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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.6345[Reply]

I'm tired of people overstating Hegel's influence in Marx's theories and then fucking recommending secondary books because they "make Marx understandable by getting rid of all the Hegel stuff". You REALLY do not need to know Hegel to understand 99% of the stuff Marx wrote.

 No.6358

>>6345
Absolute worst offender in this regard is Tony Smith and his book "The Logic of Marx's Capital"

 No.6360

>>6358
pdf?

 No.6362

Hegel is a philosophical encyclopedia. There is philosophical jargon that I didn't understand from Marx until after having read Hegel, and that's just a bit of Hegel.

 No.9091

actually i don't think it's stated enough
Marx took way more from Hegel than just dialectic, and people thinking they can just read The German Ideology and be finished with Marx's philosophical groundings is a huge cause of theoretical misunderstanding

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/letters/37_11_10.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1843/letters/43_09-alt.htm

 No.9093

To understand Marx's reasoning, to understand how he developed his ideas you need Hegel. No, you don't need Hegel to understand what the definitions of "surplus value" or "variable capital" are. Depends on what your goals.


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 No.9022[Reply]

I haven't read Land at all but i know that his 'book' (Fanged Noumena) is actually just a compilation of various essays, articles and blog-posts he wrote over time condensed together,

If i open up a .PDF of fanged Noumena are there particular sections that are above all else worth reading or is it more a holistic read?

 No.9029

shut the fuck up(Don't shit up /edu/)

 No.9039

https://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/
an intro to nick land by nick land


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 No.8892[Reply]

Communist/socialist parties were fucking massive in the 1900s. Now, there arent any left.

Where the fuck did they hide the books describing what they did to get so big? All you can find by googling is books on abstract theory, contemporary anarchist groups running in circles doing fruitless charity and lifestylism, showing up to protests that doesnt do shit or how to organise your workspace (if you already have a working communist party and non-shit union).

How the fuck did they build it in the first place? What should we focus on AS A PARTY, not as individuals? What should youth wings do? We have a group of people who know their fucking Marx, now what the fuck do we do in this neoliberal hellscape.
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 No.9013

>>9007
how are the SPD or Bolsheviks >>8982 any less of a dead-end for modern attempts to "overthrow the bourgeoisie"? at least councilcom evolved into building proper critiques of itself (i.e. situationists, theorie communiste, dauve, entire 68 movement and its aftermaths, etc) and actually scientifically looking for new avenues of proletarian praxis
social democracy and lenin's supposed heirs meanwhile are nothing but dogma that can only alienate pretty much the entire working class nowadays

 No.9016

>>9013
>working class
sorry, meant proletariat

 No.9035

Apologies for the late response
>>9004
Do you mind summarising the arguements of the book? Unfortunately I do not have the time to read everybook that comes my way, and I think if the book does a good job at explaining why Council Communism is at all relevent to modern times you can give a good summary.

>>9013
>"at least councilcom evolved into building proper critiques of itself (i.e. situationists, theorie communiste, dauve, entire 68 movement and its aftermaths, etc) and actually scientifically looking for new avenues of proletarian praxis"
Well that's not something unique to council communism considering many supposed "heirs" to Lenin also aim to provide proper critiques of Leninist theory and look for new avenues of proletarian power. One such example would be MLMs, critiquing past theory on its own doesn't necessarily make a tendency worth studying or following.

Council Communists have not once won political hegemony in the workers' movements, so the claim that they also alienate the working class with their dogma can also be thrown at them.

 No.9036

>>9035
>so the claim that they also alienate the working class with their dogma can also be thrown at them
autonomists are active in labour struggles in almost every country in the world, although i mostly only know about the US
https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/1/en/endnotes-afterword this basically summarizes that book

 No.9037

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Apologies OP for sorta derailing your thread with this talk about council communists so here's a PDF of Mike Macnair's Revolutionary Strategy. Which is Mike Macnair writing a whole book about how do go from the current state of the left to building a mass party like socialists in the 20th century and overthrow the bourgeoisie whilst also trying to avoid the pitfalls of past experiments.

This book is very popular with the modern orthodox marxist/neokaut tendency, think the CPGB-PCC/weekly worker or cosmonaut/Marxist Unity Group.
Audio version too incase you want to listen to it instead, be sure to read the preface in the link
https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/09/audio-book-of-mike-macnairs-revolutionary-strategy/
>>9036
>According to this shared view, the transition to communism is not something that happens after the revolution.
>Communisation, then, is the immediate production of communism: the self-abolition of the proletariat through its abolition of capital and state.
>the proletariat does not generalise its condition to the whole of society, but dissolves its own being immediately through the abolition of capitalist social relations.

These lines about immediate abolition makes communisation sound very… anarchistic… and the article really doesn't make a clear case on why Council Communism is the way forward to overthrow and abolish the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie as opposed to other marxist tendencies.

>autonomists are active in labour struggles in almost every country in the world, although i mostly only know about the US
Firstly I think you're really exaggerating the influence and spread of autonomists, and even if they're active in labour struggles all around the world…. so what? Trots, MLs, SocDems, Anarchists, and every other tendencies are active in labour struggles across the globe, autonomists also being so doesn't make them special. Nor does it disprove the accusation that autonomists are also out of touch with the working class.

Interesting that you go from talking about Council Coms to talking about Autonomists (no theyPost too long. Click here to view the full text.


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 No.8125[Reply]

How can I stop this? It's bad….really bad and I know should be preparing for uni, but I just keep on procrastinating. Does somebody have some ritual or set of tips that help combating it?
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 No.8134

>>8133
Sorry, I don't speak the burger language. Eh "college" was it with you right? Anyway thanks for the pomodoro recommendation. Guess I will try it out

 No.8135

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>>8134
I am not a burger or a native speaker. To me "preparing for uni" sounds as if you were not in university yet and were preparing to start it. If it is just assignments, I would say you are preparing for class. But maybe this is just something coming from my native language.

But yes, that was what helped me the most. It's also nice if you have all your course requirements, dates and deadlines organized, I would always start my semester collecting these and putting them in my calendar. Most of these cannot be done in the last minute and many of them needs to be done for the same week (for me it was usually the middle of the semester that was always full of tests and assignment deadlines). If there are subjects that you are enthusiastic about, or even just don't dread, it can be very helpful to do the assignments as early as possible to free up more time for the other assignments.

 No.8136

>>8130
Does this work for tasks that don't require stufying? Like drawing for instance

 No.8140

>>8136
I don't see why not. Local drawfriend Hardkoba seems to use it (or something similar), from what I've seen on a stream.

 No.9034

>>8130
I've started using this method and it has actually been helping me a great ton.


 No.9024[Reply]

A cryptic new language Tutnese has been the talk of the town among the FBA community. Unfortunately there aren't many books about Tutnese that are not long out of print, and borderline grifter Nasheed has promoted Tutnese strongly but refuses to release the goods. Dump PDFs of relevant information here so that more folks can have the opportunity to pick up Tutnese freely.

 No.9025

from doing a quick Google search, it looks like a pig-latin-esque language game.


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 No.8879[Reply]

Does anyone here have a books on logistics and supply chain management? Considering this is something I know jack shit about, I'd like some aid for all of y'all.
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 No.8885

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>>8884

 No.8910

Yasuhiro Monden has written about how Toyota does it. It's on libgen.

 No.8918

>>8884
you are retarded beyond saving

 No.8923

>>8918
true, i couldn’t hope to comprehend your bureaucratic wisdom

 No.8924

>>8884
>LOGISTICS IS…LE BAD!


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 No.8920[Reply]

A thread dedicated to discussion on the (physical and life) sciences, as well as mathematics. Come talk about anything interesting you've read or watched, or just to share your thoughts and ideas!

>"What about the other science threads?"
The point of this thread isn't to "outdo" those other more specific threads. This is just a more general thread that people can come to and see science-related topics in one place.

QOTT:
Since this is the first /scigen/ let's start off with some icebreakers! What background do you come from? Formal/informal, self-taught, engineering, etc.

Resources (Work in Progress)
Physics:
https://www.lightandmatter.com/

Chemistry:
N/A

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 No.8921

>>8920
I'll start off the thread since I made it. I'm a physics undergrad, first year. I've been considering changing into engineering, but I hear that it sucks balls. I've always enjoyed computers more than physics itself, but I've been hoping that I can still do work in ECE research or something like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_in_science might have some interesting thread topics too

 No.8922

>>8921
>5 March – NASA names the landing site of the Perseverance rover in Jezero crater as "Octavia E. Butler Landing".
wow nice


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 No.8901[Reply]

Can you recommend any literature that serves as an introduction to/explanation of Nietzsche before getting into specific works of his? I think as a philosophy newcomer that might be helpful, otherwise I might simply misunderstand or not register his points.
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 No.8905

>>8904
woops meant The Portable Nietzsche

 No.8911

>>8903
https://lojasalvat.com.br/salvat/produto/LIVRO-FILOSOFOS-ED-02-NIETZSCHE-O-SUPER-HOMEM-E-A-VONTADE-DO-PODER.aspx
This one

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 No.8913

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 No.8914

>>8901
Just read it directly you absolute midwit


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 No.4637[Reply]

I consider myself fairly intelligent when it comes to reading papers, but I'm really struggling with this one.

This paper is about an education program in Indonesia and the long term effects on the job market. I'm used to studying more sociological papers, but this also includes lots of statistical analysis and words like function and regression that I don't understand.

Also, I've read this passage 10 times and don't understand it

>The production function in the formal sector exhibits constant returns to physical and human capital combined. The fact that the increase in the share of educated workers led to a movement of workers from the informal to the formal sector indicates that the elasticity of substitution between labor and land in the informal sector is smaller than the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital in the formal sector.

Can anyone help me? If I want to understand this stuff, what kind of courses should I be looking at?
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 No.4642

>>4638
Sorry, I read your exaplantion, thanks for assisting, but I still can't wrap my head around this idea, I think I'm starting to get it…

> the elasticity of substitution between labor and land in the informal sector is smaller than the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital in the formal sector.

by saying the elasticity of substitution between labor and land is relatively low, does this mean that because land is relatively fixed, we cannot simply import many workers to match the productivity, because at a certain point, we need the land to work on?

And then on the other hand, in the formal sector, the elasticity of substitution between labour and capital is relatively higher, because you can substitute labour (i.e. people) for capital (and vice versa, i'm not sure if this is implied to go both ways or not??), and still maintain productivity? So are we saying that the formal sector is more equipped to deal with influxes of workers (or in Marxist terms, variable capital)?

 No.4654

>>4642
Yes. Where the author speaks of capital in the formal sector, he is thinking mostly of machinery and he is assuming that when the conditions of business change in the formal sector it's not that hard to change the mix of people and machinery to get something close to an optimal mix, unlike with land.

 No.8887

Bros what are some good books on finance (late 20th century onwards) ideally written by a Marxist

 No.8890

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>GDP
are there any economic measurements that aren't just bourgeois mystification or is that hopeless

 No.8891

Hello economists, I have collected some “must read” macro papers. They are all available for free on G scholar. Please feel free to suggest other papers.

(1937) Mr. Keynes And The "Classics"; A Suggested Interpretation

(1957) Technical Change And The Aggregate Production Function

(1961) The Golden Rule Of Accumulation: A Fable For Growthmen

(1968) The Role Of Monetary Policy

(1976) Econometric Poeicy Evaluation: A Critique

(1976) Understanding Business Cycles

(1982) The Ends Of Four Big Inflations
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 No.7542[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

How do we refute the right-wing claim that leftists seek to "abolish" the family and romance?

This seems to be the biggest hurdle I've come across when talking to working-class conservatives. Many of them seem fairly sympathetic to the idea of socialism in an economic sense, i.e. they like the idea of workers' self-management, central planning, free healthcare, housing for all, a "government of action", etc. Yet they refuse to fall behind socialism because they believe that 1. communists want to abolish marriage, 2. communists want to abolish the nuclear family as an institution, 3. communists want to take children away and put them all in communes where they have no clue who their bio parents are, 4. communists support abortion (this is THE biggest issue for a lot of right-wingers, even trumping economics), and 5. communists want to see non-attachment relationships and polyamory (especially queer relationships) be the norm to replace marriage and family.

How do we counter this? I've thought about bringing up the fact that socialist countries that exist today are quite conservative when it comes to issues of marriage and family but I can't give any details to show how.
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 No.8638

>>8637
If i understood you right, then it would be like picrel but with family instead of prostitution?

 No.8639

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>>8638
I forgot the image, of course.

 No.8831

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Not Kengor's book, but equally infuriating.

 No.8857

the family is a cabal of child molesters with systematic backing from the institutions of state and private property (alien invaders in disguise)

 No.8858

>>7542
>How do we refute the right-wing claim that leftists seek to "abolish" the family and romance?
What's there to refute?


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