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drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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Everytime you visit /edu/, post in this thread. Tell us about what you're thinking about, what you're reading, an interesting thing you have learned today, anything! Just be sure to pop in and say hi.

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A quick note on the video @ >>>/leftypol/1538283
Also [vid related] for archival purposes

Around the 29 minute mark Peterson criticizes Marx and Engel's for assuming that workers would magically become more productive once they took over.

This actually happened historically, most of the actually effective productivity tricks work places use now were developed by Stakhanovites.

https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/year-of-the-stakhanovite/year-of-the-stakhanovite-texts/stalin-at-the-conference-of-stakhanovites/
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Anyone else using NotebookLM to study?


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Post Copy pastas, videos and books which debunk common Fascist, Liberal talking points which are repeated often.
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>>6530
A post with this much strawmanning might as well be called a wicker man


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If the price of something is determined by the amount of human work that goes into it, how does one explain the price of luxury items or artworks (which only require a little bit of work but are overpriced due to the supply/demand imbalance)?

It might seem like a bunch of impertinent exceptions that could be overlooked but
- the luxury industry is far from being marginal
- if the premise that the value of something is determined by the amount of human work that goes into it isn't true in every context, then the whole law of falling rate of profit doesn't hold true in every context either

(It's been 3 years since I last read Das Kapital and I'm too lazy to read it again)
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>>25686
yes, but this contradicts historical materialism, since if art is not the alienated expression of social relations, then what is it?

>>25683
The goal of every merchant is to eliminate competition and establish monopolies, not to exist in some imagined ideal state of perfect competition. The merchant does not want uncertainty any more than a banker or anyone else, for perfectly understandable reasons. He is not a slave to "the market" and does everything not to be so. That's the only reason he values anything in money. If the merchant sees a system set up to destroy him, he will violate it, steal freely and not care about "the system". He would see it as right and good to be an outlaw and take what he wants, disregarding all of the niceties that allow a market to exist.

Somehow you cannot understand that concept and insist you alone are above this. It's the classic problem of idiots who insist they alone will make history go.

My point is that prices exist because there is a want for merchants to fetch profit, rather than because of some law of nature or the universe. The universe does not care about anything we do in a market. This construct only exists because there is a society with laws permitting it to exist and establishing laws and customs pertaining to it. I don't know how much simpler I can make this for you, but you always repeat the same lines about "human nature", and I know the philosophical origin of that rot. As soon as I explain it, someone comes along to "correct history" and reassert a failed thinking. It's maddening.

Now maybe you can imagine a merchant that doesn't think his goal is to win capitalism, but no merchant thinks he is a servant of the system or some imagined natural order, and if he does, he will fail at business like all such fools.

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>>25705
>>25706
>My point is that prices exist because there is a want for merchants to fetch profit, rather than because of some law of nature or the universe.
… and competition draws prices closer to the cost of production, which indeed, is a threshold for commerce - thus, commodities are regulated by a "natural price". if you had a socialist society which traded goods for labour vouchers, what regulates the price? their cost of production, no? the market necessarily does the same in a space of "perfect competition". it can be demonstrated, even in marx's proof (e.g. capital vol. 1, ch. 12), that where capitalists compete and innovate the means of production, the "social value" of goods will naturally decrease, until the point of monopoly, where innovation ceases.

you must understand how in a market, profits are made by lowering prices, while with monopolies, its made by raising prices (since profit as the end of capital can only be regulated by a competition of capitals - this is also what adam smith writes; that where capitals compete, wages increase, and where labour competes, profits increase). thus, where you have monopoly you have unemployment, which causes labour to be depreciated in value (at the capacity of full employment).

as a thought experiment, if there was a global government with one mega city, would the 8 billion people working for the same employer and living in the same city be richer or poorer than if they lived and worked in separate places?

>>25708
Jesus fucking Christ you think anyone who doesn't know your recently discovered regurgitated first-year econ class in high school course must be unaware that people in capitalism tend to seek profit. No shit, sherlock, that's life.

You realize how you're repeating the Austrian School positions? They were the only ones who believe the market was a a "natural force" like that. Marx like every classical political economist saw the market as something wholly artificial that humans made.

If you're a smart and good merchant, you make super profits by holding a monopoly and charging monopoly prices, or using that monopoly to do things to control people that aren't themselves productive activities. That's what Rockefeller always saw; that he could use this oil monopoly to rule the world, and that he certainly did. Being a petty merchant and actually believing capitalism is freedom is the extreme sucker religion. It's the product of child abuse.


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I won't dwell too long on the clinical descriptions -I don't fully get much of it either, still- I got diagnosed "early enough" >will start treatment very very soon but was given a prognosis of 1-2 years ,some wiggle room - or +
I just need advice on things like; legacy videos (don't dvds\ electronics just rot after a while too, due to some oxidative thing?) ,managing Estate Sale whilst alive, any legal shenanigans, to which point to insist on spending time with relatives outside immediate family, etc
I'm 34 y.o. male. I would ask for "bucket list + finance" advice but I'm not american so currency diff. would be it unintelligible i guess.
>pic just related because it's a great cinematography piece + Bill's melancholic look

>>25693
>a prognosis of 1-2 years
holy shit, dude
sorry to hear read that

Unfortunately, I don't know how to help, I have no experience with this kind of stuff

Also, what do you mean by
>I just need advice on things like; legacy videos (don't dvds\ electronics just rot after a while too, due to some oxidative thing?)
You want to record a message to future generations on a dvd? Or are you talking about dvds you own that someone's going to inherit?

>You want to record a message to future generations on a dvd?
Yes, something like that. dvd or a more durable format–dunno if "generations", maybe that's too far, but for my current child-relatives for whence they grow up.
I'm trying to pull a bucket list, explore options, maybe start taking a RISK or two.


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what was the name of that pre-WW2 German author that wrote how stereotypically non "aryan" germans were typically the most fanatical Nazis because they knew that they were on the fringe of being considered racially acceptable. Note how the entire high command of the nazi apparatus were a men who were mostly dark-haired, brown-eyed and somewhat short by german standards and who personally proved the lunacy of the aryan "race" as a concept by their mere existence
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>>23391
The thing about hitler and Nazism broadly speaking is that it is socialism of phenomena and not the noumena like marxism is, he saw the Jews which embodied capitalism but are not capitalism itself, just like his racialism, seeing the backwardness of other cultures as a manifestation not of capitalist imperialism but of the people themselves. Nazism is socialism but of the vulgar kind that fails to abstract from the concrete.

>>23398
lower middle classes of Shopkeepers, clerks, small business owners were abstetoyl a strong voter base for Nazis, but they would not have made it anywhere without support of rural, workers and the old aristocracy

>>23402
Again, my point is that there are dozens of quotes from Hitler that an average person on the Internet who supports Communism might find appealing or agree with, but that’s due to the nature of populist, authoritarian, militaristic, and nationalistic state


>"The Third Reich will always retain the right to control property owners. If you say that the bourgeoisie is tearing its hair over the question of private property, that does not affect me in the least. Does the bourgeoisie expect some consideration from me?… Today's bourgeoisie is rotten to the core; it has no ideals any more; all it wants to do is earn money and so it does me what damage it can"

>"National Socialism derived from each of the two camps the pure idea that characterizes it, national resolution from bourgeois tradition; vital, creative socialism from the teaching of Marxism."

>"All the more so after the war, the German National Socialist state, which pursued this goal from the beginning, will tirelessly work for the realization of a program that will ultimately lead to a complete elimination of class differences and to the creation of a true socialist community."

>"Capitalism as a whole will now be destroyed, the whole people will now be free. We are not fighting Jewish or Christian capitalism, we are fighting very capitalism: we are making the people completely free.' … It is only the international Stock Exchange and loan- capital, the so-called 'supra-state capital,' which has profited from the collapse of our economic life, the capital which receives its character from the single supra-state nation which is itself national to the core, which fancies itself to be above all other nations, which places itself above other nations and which already rules over them."

>"In those countries, it is actually capital that rules; that is, nothing more than a clique of a few hundred men who possess untold wealth and, as a consequence of the peculiar structure of their national life, are more or less independent and free. They say: 'Here we have liberty.' By this they mean, above all, an uncontrolled economy, and by an uncontrolled economy, the freedom not only to acquire capital but to make absolutely free use of it. That means freedom from national control or control by tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>23410
Okay, so I'm not European, and I'm not fond of mass migrations to countries because I know they destabilize nations. However, my position on the Jewish question is this: it's almost impossible to pretend they aren't vastly overrepresented in various fields, intelligentsia, entertainment and politics. That doesn't mean they deserve genocide, but I follow the Gumilev school of thought that the Jews should be 'remade' by being placed in a province where they do manual labor for generations and even intermingle with the locals to create a new Jewish race without

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N E C R O B U M P


I don't know what author OP is talking about but it sounds similar to what Arthur Kronfeld wrote about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Kronfeld

He was a psychiatrist and had the (mis)fortune to meet Hitler in person before 1933.

After he emigrated to the USSR he wrote a short brochure about mental and physical health of the Nazi leaders called "Degenerates in Power". The target audience were soviet medical workers. Unfortunately, it exists only in Russian.

At the beginning, Kronfeld describes how he participated as an expert on the trial with Werner Abel. Abel was an ex-NSDAP member who accused Hitler & co. of taking money from an Italian agent Giuseppe Migliorati for ceasing the pan-German propaganda among the South Tyrol population.

When interrogated, Hitler wasn't able to give a concrete answer to any question, he was just running his usual yappanomics about his mission to save Germany. Before the trial started, Hitler attempted to physically assault Abel but when he saw that he is stronger than him, immediately pussied out and started angrily yelling slurs at him and was literally foaming from his mouth.

What follows are typical descriptions of the Nazi elite. They are cripples, sadists and sexual perverts - usually homosexuals, their heroic deeds of WWI are pure fiction. Goebbels is a dwarf with unbelievable sex appetite, Himmler is a midwit who became famous only by backstabbing his boss (Gregor Strasser), Goering is a drug addict who loves morphium
(which caused his obesity), is vain and loves to dress himself in finery but looks like a clown, Streicher is a hysterical retard who opposes vaccination since it's "poisoning German blood with foreign proteins", Ribbentrop is a crook who got rich by selling shitty champagne, Hess is a transvestite who calls himself "Fräulein Anna" etc. etc.


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Memorandum of conversation between Enver Hoxha and Kang Sheng…, Tirana, 9 November 1966, in AQSH, F.14, AP-MPKK, V.1968, D4, f.16.

Please help me in any way you can.

>>25692
>AQSH
That's Albanian State Archive. You'll have to check out if it was digitized and published online.

That's the only solution I see for your problem.


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Choosing a language edition

I do not know why we do not have an active language learning thread, so here you go.
If you got other links you think are worthy of being on here, do mention them.

>Language learning communities
r/languagelearning
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/

Language learner's forum
https://forum.language-learners.org/

Linguaholic's forum
https://linguaholic.com/

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>>25635
Don't learn russian. This language is kinda useless if you don't live in an ex-ussr country.

>>25661
why defend usefulnesslop

>>25669
it'd like be learning to draw and then never drawing, im a troid and most russians hate them, not to mention it is illegal there

I'm looking for a language with little to memorize outside of the phonology of the word, this means no uninferable gender, uninferable declination, or non-phonetic scripts. I'd like there to be relatively few non-Western European loan words. I'd like for it to be agglutinate, or isolating, but not fusional as this makes forms difficult to determine. I love when words and phrases are built up from consistent morphemes!

I've been trying to learn any foreign language for years, but every time I hit a road block, and it all falls down shortly after. I sort of think my brain just isn't configured to retain another language that I don't have a full mastery of. I even tried glorious Hawaiian but failed once I hit the numbers, and dates for unknown reasons, and after which, even while doing word flashcards, I eventually lost much of my active recall.

Anyway I'm trying to select what to try next, I'm considering: Chinese (pinyin), Turkic Languages, Uralic Languages, and Korean at the minimum along with anything else that might fit the criteria. Mostly just a vent, but if you've got anything for me I'd be happy to hear!

>>25634
>>25631
NTA but learning Chinese now. Useful skill and a huge country to explore as a tourist.


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As the rule of capital in the digital age becomes increasingly concealed, and as life dimensions such as education, health, and time have all been reduced to arenas of value extraction, this work, rooted in Marxist political economy, breaks free from the traditional analytical framework centered on "ownership of means of production" and puts forward a groundbreaking core thesis—contemporary capital has completed an ascended rule from "possessing things" to "colonizing life," with its core object of domination shifting from "means of production" to "the production and reproduction of labor power."

A distinctive highlight of this work lies in constructing a triadic dialectically linked framework of "Actual Control Capacity over the Means of Production—Production Integrity—Actual Control Capacity over the Production of Labor Power." It profoundly analyzes the alienated nature of the commercialization of labor power, reveals the core contradiction between the capitalist socialized large-scale production and the capitalist private control over labor power production, and provides a brand-new theoretical perspective for understanding the new forms of exploitation under digital capitalism. Meanwhile, centering on the core goal of "abolishing the commercialization of labor power," the work systematically outlines a two-stage emancipatory program of "political revolution + social revolution." Grounded in the specific practical context of nation-states while embracing the dimension of class solidarity from a global perspective, it closely integrates theoretical criticism with emancipatory paths, boasting both ideological depth and practical enlightenment.

Important Declaration

This work is currently an unpublished research manuscript and remains in the stage of improvement and development. All views, frameworks, and expressions herein are preliminary research results, which will be continuously revised and optimized based on academic exchange feedback.


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This guy Is called nigel askey, and is apparently a legitimate historian. He published a paper debunking TIK's claim that the K/D ratio of the soviets during WW was 1/1.6, instead claiming that the soviets lost over 4 more times as many combatants as the Germansduring WW2. Here is his paper. I'm not a qualified historian and I dont have access to acrhives or time to research, so I can't debunk him.

http://www.operationbarbarossa.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Essay-alt-view-TIK-presentation.pdf

I checked out his website and alsthough he does seem to be knowledgeable, he makes certain ridiculous claims that the "Vicors write history" in WW2, and the allies covered up how technologically and tactically inferior they were to the germans.
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>>20601
>Also how is artillery counted?
When he says "gun artillery" and "tubes" he is referring to cannons & mortars. If you scroll down to the last paragraph he does a separate comparison for the MLRS' between the German Nebelwerfer and the Soviet Katyusha.
> Meaning the Germans were firing over 3x more than the Soviet forces, even though they had 2-2.5x fewer artillery. That sounds fucking ridiculous
The gist of the argument is that while the Germans did have less artillery weapons, they also had more artillery ammunition (due to a larger gunpowder industry) which allowed them to shoot more than the Soviets

>>20603
>they also had more artillery ammunition (due to a larger gunpowder industry) which allowed them to shoot more than the Soviets
Which is fucking bullshit, because the Soviets fired more shells over the war than the Germans, by a significant margin, and while logistics in the first 2 years of the war could account for it, Kursk was in the summer of '44 and the Soviets prepared those defensive lines for some time, the idea that they lacked the shells necessary is absurd, especially considering that the USSR had a reputation for their artillery usage and it having a significant impact on the initial start of Kursk especially.

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Hello folks, I was hoping someone could give me some decent literature on the Babiy Yar massacre in English, I wish to send it to a friend for them to study. It's hard to find anything non-Russian on the subject that doesn't insert anti-communist drivel into it and unfortunately, unlike myself, she cannot read Russian. Help a comrade out.

>>12984
great post, anon

I have no idea about the exact numbers or ratio but the Russian meatgrinder tactic is world famous plus Stalin executed his top military leaders.

You can see this tactic in Ukraine today with a complete disregard for Russian losses.


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