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Hello leftypol, we noticed an under-appreciation for the theory that upholds our political ideologies: As such, we have decided to revive the reading sticky! This thread will be dedicated to the sharing, discussing, and general banter about various leftist thinkers, theories, and political outlooks.

But, other than that, we believe there are other important reads that must be addressed, especially, for beginners and those just now getting into leftism.

Don't forget to check out >>>/edu/ for more reading and discussion!

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Common Right Wing Talking Points Debunks
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Check out the /edu/ thread at
https://leftypol.org/edu/res/5576.html

Also see the relevant leftybooru tag
https://lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=debunk
Add topics into the tag list to further narrow down your search!


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Introduction to Marxism Reading List - Thanks to the /read/ matrix room (https://app.element.io/#/group/+leftyread:matrix.org)
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Absolute Beginners Tier:

'Principles of Communism' by Friedrich Engels
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

'Three Source and Theree Component Parts of Marxism' by V.I. Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm

Not a book but Halim Alrah's youtube channel is good for the absolutely basics of Marxism but obviously not a replacement for reading
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGog4JPn5-W3_XIKccENysg

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Marx and Engles Reading List
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Tier 1:

'Manifesto of the Communist Party'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

'Critique of the Gotha Programme'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/

'Socialism: Utopian and Scientific'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/index.htm

Tier 2:

'Wage Labour and Capital'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/

'Value, Price and Profit'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/

'Theses on Feuerback'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm

By this point you should have a good understanding of the basics of Marxism and are ready to branch out to other theorists and also read Capital.

Tier 3:

'Capital vol.1'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

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Lenin Reading List - By Moo (aka Zizekposter)
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Lenin Essentials:

'State and Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

'“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

Petit Bourgeois Philistine Tier:

'What is to be done'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

'The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/

'Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm

ADHD Tier:

'Socialism and Religion'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm

'Zizek's Introduction to Revolution at the Gates'
https://kabirabud.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/slavoj_zizek_repeating_leninbookfi-org.pdf

'Revolutionary Adventurism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1902/sep/01.htm

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MLM Reading List
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Essentials:

Why MLM?
https://why-mlm.medium.com/why-mlm-af48aba14f8a

Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Basic Course
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S01-MLM-Basic-Course-Revised-Edition-10th-Printing.pdf

'Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain'
https://libgen.lc/get.php?md5=a00646f118a3427ec19263021b3e84e1&key=06Q5Q1W5DFK8YOHU&mirr=1

Mao:

'On Practice & Contradiction'
https://marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/N04-On-Contradiction-Study-2nd.pdf

'On Guerrilla Warfare'
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/1937/guerrilla-warfare/index.htm

'On Protracted War'
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_09.htm

China:

'Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village'
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=00F5750256E291B678E2A0039D3CF54E

'Red Star Over China' - Edgar Snow
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=BD54E7C5F9CDE90E30BD0CB5E91F0049

'The Unknown Cultural Revolution' - Dongpin Han
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2495C43CFA7395ACA45CA812A304A701

Peru:

Interview With Chairman Gonzalo
https://the-red-flag.org/en/central-committee-of-the-communist-party-of-peru-interview-with-chairman-gonzalo/

General line of the PCP
https://gplpcp.wordpress.com/

'Shining Path: Terror and Revolution in Peru' - Simon Strong
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=4FB5D349F9D3250453C5F0525F5890DD

India:

Operation “Green Hunt” in India
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/N08-Operation-Green-Hunt.pdf

Eight Historic Documents (AZAD)
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S18-Historic-Eight-Documents.pdf

'Urban Perspective'
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S14-Urban-Perspective-4th-Printing.pdf

Philippines:

Araling Aktibista - Activist Study ARAK
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/S22-Activist-Study-ARAK-2nd-Printing.pdf

'Stand for Socialism Against Modern Revisionism'
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S07-Stand-for-Socialism-3rd-Printing.pdf

'Philippine Society and Revolution'
https://bannedthought.net/Philippines/CPP/1970s PhilippineSocietyAndRevolution-4ed.pdf

Political Economy:

'Rethinking Socialism' – Deng-yuan Hsu & Pao-yu Ching
https://foreignlanguages.press/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/S11-Rethinking-Socialism-4th-Printing.pdf

'China: A Modern Social-Imperialist Power' - CPI(Maoist)
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=F68AC84D480D41A222818D802F3AF7CA
or
https://library.bz/uploads/main/c0105702c9219cf136bdae79008daaa4.epub
or
https://why-mlm.medium.com/china-a-modern-social-imperialist-power-d5ac7a9455f7

'Maoist Economics & the Revolutionary Road to Communism' - The Shanghai Textbook
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=8B44F61D828997487E2FDE607FCF2FEB

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Leftcom Reading Lists
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r/marxism101's reading list:
https://i.imgur.com/s70UUPQ.jpg

r/bruhinternational's reading list:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bruhinternational/comments/m53hon/official_rbruhinternational_reading_list/

Bordiga:

'The Democratic Principle'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm

'Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1951/class-party.htm

'The Spirit of Horsepower'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1953/horsepower.htm

'Report on Fascism'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/bordiga02.htm

'Activism'
https://libcom.org/library/activism-amadeo-bordiga

'The Lyons Theses'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm

'Theory and Action in Marxist Doctrine'
https://libcom.org/library/theory-action-marxist-doctrine-amadeo-bordiga

'Dialogue with Stalin'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm

Pannekoek:

'World Revolution and Communist Tactics'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1920/communist-tactics.htm

'Party and Class'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/pannekoe/1936/party-class.htm

Herman Gorter:

'Open Letter to Comrade Lenin'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm

'The World Revolution'
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1918/world-revolution.htm

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Bookchin Reading Lists - based off of posts by Gorm1918 (pbuh)
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'The Next Revolution'
https://libcom.org/files/Murray%20Bookchin-The%20Next%20Revolution.%20Popular%20Assemblies%20and%20the%20Promise%20of%20Direct%20Democracy-Verso%20(2015).pdf

'Urbanization Without Cities'
http://188.165.199.119/files/Urbanization_Without_Cities_-_Ebook.pdf

'The 3rd Revolution'
https://libcom.org/library/third-revolution-popular-movements-revolutionary-era

'The Ecology of Freedom'
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom

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Links to Resources and Libraries:
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More Marx and Engels:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/sw/index.htm

Lenin:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/

Other Selected Marxists:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/selected-marxists.htm

Classical Works Recommended To High-Ranking Cadres:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-8/mswv8_56.htm

Many important books can be found on libgen:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

Libcom has some good books/documents:
https://libcom.org/library

Other links:
https://archive.is/L8uFD

Various assortment of historical and biographical works:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22kocotosi%40gmail.com%22&sort=-publicdate

The Leftist Bookshelf (4.16 GB, 600+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!QUFQSBja!hPbmmLolJBGwSQ848nncnw
This was originally a torrent but I can't find the link anymore. Its description was: "640 eBooks, mostly in PDF format (a bunch are CHM, DJVU or ePUB), from a revolutionary Leftist viewpoint. The main subjects are politics and philosophy, history, economics, and much much more."

Political Theory (MLM) (2.64 GB, 550+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!4M1FnTgI!CdM8WWjpBC_UHGCJk9AHzA
I found this on reddit years ago (circa 2016) Don't really remember who made it or where it came from, but this is a reading course (politics, philosophy, economics, etc) focused on Maoism. Has many books and articles on the USSR, PRC, Stalin, Mao, etc.

The Anarchist Library (669 MB, 4000+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!gRFkQCLY!5gUkmaubpp_P_yKLZiBJ9Q
This is a complete mirror of the anarchist library with pdfs and epubs

Little Bunker of Marxism-Leninism (680 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!0QtCiI7L!MJZJk-SdjyBuBZOuNJuOPQ
Unfinished project focused on M-L with more than 100 books on several topics like history, economics, politics, etc. Lots of stuff on the USSR.

Historical Materialism series (330 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!9IkymYBZ!B8vB2yDP0Qv_-DPS2ro-HA
A pdf archive of over 100 books from the Historical Materialism book series. I got this from thecharnelhouse.org years ago and the website had released many marxist books from other publishers but unfortunately it's been taken down.

/leftypol/ with a slash of liberty (239 MB, 100+ files)
https://mega.nz/#F!sFMQXJ6J!JboByVCZScC6Jq2YXE0Exw
I didn't make this, just reuploading it. This is a classic /leftypol/ link, marxist stuff mixed with anarchism.

Marx & Engels Collected Works (900+ MB, 50 files)
https://mega.nz/#F!BJEmkQiZ!vylIbCWFrqIeYaLiuN2szg
The official, complete works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels organized in 50 volumes and 3 categories.
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 No.444448

THE AMERICAN EMPIRE WILL COLLAPSE BY 2030
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 No.444453

>>444448
Aw fuck lol
>>444444
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 No.444873

>>444444
BOO HOO HOO MY NUMBER HAS BEEN TAKEN
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 No.444958

bump
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 No.445017

Blood Lies by Grover Furr
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 No.445025

We have a reading sticky anon, but, hey i am never against a good reading thread.
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 No.451000

bump
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 No.451232

>>451000
>bumping a sticky
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 No.452086

>>452083
>My little pony weirdo

<Telling anyone they have never had a job.


Take it to the right wing debate thread weirdo.
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 No.452095

>>452087
Lmao in literally at work right now you retarded pony fag.
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 No.452712

>>285223
>Check out the /edu/ thread at https://leftypol.org/edu/res/5576.html
thanks anon, I will. in fact, that website seems a lot better than this one. Think I'll stay there
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 No.452748

>>452083
The Labor Theory of Value can be scientifically proven, while supply and demand curves cannot.
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 No.453102

testtest
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 No.453103

>>285999
can you dg grogger?
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>>453103
nawwww nawwww
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 No.453502

new book pdf
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 No.453535

>>453502
Holy shit, it's finally out?
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 No.454063

>>285223
nice selections
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 No.454101

I finally decided I need to stop being such a brainlet and actually do some more reading since it's been a while, so last night I started reading Social Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg last night. The themes discussed and the positions she argues against seem to show that nothing has changed, or at least nothing positive against capitalism. The working class is still cucked and the majority still claim that things will suddenly change on a massive scale if we ask nicely
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 No.454102

>>454101
Can you post a PDF? I think I'll join you. I've been easing manga and I need to start actually reading a good book for once.
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 No.454107

File: 1642628117573.pdf ( 226.41 KB , 212x300 , Reform or Revolution.pdf )

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 No.454108

>>454107
Based and red pilled thanks anon.
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 No.454109

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>>454108
Don't thank me, thank Rosa Luxemburg
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 No.456378

>>439498
I have a bf who's just as much of a sperg as me, just more about nuclear plants and the NT kernel and less about revolutionary things(he aligns with what I say sometimes, other times drinks CIA Kool-aid).
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 No.459517

>>456378
>NT kernel
sounds pretty gay unless he's into penetration testing tbh fam
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 No.459937

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>>285223
What a load of pathetic garbage. You commies sure are a bunch of loser squares. No one wants to read this irrelevant trifle. The authors of almost all renowned communist literature lived in a completely different economic system to ours, in ancient unfamiliar times. It's worse than the Bible. It's an impediment to leftism.
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 No.459948

>>459937
>Jesus Christ look at all the words
lel
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 No.460048

File: 1667398158427.pdf ( 3.88 MB , 232x300 , The Future Is Degrowth.pdf )

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 No.460091

>>459517
Now he's into algae and how it can be made into fuel efficiently.
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 No.460436

Does something like a Hershey's Kiss really never incur as much labor as a pencil? This is a really specific question that might be unanswerable, but that's something surprising to me.
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 No.461067

>>460436
Between mining, processing and transporting graphite, cutting, milling, and treating wood, the paint and all that goes into making that, synthesizing the rubber for the eraser, producing and punching out the alloy that forms the little metal bit that holds the eraser in place, and doing everything that is involved in packaging and distributing the finished product, yeah, I imagine that the pencil contaims more socially necessasry labor time.
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 No.461796

What the fuck is with liberals and making this pseudo-racism argument about cops in saying that "you can't make mass judgments about every cop because there are a few bad ones. What if I did that to your group?"

I could say "I ain't choose my skin color, they chose their profession," but that feels insufficient. Is it?
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 No.461800

>>461796
A better response would be, "if most of them were good, then there would not be any bad ones."
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 No.465122

>>461796
Most don't really choose their profession either per se.
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 No.466233

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>>444448
heck yeah火炎焱燚, America is the only thing holding/forcing capitalism worldwide.
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 No.466775

Hello, commies! My brain came to the conclusion that I must read commie propaganda. But being a slothful person, reading long books is not my goal in life. So I was wondering: what are good, short commie books? I am currently reading the red book, then I will read the manifest of the commie party and then I will read a book by rosa luxemburg which I can't find in english (un po' di compassione). Anything else, around the 100 pages?
>>461796
Cops are trained to be evil, because criminals are (very often) not cooperative people.
I had to interact with cops very often during my youth, and I can tell you that they are meant to act assertive toward the fellon, while condescending toward the victim.
Someone who is not able to pull off such a masquerade would not become a policeman. Someone who can't scream "FBI OPEN UP" effectively will not become an FBI agent.
The only counterargument you can present is that they must do a quiz before becoming a policeman, where they are "tested" on the topic of morality. Other than the fact that these tests are flawed because they are multiple choice quizzes, the interaction with the culprit is, as I said, preferred to as raw as possible.
If you wanna read more:
https://harvardlawreview.org/2015/04/law-enforcements-warrior-problem/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909744
TL;DR cops are trained to act as good people only toward good people.
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 No.468850

>>466775
Apart from the Marx & Engels Reading List above, I don't really know what to tell you.
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 No.469910

File: 1686091835166.pdf ( 1.74 MB , 67x118 , Israel and Zionism.pdf )

Here's a complete take down of Zionism and Jewish Supremacist Elitism.
It took me forever to finish that bibliography, so when debating Zionazis and their Supremacist lackies, you better be referring back to it.
Now I've down Jewish Supremacism and Zionism, I'll be balanced and work on Islamism next. I am the last standing autistic warrior of 2000s Neo-Atheism.
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 No.469911

>>469910
Started reading this after you posted, it's quite shocking. I knew that Israel was extremely brutal towards Palestinians, but i didn't know about the internal brutality in their society. Like having a popular children's game about daring to get run over by cars.
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 No.471709

I'm working on the (seemingly) first Spanish translation to Blackshirts and Reds, I'll make an audiobook version too once it's completed. What would you recommend to put it out there so it gets read and doesn't get lost?
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 No.471710

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>>471709
Nice

I don't know what license this has.

sites that host public domain license material
https://www.gutenberg.org/
https://archive.org/
https://www.hathitrust.org/
https://standardebooks.org/
https://librivox.org/
http://www.loyalbooks.com/ (lacks network encryption, your isp can see what you do on that site)
https://www.openculture.com
https://www.overdrive.com/

You can upload any text based book to Library genesis.
http://libgen.rs
check this https://librarygenesis.net/ if the above domain doesn't work
If you have a shitty government, probably don't upload from your home internet connection to that site unless you use tor or a decent vpn like mullvad, don't get me wrong the site is great, but they don't censor any books which doesn't make them very popular with shitty governments

obviously you can also upload the audio book on video and audio streaming sites

relatively open platforms
https://peertube.tv/
https://odysee.com/
https://rumble.com/
https://open-video.org/
https://d.tube/
https://www.bitchute.com/

more cooperate platforms
https://www.Youtube.com
https://www.audacy.com/ (doesn't work in the EU)
https://open.spotify.com/ (might have malicious DRM shenanigans)

There's always torrent sites too, you can use those even if you don't have a peg-leg, eye-patch and parrot.
The Pirate Bay (TPB)
RARBG (died a few months ago, it spawned replaced sites but, you gotta be "in the scene" to know which ones are legit)
1337x
LimeTorrents
TorrentDownloads
Torrentz2
YTS
EZTV
TorLock
TorrentGalaxy
copy past these terms into https://searx.fmac.xyz to find the sites
If you go that route maybe ask somebody else how best to do this, my torrent knowhow is perhaps a bit too rusty to give good advice.
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 No.471719

>>471710
Amazing, thanks for the pointers.
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 No.473099

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Any reading guides or just recommendations for DPRK stuff? Could be anything and everything really; actual juche ideology, history, architecture, daily life, inner workings of the state, etc. I just want to learn more about North Korea
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 No.473158

>>473145
Quit spamming every thread with your desert fairy tales bullshit.
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 No.474908

>>473158 Your gonna burn in Hell, you probably think its okay to be a faggot.
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 No.474915

>>474908
theres probably more gay christians than gay communists
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 No.474938

>>473099
Fundamentals of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, DPRK: Seven Decades of Creation and Changes, On Nationalism, Complete Exposition of the Principles of the Juche Idea are all great reads relating to the DPRK
Also if you want good documentaries Pyongyang Today, My Brothers and Sisters in the North are good starters
Some links
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLegd4KP36a0Y775Xl_HI_tvDKB6qoxPrx
https://bannedthought.net/Korea-DPRK/index.htm
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