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The beginnings of our new leftypol project Anonymous 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:35 No.3780 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Hello everyone, we have received the results of our project proposal topic, and I'm delighted to announce that we are teaming up with 'leftypedia' to deliver our planned 'argument/talking point resource' idea. In case you don't know, leftypedia is the current version of the old abandoned 'marxistpedia' which was a project started by leftypol users back in the day, so I think this is sort of like a homecoming in a way.

https://leftypedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Anyway, if you have a look at the leftypedia site you might be able to tell that they have a much more formal and 'encyclopedic' tone than what we're planning, just like wikipedia, but the admin is going to create a separate 'category' for our new content that will be called something like 'rhetoric: topic' rather than just 'topic', this will also feature on the frontpage much like the encyclopedic content. As a tenplate, I'd like you to feast your eyes on these pages which someone on leftypedia already made (albeit only on their personal userspace for now).

https://leftypedia.org/wiki/User:Anarcho-Bolshevik/compendium

I'd like to ask if anyone can come up with a slightly more catchy name for our new section than 'rhetoric', cause that sounds a bit cumbersome to me even though I came up with it, so yeah, open to suggestions.

So, since that isn't implemented yet, I'd like you all to try familiarise yourselves with the site for now, maybe take a look at the articles that are already there and improve some of them if you feel able. Unfortunately the site currently has only edit by approval so you will have to wait for any changes you make to be approved, this is because of a persistent spambot problem and I hope that we will be able to work out something to change this to normal editing as on wikipedia and the like, please just bear with it for now.

If you have an answer to a 'common question', or you have an effortpost you'd like to archive and save, then please post it in this topic for now so that we can work on it together until we can figure out how to categorise our new section of the site.

Thanks for your attention!
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Anonymous 2021-08-10 (Tue) 18:03:53 No.6812

Does anyone want a Canada article?

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Anonymous 2021-08-10 (Tue) 20:49:54 No.6814

>>6812
Yes, please do make one

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Anonymous 2021-08-11 (Wed) 02:37:33 No.6817

>>6814
sure ill work on it. hopefully my newspaper hoarding hobby will help out

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Anonymous 2021-08-11 (Wed) 03:08:28 No.6818

>>6817
Great! The more people participating in the wiki is good.

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Anonymous 2021-10-05 (Tue) 22:15:43 No.6879

bump

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/space/ Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:31 No.1460 [Reply]

The history of space travel. I want all material, factoids, trivia, books on space. From Sputnik to the recent Crew Dragon and further beyond

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Anonymous 2021-09-18 (Sat) 23:26:23 No.6878

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Haven't read (big one) but have heard it's THE book covering the Soviet side.

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Notes Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:19:33 No.432 [Reply]

How do you take your notes? Do you take notes? Use this thread to discuss methods, tips, and anything else related to how you take notes.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:20:11 No.742

>>741
cute girl, i like it better already

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:20:11 No.743

>>740
Yeah if you're taking notes for a class I don't think the Zettelkasten method is really what you're looking for. It's more meant to be an overall knowledge management system.

Cornell method is decent. It's really not so important to follow one particular method as it is write things out in a way that isn't too rushed, is easy to understand later, and is in your own words (so that you actually have to understand it).

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:20:11 No.745

>>740
I don't really see the point of having designated places for keywords and summaries.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:20:12 No.751

>>745
Search time optimization.

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Anonymous 2021-09-17 (Fri) 00:11:53 No.6877

bump

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The 60s - Why is it the most hyper focoused era Anonymous 2021-09-05 (Sun) 04:48:07 No.6870 [Reply]

I want to read every good about the pop culture and political climate of the 60s
Fiction, Non Fiction

Whatever book that takes place during these eras 1950-1970
Especially the vietnam war

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Anonymous 2021-09-05 (Sun) 06:24:49 No.6871

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The reason it's so hyper focused in popular culture is that the nixon administration and the USG have had to work very hard to paint the 60s as nothing but drug taking beetniks and hippies in order to white wash the, very active, new left and anti war protesting that was going on at the time.

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Anonymous 2021-09-08 (Wed) 14:24:09 No.6875

>>6871
But practically every 60s media ever always talks about the new left and anti-war protest moment

I don't think the puzzle of hyper focous on 60s is really solved
Maybe it's just me but it feels like that decade is always the poster child for "change" and "new world"

Tutnese Discussion and Research Anonymous 2021-09-08 (Wed) 13:25:57 No.6874 [Reply]

The Tutnese language was by created FBAs to communicate secretly on plantations, according to the fairly scant information on it. The purpose of this thread is to practice speaking Tutnese or dump guides to rules of Tutnese. The video that's embedded here goes into some more details of using Tutnese.

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Post-left reading list !DHTHGjYlSM 2021-08-28 (Sat) 23:04:08 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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Anonymous 2021-08-28 (Sat) 23:50:47 No.6865

>post left
lmao you better go to .org, you fucking lib

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!DHTHGjYlSM 2021-08-29 (Sun) 01:15:02 No.6866

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Some more texts

>>6865
fuck off

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Anonymous 2021-09-04 (Sat) 05:30:12 No.6867

Nihilist communism is quite an interesting book, good luck with your reading club

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Anonymous 2021-09-04 (Sat) 05:38:01 No.6868

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

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Anonymous 2021-09-04 (Sat) 14:03:09 No.6869

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alex-trocchi-for-the-insurrection-to-succeed-we-must-first-destroy-ourselves

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Personal Knowledge Management Based Egoposter !!4vHQBgW5aM 2021-08-13 (Fri) 00:54:13 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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Anonymous 2021-08-16 (Mon) 17:12:22 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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Anonymous 2021-08-17 (Tue) 10:15:56 No.6855

>>6853
They call it second braining

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Anonymous 2021-08-18 (Wed) 21:50:13 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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Anonymous 2021-08-18 (Wed) 21:51:13 No.6858

*work well

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Anonymous 2021-08-18 (Wed) 21:52:38 No.6859

also it is more of a personal wiki

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/ahg/ Alternate History General Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:20:13 No.764 [Reply]

The Paris Commune successfully establishes socialism in France. What now?
ITT: Post and speculate about alternate history.

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Anonymous 2021-07-13 (Tue) 15:19:50 No.6413

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ipaX6Mb1SA
What would a Medieval America be Like?

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Anonymous 2021-07-13 (Tue) 21:03:31 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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Anonymous 2021-07-31 (Sat) 19:59:03 No.6658

What if the French and Italian communists started armed revolts in their countries immediately after WW2

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Anonymous 2021-08-14 (Sat) 04:44:45 No.6850

Soviets win the war in afghanistan
Do they still fail like the americans or not?

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Anonymous 2021-08-15 (Sun) 03:04:07 No.6851

>>6850
Afghanistan gets a coup after the USSR falls

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Roman Empire Anonymous 2021-06-01 (Tue) 16:11:08 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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Anonymous 2021-08-12 (Thu) 15:50:45 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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Anonymous 2021-08-13 (Fri) 22:23:51 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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Anonymous 2021-08-13 (Fri) 23:01:20 No.6844

>>6825
>>6826
Thx

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Anonymous 2021-08-14 (Sat) 03:42:09 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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Anonymous 2021-08-14 (Sat) 03:46:10 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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comradecantor 2021-08-13 (Fri) 21:56:38 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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Anonymous 2021-08-13 (Fri) 22:17:26 No.6841

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states

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Anonymous 2021-08-13 (Fri) 22:33:50 No.6843

I asked characters of a socialist state not a revisionist one.

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Anonymous 2021-08-14 (Sat) 01:31:03 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