/edu/ - Education

>>18636
The role of Indian communists in both analysis and struggle against caste-ism is not studied enough in the west IMO. It's different but there is something to learn from it. Race in the U.S. is like a caste system.

>Caste really became rigid and fossilised in the medieval era. The colonial system under the British rule both further rigidised the caste-system as well as opened up ways for its weakening. The contradictory processes of limited and colonial industrialisation and semi-capitalist development loosened the caste-bonds, and at the same time created new castes, bondings and rigidities. Factories and mills objectively weakened caste as a structure. The growth of the market including the labour-market, money-commodity exchange and the far greater movement of men and material (roads, railways, etc.) violated caste-barriers. As S.A. Dange was fond of saying, one never knew in whose plate one was eating in an eating-place or which castes and hands in a factory handled the threads in a factory.

>The British colonial system needed the caste-system, at the same time, as a source of cheap, even bonded labour. The disintegrating caste hierarchy was sought to be kept alive as forms of movement of labour. New caste practices came up eulogising the ideology of casteism and ‘glorious’ histories of each one of the castes were written. It has to be realised that casteism is basically a product of colonialism.

>The recruitment of urban labourers, factory hands and even educated personnel took the form of the transfer and migration of people of the same caste, village, district, and language groups to towns, mills and businesses. These castes were basically the most depressed ones. In the rural areas the oppression of the lowermost ‘castes’ (by birth) was most virulent; their members were thus ‘liberated’ by industrialisation and urbanisation, often resulting in the preservation even increase in caste-consciousness.

>Caste began to break up but casteism gained strength.
https://revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv12n1/caste.htm

>>18637
I'm not sure that i agree that caste systems are exclusive to the indian subcontinent. I cant think of anything that describes, for example, the american jim crow era policies of segregation and banned miscegenation, as anything but a caste system. I think caste is more pervasive than just india, which actually might be why socialism has so much difficulty describing social issues outside of class analysis.

For if existent things, as objects of vision and of hearing and of the senses in general, are by definition externally existent, and if these visible things are apprehensible by sight and audible by hearing, and not vice versa, how, in this case, can these things be indicated to another person? For the means by which we indicate is speech, and speech is not identical with the really subsistent things; therefore we do not indicate to our neighbor the existent things but speech, which is other than what subsists. Thus, just as the visible things will not become audible, and vice versa, so too, since the existent subsists externally, it will not become identical with our speech; and not being speech, it cannot be revealed to another person.
Speech, moreover, is formed from the impressions caused by external objects, that is to say, objects of sense; for from the occurrence of flavor there is produced in us the speech uttered concerning this quality, and by the incidence of color speech respecting color. And if this be so, it is not speech that serves to reveal the external object, but the external object that proves to be explanatory of speech. Moreover, it is not possible to assert that speech subsists in the same fashion as things visible and audible, so that the subsisting and existent things can be indicated by it as by a thing subsisting and existent. For, he says, even if speech subsists, yet it differs from the rest of subsisting things, and visible bodies differ very greatly from spoken words; for the visible object is perceptible by one sense-organ and speech by another. Therefore speech does not serve to indicate the great majority of subsisting things, even as they themselves do not reveal each other’s nature.
But even if they are known, how could anyone reveal them to someone else? For how could anyone express what they have seen in speech or, how could it become clear to the hearer, if he has not seen it? For just as sight does not recognize sounds, so, likewise, hearing does not recognize colors, but only sounds; moreover, the speaker speaks, but he does not speak a color or a thing. So, when someone has no conception, how could he conceive it through someone else’s words, or through some sign which is other than that thing, unless he sees it, if it is a color, or he hears it, if it is a sound? For, firstly, nobody speaks a sound or a color, but only a word; so that it is not possible to think a color but only to see it; nor to think a sPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>17860
Because its a science, physics has much more complicated definitions for things like charge, gravity and acceleration than commonly used.

>>17891
tank you anon

>>17893
Theres also this one by the same author about Historical Materialism, they are both great reads.

>>17871
>It appears that in Giordano Bruno, for example, there are many examples of such a new conception; Marx and Engels knew about Bruno. They knew about him and there remain traces of Bruno’s works in their notes.
bruno was based

>>17871
the source of this text btw seems to be Antonio Gramsci - The Modern Prince and Other Writings

>>9498
just drop out en masse. fuck school

>>9442
I'm from flag related and want to study pedagogy in Estonia

>>9700
>Estonia
neoliberal hellhole where everything is privatised, surviving on capital injections from the West because Estonia is the "pilot program" and "exemplary post-Soviet country".

what's the best way to study?
i mean, i need to get really good grades and i'm working part time

so i don't have much time, so i need to find out the most efficient way to win

there's reading, there's writing and solving tests
anything else? i want to know what your strats are

>>17857
There are a few good threads around that address this topic, but because you posted here instead of lurking I'll link them here >>6832 >>4166 >>12790 >>6382
Regarding the attached image you can find Make it stick in this post >>34236 in /hobby/ that thread is also generally good.

I'm sure you already do half of this but I'm going to type it out again anyway.
>Your schedule
Find a calendar app for your phone, if you use google, get google calendar, or whatever software you use for email etc. Just get one. In that calendar, make repeating events for your classes and work schedule. Put in the dates of all your assignments due from the syllabus. Set 20 minute reminders before each of them so you don't have to think about it. From there you will be able to visualize what time you have left. Out of that remaining time you are going to need to sleep, eat, and travel. The remaining time then is going to be your study/family & friends/leisure time. That's all you got. When I used to do this math I based it on 3 hours a week for every 1 hour of classes and the end result was around 30 hours left over for fun, but the problem here is that you are working at the same time so it means you will need to be more careful with your time. Once you find time to actually study (i.e. big chunks of time (the little chunks can be for emails, scheduling, getting assignments together, planning)) then we move on to the next step.
>Motivation
Every class will have a textbook. The dead author trying to get information from their brain into yours. The professor is the shepherd of this. While the immediate goal is to get good grades, the only way to internally motivate yourself is by seeking knowledge. This can be knowledge for future conversation, for solving the worlds problems, for organizing, or just because you think it is neat. But any type of studying without the fundamental internal motivation will be painful and you will want to go jerk off or plPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>13064
>y in 1941 they are not only supporting confescation of upper, middle and lower peasantry's land and grain, but are actively burning down whole villages, turning them from neutrality to anti-communism.
i mean isn't the peasantry usually anti-communist because
1) they're not proles
2) they have different class interests
3) they are often beholden to traditionalist ideas like monarchy and loyalty to one's betters?

The question of the peasantry versus the proletariat goes back to the first international .

>>15427
there's no peasantry left in Europe so this question has resolved itself there

>>10699
its actually kind of a psyop that promotes individualist main character syndrome

>thousand faces
>wow hes just like me!

>>12915
>wow they just like me
But isn't that the opposite of individualist delusion or syndrome?

I've heard that his series, "the Masks of God" was pretty good. I think socialists forget how important self-actualization is.
>How will communism create a society in which my life has meaning?
It's a fair question and one that should be asked of each society.

>How will capitalism create a society where my life has meaning?
In capitalist society, the meaning of life is making money to stay ahead and not lose your social status, access to basic necessities, etc. (Not very compelling.)

Can communism be your bliss? Is it easier to find self-actualization in a society where workers have rights? Where people have healthcare and are better able to achieve their basic needs?

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There's a good video essay about how monomyth is just an ignorance tool and has links with white-supremacy rhetorics.
https://youtu.be/Q9zR4lWyVN8

>>10703
Lucas was inspired by the kurosawa film "hidden fortress," hero with a thousand faces, buddhism, christianity, and Dune.

>>13662
But it seems non-genuine. He's already amusing himself with the strawman attack from Lenin.
But yes, I will answer anyway.

The first man to make a real rebuttal was Herman Gorter, a party-oriented council communist from the Netherlands. Within the councilcom tendency more rebuttals appeared afterwards, but I think they were of lesser quality, as with time their positions degenerated and came closer to anarchism. Gorter was a party-oriented Marxist communist, whose only "mistake" was to doubt Lenin's claim that the bolshevik model was copy-paste:able from the successful semi-feudal peripheral conditions where it succeeded, directly to the urbanized, advanced capitalist conditions in western Europe at the time.
>Open Letter to Comrade Lenin
https://www.marxists.org/archive/gorter/1920/open-letter.htm

When I get the time I will highlight important passages in this letter, because I think the arguments, til this day, are solid and has held up the past century of historical scrutiny.

>>13664
That was the one. Thanks.

>>13664
LWC is a book more often brought up than read, but it's even more of a shame that the people who do read it rarely check out the full conversation by reading the responses to it. Gorter's response is really completely reasonable, I was really taken aback reading it after being accustomed to the strawman in Lenin's book.
Bordiga also wrote a giant response to the book later on, and it's like 90 pages of him saying how much he is in favor of it, which makes it all the more hilarious that LWC is typically brought up as a gotcha against the "leftcoms" in the Italian tradition.

>>13663
>owning tankies
lol fuck off

>>15424
404: Argument not found

>>17230
>Remember in the mid 2010s when Zizek used to talk about how the new trend in politics is ethnocentrism mixed with neoliberalism

Zizek was correct for his time but as we know, the owl flies at dusk. He was grasping a political moment that was already over by the time he theorized about it. What we're witnessing now is the slow agonising death of neoliberalism, and the current mix of idpol perfectly complements the siege mentality as the state intervenes to circulate capital.

If things aren't growing economically, each marginalised community feels that they have to scrape the barrel to maintain their equity, and it leads them to see the state as the vehicle that butters their bread and "enfranchises" their wellbeing. It is a problem that has been inherited from the New Left, and I'm glad that socialists are waking up to the miseducation.

Keep talking about this topic. Some great points in this thread.

>>17229
Back when Jason made quality content.

Self diagnosing myself as not autistic because I cannot relate to a lot of the shit you guys post.

>>17234
Such as?