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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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Less about the parasocial more about the signal.

Less about subscribing to an individual podcast, more about listening to individual episodes and why that episode resonated.

Not videos. This is a chance for you to educate yourself while working, doing chores or exercising.

I'll go first. This episode of politics theory other was memorable because it made me reconsider the intersection of sex and politics, particularly as someone who sees themselves as becoming more skeptical about everything surrounding idpol as it's being co-opted and weaponized.

https://play.acast.com/s/politicstheoryother/tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F1136311165
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Secular jew Yasha Levine (Surveillance Valley) continues his recent journey of shock and awe through Judaism. Wild shit tbh.
>We talk with Rachel Feldman about messianic zionism and the Temple Movement, which wants to end Judaism as we know it and replace it with an Israelite theocracy in the Holy Land complete with animal sacrifices — to go back more than 2,000 years to before Rome destroyed Jerusalem and ended Jewish rule. We also discuss the core of Rachel’s research: Noahidism, a new global religion for non-Jews that’s being spread by messianic zionists, including Chabad rabbis, in support of this future Israelite theocracy. Along the way we discuss the religious origins of zionist ideas, the unbroken chain linking secular and religious zionism, and the increasing radicalization of Jewish society in the direction of this messianic movement. This whole thing is a lot less fringe than you might think.
>Rachel Feldman is a professor of religion at Dartmouth and is an anthropologist of Judaism. This talk is inspired by her new book: Messianic Zionism in the Digital Age: Jews, Noahides, and the Third Temple Imaginary
here's a direct link to the episode
>https://jumble.top/s/yasha/151195367/a5c52c6d44e72e9035eabbebe17284f5.mp3

<TRAITOROUS EX OBAMA GEOSTRATEGIC PLANNER AND IR PROFESSOR WONK IS PARROTING XI'S TALKING POINTS
I was a regular hate listener to his pod until a year ago and was honestly pretty surprised at how rational this recent lecture is. He introduces some interesting concepts and it's not long.
>like how the US talks about and treats Micronesia and Polynesia and the Pacific region as a frontier
>which should make residents and neighbours very nervous because it gives the US license to treat the region like a frontier that they have a strategic use for, where claims can be made in a state of exception, and not sovereign states who want to develop and prosper

>>24434
This is the most awful video, worse than a seizure.

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/pill-pod-210-new-york-times-lies-about-fascism-experts-fleeing-trump--66346907
<TWO CANADIAN PHILOSOPHY PROFESSORS (possibly the most polite type of guy ever to exist) ARE EXTREMELY RUDE TO STUNNING AND BRAVE US ACADEMICS FLEEING FASCISM TO LEAF UNIVERSITIES ON THEIR PHILOSOPHY PODCAST
<EVIL LATAM MADURO TOADY THIRD MIC CLEARLY LEADS THESE GOOD BOYES ASTRAY WHILE THE REGULAR FOURTH MIC LIBERAL LEAF, WHO NORMALLY CONDITIONS DISCUSSION, IS ABSENT
>DANGEROUS MARXIST PROPAGANDA RESULTS
A lot of lols in the first 20 minutes, some unbelievable context and history about these fleeing academics.

The war of the triple alliance episodes from Regime Radio are pretty insightful, great detail about the economies, class compositions and political intrigues of the pre and post independence Southern Cone
https://open.spotify.com/show/1k0PAwEZG8MuhMDlW7HcjJ



 

Audiobook thread.

Post audiobooks links ITT.

I'll start.

Eric Hobsbawm - On Nationalism
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I just go to audiobookbay. BTW OP, Hobsbawm's "Age of " tetralogy is great nonfiction history.

>Age of Revolution

>Age of Capital
>Age of Empire
>Age of Extremes

Great books.

Full Audiobooks of Das Kapital and Theories of Surplus Value excellently read aloud in high quality and uploaded for free on Youtube by Andrew S Rightenburg
https://www.youtube.com/@AndrewSRightenburg/videos
Many other free Marxist audiobooks:
https://www.youtube.com/@SocialismForAll
https://www.youtube.com/@dessalines6388/videos

>>23418
>first is the assertion that marx was not a theorist of barter,
he wasn't, at least not in the sense that adam smith was. marx pointed out (and this was verified by anthropologists in the 20th century) that under "primitive communism" (what we now call hunter gatherer societies), barter took place between communities rather than individuals. So the level of barter was not a constant search for double coincidences of wants between individuals living in the same society. At the community level things were shared (to a considerable extent but not a total extent) while between communities barters were arranged. Basically bater occurs between groups that tolerate but do not entirely trust each other, in hunter gatherer society. Furthermore (and here I'm going with Caroline Humphrey and David Graeber) to the extent that people did barter inside primitive societies, it wasn't pure barter, but rather long term arrangements that didn't rely on a continual coincidence of wants. I.e. I give you fish today, since they will go bad, and you give me the stone axe a week from now after you have made it. I accept this time lag because i trust you and we will make similar arrangements in the future and have had similar arrangements in the past.


Here is Marx in chapter 2 of capital volume 1 where he mentions barter for the first time in that book:

>The direct barter of products attains the elementary form of the relative expression of value in one respect, but not in another. That form is x Commodity A = y Commodity B. The form of direct barter is x use-value A = y use-value B.[5] The articles A and B in this case are not as yet commodities, but become so only by the act of barter. The first step made by an object of utility towards acquiring exchange-value is when it forms a non-use-value for its owner, and that happens when it forms a superfluous portion of some article required for his immediate wants. Objects in themselves are external to man, and consequently alienable by him. In order that this alienation may be reciprocal, it is only necessary for men, by a tacit understanding, to treat each other as private owners of those alienable objects, and by implication as independent individuals. But such a state of reciprocal independence has no existence in a primitive society based on property in common, whether such a society takes the fo
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Found To Kill A Nation by Michael Parenti on youtube. Very good and very short book.



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The marketplace of ideas and great men also move history, it's just that in a way that is less important than materialism.

Without a Marx noticing everything and spreading his ideas, we wouldn't be here. And without great men like Lenin or Mao things would also be drastically different. What put everything in motion was the material conditions so it's always the most important thing, but the material conditions create ideas and great men.

It's the reason the bourgeoisie is constantly creating anti proletarian myths like "self made man" or whatever. The ruling class uses ideas as a weapon, and while ultimately material conditions will make even the most stubborn idiots realize the truth, ideas can delay it from happening, and so can important leading figures like Donald Trump who has been a retard-whisperer for some time now.

most of marx's work wasnt even published in his lifetime, and works like capital vol. 2 and 3 were edited by engels. marx was not an island.

I think Plekhanov's formulation is the best.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1898/xx/individual.html
>Without a Marx noticing everything and spreading his ideas, we wouldn't be here.
Why was Marx able to come up with his theory of history? You might say because he had access to the ideas of others before him, but even those ideas were able to develop because of the development of scientific technology and social organization. Historical materialism would be impossible without a mountain of resources to make such a historical theory from. Dialectical materialism would be impossible without sufficient scientific development which requires experimentation with developed technology. His critique of philosophy required the theories of Proudhon, Fichte, etc to develop, which required capitalist relations in order to be able to criticize property or praise nationalism.

>>24348
>Why was Marx able to come up with his theory of history?
hegel.

>>24348
>why was marx able to come up with his theory of history?
Because he was smart and worked hard



 

Does anybody have any recommendations on what to read in regards to the history of NATO? I'm aware of and have already checked out Michael Parenti's To Kill A Nation for when it comes to the destruction of Yugoslavia and NATO's involvement in it but I'm curious about other books chronicling the history, actions, and purpose of NATO. PDF and EPUB file drops are also more than welcome.

>>24364
>horse champagne glass.jpeg
Pooner anon, is that you?


>>24367
Much appreciated.



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What the fuck are they? Every time a Marxist attempts to explain them it's like a Haskell programmer attempting to explain Monads.
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>>23952
these are all so specific bruh theres no way you arent projecting

>I need to read irrelevant philosopher to understand other IP to understand another IP to understand the guy who correctly rubbished and critiqued them all
Come on.

>>24360
Wow that painting is pretty fuckin' beautiful

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>>24362
The funny part about that Jacobin trash is that all the quotetweets are absolutely clueless too. Of course what Chibber says isn't materialism he's just peddling naive realism under the label. But he's not entirely wrong: communists do understand class actions as driven by material (i.e., economic) interests.

The key is that communists don't just assume people act out of class interest, they expose those interests, make them conscious, which is what actually reform of consciousness. It's not that everyone always knows or follows their class interest, class society hides those interests behind moral justifications, even morality talks against those interests. Also, I'm not sold on Chibber's democratic idealism. There's no mention of the middle class and how their democratic demands actually obstruct the class interests of the proletariat.



 

What is the value of either of their works of thought under capitalism? What is their intellectual value to studious communists today?

http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plato.html
http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Aristotle.html
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>>24352
logic was first *formalised* by aristotle.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-logic/Aristotle
logic was not "invented" by aristotle of course, but has always been the unconscious determination of thought, which we otherwise call "reason" (λόγος).
the theory of λόγος (Logos) itself is derived from heraclitus, in the philosophic tradition, but heraclitus himself refers to λόγος as the "fire" of life, explicitly associated with persian zoroastrianism (mithraism - which later inspires christianity), where as we read in John 1:1,
<"Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος."

>>24314
>Pretty much everyone in China will tell you the Chinese canon is inferior to the Western canon and doesn't answer the sort of questions that were answered in India, but the Chinese never really bought in to "philosophy" as such
That's a silly inferiority complex, Chinese philosophy addresses questions of the state in a way that western philosophy didn't engage with until a millennia later, and that's being very charitable to western philosophy

>>24354
any examples?

>>24355
The entire school of legalistic
Before that and before aristotle the mohist school developed a consequentialist approach to to the state and also a formal system of logic

You don't really see anything like this in the western cannon until Hobbes

>>24356
*school of legalists



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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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>>24174
Mind mapping is basically flow charts for how the brain thinks. Start with something in the middle. Like Karl Marx. Then from there, around it, write related things you’ve been studying, labor theory of value, cool beard, super structure, etc. then from those points write related points to those things that are more specific. It takes advantage of spatial and relational memory centers of the brain when compared to a normal list of information.

>>24178
Is it for revising material that you already know? Or why would you make a mind map of Marx?

>>24179
You can use it to brainstorm with others, but yes, it’s mostly a way to organize recently learned information. It’s useful to med and law students who have to learn whole textbooks for exams. It’s like making a memory palace on paper… almost. I mean, just try it out right now. Get out a sheet of paper and a pen and think of a subject you know quite a bit about and chart something out. Dark souls lore. Moby dick. Lies about the dprk. Anything.

Read from the top of the page in a southern direction, when you run out of words, proceed to the next page (usually located towards the east in English texts) and repeat until you run out of pages to read. You may need to do this procedure multiple times from beginning to end if you feel the information is not sinking in.

>>24166
I guess I had a more complicated answer than fasting that hits some of the points in this thread. Sometimes there is a wall when you know you need to do something and then doing it. From my experience, if 'just do it' doesn't work, then its either physiological or emotional. Either something in your body isn't quite right and the solution is to fix the body first. It's really hard when you can't "just do it" to "just do it" to yet another thing like working out or getting your diet clean. The easiest way to fix the physiological issue is to literally fast. It's the absence of doing. There's also stuff like sleep hygiene and such. The point is that your body could be fucked and that's why you can't mentally do the thing. A weak body is like a weak battery. There's no willpower charge left. The other way you could be fucked up is emotionally. And you may not be good enough at identifying your own emotions to notice. Have you ever wondered why it's "I don't feel like it"? WELL THAT MEANS YOU ARE FEELING AN EMOTION AND THE EMOTION IS WHAT IS CONTROLING YOU. You can't LOGIC your way out of FEELING. You have to meditate or journal or think or treat yourself or figure out some way to COPE with the PAIN you have associated with the task. And even THAT all takes a lot of work. But it's not like you'll do the emotional work because you ALSO DONT FEEL LIKE DOING THAT TOO. Which is why, again, fasting is a cheat code. You literally stop eating for 24 hours and the fucking brain boost from the keytones will have you full of energy. Enough energy to then set up systems and WORK on WORKING ON YOURSELF so that when you are back to DUMB you, you can JUST DO IT.



 

If you know French or German, please contribute a chapter to /leftypol/'s first crowdsourced translation project! This project started on >>691.

The book is Karl Kautsky's history of the French Revolution, originally published as Die Klassengegensätze im Zeitalter der Französischen Revolution in 1889. Coming from the "Pope of Marxism", as Kautsky was then known, this text likely had an immense influence on Lenin and other revolutionaries of his day. It was approved by Engels himself, and may have been foundational in establishing the Marxist theory of bourgeois revolution, yet it has never been translated into English. The original German is available here: https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/kautsky/1908/frev/index.html and an old French translation is available here: https://www.marxists.org/francais/kautsky/works/1889/00/antagonismes-table.htm

What makes this work especially good for us to translate is that it's relatively short - just around 60 pages in total, divided into 10 chapters. With each chapter being 5-7 pages each, it is conceivable to translate a chapter in one day's volunteer work. Comrade Akko has already translated the preface, and is working on chapter 1. That leaves 9 chapters to complete:

Preface: Complete!
Chapter 1: Second draft complete (French)
Chapter 2: Draft complete (French) - Proofreading complete (English)
Chapter 3: Draft complete (French) - Proofreading in progress (English) - Proofreader needed
Chapter 4: Draft complete (French) - Proofreading complete (English)
Chapter 5: Draft complete (French) - Proofreading complete (English)
Chapter 6: Draft complete (French) - Proofreading in progress (English) - Proofreader needed
Chapter 7: Draft complete (French) - Proofreading in progress (English) - Proofreader needed
Chapter 8: Complete! (Copyrighted work, permission secured)
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Need help translating this, I forget what this is, saved it from a thread here a year or 2 back.

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Who else hear can read this?

>>22920 (me)
This isn't difficult, anybody else before I start dropping hints?

康熙字典 令人头痛

Some translation kindly provided by 驭浪:
>>>/leftypol/2158409
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We'll take a look at the information about Yang Heping in the previous excerpt from 'Weimingzi's report.(translate the rest yourselves when you have time.)

>Yang Heping (English name: Engst Fred) is the eldest son of the American internationalists Yang Zaohan and Chun, born and raised in China. After reaching adulthood, he lived in the United States for a period of time. Before 2008, Yang Heping participated in organizing CYOC (Philadelphia Community Youth Group) in the United States. He also posted recruitment information and event announcements on certain exiled cult media. During this period, he cohabited with a woman named "Zhou Daoyuan" and together they owned a villa in Philadelphia (the source of their assets is unclear). Around 2004, CYOC received sponsorship from the Self Education Foundation, the Bread & Roses Community Fund, and the Hazen Foundation, all of which have distinct anti-China, anti-socialist backgrounds.


>In 2008, Yang Heping returned to China and subsequently became active on the internet. He was involved behind the scenes in the management and coordination of groups linked to the Jiliu faction, acting as the "commander" in the background. Around 2011, under the pen names "Hua Shi" and "Han Liu Ji" (which contrasts with Yang Heping), he published a series of articles asserting that China was emerging as an "imperialist" country, which sparked the "Imperialism Theory Debate" within radical "leftist" circles. Since then, more and more young people have started to follow Yang Heping's "Chinese Imperialism Theory."


>Yang Heping's theory argues that after China's reform and opening up, it has followed an imperialist path, becoming a rising social imperialist power. For example, he claims that China's navy's anti-piracy efforts in Somalia are aimed at competing for naval supremacy and that China will inevitably clash with other imperialist powers, possibly leading to a new world war. Yang Heping believes that the Chinese working class must maintain its independence and neutrality in the struggle between China and Western imperialist powers. Chinese workers should observe the "tragic yet spectacular" geopolitical drama from the sidelines and, after the new imperialist conflict ends, use this expe
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Anyone know spanish and willing to translate
"BIOGRAFÍA POLÍTICA DE CAMILO TORRES"
https://www.marxists.org/espanol/camilo/biografia.htm



 

From what i understand, successful rural guerrillas like the Shining Path and FARC weren't able to overthrown their governments because of low popular support on cities.
Why is that? How can we overcome this problem? I want to study that. If anyone got good books/videos/documentaries on the history of the Shining Path, the FARC, IRA, the Red Faction, and whatever you think will help, please share them.
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>>21764
I would say, the PCP-SL, like the CPP or the CPI (maoist) had (and have for the last two) to fight just like the CPC under Mao. What i'm trying to say is, a Guerrilla has to perservere during decades of conflict. Those decades may even be a century, but one of the truths as communists we know is that of contradictions. Though they may be for some or a lot of time slow to develop, they eventually come to a point which the guerrillas who follow a correct theoretical line can use to advance.

The other problem is that of establishment of a guerrilla in developed countries without the semi-feudal conditions the three i mentioned have.

Now, the answer i have has no example whatsoever and has no study involved. But see how Cyberpunk is described? How, there, capitalism evolves towards a complete dystopia? It is possible that capitalism can come to that, and that dystopia can create the conditions for an armed wing of Communist Party.

I have this conclusion from seeing how Japan is, they haven't come to that point though. But they are capitalism to an extreme, just not an Oligarchy, rather its people are massively depressed.

And not only that, even in countries with a history of progressive (yet liberal) measures like Northern Europe, there are signs of how capitalism makes a people depressed by expecting them to work like slaves and to exceed.

So i see capitalism is reinforcing its contraditions and it can come to a point where government has no power left, because capitalism has. Once that is achieved, a guerrilla can be possible.

By the way, people, this is a hypothesis, i ain't trying to give this a serious thought.


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>>24326
The failure of violent revolution like the Paris Commune is not because they betrayed the "contradictions" but rather due to the stragic failures of the people involved instead. For examples, not seizing the banks where they could be used to fund their goals, not attacking the government army, etc. It is literally such failures, not "unfollowing contradictions", resulted in their defeats. This can be avoided through observing the patterns of events and adjusting one's own decisions based on to it.

Events in a materialist sense is like the results of contradictions rather than existing independently from it. The contradictions itself can't be unfollowed since it is causal to all events. On the other hand, the theories of revolutionary terrorism are well developed and there are actions guided by them. Some people are better off fighting than to be enslaved. There are de facto free zones being established through terrorism like the areas under control of the Maoist ICP and SDF.

Northern Europe is not "progressive" nor does Japan (note how ridiculous "progressive" combined with "liberal" is) since they're reactionary by bing bourgeois and follows a doctrine of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. "Oligarchy" is the rule of the bourgeoisie, it is another way of telling the story. There is no factors preventing you from fighting gurrilla warfare as long as you can gather the material needed. It is literally possible to get a gun plus there are like-minded people as well. The concept "power dynamic" didn't predict the success of the Bolsheviks nor the CCP and turned reactionary by being used to deter any attempts to build communism through revolution instead.

>>24329
I was the OP of what you're replying. You actually made sense, i'm still reading some theory. But one question do i have, is revolution inevitable due to the inherent contradictions of capitalism? I mean, that's what i get from revolutionary socialism. But if yes, what we actually need, instead of blinding imitating PPW or the October Revolution, to study the actual conditions of the country we belong to and then take the steps to conquer power through what's best in the situation?

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>>24333
>What we actually need is a successful revolution, a revolution that overthrows the entity of state violence at once, that is distinguishable from other entities. All other revolutions, involving terrorism, or since they involve terrorism, are not supported by "contradictions" in a revolutionary socialist sense, are not out of thorough considerations nor fit for their revolutionary goals, therefor not relevant.

>We belong to "countries"


None of the statements are true>>24333



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Is there a PDF or book that explains the planned economic history and governmental structure of the Soviet Union in EXTREME and gritty technical & analytical detail while preferably including the Bolshevik group's ideals and wartime strategies leading to the October Revolution? Things like how precisely was the government set up, how was the economy and it's commerce were planned and what was the distinct bureaucratic structure. I'll be eternally greatful

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