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Is all radfem literature like this?

This shit is some of the most ludicrous, hyperbolic grievance mongering I have ever read. There's interesting shit floating around in here, but it is drifting in a sea of "every man is a wife-beating rapist who caused all the world's problems." Even though the book is directly comparing Zionism and feminism and seems to advocate for a lady Israel, it's mostly just couched in whining about men. Dworkin doesn't even have the fucking stones to be a strong Zionist. She's one of these wishy-washy Zionists who thinks that Zionists and Palestinians can co-exist, and maybe one day Israeli and Palestinian women can come together and unite against their REAL enemy: men! (lol) (lmao)
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>>25843
Having read some Dworkin, I don't know if she ever directly said that because it seems like she never directly says anything ever. All Dworkin does is complain about men, and all positions she is said to hold seems to be more inferred from the exact way that she is complaining about men in any given work rather than directly stated.

>>25742
>this land was promised to women 3000 years ago, we must eradicate all the men here

>>25844
Yeah I mean the other problem is that Dworkin is a coward. Dworkin's conclusions are trivial and she is afraid to state them outright.

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too much of the criticism agaisnt dworkin is just using token anti zionism and pointing out the fact that she isn't the "infallible uberwoman genius" that terminally online radfem like to potray her as and thus fully discarding ANYTHING and EVERYTHING she has EVER said (or at least the strawman version of her) and continuing to feel confident knowing that there is absolutely no need to interrogate or self introspect their deeply held views, opinions, and habits

>>25830

sophie lewis is (mostly) unnecessary and sometimes just horrid from what i know of her and her writing

>>25839

>The very term "women's liberation movement" in this time-period and in a Western context (that she is almost exclusively referring to) is so retarded as to be fucking comedic, if not for the fact that there are stupid entitled burger-women and men that actually subscribe to this ideological bullshit.


semantic bs

>Women are not a separate class, but an identity. Take off that Soviet flag, you bring shame to Marxism-Leninism.


bro dosen't know about the womb or the role of the housewife💀
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>>26028
>fully discarding ANYTHING and EVERYTHING she has EVER said
The more I read of her, the more my criticism of her actually becomes that she never actually says anything ever. She just writes books complaining about men and any positions she is said to hold come from inference about the exact way that she is complaining about men.

Which makes some of the more frustrating discourse around Dworkin more understandable. When you try to talk about some of the more radical implications that Dworkin gestures at, the Dworkinites will come out and say that she never actually said that, and they're not wrong because Dworkin never actually says anything. For instance, the only conclusion you could possibly come to when you read Dworkin write about sex and rape is that all heterosexual sex is rape, but there is absolutely no passage anywhere where she actually says that directly. She complains about men and the implication of the way in which she complains about men is that all heterosexual sex in rape, but she never outright says it.



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Any leftist critique of the racialist religion of Judaism? Apart from Israel Shahak who was an anti-apartheid left-liberal activist that also campaigned against colonialism, I can’t think of any other polemicist that criticised Judaism, as the rest are either secular chuds or fundamentalist theists.

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>>26023
im by no means and expert on judaism or whatever so i probobly should just stay quiet on this BUUUT if i am gonna say something based on the things that i already do know it feels a bit TOO reductive to frame the entirety (not saying thats what you're doing) as a "racialist religion" but like i said im not very familiar on that stuff so i could be wrong or whatever

>>26023
the concept of a "chosen people" is reactionary
cutting baby penises is reactionary



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What's the leftypol take on this book? I'm not trolling - it's existence has haunted my life. I was raised catholic… Christianity has both ruined & saved my life and my opinions on it have only gotten more complex.

Some of the greatest art of all time has been religiously motivated. But the question of Christianity specifically is a big one. On one hand all manner of brown people are more sincerely christian than a lot of white people have ever been. It might be the one thing saving Africa right now!

But on the other hand The first Roman Empire & Greek empire were polytheistic & they might have achieved a civilizational peak that surpasses the situation we live in right now. Christianity is very homophobic & a huge portion of Europe/UK demographics are atheist & seem to be some of the happiest nations on earth. Christianity might even be the reason that the Roman Empire fell & is responsible for a lot of really bad imperialism & colonialism.

What am I supposed to make of it? Jesus was surely a good man, no? The word of god has saved homeless, sick, and morally corrupt. Where does the justification to do evil come from when people read this?
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>>25447
The only bible that has my imprimatur is the skeptic's annotated version. I even have a hard back copy.
https://skepticsannotatedbible.com/

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>>25741
I love you

God isn't real. Stop this retardation. All religions are false made up inventions, only useful to the modern world as a cautionary example of how large numbers of people can be fooled by manipulative ideas. Eventually the whole world will be atheist and this retardation won't even be studied as a historical curiosity because it's so boring.

>>25950
People will never stop believing in metaphysical bullshit
We replaced angels and demons with AI and other brain worms

But tbh I don’t think people believe in God as a literal cosmic anthropomorphic sapient but rather as a psychosomatic effect

>>25950
>Eventually the whole world will be atheist
I highly doubt it



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Every book, chapter, page, and parable Nietzsche has ever written, is "the invalid is the parasite"; a lap dance with a woman's butt in your face.

In America, we call that the Central Intelligence Agency; the son or daughter of a woman in a battered women's shelter, and a military marital counselor and therapist on private medical pharmacy.

The CIA, and related organizations managed by the "Company", the insurance numbers out of American Univerisity in Dubai, UAE, can't marry into the police, sheriffs, or dean's guilds.

Otherwise, if one of ours evades, man or woman, we get a new "spy movie"; we figure out how you killed the badged spouse, and put it to film.

I earned "Mandelbrot Sequence", a DC Comics author; Cassie-Leigh Stock, Move On Political Officer; "American Ultra", the film designed to kill a Move On Feminist Critical Informer, every time; only if she approaches anything from an accountant to a military staff general.

Interest in market analytics on financial and CSPAN if your spouse is also interested in the same for his job.

Your child has no sign of gender dysfunction, even if insisting due to puberty signs of sport; however, watches television intended for wealthy men's careers, and you are not; the blue collar divide.

Your son or daughter hates National Geographic; they like "Discovery", and are applying private economics and history lessons from school specialist programs as elementary students.

Your child has a discipline problem called a single detention, that the father finds concerning; however, refuses to act on it in any manner.

Your child is raised as Thomas Edison's factory workers; a "Menlo", Stonewall Jackson sayings placed as Abraham Lincoln; Michelle Obama.

not interesting



 

When a repression through force of extended marriage (through brokers attempting a farming annex of labor and empire) occurs, the logical method to remove is to spot method and unit, and return to the own soil.

In highschool, I was dropped my fat for muscle, but I was going to make the fatal decision of winning the Class Presidency; a highschool police officer, and a gay man's role, managing the Reunion.

I read "Moonraker", to discover "Hugo Drax"; Samuel de Champlain, founder of Quebec, Quebec City, Montreal, and George Washington's penmanship expert on the US Constitution to replace the failed Articles of Confederation, 1776-1780; Washington, first US President, 1780.

Before that, non-taxed states in Norman Sicilian vendetta over semen.



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What explains bad grades in someone fascinated by subjects tied to above-average intelligence, who is also socially awkward and isolated? This is the worst possible combination. Meanwhile, 6ft 4 charismatic chads get perfect grades and enter the nation's best colleges for law or medicine.
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>>25994
> If it is held that man is "by nature" an uninventive tribesman and an inventive businessman, a submissive slave and a proud craftsman, an independent hunter and a dependent wage-worker, then either man's "nature" is an empty concept, or man's "nature" depends on material and historical conditions, and is in fact a response to those conditions.
I am yet to learn about a "result" from evolutionary psychology that was not discredited by actual archaeological evidence. It is nothing more but a bunch of charlatans looking at what already exists and trying to justify it based on what must have existed before, all while ignoring what actually did exist in the past.

>>25998
Then you haven't read. Dismissing a field by stereotype is lazy.
>actual archaeological evidence
archaeology guesses from trash piles lmao

>Meanwhile, 6ft 4 charismatic chads get perfect grades and enter the nation's best colleges for law or medicine.

Maybe because those Chads also have super intelligence but are also socially graceful.
Not all chads are subpar intelligence

>>25994
Most evolutionary psychology is based around pop culture impressions rather than reality though

>>25978
>>25972
>>25977
This

What’s even more intrinsic is that the rationale for modern schooling is “socialization”

A lot of adults who agree with compulsory law for public schools say that school should be about socialization because otherwise “you end up as a loser in the adult world”

Yet a lot of adults end up social recluses in time

And socialization ins chills are micromanaged too the point of sterilization

Schools willfully neglect to teach life skills
Their idea of life skills is forcing kids to do group projects



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  • “The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union” by T J Coles

  • “BREXIT: The Great British Tax Avoidance Swindle” by Nolan Jazimreg

Anyone who would like to give more recommendations, post a reply. Thanks



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Choosing a language edition

I do not know why we do not have an active language learning thread, so here you go.
If you got other links you think are worthy of being on here, do mention them.

>Language learning communities

r/languagelearning
https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/

Language learner's forum
https://forum.language-learners.org/

Linguaholic's forum
https://linguaholic.com/

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Test

>>25414
Harder than English. Chinese sentence structure lacks all those redundant Germanic particles like "the," "an," and "of."

Mi estas lernanto esperanto

Perennial dabbler. I'm so decent at Chinese as my main but I always want to choose a third language. I've dabbled to varying degrees in Vietnamese, Indonesian, Korean, Russian (just on apps). Recently started a face to face Spanish course but I'm not that inspired by Spanish I've discovered. Still 8 more classes to go. I'm going to Vietnam soon and I'm hoping that will inspire me sufficiently to invest myself in studying the language.

>>25414
j'apprends le francais avec duolingo



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New research shows China leads research in 90% of crucial technologies & ignoring this means we're living in a delusional bubble, where we still think the West is the Sci-Tech leader.

I think a lot of people are in denial, or just can't accept that China is already the world's leading nation for science and technology. I can't blame them for their ignorance. Most English-language media studiously avoid mentioning it. Time and time again, I see topics like AI, space & robotics covered, with only developments in Western countries talked of, as if China doesn't exist. Despite the fact that it's now the leader in so many fields.

The problem with complacency and ignorance is that it gives you a really distorted map of reality. You can't understand how the 21st century is developing without factoring in China, and ignoring China means you're being delusional.

Source:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04048-7
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aspis-critical-technology-tracker-2025-updates-and-10-new-technologies/



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the way i explain the labor to people is very simple. I cut straight to the chase.

I say these things, usually not all at once. I let people chew on each one:

> 1 If you’re a boss, and you own a business, you have to pay the worker less than their work is worth.

> 2 If you pay them exactly what their work is worth, you don’t make any money, your business won’t grow, and you’ll get bought out by some asshole who pays workers less.
> 3 If you pay a worker more than their work is worth, you’re losing money, your business will shrink, and you’ll go out of business.
> 4 the problem is the system, because the way the system is set up, workers have to beg for a job from people who own the places we work at, and the bosses only give the job to the lowest bidder, the people willing to do the most in exchange for the least in return.
> 5 everybody who can't get a job has to keep looking for a job until they get so desperate they start selling themselves for less and less
> 6 even with how little they pay us they think it's too much. so they constantly look for ways to make more money and pay less money.
> 7 they send our jobs overseas to where the labor is cheaper, and they want us to blame the people overseas even though they're the ones sending the jobs off and calling themselves job creators while they do it
> 8 they hire a bunch of overeducated nerds to make machines and programs to do our jobs for us, so they can fire us, and then they take credit for what those nerds make
> 9 they give the jobs to people who just got here and are usually running away from some fucked up shit like war and are therefore more desperate than even the average schmuck here is
> 10 despite all this shit they do to get rid of us or make us work for less money, they still need to sell the stuff they make, and if everyone's too poor to buy that shit, then they gotta lower the price
> 11 the faster they make stuff, the cheaper that stuff is because less work goes into makin it, and money is just a piece of paper that says some work got done
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>>14135
truth nuke of unimaginable magnitude and potence

sorry leftoids, the workers WILL read the ruthless critique and they WILL agree.

>>14135
Literacy doesn't mean voracious reading.

>>19045
This is the only real good post on here.
Most talks about a glorious leftist revolution in the twenty first century is a farce.
At best it's lib left bs.
At worst it's just right wing rehash.

>>14136
>Illiteracy is on the rise in the US and child labor has returned. This isn't because workers are getting dumber, but because the bourgeoisie are getting more ruthless.

I have yet to see where child labor is being a prominent return with exceptions of some outlier factory using orphans.

Also, I find it funny how people are complaining about illiteracy in a time where everyone makes and reads text messages and/or essay posts.
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>>19918
>>19045
the only two replies ITT worth reading

>>22824
>So I tell all of you: Dumb it all down, simplify then make it simpler. Make it spread.

yes. an introductory comment on simplification in general. Not many people know that there is a primary synopsis of Capital, written by Engels himself (1868):
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/1868-syn/
Marx also makes early comment as to the serialisation of Capital by French editors in the 1872 preface:
<I applaud your idea of publishing the translation of “Das Kapital” as a serial. In this form the book will be more accessible to the working class, a consideration which to me outweighs everything else.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p2.htm
Thus, Marx clearly cared for simple presentation and exposition, despite his verbose style, as he admits of in the beginning of the 1873 preface.

Beginning with Carlo's Capital, we have a note upon translation, which by this time, Capital was limited to the German, Russian and French, with the first English edition being published in 1886. Marx died 3 years earlier. Carlo also gives a tragic fact that by this time (1878), Marx had failed to publish Capital Vol. 2 (1885), despite already having the groundwork and notes for Capital, cumulatively from the period of 1857-67. Of course, Engels only published the unfinished manuscript of Capital Vol. 3 in 1894, 11 years after Marx's death, and 1 year before his own demise. The unpublished "theories of surplus value" was also only brought into completion by Kautsky around 1910, and so it took over 40 years to convert Marx's notes into his "Critique of Political Economy" series (talk about procrastinating!). Many of the secondary and tertiary texts of Marx were also only published in the 20th century, largely through the USSR, by "progress publishers" (1931-). Carlo writes:
<Meanwhile Marx can fulfill his promise, giving us the second volume of Capital, which will deal with The Process of Circulation of Capital (book II), and with The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole (book III), and the fourth and fiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>19918
Nowadays, students are swamped with more work than minimum wage employees.
Having to finish a bunch of assignments and then go to work?



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