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Caste: origin of our discontents – good book, talks about history of hierarchy in india and united states and explains the trump election as backfire from electing a lower caste black person ('make america great again' after a black president seems apt) While my parenthesis is rather superficial, the book gives substance, theory, evidence that has predictive power

>>24899
>Caste: origin of our discontents
probably could find videos on it too if you are illiterate like me. I can't seem to read a book for the life of me.

Honestly the best place to start is to deprogram yourself from the Austrian School economic ideology by reading classical political economy and political theory, to know where these things came from. You'll notice the Nazi sector goes out of their way to obfuscate the old liberals, because the fascist authors selected for you were the "wave of the future" (and most of these were either faggots or German ideologues, who weren't writing about fascism so much as they were writing about their preferred faggotry). If you understand British liberalism and you understand American history (this is the harder one to deprogram because there's so many lies written by foreigners and modern Americans), you understand why socialism arose and what Marx was directly critiquing. Marx doesn't make sense unless you have some basic knowledge of the liberal ideas. You're not going to fully understand it if you just take Marx as a gospel writer. Conversely a lot of bad communists tell everyone "only read Marx" and then "only read our interpretations of Marx and nothing else", and this did a lot of damage to the education of so many people.

You don't really "break out" until you start applying this knowledge to the present world, and ask how what we have now is way different from what the liberals described, and then you look at the points where it did change and see that nearly everything written in the past 100 years has been a calculated system of lying. Most of the Nazi and alt-right faggotry? It's purely Public Relations, and Hitler was a test run of PR in Germany. It's really sad to see how easy it was to make the "Hitler phenomenon" happen. There isn't actually much to the man. He was there to give the dumb speeches and appeal to certain retards in Germany who liked that speaking style, while everyone else believed Hitler was a vehicle for their personal ambitions.

Generally histories of the Nazi regime are poorly written, Some are better than others, but all were written under a taboo against acknowledging too frankly what had happened, and there was a 15-year taboo against writing about Germany. After that, the revisionist historians did a lot of work and said it was "okay" to write about the Nazi period, and that had never been done in history writing before.

>>24905
>austrian school
>nazis
you are severely confused. the austrian school dont believe in exploitation, but the maximalism of shared value in the market by voluntary transaction (since trade can only occur where one value is preferred over another; this methodology is also true in marx's case, except that he takes the classical distinction between value in use and exchange to see how a value in use is traded for a value in exchange, rather than the austrian perspective that all values are use-values). the nazis believe in exploitation, but only where it concerns either "unearned income" or usury. i go over a criticism of the political economy of national socialism from a liberal perspective here:
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>>24480
Read Paul Williams' "Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia" and then read Spencer Sunshine's "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege". Also listen to The Empire Never Ended podcast. A lot of these fascist cults are literal CIA psyops. It's the same shit with ISIS as with crime in the ghettos and neonazi autistics online. The feds are incredibly uncreative in reusing the same basic Anglo-Catholic structure for Wicca, Satanism, Wahhabism and other fascist cults and criminal gangs. You have to understand that ideologies like Gangsterism and the Blackpill are tools of the capitalists to abuse the working class. I mean Andrew Tate is flat out an American asset, probably some kind of Epstein situation IMO.

Semi-relevant

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/brg/

https://youtu.be/A7ha3rrO08I
https://youtu.be/47pDXptT7qE

These articles were recommended to me before but I can't read: https://cosmonautmag.com/search/?category=All&query=%23scientific+management

Not too bad for I'm assuming AI generated text

<La joya prehispánica de Perú de más de 3.800 años, Peñico, abre sus puertas al mundo
Este lugar floreció entre los años 1800 y 1500 a.C., al mismo tiempo que lo hacían las primeras civilizaciones en Oriente Medio y Asia. Ubicado a tan solo 12 kilómetros del sitio arqueológico de Caral, el Peñico ahora es noticia porque, tras ocho años de trabajo en el yacimiento —llevado a cabo por un grupo formado en su 80% por habitantes locales—, por fin abre sus puertas

Wake up babe, new Ancient Americas dropped. This one's about controlled burns managing wilderness.

>>11186
I think their huaco retratos are beautiful, the moche are such an underated culture.

>>24733
Didn't watch this yet, but it's interesting that gendered division of labour in Tupi societies was delineated between everyday menial jobs and agriculture done by women as opposed to intense, seasoned work for burning and cleaning new croplands done by men. You can use this as an example of how patriarchy could've developed in past neolithic societies (by exaggerating gendered labor) that we don't have information anymore.

isn't it so unfortunate that mesoamericans had writing and andeans didn't? in the climate of the andes so much could've been preserved. just look at the thousands of pieces of clothing that have been recovered as a comparison, meanwhile in mesoamerica a grand total of a single badly damaged codex (which was looted) and three or so largely rotten pieces of fabric have been found.

Look no further than Marx and Engels!
>The German people are by no means lacking in revolutionary tradition. There were times when Germany produced characters that could match the best men in the revolutions of other countries; when the German people manifested an endurance and energy which, in a centralised nation, would have brought the most magnificent results; when the German peasants and plebeians were pregnant with ideas and plans which often made their descendants shudder.
>In contrast to present-day enfeeblement which appears everywhere after two years of struggle (since 1848) it is timely to present once more to the German people those awkward but powerful and tenacious figures of the great peasant war.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/

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>>24767
>The tribes clearly bear the mark of their artificial composition, even though they are generally composed out of related elements and after the pattern of the old tribe, which was not made but grew; it is, however, not an impossibility that the core of each of the three tribes was a genuine old tribe. The intermediate group, the phratry, consisted of ten gentes and was called a curia; there were therefore thirty curiae.
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>>24769
>鼎
In Western philosophy form

https://www.youtube.com/live/WtWfmBujxxU?si=RIgPHVAWT_QrCdd6
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Bringing in a key point from ISG
>5. As climate change progresses and the economy built on previous circumstances disintegrates, their class position and privilege can't be guaranteed by possessing currency, but rather the control of the high tech assets necessary to mitigate the disasters resulting from social and economic collapse brought on by environmental change and mass death.
The problem for them is that this doesn't actually work, any additional machinery/technology, and requires even more machinery and technology to maintain with unproductive labour ad infinitum

To make it more clear
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/ys4n-2tj3
The above paper is science; science is one of the supporting technologies of the fancy technologies the silicon valley lord in his own mind relies on

The problem for our silicon valley thiel types is that due to capitalism our technology is held together by chewing gum, twin and prayers for the most part, an entire scientific machinery of people doing it mostly for free, from the people who wrote this paper, to me the random anon disseminating it here, to you the reader who does their best to grasp it

Historically with science, I prefer to ignore the press releases, and just read the paper; however chat bots can easily churn out sensationalised results in a breathless tone which has raised the bar and the explanation for the layman isn't sensationalised inaccurate slop
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-geometry-physics-feature-deep-neural.html

What I am getting at here, is that simply maintaining the technology of science, which is neccesary for the downstream technology to keep working and keep the billionaires fancy toys going is the collective effort of 8 billion people

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch05.htm
Chapter 5 the ride of the Athenian State

Now this interesting:
>The Athenians then instituted a police force simultaneously with their state, a veritable gendarmerie of bowmen, foot and mounted Landjäger [the country's hunters] as they call them in South Germany and Switzerland. But this gendarmerie consisted of slaves. The free Athenian considered police duty so degrading that he would rather be arrested by an armed slave than himself have any hand in such despicable work. That was still the old gentile spirit. The state could not exist without police, but the state was still young and could not yet inspire enough moral respect to make honorable an occupation which, to the older members of the gens, necessarily appeared infamous.
Bolding mine
The whole chapter is very interesting Engel's and his source are on very solid ground due to a healthy science and art of philology in the era focussing in Classical Greek

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch04.htm
Reading chapter 4 again
Worth reading to the end

Tom continuing the large-scale cubane series

Will be there any Physics post?

>>24844
exploitable

Bump

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.

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