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It's February. Post and discuss works related to Afrika, Afrikan peoples, and the global diaspora.

<You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.

<Fred Hampton
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Billions must read Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier

>>23549
another thing i'll note is that in the post-war epoch, the suburbs were a centrally-planned commercial project, and became a staple of middle-class white america, while when the state was used to home blacks, they were called the "(housing) projects" and were seen as a form of dependence. the "american dream" has this intrinsic racial disparity in its consciousness, especially today, where the italians who came to new york by ellis island are considered legitimate, while mexican "wet backs" are treated as "invaders". of course, italians were never immediately accepted, but as the regime of whiteness has lead its long march, these things have become forgotten. and to speak on nativity; native-americans themselves have been made helpless. USA has become totally uprooted yet still has its colonial nostalgia; is this "postmodern conservativism"? in any case, its false.

>>23527
- Cruz, Ariane. "The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography"
- Nash, Jennifer C. "The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography"
- Cone, James H. "Black Theology & Black Power"
- "Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White"

James Cone had some surprisingly powerful writing.

Here's a primer on Anarkata and contemporary black anarchism.

Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas

Anarkata: A Statement
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anarkata

Diggin’ In: On the Nature of Black Power (An Intro To Anarkata Thought)
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/afrofuturist-abolitionists-of-the-americas-diggin-in-on-the-nature-of-black-power

Mapping our Legacy: The Narrative of Black Freedom Struggle
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-mapping-our-legacy


Black Autonomy Federation
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Pan-Africanism is really Utopian at this point in time. You might as well be talking about pan-slavism or pan-orientalism or pan-Indianism(whatever the term for the subcontinent would be) or pan-Latinoism. If you were to say any of these others it seems immediately farcical but people always want to LARP about pan-Africanism for some reason.



 

My reading group at uni is reading Imperialism in the 21st Century by John Smith. Is my diagram that i quickly drew up a good supplement for it? Is constant capital attributed to GDP? I would assume when analyzing a commodity's exchange value it doesn't but when we look at the actual commodities, raw materials, etc that make up constant capital it would already have been factored into GDP. Therefor there would be no need to factor in constant capital again… Also I know how much shit flinging occurs on here about value created through labor in the west being "more productive," so more value is created than "unproductive third world labor" vs the inverse of that position; the length of the values in the diagram is arbitrary and constrained for space reasons, not because i think one way or another; but feel free to argue ig. I mean, has anyone read the polemics of Harvey and Smith? They are sassy as fuck and hilarious. Disappointing though to see Harvey to take such a vague and stance on modern imperialism, as well as the dissavowment of China by Smith because of alleged "Stalinism" (lol). I'll link the first video and four polemics they directed at eachother:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRvcGP1ALvI
https://mronline.org/2017/08/26/a-critique-of-david-harveys-analysis-of-imperialism/
https://roape.net/2018/01/10/david-harvey-denies-imperialism/
https://roape.net/2018/02/05/realities-ground-david-harvey-replies-john-smith/
https://roape.net/2018/03/19/imperialist-realities-vs-the-myths-of-david-harvey/

I also linked these for my reading group as additional data:

https://monthlyreview.org/2019/03/01/global-commodity-chains-and-the-new-imperialism/
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I also assume constant capital does not get attributed to a countries GDP since in the production of constant capital, GDP would already be counted; no need to count the same thing twice. Is this assessment accurate?
Also note this shows only two parts of the global commodity chain, production in the periphery and the transfer to a transnational corporation: which the first example in the book was garments: T-Shirts specifically. The garment industry also happens to be particularly labour intensive. The prices are marked up from (in the example given) T-shirts sold at 1.35 Euro to 5.00 Euro. It doesn't show further markups (which also contribute to inflated perceptions of GDP) of retailers to (in this example) 35.00 Euro.



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I do not care about the /leftypol/ mob, I love reading Thomas Piketty.
>waaaah but his solutions are too soft
Blah blah blah. The thick of his work, 99% of it, is just compiling and analyzing heaps of data, which he does exceptionally well.
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>>20158
I only read Capital in the 21st Century by him, and I don't think I even finished it because of the amount of repetition and redundancy.
Nonetheless, I agree he's an interesting and even useful writer. At the end of the day he's describing the gradual accumulation of wealth and growth of inequality through mainstream economics language, which might not be new to marxists but is an additional tool at the very least.
When talking to people who are not socialists about the world I often find myself referencing him, which is harder to do with marxian economists.

>>20158
>The thick of his work, 99% of it, is just compiling and analyzing heaps of data
wow sounds dumb

>>20232
Is that not exactly what empirical knowledge is?

I hate Piketty because he's french. You hate Picketty because he's liberal, redundant, etc. We are NOT the same

>>20232
A considerable amount of Marx's work was that too tho.
>>23442
Yeag



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This utopian garbage by P.F Skinner (Yes, THAT Skinner, for whom the Skinner Box is named after) has no right to be called a socialist novel and anyone who says it is is delusional.

For starters, the book is objectively terrible from a literary standpoint (like most Utopian novels honestly, it's a shit genre). Every chapter is dedicated to some aspect of the Walden Two "Utopia" and consists of Frazier, P.F Skinner's self insert character in the novel, explaining why Walden Two is so epic and based and wonderful in X aspect to bland and unoriginal to a small cast of forgettable characters visiting Walden Two for no reason other than to be ranted at by Frazier apparently.

Walden Two's "Utopia" is ran by a professional caste of Planners (unelected, naturally, not even held in check by a Party of any kind) set apart from the usual workers who run and plan everything and use Radical Behaviorism (essentially mind control through selected use of pleasure and pain) to alter the needs, wants, and desires of its citizens to conform better to society's needs. It's funny how the book is structured to make this seem like a good thing. Many chapters go to great lengths to explain why Walden Two is a haven for art, culture, shorter working hours, better working conditions, etc, in order to justify this behavioral altering. The chapter on education shows hungry children made to sit in front of food for hours at a time without eating it in order to build "patience". One can only imagine the child abuse going on behind the scenes to make this sort of lunacy possible. Walden Two is the sort of book that is in favor of beating your children.

Towards the end of the book it's revealed that Frazier is a complete egomaniac who personally runs and plans much of Walden Two (But um, actualleh that's totally OK b/c Walden Two has a 4 hour work week!!!!). He compares himself to Jesus Christ and his fellow Planners as his disciples.

Walden Two takes the liberal argument "hurr durr, muh human nature means ppl too greedy for socialist utopia" and responds with "You're correct, people are greedy and evil! Let's MIND CONTROL people into being selfless!" instead of refuting the initial argument as liberal bullshit.

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>>16640
noooo don't give up on marxism, you know so much about german idealism nooooooo
lol, lmao

>>16641
the fact that he is dumb as fuck, probably. he begins by complaining that, because a guy went and commodified child abuse, these utopian fantasies are the inevitable future of society. class struggle? material interests and conditions? politics? forget about all of that, what changes reality are our hecking ideas! the world would be so different if everyone read <utopian fantasy #162>!

>The most notable modern-day Walden Two inspired project is the Judge Rotenburg Center founded by Matthew Israel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Israel) which tortures autistic children with their patented Graduated Electronic Decelerator whenever they act out (or scream in pain when being shocked, or fail to reply when greeted, or break some other minor rule). This Matthew Israel guy studied Behaviorism under P.F Skinner, read & loved Walden Two as his favorite novel, and literally has a Disney Villain backstory where he realized he can control people through pain and founds a school to continue doing just that.
This guy is complete fucking scum. Being sent to a place like that is one of my biggest nightmares. Institutions are honestly worse than prison because at least most prison sentences end. I want to force him to play a piano with the threat of being electroshocked the second he stops.

>>16633

>"He compares himself to Jesus Christ and his fellow Planners as his disciples. "


Indeed; All Behaviorists are like that.

>Watson

He literally didn't believe that language existed and advocated for parents to neglect their children and to not be too affectionate.

>Skinner

An egomanic who craves nothing less than for society to be exactly how he wants and for him to 100% be in control. He's just like what you said he was, but to add, his theories have been debunked by Chomsky ( https://chomsky.info/1967____/ ), and he even made a follow up to W2 where Skinner writes in George Orwell to praise Fraizer for making a society "in line with 19th century anarchism" (Skinner, B.F. (1985). "News From Nowhere, 1984". The Behavior Analyst, 8(1), p. 6.)

>Lovaas

Very much like Watson, except applying his theory to autistic children specifically, literally beating them up for not doing something trivial like dancing to music, on top of him calling them sub-human; co-founder of Autism Society and an early pioneer in what we now call "autism awareness"

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>>23453
These men share a lot in common with evangelicals



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If you guys had to pick 4 short books as the ultimate starter pack on /leftypol/itics, which ones would you pick?

Which ones are the best combination of being essential, uncomplicated and short?
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>>22878
>Anti-Dühring and The German Ideology in the same list as On Contradiction

>>22993
On Contradiction is like one of those vaguely anti-capitalist economics books, that articulate a lot of marxist concepts in a subtly worse way, but for dialectics. It might be a good introduction to some people. Mao famously had an instinctive grasp on marxism and only read Capital later in life.

>>22993
Y'know Mao was a better writer for normal people, right?

>>22997
>Mao famously had an instinctive grasp on marxism and only read Capital later in life.
He was an anarchist LARPing (to great success) as a Marxist. It's why the western left idolizes him. If you actually read Marx and take it seriously you wind up like Deng or Xi.



 

I read The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper recently, and it was an interesting book. The overally thesis is that unified theories of history and don't make sense, and that it's impossible for us to reliably guess the direction society will take in the future.

This obviously flies in the face of historical materialism, which is a pretty key part of Marxist theory. So I'm interested to hear what you guys have to say about it. Is he right? Or is there something he missed?

Yeah I think it would be silly to believe the realisation of communism is inevitable personally. I just think Marxism and dialectical materialism is a useful model to understand change in society which we can implement to try and enact change for our (the proletariat) collective interests. I don't subscribe to historical materialism and the "stages" view of history in the absolute, and I haven't encountered anyone who seems like they do, aside from just speaking about the inevitability of communism as like an inspiring call to action. But interested to follow this discussion.

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kojin karatani's "the structure of world-history" sheds light on the uneven development of historical forms, as well as graeber's book, "debt: the first 5000 years". if we reconceptualise sociality, not in terms of production, but exchange, then we see how mutual recognition is achieved therefrom. the basic marxist orientation is around the object of surplus production in all ages, but what is particular to each age thus is how we mediate this primal object. so to say, economic formalities are inconsequential of how we orient around this excess, called by bataille "the accursed share". all scarcities are artificial, since wealth and poverty are inverse functions. one is rich when another is poor. thus, the only economic (and therefore historical) question is how we deal with this debt. forces of production become relations of distribution. to karatani, there exists 4 exchange forms;
(A) reciprocity (gift and countergift)
(B) plunder/redistribution (protection)
(C) commodity exchange (money)
(D) X.

this will bear resemblance to marx's formulation of the 4 value forms:
(A) elementary
(B) expanded
(C) general
(D) money

graeber in his debt book also devises alternating cycles between credit-societies and money-societies (from gifting to money). marx likewise sees how modes of production develop unevenly in each age and so different modes of exchange arise.

we can see what baudrillard saw also, of a sort of transhistoricity (or overlap) of modes of exchange, like his example of the gift-exchange (or even the death exchange in the case of terrorism). on the internet for example, we see how we freely gift each other these helpful posts, while others may troll or harass, thus inciting a malignant form of exchange, which like ragebait, has its reciprocal nature. with the internet we also get online commodity exchange and redistribution (charity). so then, if to marx, history means mediating the surplus product by more and more advanced means of exchanging (or interfacing) with society, we must also see the ways in which society fails to formalise its own historicity (like how in marx's own time, the "proletariat" was and always remained to be a minority of the population, yet to marx, they signified the burgeoning of weltgeist). today also, labour is disunified in dispirate industries, with artisinal, feudal and even primitive forms of existence persisting alongside the modern capitalist regime.
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Why Alisa Rosenbaum (((Ayn Rand))) in any their created novels fuck with different people for free?
She are commie?
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>>>/siberia/
>>>/QTDDTOT/
Do your part; Sage, Report, Hide.

Bump a gem



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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.
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>>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.

bumping for interest

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

Necro bump
Brain scattered, idk what to add, other than this book is pretty good.
Halfway done with it, it's like a cross between atomic habbits and make it stick

>>23423
danke



 

What are the best books on domestic imperialism? I suppose I'd be most interested in the struggle of the Black nation and the Indigenous nations in Anglo-America.

I've read the basics of Lenin's "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism" and I'm in the process of reading Kwame Nkrumah's "Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism". I've read a few writings of the Black Panthers.

I think I probably want to read "Golden Gulag" next.



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CIA / FBI / Fed / Conspiracy General
"The X-Files got nothing on this shit"
This Thread is dedicated for the discussion, analysis and reveal of obscure information on the shadowy hands of capitalism and fascism - the federal agents - and their efforts as part of the porky hydra. Propaganda and conspiracies of these Alphabet agencies and their impacts today and past are to be discussed.
Information and discussion on the OSS and NSA or equivalent government agencies of other countries - such as MI6 of Britain or the Nazi Gestapo - are also encouraged to be posted. KGB and FSB can be discussed too.
Technology for spying and espionage are also welcome. NATO and US military abuses or the affairs of corporate military-industrial complexes that are covered or hushed up also apply. Whistleblowers like Assange and Snowden are permitted sources of information as well.

Please contribute to leftypedia >>3780
Debunking anti-leftist myths >>4210 including debunking of "Le Holohoax"
https://leftypedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency
https://leftypedia.org/wiki/List_of_atrocities_committed_by_the_United_States

Rules: No idpol drama, no anti-communist rhetoric, no sectarianism, no soyjak spam or emotional gaslighting; Glowies Keep Out!

Major Topics:
>Anti-Communist Action:
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Holy shit guyzzz I found the pdf confirming pentagon UF0z did 9/11

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Ah yes, things that never happened. This is just a prank. In the same document, the bills to be passed are named "Lebron" and "Jordan".

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An interesting person I've posted at times. They have some good stuff on the Ukraine conflict from when it began and some content on 9/11 and other false-flags, conspiracies and glowie ops. Guy does a lot of hands on work, helping in third-world countries.
https://stormcloudsgathering.com/

Document on Psychological Operations from the 1950s https://archive.ph/l1HFt

Bumping a great thread



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