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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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I already believe 80% the population will die from climate change and the rest will be enslaved by clankkkers, I just need some certainty.

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>>26120
jimmie dore read the epstein files and he had a break down. he realised revolution and change is not possible because the bourgeoise is too powerful.

>>26142
Bro you're on /edu/ right now. Have some respect.

>>26120
If you want to be a nihilist doomer you can go over to pol.

You want to be blackpilled?

you’ve wasted your life trying to be edgy online and people you meet can smell it wafting off you because being too online socially stunts you




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Glushkov, Kantorovich, OGAS, Cockshot, Cybersyn etc.

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Damn I fucked the spoiler

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Im a fucking idiot so all my knowledge about cybernetics comes from this article https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/cybernetics-in-the-ussr-a-marxist-leninist-perspective/



 

I'm interested in learning more about these new zoomer nazi groups so I can help my students be ideologically prepared to encounter them. What are some good books on atomwaffen/764/seige etc?


>>26066
I forgot to add that attomwaffen dissolved in 2024 and that the unicorn riot article was withdrawn so be cautious when using it.
I apologize for the error.



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Finishing crisis to communization and i find it interesting, though I'd like to get into the more specific details and theory of communisation. Good books on it?

>>24465
Read the Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement, his second book?
Apparently he said that Marx was wrong, is that true? Kinda put me off reading it.

>>24465
Here's some articles by other communizers I personally like or find important in order to understand what the theory defends:
https://www.sicjournal.org/what-is-communisation/
https://www.sicjournal.org/the-suspended-step-of-communisation/index.html
https://www.sicjournal.org/communist-measures-2/index.html
https://illwill.com/theory-of-the-party
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/endnotes-journal-1

I've also read Eclipse and Re-Emergence and it certainly is an interesting work. Its the book that got me into communization theory in the first place. I like Dauvé's critique against trade unions but don't like his Bordigisr conception around the party, i.e. the so called "historical party."



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Which tendencies of ML (there has to be at least one) uphold the pre-Dimitrov, R. Palme Dutt -esque, 1920s COMINTERN (multiple congresses) consensus on the United Front tactic, as opposed to the Popular Front (in my analysis) error?

After finally reading some of Hoxha's works I was greatly disappointed to find that he doesn't even have the integrity to acknowledge Stalin's flip flop from completely contradictory tactics, pretending like the Popular Front is the only thing there ever was and is correct without no need to explain further.

the Chinese revolution being the result of a mix of directives, and ending up in a partially synthesized United + Popular Front, at least leads to some interesting (but ultimately non-conclusive imo) discourse in some Maoist circles on the topic.

Then there's the funny thing about people thinking Bordigist leftcoms are odd for supporting the United Front from Below, or that it's an ultraleft tactic entirely. Meanwhile the fact is that it's the instance where leftcoms get as Leninist, sharing position with Stalin-era CPSU, as they can get.

TL;DR: If Dengists, Khrushchevites and Hoxhaists aren't United Front from Below stans, which MLs are? Non-answer is unacceptable and will require you to do 10 jumping jacks on a floor I multiple bags of pebbles on
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<Bump European lunchtime, 1st of may.

I'll bump every day at different timezones until proper replies have been made. I'm not really asking for much with the question in the OP of this thread. It should be answerable for an estimated 1/10th of the userbase of the site. I'll assume they just haven't seen it.

<Bump US lunchtime, 2nd of may.

<Bumping lunchtime, east-asia, 6th of may

Tbf Kotkin recently said that Stalin was always against the popular front idea but retards like Thorez, Togliatti and obv Dimitrov convinced both the Comintern and the party itself. Its so funny how people were also still listening to Kun after doing the same pop front bullshit with Hungarian Soc-Dems

Maybe try looking at the German left, in the 20s social democrats of the Kautsky variety allied with KPD and formed the VKPD with a former Spartcist Paul Levi at the helm. These guys actually partook in the failed and I think adventurous insurrection in Middle Germany alongside KAPD(march action)

I think what you are looking for is the Marxist-Leninist pole organizing around the European Communist Action/International Communist Review. Those parties affiliated have truly made leaps in an honest and sober historical/doctrinal review of the communist movement without the baggage of dogmatism and negationism of the communist movement's path. I'll attach two articles I hope you find interesting:
https://www.iccr.gr/en/issue_article/Contemporary-conclusions-from-the-imperialist-Second-World-War/

https://www.komep.gr/m-article/O-OPORTOYNISMOS-STO-ENIAIO-METOPO-ENANTIA-STO-FASISMO-OI-DIETINEIS-PIGES-TOY/



 

I won't dwell too long on the clinical descriptions -I don't fully get much of it either, still- I got diagnosed "early enough" >will start treatment very very soon but was given a prognosis of 1-2 years ,some wiggle room - or +
I just need advice on things like; legacy videos (don't dvds\ electronics just rot after a while too, due to some oxidative thing?) ,managing Estate Sale whilst alive, any legal shenanigans, to which point to insist on spending time with relatives outside immediate family, etc
I'm 34 y.o. male. I would ask for "bucket list + finance" advice but I'm not american so currency diff. would be it unintelligible i guess.
>pic just related because it's a great cinematography piece + Bill's melancholic look

>>25693
>a prognosis of 1-2 years
holy shit, dude
sorry to hear read that

Unfortunately, I don't know how to help, I have no experience with this kind of stuff

Also, what do you mean by
>I just need advice on things like; legacy videos (don't dvds\ electronics just rot after a while too, due to some oxidative thing?)
You want to record a message to future generations on a dvd? Or are you talking about dvds you own that someone's going to inherit?

>You want to record a message to future generations on a dvd?
Yes, something like that. dvd or a more durable format–dunno if "generations", maybe that's too far, but for my current child-relatives for whence they grow up.
I'm trying to pull a bucket list, explore options, maybe start taking a RISK or two.

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>>25693
Have you considered getting cryonically preserved? There's a chance you could be reanimated hundreds of years in the future.

>>25693
"m-disc" dvds are supposed to last a long time
if you want something to last for eons then get a metal plate and etch a message into it with a laser cutter
make a trust with your wealth and dedicate it to some cause you support
kill a politician/capitalist before you go out

>dvd or a more durable format
Multiple copies in different locations.



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Apparently this book is quite controversial if not hated among contemporary Marxists, but I can't tell if it's because it's actually deeply flawed (I've read the first few chapters and I thought they were pretty strong) or if it's just resentment from continentals

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>>26008
>because it's actually deeply flawed
The problem with Cohen's analysis is that he spends an absurd amount of time trying to formalize something which is secundary to Marx's historical materialism. Iirc, most of the argument is concentrated on proving the base/superstructure dichotomy, which is simply not that relevant to Marx's historical materialism

For starters, Marx doesn't build a "theory of history". He's not creating a teleology, precisely because he rejects Hegel's conclusion that the development of the state and society must follow reason. Instead, he analyzes the root of change in society and its condition. His argument in essence goes about
>Man exteriorizes himself in the world through productive activity (labor). He changes the world around him to satisfy himself, to provide for his needs, to develop his interests etc (self-realization).
>In doing so, he enters relations of production to produce more effectively and to develop the forces of production required for his reproduction/production of self-realization
>However, as the forces of production are developed, new possibilities of the organization of labor emerge. Some classes (defined by their role in the productive process) obtain the possibility to further develop their self-realization by changing the organization, whilst for some, these changes can constitute a challenge to the position which they benefit from
>this creates antagonism between the class, which opens the possibility for clas conflict
This is the fundamental mechanism for class conflict. It's the idea that society's Mode of Production is defined in relation to labor, which itself is a social and creative process by which humans self-realize.

On the other hand, the base/superstructure dichotomy is more or less an attempt at formalizing how ideology, laws, and social norms emerge. Here, Marx's argument is only that these norms can only build themselves upon a pre-existing social arrangement, which can only occur by the socialization of labor. In other words : you can't build laws if you don't have anything to be their subjects. The superstructure thus regulates the mode of production because it is its object.
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I keep seeing takes on the internet that claim Science™ is Marxist. Is this as wrong as I think it is, and if it's not, why? I haven't read enough of my priors on dialectical materialism to pin down exactly where this goes wrong, but I've taken enough philosophy of science courses to say this is diamat woowoo scientism.
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Reality is not Marxist, that's just a clever quip. The truth is Marxism strives to understand reality and has made theoretical developments with strong explanatory and predictive power. That's the real meaning of the phrase.

>>25809
>I haven't read enough of my priors on dialectical materialism
You're misusing "priors", this phrase doesn't make sense.

Teleology isn’t scientific lmao

Marxism is just a system of analysis, a useful one, and one that holds up well to scientific scrutiny (other, more rigorous analysis) most of the time.

Meanwhile reality is simply there, not analytical itself but infinitely ripe for analysis.

>>25809
>Is this as wrong as I think it is, and if it's not, why?
Marx is an ecclectic thinker who wrote A LOT on many things. Dialectical Materialism (albeit pioneered by Engels but validated by Marx), historical materialism, class analysis, surplus value are all things on which Marx was mostly correct about, albeit modern developments have truncated some unnecessary elements. The reason for that is simply that he was the first to analyze society as a whole in its relations rather than try a metaphysical explanation of it. This is also why he's considered one of the founders of sociology.


>>26035
Marx never builds a teleology outside of political motivated texts like the manifesto.
Hegel did build a teleology, but Marx's entire critique of him is precisely that he's assuming that the development of society and the state must necessarily follow reason rather than material circumstances. In the German Ideology, Marx explicitly says that communism is a movement rather than a predetermined end state
<“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”



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what was the name of that pre-WW2 German author that wrote how stereotypically non "aryan" germans were typically the most fanatical Nazis because they knew that they were on the fringe of being considered racially acceptable. Note how the entire high command of the nazi apparatus were a men who were mostly dark-haired, brown-eyed and somewhat short by german standards and who personally proved the lunacy of the aryan "race" as a concept by their mere existence
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>>25711
>Arthur Kronfeld
>German-Jewish psychiatrist
>Founded the The Institute for Sexual Science
>He claimed that he had scared the living daylights out of those nasty Nazis.
LOL

>>25784
Nazis were and continue to be gay and insecure

>>25848
Fascism and MLism are brothers jackass

>>25850
and other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself.

>>25847
<He claimed that he had scared the living daylights out of those nasty Nazis.
Eh, no he didn't…?

Stop reading with your arse



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So, before the site went down there was a thread about serious, rigorous, economic books about socialism, and economics in general, so, not "pop economics", anyway, any good recommendation of serious economics books?
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A lolbert wrote this book on why he thinks education is bad:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education


>>25398
>>25933
>serious economics books

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This just got out, however you need to find a free pdf either from Anna’s or zlib etc

>>25933
i hope this is a satire book, i know misandrists are fucking insane but this just genuinely retarded even for them.



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