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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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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm
Engels’ On Authority is razor-sharp essay of pure scientific fact—1,386 words—that dismantles anarchist utopianism with upmost efficiency. It takes 5 minutes to read and leaves no room for debate: society itself, revolution, all basic social functions, etc., require some form of authority. This is not an opinion; it is observable fact.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/judgesabo-read-on-authority
Yet here we have some terminally online anarchist penning a 52,000-word monstrosity in response. That’s 37 times longer than Engels’ original piece. The anarchist spends 79 hours' worth of handwriting time (LMAO) crafting this screed. The sheer volume of this "refutation" is itself proof of its intellectual bankruptcy. The Ratio of Copium to Substance is vast, as with all anarchist refutation of socialist theory. Endless semantic quibbling, ("But what is authority, really?") endless circular logic, along with citing hundred other liberals culminates in a pathetic monument to ideological impotence—a 50,000-word confession that anarchism cannot refute Marxism on substance, so it must drown the debate in verbosity. Engels needed just 1,400 words to prove authority’s necessity because material reality speaks for itself—factories need managers, trains need schedules, and revolutions need discipline. The anarchist’s bloated treatise, by contrast, is what happens when unsounded petty-bourgeois individualism tries to deny the objective laws of social organization: an embarrassing tantrum disguised as scholarship, its very length an admission of defeat.
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>>25015
>normal
idealism

>>25017
Okay totally not dysfunctional and damaging to the development of a person then.

>>25018
and what determines this?

>>24969
absolutely accurate. the ussr suffered this post-stalin as well as yugoslavia post-tito

the only thing you need to know about anarchism in order to reject it is that it's a moral analysis



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ITT: Simply post screenshots of passages you found interesting. Also share the source of the screenshot so anons can read whatever they find interesting.

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RIP. Millions must read miataken identity, one of the best criticisms of identity politics within the left while being committed to black, queer and female liberation.



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Resharing this great essay on the concrete origins and development of institutional finance capital.
https://www.rtsg.media/p/the-history-and-theory-behind-the
The screenshot is also the clearest explanation of scientific socialism I've come across. Send it to all the novice socialists you know!



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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
do you get paid to post garbage like this or you just have severe brainrot?

>>21576
Even worse, he does it for free because he's a literal NPC.

>>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



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The Rate of Profit: Rising or Falling?

Recently discovered there is a debate within Marxist economics that Marx had it incorrect, rather than rate of profit falling, due to capitalist technological innovation, cost-cutting and wage stagnation the Rate of Profit will rise, theorized by marxist economist Nobu Okishio.

Your thoughts?
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One other thing about a robotic co-worker; it would be the bestest buddy a human worker could ever have, if it weren't programmed by disgusting assholes. Robots are cool and don't start stupid shit for drama. Amazingly, of all of the ways humans were made into robots, they didn't think to suppress the obviously disgusting backstabbing behavior of humans. Instead the machine essentialized every malicious thing humans did and insisted you were supposed to "respect" it, so that fag managers can keep stealing more stuff and hiring their buddies.

>>25384
humans are machines
They’re just not made of metal

>>25426
If humans are machines, then why are the partisans of that view so emotional and spiritually invested in making you believe humans are machines? If humans are machines, and they really are, then it would not be unusual to regard the actual conditions of those machines, without any necessary intervention of a thought leader telling them what they are "supposed" to be.

It gets more insane and maddening the more these people insist on a failed system that cannot fail, only be failed.

>>25432
>everything in nature is mechanical except humans
hello, descartes.

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>>25426
>They’re just not made of metal
speak for yourself, meatbag



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(By the way, feel free to write in Spanish here. I can understand most of the written language. I'm not risking Portuñol or writing in PT, though.)
So, my plans include getting a job with my technical degree (or with a future one perhaps) and picking up linguistics with an initial capital. Don't wanna talk too much about it so I don't fuck up. But afaik they're pretty rare here in Brazil. I was asking the Google AI, but I figured out that talking to actual people would be good. So,
>In what Mercosur countries would be viable to pick up linguistics as a Brazilian?
My only criteria is, the country needs to be fairly progressive (I'm a sexual minority; don't care about representation, just treating us like people would be great), the uni needs to have some relevancy, and it should be cheaper than São Paulo or relatively worth it compared to USP and UFSCAR, both having a linguistics course.
Afaik, Argentina checks all out. If Milei fucks off in the next election in like two years that would be great, because I'll have more time to learn the language and save money, but not if he takes the public universities with him.
>Gracias.



 

Post charts.
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There was some chart used to go around some years ago recommending non-SJW more materialist feminist books, anybody got it and can post?

>>23759
>>23814
>>23816
>Mao should be obligatory for every left ideology
sounds about right, considering mao was a class collaborationist and communism is neither part of the left-right bourgeois divide nor an ideology


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>>22762
>concept chart
Wanted to make a "History from Below" Thompson-inspired chart for American history using the "An Appeal to Heaven Flag". The flag's becoming popular in /k/ guerrilla larp circles, and I feel like Locke's concept of right to revolution is more worthy being (re)appropriated by abolitionist and labor organizing U.S. history buffs. Plus it looks cooler, almost like the EZLN flag, like this.



 

Albert Gore: Claim of "exercises", as compulsive jumping; per genius mind, capable of separating Jewish and Gentile logic.

John Kerry: Attempt to take "blue cheer" Jordan River Valley "fractal", LSD, to face Bush as if incumbent.

John McCain: Campaign depending on Martha Coakley numbers out of Massachusetts, "Krispy Kreme" donut; hypnosis, from Clear Channel, on donut's trek per Jewish Star of David and related advertising dependence.

Mitt Romney: Support of 41 percent poorest, doctors and nurses; removed and refused, per single-payer health supporting legal marijuana in Greater South; per labor, outside of draft per conscript, draft, or conviction.

Hillary Clinton: Attempt to use hospitals, television, and delivery schedules, combined with coverage per television and family schools, to achieve votes; removed, per report to Elizabeth Warren of voter's fraud through starvation clinics; "Heaven's Gate".

Donald Trump: Voter's outreach, through slave families through Israeli manufacturing and related families; standing against MI-6 and Catholic Church, accusation of Papacy per homosexuality among priests; actually Jewish police officers, retired to be Vatican advisors to mothers per child; Vatican, Anglican, and Chinese.

Kamala Harris: Private security company through Chris Hansen and "Star Trek", on stolen documents per plea bargain of abused child from parents; given credit as abuse, towards multiple self defending parties; "plea bargain".



 

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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>>11454
>>11455
>>11495
obv chatgpt posts

>>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.



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