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Finished History of Economic Management in North Korea by Phillip H. Park (2025). This takes the novel approach of not trusting defectors and foreign "experts" and instead relies almost entirely on official documents, read through a skeptical lens.

A lot of quotations with wooden expressions. As for the author's own words: I suspect the author used LLM help to stretch some sections that were just bullet points into longer text (delve/delves/delving occurs 19 times), then thoroughly checked for nonsense and traces of accidental wit and removed all that. The result is… OK I guess, like oatmeal that could take a bit more liquid.

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Looking for Michael Hudson's book, "Privatization and the Ancient Near East". Not on Anna's, anyone have it? Tysm

Does anyone got the book "Anarchism, Organization and Management: Critical Perspectives for Students" pdf?

>>22276 (me)
Found a book that is quite close to that, did someone already read it? It looks exactly like what i was looking for:
"ephemera: theory & politics in organization management business anarchism"

https://ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/2022-01/14-4ephemera-nov14.pdf

mods can you pin this thread, there's good links here

is it just me or do people in general seem to more interested in mesoamerica than in the andes? just as an example when looking for reconstructions on what tenochtitlan and cusco looked like there are TONS for tenochtitlan including many made by non-mexicans whereas there's hardly any for cusco and certainly no high quality ones

I don't know much about latam anthropology. Is there a good overview of the field I can check out?

>>24463
>is it just me or do people in general seem to more interested in mesoamerica than in the andes?
It's not just you. The Aztec and Maya are more prominent in popular culture, probably because they are both found in Mexico which is a very well known country and tourist destination compared to Peru for instance.

>>24467
1491 is a good overview of the place before colonialism.

>>24470
but is mesoamerica famous because of modern mexico? or is mexico famous because of its mesoamerican ruins?

>>24467
for indigenous societies in brazil read florestan fernandes, curt nimuendaju, ronaldo vainfas, joão azevedo fernandes and eduardo viveiros de castro. there are some indigenous writers such as david kopenawa and ailton krenak
http://www.etnolinguistica.org/
this repository is useful

Which has more adherents, traditionalist catholicism or liberation theology? Does it differ in Europe vs LatAm? Why/how?

Looking for good books on atheism

What's some good resources for getting into witchcraft, particularly Wicca, proper? Like I understand the basics sort of, but I'd like to develop an understanding of it that isn't just scrapped together from youtube videos.

>>9083
Alawites are "ghulat", ie extermists, meaning they worship ali as an aspect of god, making them technically heretical to all mainstream forms of shia islam.

>>9052
I will say one of the bad consequences of Marxism was that it separated socialism from spirituality and religion. Before Marx, most utopian socialist movements were religious or occult groups or freemason lodges. This separation made scientific socialism crude, mechanical, and soulless form of political scientism.

>>9106
>there's a good reason atheists tend to be angry about religion and all the barbarism it involves
That's because most of them are ironically fundmamentalists who portray religion in a specific way to alleviate themselves. Its similar to how the Germans pass the Holocaust guilt onto Nazis and immigrants. And although they champion criticism, they chimp out whenever you criticize them or imply their narratives are flawed. The myth of an essentially evil and barbaric religion, timeless and everywhere the same, is pure projection, a myth cooked up by the atheist. The reason most online atheists are angry about religion is because they are as bigoted as Jerry Falwell.

>>10499
I've never liked Dabashi. I don't think this book is a good work of theology and the whole post-colonial studies thing is a dead end.

>>24330
You obviously didn't read why and just recapitulated the talking point that knowledge is generally interchangeable and irrelevant. The point is that the claims of any religion, even an ersatz personal religion, are not claims that can be reassembled freely. That is what makes it religion of any sort. Either your religion is right or wrong, with nothing in between. Anything else is intellectual cowardice of the worst sort and will be held in contempt. Buddhism explicitly rejects the Christian claims and vice versa. And of course, you cannot be a Marxist communist and a Christian. Christianity is utterly incompatible with Marxism, which is why the Marxists become so pigheaded about religion, almost as if destroying Christianity was the greater objective and all of the stuff about socialism was just an excuse.

>>24332
Why? Study something useful in university. Study philosophy in your own time. You're handicapping yourself for no reason.

>>24334
hahaha true, i just didnt

>>24334
120 autism score detected

>>24252
OP I think its wrong to build a reading list on religion from a Marxist perspective because Marxist analysis (outside of hard economics) is often an obstacle to understanding religions rather than something that clears things up. A socialist perspective is more interesting.

>>24337
not really , i am not even a muslim
i just love to research about religions , any religions
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honestly i did not knew where should i put it

I don't think this means very much. I've never seen anyone reverse the Quran. But if you are interested in bizarre interpretive techniques, take a look at Hurufism.

>>24465
Read the Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement, his second book?
Apparently he said that Marx was wrong, is that true? Kinda put me off reading it.

Having a medical degree is a sure way to never have to worry about money again as long as you don't go full retard with your spending.

Didn't you post a few months ago? I rember something similiar I thought you definitely were going to med school. Maybe it was someone else