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>>26164
Give me a serious analysis of this text.

To me, it is a genius and overlooked text of Marx's.
In the first part, Marx criticises political secularism as often being a motive for an intensified civic theocracy, as in the case of the US. This relates to Marx's reply to Bauer in general; that secularism is not enough, since the content of religion can transform itself in new ways. Such is the case of Judaism and Christianity; the Christian imagines that they have extinguished Judaism, but really, they are "inwardly circumcised" Jews, in the Paulian sense. The absence of the external Jew does not negate the internal Jew, and so on. Further, what is the spectre of Jewishness? To Marx and Bauer, the Jew represents capitalism in the realm of civil society, while the Christian sublimes this relation in the state. The Christian state thus preserves an inner Judaism, or as Marx says, the Christian has become a Jew himself (e.g. a capitalist), but in a more severe form, because he spiritualises it. The honest Jew is better than the dishonest Jew; that's what I interpret.

Im marxist-leninist but Im with Bauer when he said that everyone needs to renounce the religion they belong to, including jews. I mean Marx kind of did that, he never identified himself by his jewish ancestry. Communists are international class-conscious beings. Not some ethnically identifying followers of religion.

>>26193
But Marx's point is that mere renouncement is not enough. The US is a "secular" country, but still very religious. Bauer thinks that Liberalism can end antisemitism by abolishing Judaism, but Marx's point is that only Communism can do that. The two split on the topic of Marx's politics, like so many other Young Hegelians.

>>26193
Yes but it's idealist to think the masses will renounce religion, specially those who live in dire conditions due to capitalksm. Like this anon said >>26197 , economic emancipation will bring true liberty to everyone, and people won't need religion to cope anymore.

Nietzsche is for the failsons specifically

>>25165
Are you 15?

>>25223
Obviously I meant that Schmit and the ancaps elaborated on tendencies already pre-existing in liberalism.

Fascists use philosophical and intellectual pretexts because, due to their ideology, they completely fail to understand the richness and nuance of discourse. Unfortunately, you do not offer a nuanced perspective on the issue; Mill's anti-slavery stance would have been interesting in this specific context. Furthermore, please elaborate on your statement: according to which philosophy or definition do you really see fascism, with examples? Locke refers to a limitation of the state's room for maneuver, which is indeed damaging, but these are founding texts, and what followed was not the intention of their authors.

>>25356
yes thats how ideology works, i can cherrypick stuff from ᴉuᴉlossnW cherrypicking sorel cherrypicking marx to prove marxism is "fascism" or whatever

Union Banking Corporation: While Prescott Bush, father of the elder President George Bush, was its director, the Union Banking Corporation represented the interests of the German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, in the 1930s. Bush was also linked to the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company, on the German-Polish border, which used slave labor from the concentration camps.

>>26152
The Rockefellers and Chase bank

>“The Rockefellers owned Standard Oil of New Jersey, the German accounts of which were siphoned through their own bank, the Chase, as well as through the independent National City Bank of New York, which also handled Standard, Sterling Products, General Aniline and Film, SKF, and ITT, whose chief, Sosthenes Behn, was a director of the N.C.B. Two executives of Standard Oil's German subsidiary were Karl Lindemann and Emil Helfferich, prominent figures in Himmler's Circle of Friends of the Gestapo-its chief financiers-and close friends and colleagues of the BIS's Baron von Schrode”

>“As war approached, the links between the Rockefellers and the Nazi government became more and more firm. In 1936 the J. Henry Schroder Bank of New York had entered into a partnership with the Rockefellers. Schroder, Rockefeller and Company, Investment Bankers, was formed as part of an overall company that Time magazine disclosed as being "the economic booster of the Rome-Berlin Axis. " The partners in Schroder, Rockefeller and Company included Avery Rockefeller, nephew of John D., Baron Bruno von Schroder in London, and Kurt von Schroder of the BIS and the Gestapo in Cologne. Avery Rockefeller owned 42 percent of Schroder, Rockefeller, and Baron Bruno and his Nazi cousin 47 percent. Their lawyers were John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles of Sullivan and Cromwell. Allen Dulles (later of the Office of Strategic Services) was on the board of Schroder. Further connections linked the Paris branch of Chase to Schroder as well as the pro-Nazi Worms Bank and Standard Oil of New Jersey in France. Standard Oil's Paris representatives were directors of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, which had intricate connections to the Nazis and to Chase.”

-TRADING WITH THE ENEMY: An Exposé of The Nazi-American Money-Plot 1933-1949

>After the Rockefellers, the next largest stockholder in Standard Oil was I.G. Farben, the giant German chemical company. This investment was part of a pattern of reciprocal investments between the U.S. and Germany during the Nazi years. During the Great Depression, Germany was viewed as a hot area in which to invest.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160216112736/https://web.mit.edu/thistle/www/v13/3/oil.html

Farben built a factory for producing synthetic oil and rubber (from coal) in Auschwitz, which was the beginning of SS activity and camps in this location during the Holocaust.
At its peak in 1944, this factory made use of 83,000 forced laborers.

The pesticide Zyklon B, for which IG Farben held the patent, was manufactured by Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung), which IG Farben had 42.2 percent (in shares) of and which had IG managers in its Managing Committee. Of the 24 directors of IG Farben indicted in the so-called IG Farben Trial (1947-1948) before a U.S. military tribunal at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials, 13 were sentenced to prison terms between 1½ and eight years.

-https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_igfarben08.htm

IBM

Hitler awarded prestigious decorations to Thomas J. Watson, IBM’s chief executive officer. Its German subsidiary, with the support of the American company, helped the Nazi government with a punch-card mechanism for identifying Jews, Gypsies, and other ‘undesirables,’ thus making it possible to destroy that population in Germany and the occupied countries. Each concentration camp kept tabs on inmates using IBM’s technology; IBM trained SS personnel in how to use their machines to record the movement, sorting, and mass execution within the death camps. Without this technology, the camps could never have achieved their horrendous numbers, and the Final Solution would not have been as final.

https://jewishcurrents.org/doing-business-with-hitler


There’s also a book on the subject called IBM and the holocaust

Following the rise of Hitler to power, Teagle and Hermann Schmitz jointly gave a special assignment to Ivy Lee, the notorious New York publicity man, who had for some years worked for the Rockefellers. They engaged Lee for the specific purpose of economic espionage. He was to supply I.G. Farben, and through it the Nazi government, with intelligence on the American reaction to such matters as the German armament program, Germany's treatment of the Church, and the organization of the Gestapo. He was also to keep the American public bamboozled by papering over the more evil aspects of Hitler's regime. For this, Lee was paid first $3,000 then $4,000 annually, the money paid to him through the Bank for International Settlements in the name of I.G. Chemie. The contract was for obvious reasons kept oral and the money was transferred in cash. No entries were made in the books of the employing companies or in those of Ivy Lee himself. After a short period Lee's salary was increased to $25,000 per year and he began distributing inflammatory Nazi propaganda in the United States on behalf of I.G. Farben, including virulent attacks on the Jews and the Versailles Treaty.

–TRADING WITH THE ENEMY: An Exposé of The Nazi-American Money-Plot 1933-1949

http://www.whale.to/b/higham_b.html

>>26120
jimmie dore read the epstein files and he had a break down. he realised revolution and change is not possible because the bourgeoise is too powerful.

>>26142
Bro you're on /edu/ right now. Have some respect.

>>26120
If you want to be a nihilist doomer you can go over to pol.

You want to be blackpilled?

you’ve wasted your life trying to be edgy online and people you meet can smell it wafting off you because being too online socially stunts you

Moved to >>>/siberia/804598.

Damn I fucked the spoiler

Im a fucking idiot so all my knowledge about cybernetics comes from this article https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/cybernetics-in-the-ussr-a-marxist-leninist-perspective/

>>26066
>>26066
Thanks for the article and book!
Very appreciated 🙂

I don't know about other books
but here are good articles about attomwaffen and its external connections:

• https://www.propublica.org/article/atomwaffen-division-inside-white-hate-group
  
• https://web.archive.org/web/20221224195520/https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/we-applied-to-join-a-neo-nazi-group-fighting-in-ukraine/
  
• https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2019/12/19/transnational-white-terror-exposing-atomwaffen-and-the-iron-march-networks/
  
  

Good luck with your students

>>26066
I forgot to add that attomwaffen dissolved in 2024 and that the unicorn riot article was withdrawn so be cautious when using it.
I apologize for the error.

>>24465
Read the Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement, his second book?
Apparently he said that Marx was wrong, is that true? Kinda put me off reading it.

>>24465
Here's some articles by other communizers I personally like or find important in order to understand what the theory defends:
https://www.sicjournal.org/what-is-communisation/
https://www.sicjournal.org/the-suspended-step-of-communisation/index.html
https://www.sicjournal.org/communist-measures-2/index.html
https://illwill.com/theory-of-the-party
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/endnotes-journal-1

I've also read Eclipse and Re-Emergence and it certainly is an interesting work. Its the book that got me into communization theory in the first place. I like Dauvé's critique against trade unions but don't like his Bordigisr conception around the party, i.e. the so called "historical party."

<Bump European lunchtime, 1st of may.

I'll bump every day at different timezones until proper replies have been made. I'm not really asking for much with the question in the OP of this thread. It should be answerable for an estimated 1/10th of the userbase of the site. I'll assume they just haven't seen it.

Tbf Kotkin recently said that Stalin was always against the popular front idea but retards like Thorez, Togliatti and obv Dimitrov convinced both the Comintern and the party itself. Its so funny how people were also still listening to Kun after doing the same pop front bullshit with Hungarian Soc-Dems

Maybe try looking at the German left, in the 20s social democrats of the Kautsky variety allied with KPD and formed the VKPD with a former Spartcist Paul Levi at the helm. These guys actually partook in the failed and I think adventurous insurrection in Middle Germany alongside KAPD(march action)

I think what you are looking for is the Marxist-Leninist pole organizing around the European Communist Action/International Communist Review. Those parties affiliated have truly made leaps in an honest and sober historical/doctrinal review of the communist movement without the baggage of dogmatism and negationism of the communist movement's path. I'll attach two articles I hope you find interesting:
https://www.iccr.gr/en/issue_article/Contemporary-conclusions-from-the-imperialist-Second-World-War/

https://www.komep.gr/m-article/O-OPORTOYNISMOS-STO-ENIAIO-METOPO-ENANTIA-STO-FASISMO-OI-DIETINEIS-PIGES-TOY/

>>25693
>a prognosis of 1-2 years
holy shit, dude
sorry to hear read that

Unfortunately, I don't know how to help, I have no experience with this kind of stuff

Also, what do you mean by
>I just need advice on things like; legacy videos (don't dvds\ electronics just rot after a while too, due to some oxidative thing?)
You want to record a message to future generations on a dvd? Or are you talking about dvds you own that someone's going to inherit?

>You want to record a message to future generations on a dvd?
Yes, something like that. dvd or a more durable format–dunno if "generations", maybe that's too far, but for my current child-relatives for whence they grow up.
I'm trying to pull a bucket list, explore options, maybe start taking a RISK or two.

>>25693
Have you considered getting cryonically preserved? There's a chance you could be reanimated hundreds of years in the future.

>>25693
"m-disc" dvds are supposed to last a long time
if you want something to last for eons then get a metal plate and etch a message into it with a laser cutter
make a trust with your wealth and dedicate it to some cause you support
kill a politician/capitalist before you go out

>dvd or a more durable format
Multiple copies in different locations.

>>26008
>because it's actually deeply flawed
The problem with Cohen's analysis is that he spends an absurd amount of time trying to formalize something which is secundary to Marx's historical materialism. Iirc, most of the argument is concentrated on proving the base/superstructure dichotomy, which is simply not that relevant to Marx's historical materialism

For starters, Marx doesn't build a "theory of history". He's not creating a teleology, precisely because he rejects Hegel's conclusion that the development of the state and society must follow reason. Instead, he analyzes the root of change in society and its condition. His argument in essence goes about
>Man exteriorizes himself in the world through productive activity (labor). He changes the world around him to satisfy himself, to provide for his needs, to develop his interests etc (self-realization).
>In doing so, he enters relations of production to produce more effectively and to develop the forces of production required for his reproduction/production of self-realization
>However, as the forces of production are developed, new possibilities of the organization of labor emerge. Some classes (defined by their role in the productive process) obtain the possibility to further develop their self-realization by changing the organization, whilst for some, these changes can constitute a challenge to the position which they benefit from
>this creates antagonism between the class, which opens the possibility for clas conflict
This is the fundamental mechanism for class conflict. It's the idea that society's Mode of Production is defined in relation to labor, which itself is a social and creative process by which humans self-realize.

On the other hand, the base/superstructure dichotomy is more or less an attempt at formalizing how ideology, laws, and social norms emerge. Here, Marx's argument is only that these norms can only build themselves upon a pre-existing social arrangement, which can only occur by the socialization of labor. In other words : you can't build laws if you don't have anything to be their subjects. The superstructure thus regulates the mode of production because it is its object.
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