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>>22713
Marini my beloved

Finished Noonomy Sergey Bodrunov (2nd English edition 2024), a book about the NEW ECONOMY AFTER CAPITALISM!!1 This starts with a long list of people stating how great he is, followed by him in turn saying how great he is. I wonder what compelled them to write their endorsements. I will avoid all of them in the future. Bodrunov must be a very important person in Russia.

Have some quotes. We will start with an excerpt from the beginning:
<This quality will never go away: it is the urge to lead, earn, make, obtain, conquer, seize something from somebody else, to compete and become a leader, etc. This has enabled the humankind to survive. And this is what underpins the key trend in the society’s current economic development. Yet this is not the only path of social development.

<Humans, it should be recalled, still emerged from nature, i.e., left it. Why? Because they also have another quality – the capacity for gradual self-awareness as a person, and this awareness goes beyond material things. That is why humans formulated and accepted panhuman values. Everyone understands them, even if some deny those values. In religion, for instance in Christianity, we have the ten commandments which serve as the criteria for human “quality” used to improve ourselves.

<When I speak of culture, it relates directly to our topic. And why is it so important? Because, for example, if someone creates a computer virus, somebody else will create an antivirus, so there is always a fight between good and evil. And the more of this good we manage to put into an individual, the more of this sacral spiritual knowledge we pour into them and the more we teach them to be aware of this, the less controversial all the subsequent transitions associated with increasing access to knowledge will be. All these progressive moments are associated specifically with the self-awareness of a human as a social being, as a culture-comprehending, consuming and perceiving creature.

<Therefore, we are developing in a spiritual way as well. And I strongly believe that the more humankind evolves, the more technocratically advanced the society gets, the more spiritual humans should (and will!) become. Otherwise, there is no way to survive.

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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

You should ask the question: why some nations develop institutions and culture that went to conquer others, while other didn't even had written language well

Ignore the problem or use it against them by trying to change their mind relying on books as your source of arguments. Keep them from working on theory, should not be hard and in any case being a dogmatic bitch is better than them not trying to do communism in the first place unless you have more than a hundred people in your group.

>>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.

>>25698
You read none of this thread, did you?
>Stalin executed his top military leaders
Did you time travel here from 2012? What the fuck is this shite?

Between 1934 and 1939, the Red Army's command lost over than 56,000 people, 10,000 of them arrested. Another 14,000 were dismissed for drunkenness and 'moral degradation'; the rest were dismissed for other reasons – illness, disability, etc. In the same period, 6,600 of the officers previously dismissed were reinstated after further proceedings.

As for loss ratios see pic 1 rel

These sorts of brainless takes belong on /leftypol/, or ideally pol, and not /edu/. That being said, hopefully you learn a thing or two from this.

>>25794
Actually here's some more on the "officers"
To understand the scale of the purge, it's worth recalling that in 1937, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov said that, “the army had a total of 206,000 persons in the command structure”. The total size of the Red Army in 1937 was 1.5 million men at the time. Admittedly, poor training of the commanders of the Red Army was a problem in the 30s, but not one caused by repression but rather the rapid increase of men in the armed force. Already in 1939 the army had grown to 3.2 million men, and by January 1941 – to 4.2 million. By the beginning of the war the command staff amounted to nearly 440,000 officers and staff but training of officers is longer than of ordinary soldiers and thus it was out of proportion. The country was preparing for war, the army was growing, undergoing rearmament, and the training of officers came too late.
29% of Soviet military personnel had a higher education before the repressions. After them, the number became 38%. By 1941, the number had risen to 52%. Note that for the decade before the repressions, the number had remained stagnant at around 20-30%.

http://cas1961.livejournal.com/1204240.html

>''"Communism under Stalin has produced the most valiant fighting army in Europe. Communism under Stalin has provided us with examples of patriotism equal to the finest annals of history. Communism under Stalin has won the applause and admiration of all the Western nations. Communism under Stalin has produced the best generals in this war…
Political purges? Of course. But it is now clear that the men who were shot down would have betrayed Russia to her German enemy."'' Opportunity to Win War in 1942; A SECOND FRONT IN EUROPE TO AID RUSSIA, By LORD BEAVERBROOK, Britain's Lease-Lend Coordinator in Washington, Delivered before the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 23, 1942

>>7240
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgNqUtHJKzo

>>7241
https://leftypedia.miraheze.org/wiki/Lend-Lease_Act

Hijacking your thread to vent that university so far has given me nothing. It's been a massive waste of my life.

In my experience your parents are right. Unfortunately these early boring classes are usually foundational which means that if you are not paying attention now, you will probably be very lost in many of the later classes. At least that how it was for me, but I studied computer science, maybe it's different for medicine.

The university I went to had all kind of clubs for subjects related to studies where students did more self-directed learning, maybe you can see if your has any interesting stuff like this? For us it meant electronics and programming and stuff like that, maybe for medicine there are people who dissect frogs for fun? I don't know but I hope you find something interesting that helps you power through the boring but necessary parts.

Ive decided to stay in school

>>24642
I'm definitely late in my response, but I hope this helps anyone who might be interested! These are the books which I found the most useful while I was studying Chemistry. There are also other books that you might like to read in this wiki: https://4chan-science.fandom.com/wiki/Chemistry_Textbook_Recommendations

GENERAL CHEMISTRY

-General Chemistry - Petrucci
-Chemical Principles. The quest for insight - Atkins

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

-Principles of Instrumental Analysis -Skoog

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

-Physical Chemistry - Ira N. Levine
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