I sent)
-idealism
-materialism
-dialectics

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:06 No.2989

>>2986
>>2987
thanks for effortposts comrades

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:06 No.2996

>>2980
In regards to philosophy, I'm a layman myself, but please don't start with the Greeks it's a meme. They are not relevant anymore the few things that are relevant get repeated and explained by modern philosophers enough. Start with the young Hegelian: Marx, Engels, Feuerbach and Stirner. And from there on you can read whatever you like. A personal recommendation from me would be the early Frankfurt school and Bakunin, but it's just what I enjoy the most.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:13 No.3040

Read Smith, then Capital. Nothing else is needed IMO.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:16 No.3062

I asked this on /leftypol/ but I think I'll get an answer here:

Is there a consensus on which English translation of Capital is best? I have a paper version of the Moore and Aveling translation but I'm considering getting a different one (Fowkes I guess), since this one is too bulky and I've heard about quite a few translation errors in it. Is it worth being picky over the mistranslations? I'm just worried that I'll fail to notice the errors and then pick up a wrong interpretation of Marx.

Gulag Archipelago Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:29 No.2050 [Reply]

According to Gulag Archipelago, torture, rape, and killing of peasants and political dissidents was common practice in soviet gulags. Was this really the case?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:53 No.2309

>>2056
The irony is that Stalin's paranoia about the fragility of the communist project is what made the project so fragile.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:53 No.2316

>>2309
Considering that it lasted more than 2x his life-time and was the second world superpower of its time… nope.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:55 No.2339

>>2316
Considering that people starved in the 30s and eventually it failed… yep.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:55 No.2340

>>2339
Considering natural and regular famines were eliminated (along with homelessness, illiteracy, etc.) and only came back after US neoliberal sabotage… nope.

The Soviet Union wasn't perfect, but if you compare it with most third world government then AND now, it was surprisingly functional and much better. Are people who criticize the Soviet Union all rich cunts from the third world and fist world middle upper class? Nigga, they're kidnapping our sisters and daughters and selling them, we're getting shot at on the regular, either by "clean cops", regular dirty cops, drug dealers, by petty thieves who are usually kids, by politicians who don't like "activists", we're getting run over by cars, dying from shitty food (because healthy food is expensive), overwork, stress, anxiety, lack of access to medicine and medics. All these things did not exist for the majority of the people in the soviet union for the vast majority of its existence.

Yeah maybe Stalin was a paranoid cunt and a totalitarian leader, but ffs, the quality of life was much much better than it is now for MOST OF US. Fucking privileged pricks, I swear.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:16 No.3060

>>2054
> a better critique of the soviet gulags and other abuses under the Soviet system, without falling to anti-communist propaganda, I recommend The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky.
LOL the same Trotsky who referred to Stalin as an uncultured beast… push off

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What is IQ really? Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:03 No.1806 [Reply]

Is IQ even real? Can it reliably measure someone's "intelligence"? What even is intelligence, and is it really primarily genetic? Is IQ really tied to race?

I keep seeing a lot of conflicting opinions on this but I'm too much of a brainlet to find a satisfying answer.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:04 No.1816

>>1815
Yes, look at your own map, most blue countries/regions are descended from Europe: Canada, US, Argentina, Europe, Russia, Australia. China and Japan are outliers, if anything it proves that one can train for the test, and that is what they do, they literally train how to take these standardised tests. Both China and Japan have cultures where academic success is respected and something that people strive for, so of course those countries will have higher test AVERAGES, because there are simply more of them who do well.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:04 No.1818

IQ is a bit meh. Of course, there are various aspects to what is considered intelligence; so even if you have good measures for the aspects, it's somewhat arbitrary how you weight them. Extremely bad results can tell you whether somebody is disabled. We know IQ tests aren't perfect, the weighting issue aside. There are programs for solving IQ tests, yet this doesn't give us a general simulation of human intelligence.

The way IQ talk is used in political discussion – as a cause, not as both cause and effect – is asinine. If you are malnourished and live in a polluted area, you get brain-damage from that, no matter how great your genetic potential is.

There is some correlation between very good IQ results and doing well in school. But it doesn't make sense to obsess over two people being ten or fifteen points apart. IQ test results are NOT stable over life, that's a big lie that I suspect people tell who know better and who want to score above the herd. You can definitely practice for these tests and improve by twenty to thirty points. I don't think you can get from 80 to 150 though.

>>1810
Your argument about test-making and solving assumes a symmetry that isn't there. I can create a vocabulary test against a dictionary without having perfect memory about what's in the dictionary myself. I can set a higher time-limit for myself as a test-maker than I allow for the test-taker and I can allow myself to use certain tools that I don't allow the test-takers to use. I can make very hard puzzles about shoving pieces around by going backwards from the solution, that doesn't mean I can solve puzzles of similar complexity myself. It's easier to multiply prime numbers than to be shown the result of that multiplication and having to find the prime numbers from that.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:12 No.3036

>>1810
>IQ was designed in the same way, European (white) males are taken to be the standard against which others are tested.
I’m not incredibly pro IQ or anything but this is such a bullshit argument. IQ was created by the school board to identify students with learning disabilities.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:13 No.3042

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>>3036
>IQ was created by the school board to identify students with learning disabilities.
The original IQ test as created by Binet, yes, it was meant to identify children with learning disabilities. But then the Americans took it, and created the Stanford-Binet scale, among others. That is the IQ test we talk about and know today.

I'm not talking out of my ass, I got my info from pic related. It's a good book and you should read it.

>Your argument about test-making and solving assumes a symmetry that isn't there.
My point is that the test (actually, in the beginning there were two tests, for literate and illiterate people, it's actually a very interesting story, but I digress) was designed in a way that it presented people with problems and then timed them on how fast they're able to complete the tasks, if at all. Now, why would the test-creator assign tasks that he himself cannot solve?

The original IQ test asked things about days of the week, about American culture, asked them about radio, etc. basically, it tested white, middle-class intelligence. Poor whites also did poorly on the tests. The test didn't test "intelligence", but integration into American society, it asked questions that the test-makers knew the answer to.

And I ask again, how can someone ask a question they themselves can't answer and then judge someone on the validity of that answer?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:13 No.3043

>>3042
>how can someone ask a question they themselves can't answer and then judge someone on the validity of that answer?
That question was already answered ITT, you are just too dumb to get it :/

Theories of Imperialism Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:23:17 No.2547 [Reply]

I don't know much about Imperialism. Can someone summarise the key differences between the Luxemburgian theory of Imperialism and the ML theory of Imperialism?
Where do they differ and which of them is, in your mind, more accurate?
I have unfortunately not the time to read "Die Akkumulation des Kapitals." or "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" as I have to do a lot of reading for uni at the time and my tbr list is already way too long.
It´s a topic I'm really interested in and I would appreciate it if you could help me out here.
Maybe you know a shorter, more accessible introductional book on imperialism.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:08 No.3011

>>2547
>industrial capital merges together with bank capital, creates financial capital
>creating of trusts, monopolies, bourgeois unions, and so on
>trusts destroy and choke the competition, capital centralizes even further
>centralization means monopoly over natural resources
>regional goes national, national goes international
>biggest firms own the capital in other countries, exploits further their resources and labor force
>world is now partitioned between the most developed capitalist states. further repartitions will cause wars
>imperialism

Correct me if I missed something, comrades.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:09 No.3012

>>3011
You missed the part about the banking hegemony where countries are invaded when they stop using the dominant financial transaction system. You know like in Libya the first thing the counter revolutionaries did was create a new central bank to undo the Gold-dinar that Gaddafi had implemented. I think this is a relatively recent development of imperialism.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:09 No.3017

>>3012
Monopolies became entrenched around the late 1800s before the formation of our modern credit system. A credit system which Lenin nor Marx could not commentate on as the the gold standard had not been dropped in place of the US dollar yet. Libya's threat to the US dollar would lower the demand for the US dollar and weaken its purchasing power. The US has a trade deficit, thus its dollars flood foreign markets, particularly those which it extracts value from. Its military opens up new markets and creates more capital in the process of capital accumulation.
Michael Hudson explains this much better than I can, and he is foremost the leading economist in formulation of American imperialism and the debt economy.

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Linear Algebra General /LA/ Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:01 No.2952 [Reply]

-Linear Algebra General-
Welcome to /LA/ comrades. In this thread we will work together more or less in line with the MIT OCW Linear Algebra syllabus.
The OCW page can be found here: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/index.htm
On the OCW page you can find the calendar, recommended readings, lectures, and problem sets and exams. The lectures are done by Gilbert Strang who also wrote the recommended textbook. I think he is a very good instructor and I believe you should certainly give his lectures a watch if you are interested in learning more.
The Calendar is divided into 40 sessions which correspond to 40 assigned readings and lectures. There are 10 problem sets and 4 exams with all the solutions online. This thread will serve as a place to discuss lectures, readings, and, probably most usefully, ask other anons for help on problem sets or exams.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:03 No.2969

>>2968
Thank you anon this was actually very helpful. I appreciate you taking the time to lay this out for me.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:03 No.2970

>>2969
You're very welcome, I won't be doing the course but will check here regularly to help the best I can!

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:08 No.3006

What's the point of learning this bourgeois mathematics? How will it ever help the working class?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:08 No.3008

>>3006
This is the language of how the planet is *actually* run. Without this we would never be able to run world wide distribution networks (read Cockshott)

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:08 No.3010

>>3006
I hope you're baiting lol

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:04 No.1239 [Reply]

I'm looking for book recommendations on Operaismo, Operation Gladio and the Marshall Plan. If anyone has suggestions, then it would be much appreciated.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:06 No.1249

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here's the obvious one

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:06 No.2993

>>1239
Are these letters soyfacing?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:06 No.2995

>>2993
Brain damage as a result of forced memes.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:07 No.2998

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>>1239
These are not books entirely about what you requested but there is good info on Operation Gladio and the Marshall Plan in these PDFs

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:08 No.3003

>>2993
someone make a tronti soyfacing wojak
>>2998
thank you! I really appreciate it

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Investing Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:47 No.2243 [Reply]

Since /crisis/ general isn't helpful at all and 4/biz/ is shill central.
Educate me on things like cryptocurrency, inflation, pumps, different economic sectors like tech…

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:49 No.2260

best video to teach you these things
https://youtu.be/8wAYb-PnRGY

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:49 No.2263

>>2247
BUY HIGH

SELL LOW

>>2243
For crypto, if you sign up on Coinbase it gives you a bunch of opportunities to get free crypto.
Basically it let's you watch 'informational courses' that are ads that shill for any given particular shitcoin, and then gives you anywhere from $10-$50 USD in that shitcoin.
Then it's just the investment game.
You can do buy-low-sell-high since you've a fair amount of startup coin, or you could try to follow 'market trends,'
which in the realm of crypto is literally just scamming.
Crypto is literal speculation around fucking monopoly money, it has no actual point, but there's still a shitton that can be made off of it.
Even the retarded belief in meme-magic that /biz/ believes gives any given shitcoin value is to some extent true, as when they meme the coin, people start buying the coin, thus giving the coin value.
It's all ponzi schemes for crypto, so if you stay on top of the schemes and scams, you can make a pretty penny.
Real stocks are of course (slightly) less fake, so that's a bigboy game I am far less knowledgeable about.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:49 No.2271

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Don't listen to any of these faggots.
The real money is made through placing well informed and strategic option calls. You need at least 1k of savings to do it effectively from my understanding and massive cahones.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:50 No.2272

>>2271
Explain option calls.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:03 No.2962

just do this for 30 years

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Lazy_portfolios#Three_fund_lazy_portfolios