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 No.6864[Reply]

I plan on hosting an online book club with some friends and covering Leftist texts. My hope is to give a general survey that's not too aggressively edgy, but still looking at what "real" post-leftists "actually" think and do. Any suggestions on things to add to the list?
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 No.6865

>post left
lmao you better go to .org, you fucking lib
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 No.6866

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Some more texts

>>6865
fuck off
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 No.6867

Nihilist communism is quite an interesting book, good luck with your reading club
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 No.6868

>>6867
Sounds interesting. Can you give me a summary about it? Kinda getting to this point.

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 No.6832[Reply]

What does /edu/ do for knowledge management? Does it work? How important is it? Experiences?

I am starting a Tiddlywiki and plan on doing the zettelkasten method. The way I understand it, I just take notes and link them to each other with tags or something? Seems straightforward yet quite useful.
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 No.6853

Excuse my barbarian nature, but "personal knowledge management" sounds like something invented by entrepreneurs or life coaches, and looks like fachidiotism. It's basically a brain prosthesis which leads to a disuse of that part of your mind.

I just write down things in a few digital text files like a primitive, then have to exercise my brain to remember what's in them. Paper would be even better, you have to think before you write, no virtual text on a screen to manipulate to infinity and scan through with complex regex patterns.
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 No.6855

>>6853
They call it second braining
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 No.6857

>>6853
you can't store any complex enough data (over years say) like this

if its just for current use then maybe
and for even more complex things you already need other tools, like spreedsheet editor, scientific note pad or what ever

txt files fork well for ideas dumping and probably some writeout
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 No.6858

*work well
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 No.6859

also it is more of a personal wiki

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 No.764[Reply]

The Paris Commune successfully establishes socialism in France. What now?
ITT: Post and speculate about alternate history.
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 No.6413

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ipaX6Mb1SA
What would a Medieval America be Like?
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 No.6414

>>764
Their fighters were mostly former soldiers, so it would probably devolve into a junta. After the Prussians leave, they would have to go back to normal to unite with the rest of the country and France would probably become a republic.

So, nothing would really change.
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 No.6658

What if the French and Italian communists started armed revolts in their countries immediately after WW2
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 No.6850

Soviets win the war in afghanistan
Do they still fail like the americans or not?
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 No.6851

>>6850
Afghanistan gets a coup after the USSR falls

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 No.5935[Reply]

Is there a book I can read on the economy of the Roman Empire and the social classes of the time? Anything that goes into deep analysis or extensive stuff.
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 No.6826

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This work is a marxist classic mostly on Ancient Greece but it also talks about Rome.
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 No.6842

roman empire had bread laws (free bread)

also daily reminder ancient egypt had planned economy with fixed prices, it was also known as the richest state of ancient world (unparalleled at that time)
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 No.6844

>>6825
>>6826
Thx
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 No.6848

>>6842
>also daily reminder ancient egypt had planned economy with fixed prices, it was also known as the richest state of ancient world (unparalleled at that time)
I can't help but think this sounds anachronistic as fuck, kinda like saying the wild west was irl ancapistan.
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 No.6849

>>6848
i don't get it. you think its only possible to plan your economy and have fixed prices after 1900 AD? but what stops you doing that before that day?

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 No.6840[Reply]

Any readings on what characterises a socialist state. I know dictatorship of proletariat but how do we know if there is actually a dictatorship of proles or not. I consider Maoist china to be the most clear cut example of a socialist state right now.
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 No.6843

I asked characters of a socialist state not a revisionist one.
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 No.6845

>>6840
'Critique of the Gotha Programme' by Marx and 'State and Revolution' by Lenin discuss similar topics. In Gotha there is the discussion regarding the actual functioning of a lower-stage communist mode of production. State and Revolution discusses the nature of the State after the revolution and rise to power of the proletariat. The simple answer would be: if the interests of the revolutionary proletariat are being upheld and the state is withering away, then you're in the right path. Your example of China had instances of that for sure, as did the USSR in its early days. A proper critique and understanding of these has to go beyond simple 'definitions' of a 'socialist state'.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm

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 No.5406[Reply]

I want to get into easter/soviet marxism

What authors should I read?
Why is eastern marxism so obscure for us?
What are some ideas developed by eastern marxist thinkers I should know of?
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 No.5414

>>5413
>Legal Theory
>Obscure Subject

Is it now? That's news to me
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 No.5456

>>5413
>Giving a marxist theory of LAW is an obscure subject.

Edvard Kardelj, Reminiscences: The struggle for recognition and independence of the new Yugoslavia, 1944

Edvard Kardelj: Democracy and socialism

Edvard Kardelj: Problems of socialist policy in the countryside

Edvard Kardelj: THE SYSTEM OF PLANNING IN A SOCIETY OF SELF-MANAGEMENT: BRIONI DISCUSSIONS

Edvard Kardelj: Self-management and the Political System

Tito: https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1939/x01/x01.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1950/06/26.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1957/06/25.htm
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 No.6363

>>5409
Read Vyshinsky instead.
https://archive.org/details/lawofthesovietst008593mbp
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 No.6830

>>5406
>Obscure
I mean just read Lenin and Stalin's main works as well as Mao and his contemporaries.

As for why some of it is obscure? Because there are pragmatic policies that ignore moralistic outcries that Western Liberals don't like and do their best to suppress or attack if they cannot suppress it.

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 No.6816[Reply]

So I got drawn in this Stanford course, a lecture without homework, a conferrable thing. But it made me thing about a lot of stuff.
The teacher is great and even though he doesn't understand the first thing about marxism he's a very scientific dude constantly referring his marxist colleges who tried hard, he gets the materialist thinker part at least.
You can watch the course there, it's fascinating really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D&index=1
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 No.6819

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>>6816
Go to 1:40 for the chin theory

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 No.6236[Reply]

A thread for the finest STEM has to offer. I'm sure there are lots of us here. In the end it is the engineers who end up ruling most socialist states somehow.

Post anything engineering related: questions, educational material, documentaries, Machines(old and new), your own projects and anything else you find interesting.
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 No.6394

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>>6236
>pi = e
i don't get it, it that a clever joke ?
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 No.6401

>>6389
This >>6393 pretty much. Not only do you lose years of salary potential even if you are funded, you will be heavily exploited and worked down into a nub. Also, the payoff won't be good, especially for a physics PhD. I have an anecdotal example: at the law firm I work at, there is an older Asian man with a physics PhD and an impressive CV filled with cutting-edge research at one of the top universities in my state. He has the same job title as me, a lowly fresh graduate with a Bachelor's.
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 No.6415

>>6394
there is this dumb trope that engineers are overly simplistic with their mathematics and approximate to much.

pi = 3.1415… approximates to pi = 3
e = 2.7182… approximates to e = 3
thus pi = e
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 No.6470

>>6401
>>6393
So you're telling me I could get the same amount of money immediately working as a fresh Bachelors graduate than a fresh PhD after studying 8 years? That's depressing.
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 No.6808

Anyone have any good engineering/technology podcasts which arent Musk-fanatics?

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 No.5912[Reply]

Hello and welcome comrades! This is the new /read/ thread.

>What is /read/?
</read/ is a collective of marxist reading groups, hailing from /edu/ and /GET/. We are split into various different reading groups, each with different interests, goals and schedules.

We're making a new thread to let everyone know that /read/ is still very much alive. In fact, we're inviting everyone to join in for our new batch of readings! Our groups are done with previous readings, so this is the perfect time for new members to join up!

As of today, May 30th 2021, the /sniff/ group is done reading volume 1 of Capital. We have a new batch of readings planned (more on that in the post below), and all are invited to join. Meanwhile, the /tilmeeth/ group is gearing up to read Capital, so if anyone missed out on the first round, this is your chance.

As always, our website, containing our library and reading lists is: https://leftyread.neocities.org
And our Matrix Community, where all discussion happens, can be found at: https://matrix.to/#/+leftyread:matrix.org
Old thread: >>3624

Come /read/ with us!
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 No.6648

>>6640
Here's the first proposal for a Lenin reading list. We'll discuss this in chat and decide whether to follow it or not.

>The State and Revolution
>Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism
>What is to be Done?
>"Left Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder
>The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
>Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
>April Theses
>The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
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 No.6649

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oh yeah here's a related reading chart for Lenin. I like the secondary lit recommendations.
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 No.6793

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moderation? i just want to /read/!

Troublesome times for this site, but we're carrying on the reading group alright. Tonight we had our discussion of Lenin's State and Revolution. Great book, great discussion. Seriously impressed by this one and it was very rewarding to read this book after having done Engels' "Origin of the Family…" and Marx's "18th Brumaire…" and "Civil War in France". State and Revolution is like the culmination of all of those.

Next up we will be reading "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism". As usual, meetings are on our Matrix chat on Sundays at 10 PM UTC. It's getting late now so the website update with the ebooks will come tomorrow.
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 No.6803

>>6793
site updated, ebooks are up

the pdf sucks so get the epub
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 No.6806

Brief update on scheduling: We've decided to postpone our discussion of Lenin's Imperialism to Aug 22. That means two weeks for reading.

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 No.754[Reply]

I was reading a book by Laal Khan on the history of proletarian and communist struggle in pre-Partition India and I was baffled at the fact that I had no idea about this event. This has to be the greatest rebellion/revolution in India before Partition.
>On the eve of February 19 1946, much wider layers of the Naval personnel had joined in this revolt. The union jacks on most of the ships of the Royal Indian Navy in the Bombay harbour were torn down and the rebel sailors hoisted red flags along with the flags of the political parties that were involved in the struggle for independence.

Within 48 hours the British imperialists were faced with the largest revolt ever of their Naval units. The message of this rebellion started to spread by word of mouth and then over the radio (the radio station had been taken over by the rebels) to military garrisons and barracks across India. Some of the leaders of the sailors broadcast the message of the uprising and revolutionary songs and poetry were also broadcast round the clock. The revolt spread to 74 ships, 20 fleets and 22 units of the Navy along the coast. It involved Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, Cochin and Vishapatam. On February 20 only 10 ships and 2 naval stations were not in complete revolt.
>One of the effects of this uprising was that the British Prime Minister Clement Atlee was forced to announce that the British would leave India before June 1948.
https://www.marxist.com/1946-rebellion-indian-navy150903.htm
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 No.837

>>754
Based
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 No.859

>>837
>On 19 March, a strike wave penetrated the police force throughout the major centres of the country. At Allahabad, the police went on a hunger strike. The Delhi police joined them on 22 March. On 3 April, 10 000 police personnel in Bihar joined the strike movement. Soon the workers also joined this mass wave of strikes. On 2 May 1946, the workers of the North Western Railway went on strike. On 11 July, more than 100 000 postal workers started an all-India strike. Industrial workers across the subcontinent joined the movement with massive strike action. The whole of India was engulfed in these mass uprisings, revolts and strikes. The British were losing control over the armed forces. The first to come to the rescue of the imperialist Raj were the political leaders of all religions.
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 No.6802

Yes. Only CPI supported them.

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