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Seems like there are a few people on leftypol interested in this subject so I thought I'd create a thread dedicated to discussing the Wydna collective and Pseudodoxology podcast
>What is Wydna?
Wydna is a research collective dedicated to reading history through a unique lens. Taking inspiration from Marxism and Accelerationism, Kantbot and other members of the collective dedicate themselves to uncovering the conspiracies, traditions and ideologies that circle the elites of the British and American Empires. Through their podcast, they discuss secret societies, scandals, and factions of the deep state in a fashion considered unconventional to our current interpretation of history.
>That sounds great, where can I learn more?
Their episodes are paywalled, so that's why I'm making this thread. I will be uploading some of their more noteworthy episodes on request here for those who aren't interested in paying the 5$ a month on patreon.
You can listen to their most popular episodes for free on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/45p4IYDT96zuulXl1oH5wW?si=4uuH0B85RjWbbqdEmnwQkw
And I will be filling this thread with links to episodes I consider noteworthy.
I'll start by uploading their episode on the history of political economy, which is 7 hours, so I'll be breaking the audio up into several parts. This post, OP, contains the first 3.
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>>20968
lol I wish
Purple monkey dishwasher

I have spent hours listening to KB/wydna and thinking about his overall project. Can't say I'm proud of it, but that's the truth. He's an interesting if frustrating dude. At some level his intellectual commitments are just, like, German media theory and the sociology of knowledge. But at another level he's got this completely shamelessness that lets him dick around with frog twitter and that intersection is basically where his interesting shit comes from.

>kantbot: one of us, a poster, not credible, no rigor.
>Aaron Good: A scholar, sole protege of Peter Dale Scott, academic rigor fwiw, works daily in this field with people of all politics without compromising his own long-declared Marxism.
If you're gonna spend hours in this area, and you should, the choice is clear.

>>22144
lol what the shit I'm sucked in by a necropost.

>>22145
kemono won't let me download the big episodes, requesting a new mega upload pretty please.

>Accelerationism
I only see this term when extreme evil nazis are mentioned. There's left accelerationism too you mean? I guess you could say the RAF was accelerationist but the problems with their strategy have been discussed at length.



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is jord pornersen bad for the good thinking? he hates the women (capital) and he saying that we need to be the good people. food of thinking.

maybe he is a bad one because he does liking of capital people sometimes. water of thinking again.

sometime i thinking why life very hard.



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Hi!
First time being on /Leftypol/ and have also been a Socialist since 2022. I have been interested in the whole idea of Democratic Socialism/Classical Social-Democracy (ae: Lasalle, Kautsky, Luxembourg) and even Reformism Socialism (Filippo Turati, Michael Harrington).

Though aside from what I could've managed to find online and on sites like marxists.org, are there some more world that you guys can suggest?
Not only stuff related to this philosophy of Marxism but even other books or thinkers of the German/Dutch School, English Fabian Society or even more Radical or Orthodox authors.

>>25689
De Leonnism I suppose, the party being voted in is akin to being a mandate for the proletariat to takeover the means of production, you could say it's anti-reformist social democracy.



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Do you guys have any books that highlight the cleverness of Soviet warfare in WW2 that dispute the Zerg rush narrative of the West? As far as I know the allies had all of their information of what was going on on the eastern front from Germans who overembelished their military prowess and downplayed those of the Soviets.
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>>21575
none of these points you made are based on facts and just spewing shit like enemy at the gates, a movie, is a documentary.

>>21573
>The barbarism of the Soviet occupying forces can best be judged by the fact that many thousands of Hungarian men were raped or forced to unnatural excesses by Russian women soldiers. The Reds established a recreation camp near Kecskemét for more than thirty thousand sick and convalescent women members of the Soviet army and the police forces. From this camp, for instance, the Russian women banded together at night and swooped down on the surrounding hamlets, kidnapping the men and sometimes holding them captive for days.
Hawt

>>21581
why does this never happen to me


I also thought they just used "zerg rush" tactics: numbers. The population was high and the people were fighting for their freedom on their own terrain. I don't think the victory was due to some incredible tactician.



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Thread for History of Ancient China up until the end of the Chinese Empire
Discuss History, Mythology, Archeology, Socio-Economics, Politics and Culture of Ancient China. This includes Tibet, Korea and Mongolia.
Leftypedia >>3780 requires an article on Ancient China, all that is covered is the current People's Republic

Important Topics
>Mythology and Legends and their Modern Cultural Impacts
A society that arose at the beginning of human civilization, China's culture is enormous and diverse. Legends and mythology of China such as Fa Mulan and Journey to the West are just prominent examples of legends that influenced others across the globe. Recommend and discuss literature or myths on this.

>Eastern Philosophy, Culture and Religion

The East, especially China developed several unique religions and philosophies utterly separate from the primarily Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian philosophies of Western and Central Europe as well as the Middle East. The 3 primary Chinese philosophies are Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Discuss the merits of these.

>Military Conflicts and Everyday Life in Ancient China

Society in China developed on its own and so it had much different ways of life. China is also known for having massive conflicts, some of the first to have millions of men fight at a time. China is known for it's generals such as author of "The Art of War"* Sun Tzu, Han Xing and CaoCao.
*https://sites.ualberta.ca/~enoch/Readings/The_Art_Of_War.pdf

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>that one time a spanish habsburgo emperor wrote in his plan to conquer the chinese empire was to "fuck and outbreed them out of existence with our Spanish, Filipino and Japanese subjects"
>It was actually possible given that the Ming were incompetent and they got rekt by the Manchu with the last Ming emperor hanging himself because he got duped into executing their best general
Even the ~100 million population wouldn't be an issue given South America;
>Our new study clarifies the size of pre-Columbian populations and their impact on their environment. By combining all published estimates from populations throughout the Americas, we find a probable Indigenous population of 60 million in 1492.

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yeah its a little wild

>>22098
That's gonna be a yikes from me dog

Great!

>>22097
The indigenous americans were hit by disease and didn't have horses, the wheel nor gunpowder or metal



 

I was told that this video on 'Hitlers Socialism' by TIK was an absolute gotcha to Marxists and I know his channel and he does some good vids so I thought I'd give it a watch at least and immediately he says he was once a Marxist Socialist and he was taught that stuff at university and then his definition of capitalism is muh free market and that the state manipulating prices and planning stuff therefore means it isn't real capitalism as opposed to, you know, MCM (he correctly points out that yes markets don't equal capitalism automatically), using 2021 right libertarian definitions that would mean that almost any actually existing capitalist economy isn't really capitalist (even neoliberal ones).

Why are they like this, anons? Why are all of these rightoids who say they used to be a Marxist never actually demonstrating that they even took in the basic concepts? Every. Fucking. Time.
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>>17546
hitler explicitly killed the left leaning socialists in his party. anyone who calls hitler a socialist is either a misinformation agent, or historically illiterate (or both).

>>17600
Not true. He made Richard Walter “agricultural Bolshevik” Darre the head of the Reich Food Estate.

>>17546
>>17598
We live under state-monopoly capital/imperialism where nation-states fight on the world-market as competing capitals. It's capitalism but the economic unit is as much nation-states as firms or families.

You'd be surprised how many Marxists really don't understand their own theory. Also the serious Marxists have always placed conventional (sane) economics first, and Marx was just one contributor to political economy and not the last.

Lolberts know they are lying and revel in the essential act of lying, and they insist you're going to be made to accept it. But, if the truth mattered, why are Marxists incapable of defending their position or anything real? Why does everyone keep allowing this faggotry to continue because we don't have to accept this level of obvious lying. No one bothers because the truth most people see is that they were thrown overboard and told that they're not worthy of existence, and that's all anyone really thinks about; who is selected to live and who is selected to die. That dominates everyone's thinking and that included the Marxists whose theory presupposed such a cosmic struggle.

As far as "Hitler was a socialist" talking points; Hitler advanced an extreme individualist philosophy of struggle for existence in which institutional authority invaded private life. You could be the freest person that ever was as long as you were a Nazi, and it was assumed that if you weren't a Nazi you didn't actually exist and couldn't exist and you had to be edited out of history. You were given unlimited freedom to be a Nazi and all other possible acts were by definition unfree. Under such conditions, no version of socialism worth acknowledging could exist. The state of Bismarck was more socialist than the Nazi thing because all the Nazis did was loot the country and gather all of the gold when the bottom fell out, and they had no other plan. The entire point of Nazism is to repudiate both the concept of a nation and anything socialist, and replace it with that gaudy show and screaming faggotry. It's pointless to speak of farcical "what is socialism" arguments because the Nazis said over and over that privatization and free enterprise were glorious in of themselves and culled the weak, and there literally couldn't be "society" as such. There was only what Nazis told you reality would be and you weren't allowed to speak of what anything was without the shrieking of said faggots.

>>17563
fwiw it sounds like a cool book, kinda describes why I'm more active in union agitation than the yDSA



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Here’s the breakdown for using a 1960s-style acoustic coupler with a BBS today:

Rule number one is POTS Line Needed. Your coupler needs a real analog POTS line. Modern “phone jacks” in homes often run VoIP, which almost always breaks acoustic couplers because of digital compression and latency. If you can get a genuine POTS line (some rural telcos still offer them, or you could use an old FXS adapter with analog output), it can work.


Couplers maxed out around 300 baud (maybe 1200 with later models). That’s extremely slow: transferring a 1 MB file could take hours, so keep your expectations realistic. Most classic BBS content (text messages, ANSI art, small files) works fine at these speeds.

Acoustic couplers don’t dial automatically. You have to pick up the handset, dial the BBS number manually and place the handset on the coupler. Some couplers eventually had “automatic dialing units,” but that’s extra hardware.

Most BBS software from the late 70s–80s assumes a serial modem. You’ll need a terminal program on your “modem” side (the computer feeding the acoustic coupler) and a BBS running on a line that’s active and accepting analog connections.

If you have a vintage computer and coupler: connect coupler to handset, pick up, dial, place handset and configure terminal program for 300 baud, 8N1 (8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit). On the BBS side, a POTS line with a real serial modem listens for connections.

>>25665
This works on retro hardware.



 

What would you introduce? Personally, I would build a spark gap transmitter. That was possible with Roman tech. The first pic is the transmitter.

Steam engine (left)
>Brass boiler with pipes, valves, and a flywheel
>Generates mechanical rotational energy from steam
>Drives the belt system via a crank

Belt-driven generator (center)
>Large vertical rollers/drums with a rough hemp or linen belt running over them
>Belt friction against the rollers or pads generates static electricity (triboelectric effect)
>The bottom drum is connected mechanically to the steam engine flywheel
>Tensioning rod/axle keeps belt tight

Metal combs / contacts
>Positioned near the moving belt (small brass posts)
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So the telegraph key you flip like a switch and static will come out the layden jar?



 

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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>>25618
i was shocked to find out that rice had also been domesticated in the americas after watching this video
https://www.science.org/content/article/rice-so-nice-it-was-domesticated-thrice
and then i couldn't stop thinking about how many other plants/animals may have been domesticated in the americas but were lost after colonization

>>25626
It raises questions about how we'd be able to tell if a species had been domesticated and later feralized, or whether we would think to look for that. If you look at the wild types of many cultivars, there is not much to suggest they would be serviceable once domesticated.

in more infuriating news
mexican president claudia sheinbaum and inah announce the discovery of a classical zapotec tomb designated as tomb 10 in huitzo, oaxaca
https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2026/01/23/asi-es-la-tumba-10-de-huitzo-el-descubrimiento-zapoteco-mas-relevante-de-la-ultima-decada-en-mexico/
the tomb is quite grand and imposing and features carved lintels, door jambs, a modeled stucco mask of an owl and murals, however the tomb was only located after locals complained about looting.
some weeks before this, dozens of objects from a postclassical mixtec tomb were unofficially excavated and taken out by a local community under the guidance of an influence named sr blue who documented the whole thing live on his facebook page:
https://oaxaca.eluniversal.com.mx/municipios/hallan-piezas-arqueologicas-en-san-pedro-jaltepetongo-oaxaca-inah-hace-llamado-al-no-saqueo/
which then led me to becoming aware of this individual with almost 1 million followers:
https://www.facebook.com/srbluemx/
whose gimmick consists in publicizing and showing off unexplored or unattended archeological sites around oaxaca allegedly to "bring attention to inah's negligence" of less famous archeological sites while writing self-righteous posts about how he's just a simple businessman who "devours" books in his free time who thinks people don't need no evil government to tell them how to take care of archeological sites or how to excavate them because folk wisdom will lead the way or whatever bullshit.

literally the 1st post as i'm writing this is a drone video showing a likely (and completely unguarded) pyramidal group atop a mountain near a highway in the etla valley.



 

Can't do trades. My back and shoulders are fucked from having worked in the trades. My friends in tech say it is completely jeeted and that they haven't found work in almost two years.



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