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Meanwhile: What do our "Left" publishers like Verso push? Apologist slop! Shame on Verso.

The american chauvinists here look down on Furr.

>trotsky japanese spy
damn so trostky was anti imperialist multipolarista in the end, i officially apologize to the fourth inyernational

Furr's autistic dedication to digging through the archives and deboonking Cold War lies is impressive

Christian Rakovsky was indeed a spy. A spy of international jewish cabal. Read Red Symphony

If learning programming be it for work or for fun or just self improvement, don't do those stupid template starter projects like the eternal to-do list. Program software that you want to use.

Real Programmers write in FORTRAN.

Maybe they do now,
in this decadent era of
Lite beer, hand calculators, and "user-friendly" software
but back in the Good Old Days,
when the term "software" sounded funny
and Real Computers were made out of drums and vacuum tubes,
Real Programmers wrote in machine code.
Not FORtranshumanistot RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language.
Machine Code.
Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers.
Directly.

Lest a whole new generation of programmers
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Learn C/C++ (C# is very similar but there are some differences that are noticeable for those who know what computers do at the hardware/assembly level, all of which are mostly there to make writing business programs easier, while in C/C++ the programmer has to manually do things.) Few languages do anything particularly better than C unless you're getting into base-level OS stuff or security stuff (since C has some security vulnerabilities).

After that it's helpful to have some experience in an assembly language and then learn how C translates common instructions to assembly, to get an idea of how to write the most efficient and elegant programs. If you can do that, learning any other language or system is a lot easier.

Real heart of being a good programmer is systems analysis rather than "coding". Any idiot can write code, but what you're going to do as a programmer is solve problems, some of which happen in the real world and have to be modeled the smart way. It's an art and so many people have difficulty with this.

A lot of people want to learn for game programming, but I can tell you that games are simultaneously some of the most frustrating projects and also the least rewarding, and a lot of game programs are kept simple (and can be pretty badly programmed when you look at them). Games are frustrating as a starting project because you're worried about graphics, music, and gameplay. I find a better way for a novice-intermediate programmer to get used to programming is to program simple applications.

The ideal for a programmer is to build a program that does one thing and does it really well, rather than a big application with lots of features. I'd like instead to type in command line "timer" and get the thing I wanted. You can reuse code and even build libraries if several different programs are going to call the same functions.

Another thing that's helpful for learners: use g++ and, this is really useful, learn how to use Makefile at some point. There are versions of this for Windows and Linux both, and on Linux you're going to get very used to Makefiles since a lot of stuff you would install uses them. The advanced IDEs are helpful (and most helpful for experienced programmers working on a team project), but the best way to learn is to be as close to the computer's simplest operations as possible.

These things can be pretty difficult to pick up. For a code editor, Visual Studio Code is pretty good,Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch07.htm
Chapter 7, The Gens among the Germans and Celts

The Origin of the Family is a piece of trash and should be flushed down the toilet. There's practically no empirical evidence for any of Engels' claims and his theoretical model is junk, debunked well over a century ago. I really wish commies would stop reading that outdated piece of shit and taking it seriously.

Reading is fed.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/ch08.htm
Chapter 8 on the Germans
>[2] According to Bishop Liutprand of Cremona, in the tenth century the chief industry of Verdun – in the Holy German Empire, observe – was the manufacture of eunuchs, who were exported at great profit to Spain for the Moorish harems.

>>25087
>There's only one "marxism" and only one "communism", moron.
So why do different AES states look so different?

>Bleak.
It's the only thing that will give me a straight answer. All you guys have done is make fun of me for asking the question to begin with. Deepseek will at the very least respond to what I said in good faith.

>>25088
>why dont you tell us where you are getting these ideas
Based on the small amount of Analytical Marxism I've read. I'm open to being wrong, I just want to know why I'm wrong.

>>25039
G. A Cohen is the main one, apparently it's technological determinism rather than class struggle as a reaction against the periodic crises of capitalism

>>25083
The appeal is demystifying Marxism from its idealistic continental slop and salvaging whats left using analytical frameworks and methods grounded.

>>25039
>while I like his stuff, he is still a Westerner.
marxism is a western zeitgeist:
<The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm

>>25015
>normal
idealism

>>25017
Okay totally not dysfunctional and damaging to the development of a person then.

>>25018
and what determines this?

>>24969
absolutely accurate. the ussr suffered this post-stalin as well as yugoslavia post-tito

Bump for interest

what do I need to understand Hegel? should i start with the greeks? should I start with Marx and move backwards and end with ababobabu of the gray cave? can you word it in a way that an ant that is now human would understand.

>>25093
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- ASPCA Ultimate Cat Care Manual
- Max Stirner's Art and Religion
- Marx's stuff
- The rest of Max Stirner's stuff
- Main story in arknights
- Hegel's stuff
- Side stories in arknights
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar (again)

>>25094
What if I want to learn League of Legends lore?

>>25094
ok now could you be kind and sincere with me? where do I start, where do I go?

Okay I'm a little disappointed that this didn't get a single reply lmao so maybe I should give some context. I basically suspect after reading more economic history that the transition from "developing" to "development" is in a sense an extraordinary event, as it's not enough for a country to prop up its industry, but it's necessary for it to harness lucky circumstances into a self-sustaining cycle that guarantees a reliable and perpetual post-industrial economy. Simple industrialization does not guarantee success because it's necessary for an economy to have a competitive advantage in a global market. My suspicion is that "good policy" can never suffice for this, which goes against the prevailing ideologies of development that get pushed in the Third World (especially Latin America and certain parts of Asia).
However, it should also be obvious that I am essentially talking out of my ass, and this is a half-baked theory based on reading basic history. This is why I'm looking for books that can help me develop and stress test this view, as I think it's essentially one of the central questions of politics in our part of the world.

>>22816
There are two main theories about the role of the borgeousie in pre-capitalist countries that were introduced to the capitalist world system.

The first one is used by Maoists, which utilizes concepts such as semi-feudalism and semi-colonialism, comprador and bureaucratic borgeousies.

The other is the Marxists Dependency Theory, developed by Latin American intellectuals in the latter half of the 20th century, such as Ruy Mauro Marini and Vânia Bambirra.

>>22816
>whether it's possible for "developing" and "underdeveloped" countries to actually become "developed", and in what circumstances (I recognize the vagueness of these concepts)
The first step is to question what we mean by "developed" and "underdeveloped." When we see a group of rural peasants in India living in thatched roof mud brick homes or nomads in the Sahara, the instant assumption that these people shouldn't be living this way. Now, one can live a happy and decent life as a nomadic pastoralist and many choose to do so. What we have here is a kind of value judgement about the lives of others who are branded 'poor' or 'backward' because they don't live urban lifestyles. Often, poverty is slapped onto groups of people who are not, by their own standards, poor. So where does this development discourse come from? Whose interests does it serve? And how is it used?

You will notice that development policies almost always involve some form of intervention by state authorities, UN agencies, or NGOs (the staff of which are almost all from the North American-European world) over the lives of "underdeveloped" people. Sometimes, this intervention is violent (e.g. US occupation of Afghanistan, Plan Colombia, Israeli displacement of Bedouins). Another feature is a tendency to discredit the political and social institutions of local communities in favor of top down solutions implemented by technocrats and a culture where liberal "modern" people must save local people from a series of "harmful cultural practices." Compare the way "female genital mutilation" is treated compared to the widespread practice of labiaplasty or transgender surgery in "developed" countries, which are not seen as "harmful cultural practices." Lastly, there's a whole phenomena of "third world" communities outright rejecting or avoiding development projects e.g. Afghan villagers refusing to participate in road building or rejecting schooling, North Sentinelese Islanders isolating themselves, Nomads who refuse to settle down, widespread rejection of vaccines.

>the extent to which the common problems of these countries (such as crime, disease, famine, lack of support and freedom) is tied to their place in the current world order, and the extent to which they can escape or limit these problems without some sort of major globPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Looking for good books on atheism

What's some good resources for getting into witchcraft, particularly Wicca, proper? Like I understand the basics sort of, but I'd like to develop an understanding of it that isn't just scrapped together from youtube videos.

>>9083
Alawites are "ghulat", ie extermists, meaning they worship ali as an aspect of god, making them technically heretical to all mainstream forms of shia islam.

>>9052
I will say one of the bad consequences of Marxism was that it separated socialism from spirituality and religion. Before Marx, most utopian socialist movements were religious or occult groups or freemason lodges. This separation made scientific socialism crude, mechanical, and soulless form of political scientism.

>>9106
>there's a good reason atheists tend to be angry about religion and all the barbarism it involves
That's because most of them are ironically fundmamentalists who portray religion in a specific way to alleviate themselves. Its similar to how the Germans pass the Holocaust guilt onto Nazis and immigrants. And although they champion criticism, they chimp out whenever you criticize them or imply their narratives are flawed. The myth of an essentially evil and barbaric religion, timeless and everywhere the same, is pure projection, a myth cooked up by the atheist. The reason most online atheists are angry about religion is because they are as bigoted as Jerry Falwell.

>>10499
I've never liked Dabashi. I don't think this book is a good work of theology and the whole post-colonial studies thing is a dead end.

>>20208
Many people who go under the traditionalist Catholic label aren’t really traditionalists and many are borderline heretics.

I'm not so sure on cramming for exams being that bad

Sure if a person is actually interested in a topic, the more "humanistic" education seems superior, but if I'm talking to someone who had no real prior interest in the topic and just learnt it because they had to, the person who crammed for the exam tends to have a more solid grounding than the person who learned the topic in more liberal education

>>24966
It is part and parcel of the factory-ification of human thought. Less about education in the traditional sense, and all the more about rote inculcation for the sake of utility, as if mental processes are merely resources floating around in the minds of automatons.

education has been a commodity from day 1 of capitalism lol?

I think the real problem with education is that academic figures have a pathological aversion to blue collar skills

>>24966
I think that looking at the broader picture this is mostly an issue of intellectual monopoly rent/differential rent and labor monopolies. I think that siding with the proletariat means that information must be made free. So shit like the free software movement but also pirating sites like Sci-Hub and Annas-Archive. IMO this sort of stuff will help the global South and lower the rate of profit. Also it will help to proletarianize the middle-class which is way too fucking stubbornly sticking around under imperialism.

>>18213
cringe

from what I remember of the threads about moscow trials, I had been convinced they were legit, and had all the necessary proofs through cross examination of testimonies and a few docs.


>>18207
>>18214
if the topic doesnt interest you just fuck off elsewhere maybe ? go touch grass for example

>>18213
its funny cuz every trot org will accuse slightly different leninists of the exact same shit ion even fw tukhachevsky like that Im just sick and tired of minor sectarian issues being treated seriously

>>18206
Interesting article here:

https://stalinistcivilization.substack.com/p/killing-tukhachevsky
>Tukhachevsky persists in the historical imagination as a deeply fascinating character. The “Red Napoleon” who never was, a brilliant military thinker whose life ended in abrupt fashion at the hands of the NKVD. The execution of Tukhachevsky and his allies has traditionally been characterized as a carefully orchestrated campaign of lethal repression carried out to ensure Stalin’s absolute power. This Cold War era narrative, which has largely been discredited with the opening of Soviet archives, has been used to show how Stalin’s ostensible megalomania sabotaged his own army’s prospects on the eve of war. On the other end, many contemporary Marxist-Leninists, adhering to the view of Stalin’s Soviet state, justify the execution of Tukhachevsky on the grounds that he was the ringleader of a fascist plot.

>In contrast to both of these theories, I draw on the work of various historians to argue that the execution of Tukhachevsky was the outcome of a factional power-struggle between two competing visions over the strategic direction of the Red Army. Tukhachevsky’s notorious personal power ambitions and his embittered military-strategic opposition to Stalin’s officer, Voroshilov, were perceived as a source of internal disunity capable of a producing a crisis that could potentially derail the war effort. Historian Vladmir Rogovin, in reference to the Stalin-era purges, stressed the importance of needing “to separate the fantastic and absurd charges from the evidence of the defendants' genuine anti-Stalinist activity” (Rogovin, 1998, p. 482). This requires going beyond Stalin’s psychology and the sensationalism of the Moscow Show Trials to find the power-struggle and oppositional politics at the heart of this matter.

>>18206
https://istmat.org/node/46724
Here it is necessary to return to Tukhachevsky.

The trial of the group of former senior Red Army commanders, unlike the trials of civilians, was, for obvious reasons, held behind closed doors. But some rather significant facts about the conspiratorial activities of Tukhachevsky, Yakir and other military men leaked into the testimony of the accused in other trials.

At the trial of the "right-Trotskyist bloc" held in March 1938, the defendant Krestinsky, former deputy people's commissar for foreign affairs, testified, for example, that back in 1933, during his meeting with Trotsky in the city of Meran, Trotsky suggested that he establish contact with Tukhachevsky, in whom he saw "an adventurist man, claiming to take the first place in the army, and who would probably go to great lengths."

From the testimony of the defendants at this trial it is clear that Tukhachevsky was hatching plans for a military coup.

Krestinsky said that when the destruction of underground organizations began in 1936, Tukhachevsky began to force the coup in every possible way.

"At the end of November 1936, at the VIII Extraordinary Congress of Soviets, Tukhachevsky had an excited, serious conversation with me. He said: failures have begun, and there is no reason to think that the matter will stop with the arrests that have been made… He drew conclusions: there is no point in waiting for intervention, we must act ourselves… Tukhachevsky spoke not only on his own behalf, but also on behalf of the counter-revolutionary military organization," Krestinsky testified in court.

In March 1937, a meeting was held at the apartment of the defendant Rosenholz, a member of the "Right-Trotskyist Center," in which Tukhachevsky and Krestinsky took part. At the meeting, the date for the speech was set - the second half of May (after Tukhachevsky's return from a trip to London).
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