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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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 No.12670[Reply]

I am very glad, that I have 1 whole year off for myself and id like to extreme educate myself. Besides math, biology etc. I want to study Philosophy in that time and political science so please, help me gather some quality Books, Its ok if its just the name i have my places to get them.

If possible, id love to read books made in the USSR.

In philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics and political philosophy
and in political science, books written by Lenin, stalin, translations of kurginyan?
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 No.12686

>>12685
If someone was never taught or never picked up how to read systematically then the book is a good read. People who already know how to skim and think don’t need to read it. But I’d hate for you to fall in that “it could be summarized in a picture” bullshit when the whole point is the process of reading.

 No.12687

>>12686
oh nono dont get me wrong. The only thing i really need to work on is concentration, tho i have these problems in general. They exist because of "tiktok" and all these retarded things, my mental state and shitlife etc. etc. I generally want to use that year to better myself at everything.

 No.12689

>translations of kurginyan
have you considered reading literally anything else

 No.12693

>>12689
what do you have against him? he is a very intelligent and good person.

 No.12728

>>12687
6 days later, kohai. How much reading have you done?


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 No.6472[Reply]

Give me the TL;DR on him.
I've skimmed through some introductory materials of his writings and they catch my curiosity yet I am too brainlet to actually read them. What exactly is schizoanalysis and how does capitalism relate to schizophrenia?
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 No.12666

A fun little resource for D+G: http://www.rhizomes.net/issue5/poke/pikachu.html

 No.12667

Body without organs.

 No.12668

>>12649
Lol. Always the dysgenic with all the opinions.

 No.12669

>>12668
Shut up idiot. Define a BwO right now before you get the right to speak

 No.12671

>>12668
fuck off with this fascist shit


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 No.6382[Reply]

Hey, I've seen this thread before a bunch of times, but upon searching it in the catalog I couldn't find anything.

The site is filled up with amazing PDF's that I really want to read, but because I've spent most of my life coasting on general knowledge and cramming, I have no study habits to speak of. I really want to be able to write theory, but to do so I'm going to need a lot more books under my belt.

Additionally I spent a lot of my life playing lots and lots of video games and browsing lots of social media so as a result my attention span is completely fucked. I want to get back to the attention span I had when I was a kid. When I felt like I could stop playing video games whenever I wanted when I felt like reading books were just ss interesting as everything else i wanted to do.

Largely kicked my addiction to video games but I've just supplanted it with social media. The problem seems to be that I need to use my computer and my phone but the distraction and seduction of fast food media is often too great.

Largely kicked my addiction to video games but I've just supplanted it with social media. The problem seems to be that I need to use my computer and my phone but the distraction and seduction of fast food media is often too great.

This thread is for:

-it's about how to build study habits.
-how to effectively organize your time
-Posting your progress and gaining back their attention span.
Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.12534

>>12531
That’s what using a computer or fixing problems feels like all the time and I’ve become so accustomed to failure I just stopped.

 No.12537

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>>12531
After realizing that I didn't check the google drives, (since the only site r/opendirectory had that was was still online I thought it didn't work), I tried it and in 3 minutes I found a drive full of them:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aFXs4YhCPB9TwemhXaPJ0Hv0SiVrv41A

Honestly, it can't be a more fitting ending than this.
I stayed up 6 hours past my bed time because of this

>>12534
Yeah…
Well with this experience, I learned:
If you're taking too long, do it on a different day.

Too bad I'm too stupid and obsessive to learn this

 No.12546

>>12531
To download on archive.org you have a few options. If the book is public domain, it usually is available to download straight from the page, no problems. If it is loan only, you have a couple of options, both of which entail having an archive.org account:
1. You can manually loan the book, download the adobe drm file thing and open it in adobe's spyware software (Adobe Digital Editions); it'll download the book, which you can find by clicking in "go to folder" (or something like that) in the drop down menu, where a pdf file will be; you then have to drop this pdf file on a Calibre with the DeDRM plugin installed, which will promptly remove the drm. By then you can just find the book in Calibre's folder strutcture and voilà, you got a free pdf. (I recommend testing if it really removed the DRM by just opening the file). Then you can return the book. This is time-consuming and annoying, but it works.
2. Just use this python script: https://github.com/MiniGlome/Archive.org-Downloader. It works pretty good, and it can do bulk downloads.
I know you solved your problem, but this might be useful for other comrades.

 No.12594

bumping for interest

 No.12629

>>12546
just tried option 2, thanks anon! it works perfectly.


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 No.12463[Reply]

Am I correct in thinking that the amount of ethnic and lingual diversity in Africa implies that these many African ethnic groups barely mix? It seems to me that this must be the product if seclusion or separation. The level of diversity that Africa has just seems unusual to me. What has caused Africa to maintain such level of diversity while other regions of the planet aren‘t that fractured in ethnic and lingual variety?
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 No.12474

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>>12463
It's just basic evolutionary theory, you scientifically illiterate fucks. Over time you get genetic drift, causing a gradual increase in diversity of a population group. The less time you have for genetic drift, and the less diverse the baseline is, the less diverse a population will be. Anatomically modern humans in Africa go back about 200,000 years. Only a minority of the African population ever left (relatively low diversity in seed populations elsewhere), and the migrations that took place happened relatively recently. You should be able to reason this out from first principles. It's extremely basic shit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founder_effect#Among_human_populations

 No.12475

>>12465
>They didn't develop the material conditions in which all the things like cultural assimilation, racism, etc. (things that killed of this type of diversity elswhere) would have been useful on a large scale. Go to precolumbian america and see the same stuff
Precolumbian Americas is the literal exact opposite, the least diverse population on Earth. It's such an extreme example that there was literally a theory that the entire two continents were populated by the descendants of ~70 (not a typo) people who crossed the land bridge.

 No.12476

>>12475
Yeah, and it was also the most recently inhabited place on Earth with the natives crossing the Bering around only 20K years ago.
Also interesting is that the southern tip (the last place to be ever settled) was predictably home to a very small amount of ethnic groups.

 No.12477

>>12475
OP asked about both ethnic and linguistic diversity, I think the post you replied to only considered the latter.

 No.12620

>>12464
>second-largest landmass on the face of the planet after Eurasia
largest landmass on the face of the planet after Eurasia*
>>12467
>Eurasia is less ethnically and lingually diverse
Lmao the Indian subcontinent and China are already a universe onto their own, let alone the rest


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 No.12615[Reply]

Recently translated into English
https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/theodor-adorno-on-the-problem-of-the-family-1955

1.
>The family is both: natural relation and social relation. It is based on social relations and biological descent, often without consciousness of duration, but it becomes something permanent, objective, independent - an 'institution'. Modern French sociology of the Durkheim school, especially Marcel Mauss and Claude Lévi-Strauss, in contrast to older views, did not derive the prohibition of incest, which is fundamental for the family, from so-called natural or psychological conditions, but determined it as a "total social phenomenon", essentially from the needs of an exchange society according to fixed property structures. If, however, such results are true, then the family in the form with which we are familiar is itself socially mediated and not a mere natural category. It is therefore subject to social dynamics and must not be hypostatized by science. The social dynamics of the family are twofold. On the one hand, the increasing socialization, 'rationalization', and 'integration' of all human relations in late, fully developed exchange society tends to push back as much as possible the—socially considered—irrational-natural, partial element of the family order. On the other hand, however, with such progressive socialization, the more strongly controlled drives rebel more strongly against their institutional control and break through at the point of least resistance. But this is what, under the conditions of contemporary society, the family has become. Today it finds itself equally attacked by the progress of civilization and by sexuality, which the sacral claim of marriage can no longer tame.
2.
>The crisis of the family cannot be dismissed as a mere symptom of decay and decadence. The family is presented with the bill not only for the crude oppression so often inflicted by the head of the family on the weaker woman and especially on the children up to the threshold of the modern age, but also for economic injustice, the exploitation of domestic labor in a society that otherwise obeys the laws of the market, and for all those suppressions of desire, which family discipline imposes on its members, without this discipline always being justifiedPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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 No.12595[Reply]

link the based commie audiobook readers you find on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@COzmun1/playlists
https://www.youtube.com/@dessalines6388/playlists

 No.12597

>>11975

 No.12610

https://www.youtube.com/@DankAudioStash24/videos


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 No.15977[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

highly recommended reading

https://archive.is/HatV3
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 No.16157

I will always recommend the Baha'i Faith to recovering western leftists and I will keep recommending it.

 No.16158

>>16155
the point of the critic is to change something, not be a snowflake going about the ruthless critic of all and get comfortable doing nothing but emerge in their own smug intellectual feces like the western left has show to only want to do.

 No.16159

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>>16154
I know. I was just shitposting. In europe we refer to hunger strikes in which you take vitamine/sugar water to prolongue the strike as a 'Turkish style hunger strike' as it has been popularized by comrades there, strikes often going hundreds of days rather than the usual tens of days, although I am sure you know that.

I live in Europe and have had good comrades travel to and die for the cause. Personally i find the martyrdom culture really problematic, It kind of makes me sick to see comrades known and loved to be turned in to nothing but 'martyrs', a propaganda tool. It is honestly the most grotesque thing, i would prefer it if the Kurdish resistance was still doing terror attacks to this sickening martyr culture.
Could you explain what makes matryrdom some prominent in Turkish/Kurdish radical movements?

 No.16160

some people acting shocked that the lines in this directed towards marxists are directed towards, well, MLs who you know have plenty of countries to their name on the basis that its more appropriate to say this to anarchists…and it is but it still stands that modern marxists aren't exactly successfully spreading revolutions and carrying them out, global capitalism is still here etc. I used to be more sympathetic and I am from an ML/tankie position and I'll defend the usual points in historical arguments but its not a hill to die on anymore yes our tradition isn't doing anything at the moment and pointing to China is a cope - I'm talking about in the west where most of us are. Sorry.

 No.16161

>>16155
See >>1481256


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 No.11975[Reply]

Audiobook thread.

Post audiobooks links ITT.

I'll start.

Eric Hobsbawm - On Nationalism
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:538b2a1b18449a0aed1d0d4cad62a98ebdcb88fe

 No.11982

https://www.marxists.org/audiobooks/index.htm

 No.11983

Im doing to dump my audiobooks from audible but it will take a while to download and convert them all.

 No.11984

>>11983
Convert them to .opus

 No.11985

https://librivox.org/
https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry

 No.12598

https://www.youtube.com/@COzmun1/playlists
https://www.youtube.com/@dessalines6388/playlists


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 No.975[Reply]

Here we post our fields of expertise, in hopes to share the knowledge with our fellow comrades. Ask any questions to comrades in this thread regarding their skills, and post your own. Maybe we can create a chat eventually to teach things at a more in depth level.

Me: Native English speaker, very good at math, okay at similar sciences, and computer science, can help with music regarding drums/guitar/songwriting etc.

I'm particularly interested in learning Chinese (Mandarin), I've just started learning some basics, if anyone has any advice or resources for learning that would be great.
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 No.6929

>>975
Late but:

https://www.konglongmandarin.com

 No.11250

>>6924
no

 No.11403

>>6924
Such is the life of most image boards.

 No.11404

>>990
I found my clone lmao

 No.12590

similar thread on hobby >>>/hobby/28220


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 No.12413[Reply]

I feel like this should be mandatory reading for everyone who calls themselves "leftist" in the USA (majority of leftypol)
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 No.12555

>>12553
Is that Osama’s copy of it?

 No.12559

>>12555
Shit guys, turn it into an NFT and make bank whoop whoop

 No.12572

>>12554
Amazon is my first result, but I'm not being targeted by the CIA

 No.12577

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>>12413
checked the french version, google automatically offer something that seem to be it, but actually isnt… it offer the wrong translated title, and the infocard is the right title but with wrong author, and all commercial links are to that random fuck rather than William Blum

so for any french looking for it

 No.12583

>>12553
Based Taliban


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