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'The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.' - Karl Marx
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drop them PDFs, we will rebuild edition
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>>26311
Palestine is the foremost political issue of our time. I hardly think it's esoteric at all. We have strategy and tactic books in the thread already. This would be just one more.



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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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Recommend books



 

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.

Previous thread >>>/leftypol_archive/580500
Archive of previous thread
https://archive.is/saN3S

Excuse me coming through
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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>>26314
Lmao was it at least decent when it came to the history of it all or also no?



 

MAN THESE PEOPLE TOOK MY KIDS FROM ME
THEN THEY CLOSED MY BANK ACCOUNT
I GOT SO MUCH ANGER IN ME
GOT NO WAY TO TAKE IT OUT

body too short body too short body too short



 

How would you go about learning about solar? Do you know of any useful material to learn about it? I'd love to learn more about the different technologies involved and about the installation of solar panels and power generation. Maybe this knowledge can be put into practice to help one's local community. I'm sure there's lots of solid state physics and electronics involved, but any advice would be more than welcome!
t. Chemist

Will Prowse: Mobile Solar Power Made Easy!: The easiest beginner's book for off-grid and 12V systems (cabin, RV, boat). See also his YouTube channel and diysolarforum.com.

Michael Boxwell: Solar Electricity Handbook: A clear basic guide to sizing and design, updated regularly.

Joseph P. O'Connor: Off Grid Solar: Battery systems (lead-acid and lithium) covered thoroughly.

Solar Energy International: Photovoltaics: Design and Installation Manual: A professional-level textbook for when you have mastered the basics.



 

Read this book right now
A major problem I've been noticing through the years is that nobody fucking understands what dialectical materialism actually is. This book is entirely about explaining dialectical materialism.
Of course, it speaks of the philosophies that come before it but only to explain dialectical materialism itself (this is by itself a dialectical process, btw)

Read this shit and spread it!
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>>26317
Does it explain it tho.


>>26334
which way western man

>>26336
thank dog there are tldr machines.

>>26332
He say that dialectics is dangerous.. you can return that to him. Like if a contradictions get ignored, you can show ecology, etc, you know.

Also google Right to distress Hegel. But idk if google will show you that, but for me it shows Kant. For Kant moral is empty or pure? So he consider this action still morally wrong. While you can see content in Hegels reply.



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HIIII its me ERVA!!
I've come to complain about my experience with college and schooling as a whole. As a bonus I posted some pics of my books.

But anyway Ill keep it short and sweet, college feels like an extension the same bullshit I dealt with in high school.

I was expecting college to be more focused on writing in depth essays/proofs and reading big large books and writing summaries and drawing diagrams for the professor. In reality though school has been thoroughly taken over by online bullshit, online assignment sheets that you fill in the answers for.
I'm fine with repetition, in fact repetition is actually good for learning at times, but this just feels lazy, and it blocks actual learning it feels like for me.

Idk, I guess I've just been so accustomed to self study and doing writing summaries and essays according to what the books Ive read that it feels really weak by comparison.

I've told my parents how I feel and they say that I just gotta wait till I get into a more advanced class, but idk If I really have the patience for that :(.

Honestly the one thing I am currently going to school for to learn, medical stuff (surgery) may not even be necessary.
I really really wanna learn brain surgery, but honestly college just seems so boring and a barrier to actual learning that I might just try to learn surgery outside of school.
Of course theres books on it, but for something like that I'd need actual samples to work on.
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Ive decided to stay in school

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School is what you make of it. You have vast libraries and professors of all kinds at your finger tips. You can literally learn anything and it’s way easier at a college than anywhere else. In law school I had a photography show and just walked into the art school deans office to ask him questions. I walked into the music department to learn piano. You could go find books on jazz or Egyptology and there will be some autist on campus who loves that shit and would be willing to help you. If you’re gonna be a doctor, you’d get your profs to introduce you to some doctors you could shadow. You could study all the brain surgery books on file.


God I miss school.

>>26267
College (University) isn't about learning, it's about passing so you get credentials, moreso nowadays that information is freely available and that literacy and numeracy is considered bare minimum and not a privilege atleast in the 'first world', not to mention that university isn't about learning when you have to pay or take on debt, then you have to pressure of getting something other than knowledge out of it so you can recuperate your losses into something material that can be capitalised on. There is literally no reason to go to higher education than to blag yourself into a career in the hopes of escaping manual labour.

dunno where you're from but you kinda need credentials to start cutting people up, but you do get to start stitching people up from your first clinical year of med school

also if you want to make it a career, then good luck surgery is hell



 

This thread is for discussing the psychology of right wing politics eg for example why men are more likely to be right wing than women on average perspectives are welcomed including non-leftist perspectives
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>>25920
The two articles where you got your two screenshots from

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>>25921
Pew Research Center:
<Highly educated adults – particularly those who have attended graduate school – are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values. And these differences have increased over the past two decades.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/

Variability Hypothesis:
<The variability hypothesis, also known as the greater male variability hypothesis, is the hypothesis that human males generally display greater variability in traits than human females do [including cognition].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis

Supporting Article 1:
<In the majority of countries, male variability is higher than female variability in both reading and math.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1162573

Supporting Article 2:
<Males are more variable on most measures of quantitative and visuospatial ability, which necessarily results in more males at both high- and low-ability extremes
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In addition to the raised points on autism score, big 5 personality traits have good correlations: low openness, mid-high conscientiousness (rule following), low agreeableness, generally low neuroticism = rightoid traits, opposite profile = leftist traits.

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>>25923
Most people are also moderate in their personality, so don't fall into extremism

>>25913
Excellent thread worth bumping. I recently read this book to better understand the rightoid mindset.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Jonathan Haidt)
<A foundational text in moral psychology that explores the intuitive and emotional origins of political differences. Through his research, Haidt demonstrates that the right-wing moral compass relies on different foundations than the left-wing one. While liberal psychology emphasizes care and fairness, the conservative mind gives equal weight to in-group loyalty, respect for authority, and feelings of sanctity and purity.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind



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I have two questions:
  1. What is Third Worldism (because I think it's a rather unknown current of Marxism)?
  2. What are your thoughts on Third Positionism?

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>Third-Worldism
Third-Worldism is another term for Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, or just Maoism, which situates imperialism as the "primary contradiction" of politics; hence it focuses on people's protracted conflict and the task of nationalism more than class warfare in general; viewing the working class of a ruling hegemon as exploiters of the so-called "Third World" (a sociological term invented during the Cold War to distinguish between the Western First World, Soviet Second World, and undeveloped Third World of geopolitics - so the term "Third World" isn't really applicable today). Practically, Maoism splits the workers' movement into racial grievances against "White People". We can say that the Left has largely substituted Marx for Mao today.
>Third-Positionism
Well, as a Classical Liberal, I consider myself "neither" Communist or Capitalist in orientation, so perhaps I am of the Third Position. In Dugin's "Fourth Political Theory", he counts Liberalism as the First political theory, so that may disqualify it, if we take his authority. In terms of various strands of Fascism, we can compare them against each other more than we can compare them with each other. Gentile and ᴉuᴉlossnW develop Fascism from 1919 onwards as a type of political Hegelianism which they term "totalitarian" by the maxim "all within the state, nothing outside the state". It is radically hostile to any individualism, yet still grants personality in the state Sovereign. It is above all a philosophy of "action" (which we see in Mosley's British Fascism symbolised by the lightning bolt). National Socialism is codefied in 1919 also, by Rudolf Jung, and gives precedence to race and volk more than a political state. Before ᴉuᴉlossnW and Hitler's partnership in 1936, ᴉuᴉlossnW was anti-racial, but afterwards, was a Darwinist, such as we read in the "Manifesto of Race" (1938). So, Fascism was originally non-racial, but unifying in its Nationalism, while Hitler was purifying in his racialism. This is a great divide. Nonetheless, both men believed in life as a violent struggle, which often alludes to Nietzsche's sentiments, but not his conclusions.



 

In the book Four Futures; Life After Capitalism, Peter Frase maps out the materialist trajectory of post-capitalism and demonstrates that the end of wage labor is more likely to just kill us than to liberate us.

Capitalisms collapse is guaranteed by automation and climate crisis but the outcome depends on a 2x2 matrix of ecological limits (abundance vs scarcity) and class power (equality vs hierarchy).

Communism (Abundance + Equality)
<The post-scarcity endgame. Wage labor is dead. But Frase correctly points out this doesnt end politics; it just shifts human conflict away from material survival and onto immaterial hierarchies like status, reputation, and social capital.

Socialism (Scarcity + Equality)
<The only historically viable socialist project right now. Not a post-work utopia but democratic, centralized economic planning, and massive state-directed labor to survive the climate bottleneck. Its shared sacrifice and ecological reconstruction, not infinite consumerism.

Rentism (Abundance + Hierarchy)
<Automation solves material production but the bourgeoisie preserves its class dominance by pivoting entirely to artificial scarcity. Capital accumulation is replaced by rent extraction. Once physical commodity production is fully automated, the ruling class simply monopolizes the underlying data, algorithms, and IP. You are no longer exploited for surplus value on a factory floor; you are bled dry by access fees and licensing just so you can exist.

Exterminism (Scarcity + Hierarchy)
<This is the most critical analytical blind spot on the Left. Under capitalism, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat have an antagonistic but symbiotic relationship. They actually need workers to produce value. But when mass automation makes the global working class economically obsolete and climate collapse restricts resource availability, that dependency ends. You are no longer an exploitable asset; you are a surplus population consuming scarce resources. The militarization of borders, local police, and autonomous drone warfare isn't just standard imperialism, it is the logistical beta-test for managing and eventually eliminating an obsolete lumpen-proletariat.Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

I don't know, man, there's lots of questionable assumptions here.

>status, reputation, and social capital

Very few people care about these. We are just captivated by the spectacle of those who do. Once people's material needs are met, most would just fuck off to do whatever they like to do.

>Abundance

Already here. Depends on who you ask but most leftist economists say that we'd only need about 30% of current productive forces to meet everyone's basic needs. It's not the lack of abundance that prevents doing that but the endless greed of a small minority.

>Capital accumulation

Isn't the point that by holding the means of survival hostage you can compel others to work for you? Why would you need to accumulate capital when robots do everything?

>AI-surveillance

AI surveillance only prevents organized resistance. If the rate of extermination becomes too high and people see their own extermination coming, more people will start doing terrorism and I'm not sure the system can survive that.

>>26290
You too are making assumptions

>>26290

>Very few people care about these.

Decommodified production doesnt magically erase human neurobiology. Its a well established fact that the human brain is structurally hardwired to seek social status.

>Abundance is already here.

You are confusing productive capacity with ecological limits. Yes we have enough factories and technology but what we dont have is infinite resources. The scarcity axis in this matrix isnt about whether we can manufacture enough stuff but instead its about the hard physical limits of this planet. This is why the socialist outcome requires strict rationing and centralized planning.

>Why would you need to accumulate capital when robots do everything?

This is the entire premise of rentism scenario. Even if the ruling class doesnt need your labor anymore they still wants to maintain their class position. They will enforce this artificial scarcity via patents and copyright. People wouldnt work in factories but would still have to pay rent in order to have access to basic needs.

>I'm not sure the system can survive terrorism

The system is literally engineered to survive this right now. The ruling class doesnt have to fear unorganized terrorism once they retreat into fortified enclaves guarded by autonomous drones while leaving the surplus population outside to live in slums. Gated communities but 9000x worse.

Flood



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