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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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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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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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ITT: resources and tips about navigating the Internet and researching topics

Feel free to post your own resources and tips too.

I'm going to post a lot of my own that I have gathered over the years.
I ask that random chit-chat in this thread is kept to a minimum except regarding technical questions & answers on the topic matter.
This is so that resources are kept as compact as possible, and so, readable.

First I'll dump resources and tips for researching various topics.
Note: I don't even have access to or use some of these myself (e.g. LexisNexis which seems to be pay-to-use), but I figure they could be helpful in some narrow cases. I use most of these myself. If the initial things I post don't interest you, keep reading anyway. I'm going to be dumping a lot of content.

PressReader
https://www.pressreader.com/
Find key terms in newspapers and magazines.
I would say this is more helpful for finding sources that do exist rather than for reading them, per se. You can try to read the articles elsewhere than PressReader if you know their titles or part of their body text. The site appears to brand itself as pay-to-use, however you can use the search tool anyway and even read some resulting articles.
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Guide To English Pornstars: The Intermediate Guide To English Pornstars
English Pornstars

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



 

ITT post information about the history and anthropology of the New World. A lot of new anthropological work has been done in this field in recent decades that has not yet entered public consciousness.
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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



 

With the deluge of slop around the DPRK this is a thread to share more serious works on the project.
I'd recommend these two papers, especiallythe one on anti-revisionism. Haven't read book but it comes recommended by nons.



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Wanted to make a theology general to discuss whatever questions or topics about religion people here may have. I thought about posting this in /siberia/ but I rather have a higher quality discussion tbh, and since /edu/ has much less traffic I think a thread about theology and religion in general would work better than a specific topic about particular denominations and such. So to start, something I had been wondering for a while, in buddhist theology when you die you reincarnate and depending on your karma you'll either be reborn into a human or an animal. So if you are reborn into an animal, after this life what would determine what you reincarnate into? Does buddhism have a way to judge animals? Do you reincarnate into a human by default after living as an animal and just keep the cycle going until you achieve enlightenment? If anyone knows I'd really appreciate it.
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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.



 

Okay, let's try this. I would try making this sort of a general threads for a few weeks, then we'd see if they became popular and maybe mods would make /psrg/ a permanent thread.

Thread inteded as a containment place for a discussion of all things religious since I had noticed there was an infestation of a low-quality religious discussion threads recently.

Let's start with the building of a reading list about religion and spirituality from a marxist/general socialist perspective, shall we?
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>>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.



 

Hi everyone
there is a weird thing that i discovered about quran
in reverse of one of the surahs i found out it has meanings

from the mp3 i sent here
from 0:14 seconds it says:
یا ایها النفس النفارس سمعنی
o my cavalry persons, here me out
ارسلکی اذو علیکی
we sent this to you for you
والکلام
the massage (is that)
حقنا حقا
our truth is the (real) truth

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>religion thread

>>24337
not really , i am not even a muslim
i just love to research about religions , any religions

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.



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Finishing crisis to communization and i find it interesting, though I'd like to get into the more specific details and theory of communisation. Good books on it?

>>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.



 

I will be very concise, since I know a long, boring post will make you just lose interest.
>fairly normal life, but im extremely bitter against (succubi) m*dels, the glamour, ease,wealth, luxury and globe-trotting they are gifted just cause MUH FACE
>Im in a country that has free university, including med school\ doctor's college, I wouldn't lose any money if I ended up failing
>I tell myself a lot, that only saving others is good enough reason to keep myself alive
Please give me an honest assessment of this conundrum. I AM willing to go through the pain that is med school, AND a career as a doctor- I talked to several people in either field, so I know what it will be like.

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



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