/edu/ - Education

>>602
Library reading halls if i need to do serious study. Audiobooks on leisure time.

>>10312
Be more selective with what you read I guess. Beyond that, I once had a conversation with a friend wherein we basically said the only way to enjoy things these day i.e TV, movies, art, fiction etc etc. you kinda have to wear like ideological lenses - place yourself at a distant and just use it to numb your mind to a certain extent. Otherwise you're gonna go insane with how shitty (almost) everything is. Ideally, reading theory etc. immunizes you to a certain degree from the most glaringly disgusting aspects of the Spectacle.

its always shocking to me how boring the stuff ppl read is, most classics are trash imo.

7-8 years ago i got rly into fin-de-siecle french decadent stuff, 19th century european decadent & symbolist lit in general.

its full of sex drugs and death, its pretty pulpy and plot-driven most of the time too. not boring at all, very metal. The fin-de-siecle concept of 'spleen' is very applicable today. I'd recommend (bearing in mind that a lot of these authors are fundamentally reactionary but w/e)-

Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau
Abbe Jules by Octave Mirbeau
La-Bas by JK Huysmans
Monsieur de Phocas by Jean Lorrain

My favorite book is Harry Potter (I only read the first one)

The book that influenced me the most would have to be a tie between the Bible and Slaughterhouse 9 (although those germans totally had it commin, amiright?)

I like how they are heavy and very chewy without rotting your teeth.

I'm not going to be reading anymore now that chat GPT is online because how will I ever know if what I am reading was written by a person?

>>670
I need to put these books on my reading list right now.
Six-Legged Soldiers by Jeffrey Lockwood.
>It's about using insects in war. Basically the bugs can used to kill crops or spread disease (etc). Quite horrifying and totally inhumane.

The Battle for Your Brain by Nita Farahany
>The pigs are trying own your body.

The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell.
>I want to know how to set up barricades etc.

Total Resistance by Hans von Dach
>Same as above but more.

>>20422
The simple fact is that if you want to protect civilization, you have to make it as efficient as possible. and the most efficient animals are herbivores. Civilization is already herbivore (agriculture) but we waste a significant ammount of plant matter farmign stupid ass meat which is an energy sink.

Veganism is necessary. More than half of the megafauna left on Earth (animals that weight more than 40 kg) are farm animals. That is insane. It destroys entire ecosystems and make us dependable on a few species of animals that are grown close to each other in horrible conditions that make pandemics more likely. Those pandemics can (AND WILL) decimate farm animal populations and create hunger.
We have been artifically selecting plants for thousands of years to have more proteins, be more energetic, have fat and more. We should seize that opportunity.

political veganism is reactionary
that said, there are many good reasons to move toward vegan industry, primarily climate ones and also shortening the working week

>>20413
After much consideration, my issue with ethical veganism other than my moral nihilism is that there really is no ethical consumption under capitalism, ethical veganism is lifestylism in a negative sense as opposed to lifestylism as actual anarcho-individualism (anarcho-individualists are not "lifestylists," lifestylism is a very ancom thing to do). "Voting with your wallet" is such a lolbertarian way of looking at things and changes absolutely nothing. I am not throwing shade at Animal Liberation Front. Quite the opposite, I throw shade at veganism, because veganism doesn't equal animal liberation and never did. At least ALF does something in order to liberate the animals, drinking a Starbucks coffee while eating a veggie burger in a first-world country won't stop the genocide of the animals or climate change, it's not gonna happen. Unabomber did more to stop climate change than any liberal vegan ever would, veganism is just slacktivism in disguise.

Now, regarding health benefits. There is a conflicting information about the health benefits of the vegan diet but I assume it's better than just eating junkfood and certainly won't hurt. I am concerned about its cost-effectiveness and dependence on the market compared to freeganism though. Freeganism is potentially less healthy than veganism but it gives you more financial autonomy and is cheap. It carries the anarchist principles really well.

>>22628 (me)
With that in mind, I'm not saying that state-enforced veganism is ineffective. But it's not gonna happen, it's just a wishful fantasy that some government will adopt such policies. Just like banning proprietary software is Stallman's wishful fantasy.

What is /leftypol/'s opinion

>>18533
I stand corrected.on Lenin. You yourself state that this is "just one example", however - what are the others? I'm not trying to tear you down or to try to defend Freud's theories, I'm curious to know what classical ("orthodox") Second International Marxism thought about psychiatry.

One interesting thing I found while looking around on Marxists.org was that Karl Kautsky, who was definitely an authority of the Second International era, made a fairly in-depth critique of Freudian theory in his 2,000 page magnum opus The Materialist Conception of History published in 1927. Here's a quote from page 58:

<Truly, the notion is absurd that the nature of primitive man, as he was prior to all culture, could be studied by examining the waste-products of civilization in Professor Freud’s office.

<That is not to say anything against the importance of the Freudian hypotheses for medical science. They may stimulate it in a very fruitful manner. On that question I cannot pass judgment. But the object to which they refer, the unconscious, demands for its study, more than any other, the acutest self-criticism, sobriety, and precision. And it is just this object that most easily tempts one to arbitrary construction, exaggerations, and premature hypotheses. Unfortunately, Freud is very much inclined to such excesses, and many of his disciples have taken over from their master not his genius but his excesses. [Kautsky here quotes two passages from Freud’s Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, pp. 137, 121, and comments:] When one reads Freud, one could believe that all of man is only an appendage of his genitals. …

<I have repeatedly been called on to incorporate results of psychoanalysis into my conception of history. However, I have not yet found any that would cast a new light on the historical process. 1 therefore sec no reason to move onto this, for the present, at least for me as a layman, still very insecure territory. Should others who are more familiar with the nature of psychoanalysis want to draw upon it for the solution of historical problems, there is no objection to that; only it must be demanded that they understand something not only about psychoanalysis, but also about history and political economy. WithPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>13047
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudo-Marxism

Freudo-Marxism mostly arose as a way to explain fascism. I am critical of the pathology paradigm and the psychocentric reductionism of Freudo-Marxism but there are some valuable insights there.

It's hard to dismiss freud when your enemies are trying to make their breeding fetishes enforced by the state.

>>13047
>and I don't understand why.
They are stuck in 19th century pseudo-science.

(lol sorry for the double post, i had some problems)

>>21561
yo sorry, been a while. so for personal reasons (logistical, not emotional) i havent made any progress on online ordering/online ebook question of whether the book i posted is available as either. There is another (i think) good book about somalia which is this
https://archive.org/details/socialistsomalia00sama i havent read it myself but its sighted by most indepth modern (recent) histories of somalia that ive read that are in english. the general problem with indepth somali social and economic history is that theres mostly jack and shit about it in english and theres somehow even less online in somali too. theres only *1* book i could find about the economy of somalia before Barre's "socialist" coup and its was made like 2021. ill send a link to it tommorow but ive gotta buy since its nearly out of stock

>>21940
Hey, nice and thanks for getting back to me. I will def give it a read when I'm done with some other books

me again, ive bought the book i was reffering to before and jesus christ its big. the author goes into a lot of detail in colonial and post-colonial southern (italian) somalia from after ww2 and ends at the stalinist coup. i will warn that the author intends the book to be read by a somali/muslim so you may have to look up some shit about clans or somali history to get what hes talking about at parts and he also worked for the liberal democracy goverment, the socialist goverment and for the UN's """peace keeping""" tranistional goverement so you may want to be wary of this mfs political POV. he does use sources that havent been used before too, as much as i dislike the guy i still really recommomend the book
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Somalia-History-1941-1969-Mohamed-Trunji/dp/1912411032
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ca0T0NVRtI

>>22496
Damn boi, thanks again. I will give it a read when I'm done with my current reads.

>>21554
he is a race realist in that he believes races are real, but he doesn't believe that there is a hierarchy of intelligence.

>>21607
Sounds pretty interesting what you are talking about. Can you list some litersture I can get into to get a better understanding of the subject?

>>21614
Paul sackett would be a good start.

>>21357
Not precisely related but look into "Empire of Normal" for how capitalism constructs and exploits the neurodivergent. It goes into detail on how Frances Galton and eugenics influenced psychiatry.

>>21606
>A much better and more radical recommendation would be 'understanding intelligence' by Richardson.
Great read. Thanks for the recommendation.

>>20580
this cunt concern trolls all the time about the "reliability" of obvious fucking things, such as Azov being a neonazi org. he also consistently claims that the hoholdomor was a thing, and a genocide, and claims that there is academic consensus on it, despite evidence to the contrary
for a while the "list of genocides" article had the UN definition of genocide as the list inclusion criteria. when it was pointed out this means the '31-33 famine shouldn't be in it they swiftly changed the list criteria to only require that scholars say it is a genocide
"Michael Z" also called for the deletion of the article on the Yaroslav Hunka affair >>20585

>>22394
/edu/ threads die way slower than leftypol so you might just want to repost that pdf here instead of linking it, since the link might be dead soon. I'll do it later if I feel less lazy

>https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/17/the-gambler/
>The Gambler
Article about Cirillo and who they are

>>22394
>>22454
NTA but here

Always remember that you are reading to have read. Don't even try to understand.

So is just sophistry and aphorisms, not actual valuable insight? No good intro books about it?

Well, continental philosophy starts with German Idealism. But Adorno has some good introductory lectures, and Deleuze wrote a book on Kant.
https://monoskop.org/images/9/9c/Deleuze_Gilles_Kants_Critical_Philosophy_The_Doctrine_of_the_Faculties.pdf

>>22436
Philosophy has always been a diversion for the leisure class, but if you insist then start with le greeks because every westoid sloppa you're planning on reading read them first.

Introduction to dialectical materialism. What is commonly known as essentialist is largely congruent, I think (it's been a long time), with what the autor calls "metaphysical". I wouldn't use that term for it, however I suppose it makes sense in context.

>>22433
Crib sheet for this
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-the-unique-and-its-property
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