/edu/ - Education

>>3371
one can find some articles on thefreedictionary.com, just scroll down until you see the warning that the article may be "ideologically biased"

here are a bunch of links i've saved:
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Economic+Activity+of+Socialist+Enterprises%2c+Analysis+of
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Optimality+Criterion
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Economic+Disproportions
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Economic+Information
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Economic+Incentive
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Balance+of+the+National+Economy+of+the+Union+of+Soviet+Socialist
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Balance+of+Enterprise+Income+and+Expenditure
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Balance+of+Enterprise+Income+and+Expenditure
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Cybernetics%2c+Economic
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/economics
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>>3477(me)
it should be noted however, that the encyclopedia edition is of the 70s

On a related note, we should also go over US Senate reports on the USSR
https://web.archive.org/web/20181227211950/https://www.jec.senate.gov/reports/87th%20Congress/Dimensions%20of%20Soviet%20Economic%20Power%20(227).pdf

>Given its obvious significance, it's surprising that not a single volume has circulated online like many other books.
It's not surprising at all. Many "official" texts published in the USSR, especially the late USSR, were a mishmash of state-approved ideology and dogma. I tried reading Brezhnev's autobiography (or just biography?) and it was absolutely worthless. It was full of truisms like, "He always works well with others, and always asks for everyone's opinion before making a decision."

>>2006
>moved
thanks Admin!

>>2005
It cannon die, or it will bring dishonor on our cow

>>3088
>Koreans liberating Japan
Now that would be something to see

Reposting from the >>>/anime/ Q&A thread

I have a question about Jiraiya Gouketsu Monogatari. Naruto made the character pretty well known and popular, however the original story is pretty old, and I was wondering how well known the character was in Japan prior to Naruto's popularization of him.

Besides the 1921 silent film (video 1 related)

I found the following references in media before Naruto got published

- Jiraiya- A character that appears in the novel " Jiraiya Ninpocho " by Futaro Yamada, which began serializing in September 1964 . A character with the name of Tsunade also appears in the work.
- Jikaminari也- 1966 publication of Toei of special effects era feature film " The Magic Serpent hero of". Tsunade also appears.
- Commander Jiraiya- A character that appears in the TV anime " Invincible Steel Man Daitan 3 " broadcast from June 1978 to March 1979 .
- Magnetic Raiya- The main character of Toei 's special effects drama " Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya, " which was broadcast from January 1988 to January 1989 .
- Jiraiya (read "Jiraia") The character in the Hudson game "Far East of Eden" series and the main character of the first game " Far East of Eden ZIRIA ". Characters with the names of Tsunade and Orochimaru also appear in the work.
- Jirayan- A character that appears in the TV anime "Karakuri Kengoden Musashi Road" that was broadcast from October 1990 to September 1991.
- Ninja Black Jiraiya- Ninja who appears in Toei's special effects drama " Ninja Sentai Kakuranger "broadcast from February 1994 to February 1995. A setting called the descendant of Jiraiya who appears in "Jiraiya Goketsutan".

>>3689
is it good I've been planning to read it

Jairus Banaji's Theory as History is very, very good; highly recommended if you want to understand the purpose of Marxist historiography in the 21st century.

Franz Mehring

Mario Liverani, Uruk
https://archive.org/stream/LiveraniMario1998UrukTheFirstCity/Liverani%2C%20Mario_1998_Uruk%2C%20The%20First%20City_djvu.txt
Marc van der Mieroop, The Ancient Near East
https://www.pdfdrive.com/a-history-of-the-ancient-near-east-ca-3000-323-bc-e194493783.html

>>1350
Trotsky

Baby's first book in revisionism. But its an okay book but very over simplified and doesn't really go too much in depth. The author himself is a classic revisionist historian so keep that in mind.

More Marxist than Marx himself.

There was another thread that popped up about this, and it was fairly decent, so I will copy paste the replies here:

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There are many critiques of this book, it's very controversial, but good read non the less. I think you should read it and then read some critiques. There are often threads on /his/ about it /lit/ and /pol/ also love to hate it.

You can find a bunch of reviews and critiques of it with a little bit of googling, so I recommend read it, think about it, and read some critiques.

Here:
https://www.marxist.com/a-review-of-jared-diamonds-guns-germs-and-steel.htm

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The author himself is not a Marxist, but from what I can gather, the book is a decent layman introduction to the concept of historical materialism and how it can be applied as a lens to assess the comparative development of civilizations. Unfortunately, some of the claims made by the author are backed by research that's more than a bit shoddy, and reactionary critics love to pick on the book for that reason, but it's pretty clear most of their ire stems from the fact that they are uncomfortable with having their racial essentialist worldview attacked so directly.
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While I agree with the other posters here, I think that since no one else has posted about the problems with the book, I will do so briefly. I don't mean to dissuade anyone from reading it, and if memory serves most of the problems are concentrated towards the end:

Ultiamtely Jared Diamond works within a liberal paradigm/discourse, and this paradigm is enamored with competition conceptually. Ultiamtely this stems from liberalism being wedded to capitalism historically and ideologically.

Therefore, the book is rather myopic about imperialism and colonialism (which are logical consequences to coutnries competiting with one another, since being able to extract excess resources from a faraway third region that is colonized gives advantages in war, trade and domestic stability); That certain countries are poor because they have been plundered and continue to be plundered by others does not cross his mind all too much.

Further, that the totalizing nature of competition under capitalism can actually result in constraints on economic development, including on technogical discovery and innovation are mostly passed over.

And this is why the book is often accused of geographic determinism (though i nreality it isn't stricly); That is to say, in order to avoid outright racial or cultural chauvinism, he defaults to saying that the problem is the lack of liberal institutions in poor countries, and that this lack has near exclusive geographic determinants ultimately.

This is the consequence of not having an understanding of capitalism and imperialism as systems with internal logics, combined of course to middle class first world apologia.

I think he's too determinist and doesn't focus enough on economics apart from technology trade. Like sure, Europe based on geography will be in a much better spot than Subsaharan Africa but if we're just going off technology, resources and geography, China would have "won".

>>1488
Check'd, Nazi.

Bonnot Gang were just a bunch of gangsters and murderers.

the unseen by nanni balestrini

can anyone recomend books about asian (korea and japan) and western eruopean far left movements in the 70s and 80s

>>69
There is a nice book on the country of Burkina Faso (from independence to after the 2014 revolt) called «Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest and Revolution» by Ernest Harsch, really good read.

"Libgen" es la mejor página para conseguir libros digitales y gratuitos. Algunos archivos podrían no subirse aquí por estar muy pesados, busca allí por tu cuenta.

>>3680
Basado

Para una historia semi-biografica de Sankara especificamente, el libro de Ludo Martens es muy bien y creo que hay una traducción en castellano.

>>3626
study logic and scientific critique, then post-critical science shit, learn meditation but as a tool to make your mind sharper thats all, it will give you no knowledge (Except about … meditation), and then get into whatever the fuck u want, u should be insulated from wasting too much time on obvious bullshit if u start out by learning how to think and learn properly.
for "truth of life" tho, read philosophy ffs, all the esoteric stuff is only really appealing to people with inflated egos because you can read whatever you want into it and feel like a genius and like ur learning hidden knowledge. Philosophy (good philosophy…) does the same shit that (honest) mystics and religious figures tried to do, but in more plain language for the modern world

>>3658
Start with the Africans.

Unironically (whether or not that's in the spirit of this thread) every human should know a lot about a little and a little about a lot. So pick what you want to be an expert in, and read/discuss/investigate deeply in that, but also acquaint yourself with what we've learned more broadly and bring a bunch of different perspectives to bear on what you know best.

Why not both?

>>3626
One gets you cred on the most mid-wit level boards on 4chan while the other can net you a job, and an actual understanding, albeit still probably reductionist, understanding of the world.

>>2277
While that is an objective decision, it is made by relying on subjective values:
>Pro: They die
How do I decide that they must die? Most likely because they did something to offend me, however what it was, and how I decide that it was enough for murder, is down to my moral values.
>Jail = Impossible approach to revolution
Why is revolution objectively good? A porky wouldn't want to do it. A libertarian true believer would find the authoritarianism needed for it abhorrent and so on. It is, again, a moral question.
>Don't stab them unless it's a justifiable motive
Exactly. So how do you justify it? You can only be objective about it after knowing what it is you want to achieve, which is a purely value-based question.

Let me try to quickly attack some counter arguments I've heard before:
&ltBut morality is an ideological construct by the superstructure, and is mostly determined by material conditions
So? It still exists, and you still can't make any decisions without it.
&ltSomething something maximize entropy
It is still a moral statement. You want to maximize it as you believe it is a must for there to be existence, however believing that there should be an existence is a subjective view. People like gnostics and anti-natalists only prove that you can take an opposite stance, no more rational or irrational than yours.
&ltUniversal values
I doubt such really exist, and also they would still be values against which, theoretically, you could take an opposed stance.

GOD WILL JUDGE ME AS RIGHTEOUS I AM THE HERO

>>1303
I would pay money for this image to be painted over to have a bunker in it instead of a house.

There is something paradoxical about the oft repeated view from philosophers that the universe is meaningless while humans want to find meaning in life. It's more like the universe is full of meaning for us and we are helpless to escape it even in the case we want to. We fundamentally can't escape the fact that some things make us happy and some things make us suffer, which itself brings a kind of meaning to life. Also there seems to be a surplus of meaning where things take on more meaning than just their apparent consequences for our simple pleasure or pain. People find more happiness in cooking than simply the pleasure of the food they eventually eat. This is true generally of labour; you get a flow and joy from building a desk that can't be reduced to the utility of using the desk. Heroic actions take on more meaning than the benefits they actually provide, and so on. This surplus meaning might be considered the sublime. This is why utilitarianism is flawed, or at least would involve much more complicated 'computations' than might first appear.

Morality is a natural consequence of this surplus of meaning. Children have a strong sense of fairness and want to share candy that are unequally distributed for example. The point is not that there will be some practical problem from the unequal distribution (no child will starve because of not having a few sweets) but the justice of the situation. Humans naturally have concepts of justice and so on which are the foundation of morality. There can be different conceptions of morality depending on the society that one lives in, and it is illuminating to challenge a certain morality sometimes, but the existence of morality is pretty much inherent in humans. Trying to get people to 'awaken from the illusion of morality' altogether is autistic and not helpful.

To be honest, the impossibility of the universe existing, being coherent, and strange beings like us existing and leading lives full of the peculiar meanings of human life, suggest to me the existence of God or some kind of judgement, but of course no one truly knows this.

>>2437
What do you mean with impossibbility in the last paragraph? Is it poetic language or do you mean highly improbable?

I thought that picture was a joke? Please don't tell me there are people who truly believe such nonsense.

>>293
read the first pdf attached

in order to make the state machine materialist, it would need to have a copy of that diagram for all combinations of relevant material conditions (plus connecting arrows). While it is technically correct, I don't think it is particularly useful.

>>3681
Obviously this is insufficient as a COMPLETE model, but it's clearly not trying to be. It's expressing the idea that conditions potentially ripe for capitalism more frequently arise than actually do transition to it, which seems largely accurate to me - though of course (1) you could no doubt as mentioned get greater predictive accuracy by adding additional variables and (2) this leaves unexplained what constitutes the different state and why transitions between them should occur. It's not like Marxists have neglected these questions, though, so I think it's worth seeing if FSM-type models can produce anything useful if you noodle around with them.

>>3699
They can't, this is some horoscope level bullshit.

>>1227
Physical but cause Coronalol, digital so I can use Sci-hub

>>1227
Digital

Though if the apocalypse happens I might regret that

>>1227
physical always.

I can't read online. I print out PDFs sometimes though instead of buying.

Either digital copies or hardcover physical books.

Paperbacks are pure degeneracy and counter-revolutionairy ;)