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What are you favorite short not so well known theory essays, books or pamphlets. They can be from whoever just under 50 pages and non popular (aka don't recommend something like on authority)
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>>24935
This is exactly what I was searching for thank you

none, idc about easily digestible sloganeering bullshit

>>24937
Did I ever say easily digestible, and what do you mean slop?

Paper I enjoyed reading that applied concepts used to analyze island ecosystems but to patches of vegetation and green space and insects dwelling on these green islands in a concrete sea. Unsurprisingly they found that larger green spaces had greater species richness and diversity but some beetles like carabids and tenenbrionids were negatively correlated with forest cover and preferred open habitats. They did not find strong evidence that circularization is good for insects when urban planning but connectivity between different green spaces is.




 

Post video recordings of lectures and announcements for online lectures.
No right-wing lecture type Jordan Peterson, this isn't 4chan
And let's focus this thread on only Marxists lectures
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When it comes to the study of ancient economic history, one is faced with serious difficulties as a beginner. The usual textbooks normally cover the "histoire événementielle", i.e., the succession of notable historical events and actors (the surface of history), while the works that do cover ancient socioeconomic history are hard to find or outdated, such as Finley's famous book.

Does anyone here have some knowledge in the matter? Can anyone recommend a study process or bibliography? Should one first read the basic textbooks of histoire événementielle and later on deepen the matter or skip directly to the socioeconomic outlook?

I am very lost in this matter and I don't know where to begin, and I'm sure a lot of people are in the same situation in here. And I believe it is very important to have, at least, a broad outlook on the progression of economic history until capitalism, to maybe deepen more specifically in modern history and economics, but with a general view of what came before and the evolution of the present mode of production.
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>>24749
Has anyone tried asking AI to write this book so we can finally find out the secrets?

>>24829
From Deepseek, which is the best workhorse for this kind of thing; other than Gemini, probably some chinese models I've never heard of, and grok which is basically deepseek tuned to hanbao人 tastes

Past a certain point I got tired of reformatting it by hand to the local formatting; so you'll have to suffer the hidden phrases where it was bolded originally

The prompt was just
>write the first chapter of this book
With the jpeg of the front cover uploaded

For the science people outside, health, linguistics and electronics looking in wondering how those fields are getting results while your field is spinning its wheels, it's because those fields require systems thinking to really get anywhere so you're constantly taking notes and rethinking and reviewing your prior notes seeing whether you can find something systemic that fix a lot of things at once and make thinking about the whole problem simpler

There's more there which involves historical materialism and the practice of science, but it's a half formed thought other than that you should look up Alan Turing, and also what happened to the first doctor in Europe to suggest that doctors should wash their hands after handling cadavers, especially if they were going to be participating in delivering babies

*within which we'll also include historical mechanical calculating machines, such as you'll see from the classical culture of the Mediterranean, from China and later again in Europe also

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>>24832
Electronic* as also applying more generally to the history of calculating machines

>>24832 (me)
>For the science people outside, health, linguistics and electronics looking in wondering how those fields are getting results while your field is spinning its wheels, it's because those fields require systems thinking to really get anywhere so you're constantly taking notes and rethinking and reviewing your prior notes seeing whether you can find something systemic that fix a lot of things at once and make thinking about the whole problem simpler
On a practical level, it's a tool

When you're working with a chat bot the information in the middle of the Context, ie the stream of text/tonkens so far, has a tendency to get log jammed by the things at the beginning and end of the context; this is due to the structure of the attention based networks most models use

Theoretically, recurrent networks maybe; it may just be a fundamental limitation

The information is still encoded, it just doesn't make it into the output, so on your next prompt you gently nudge it back along with your next note, and if it's an alignment issue, since the inline, in context learning is to oversimplify it a little just back propogation, if you're careful and detailed with your notes the information jammed in the middle should come out

There you go, a machine summarising your notes on every note

Great for science, but you still have to do your own thinking; and then go back and double or even triple check everything

Like I have to go to China anyway to get a specific kind of ink anyway, so I might as well get the parts – since 中国 is the only place that makes them on an industrial scale anyway, or at all in a lot of cases – while I'm there to prove some things in practice
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If OP is still studying this then looking into ancient laws can tell much about that specific society's economics. Vidrel so you get what I mean. Legal and economic historians have made few study materials on this topic sadly.



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Do you have any resources for someone to learn more about Marxian economics? I don't want to read books; I'd prefer things like lectures and documentaries because it's much easier for me to listen to something, and I'm not much of a reader. Maybe I'll read something down the line
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>>24921
what do you suggest then?

>>24922
Not that anon, but perhaps you might be interested in listening to an audiobook instead of reading?
https://www.marxists.org/audiobooks/archive/marx-engels/capital-vol1/

>>24923
Not really helpful, I want some lecture to familiarize myself with Marxian economics before find some books to read

If there aren't I am fine with books about Marxian economics (Don't suggest the 3 Capitals I already know about them)

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I recently finished Harry Braverman's "Labor and Monopoly Capital" and I am interested in if there's any good work on management science (and particularly from a left perspective).

These articles were recommended to me before but I can't read: https://cosmonautmag.com/search/?category=All&query=%23scientific+management



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Manufactured Enemies, Managed Wars: From the Cold War to the War on Terror

By the late 2000s, the curtain had been pulled back on America’s “perpetual enemy machine.” The Cold War, the War on Terror, and even cultural products like *Metal Gear Solid* all reveal the same pattern: empires manufacture threats in order to sustain war economies. The names change — communists, terrorists, rogue states — but the structure remains constant.



## Supplying the Enemy: Jordan and Sutton

Major George Racey Jordan, stationed at Great Falls during World War II, kept meticulous diaries of shipments moving to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease. Among the cargo: uranium, heavy water, and precision instruments for nuclear development. Jordan later testified that Washington “deliberately built up the Soviet atomic arsenal.”

Historian Anthony C. Sutton confirmed the broader picture: Western corporations built the Soviet industrial base. “The United States government was, in effect, financing its own enemy,” Sutton wrote in *National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union* (1973). Ford Motor built the Gorky plant, Standard Oil supplied fuel, and General Electric exported electrical infrastructure.



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Not too bad for I'm assuming AI generated text



 

I want to learn more about the peasant class (and landless laborers?) during the classical and medieval period.

I'm especially interested in moments of rebellion, be it successful or not and atypical moments. Like I'm curious about groups that lived somewhat autonomously without being beholden to a king or emperor.(if those even existed)

Recommend me some books, audio, YouTube series,.. whatever format is good tbh, doesn't have to be very specific as I want to understand the general picture.

Look no further than Marx and Engels!
>The German people are by no means lacking in revolutionary tradition. There were times when Germany produced characters that could match the best men in the revolutions of other countries; when the German people manifested an endurance and energy which, in a centralised nation, would have brought the most magnificent results; when the German peasants and plebeians were pregnant with ideas and plans which often made their descendants shudder.
>In contrast to present-day enfeeblement which appears everywhere after two years of struggle (since 1848) it is timely to present once more to the German people those awkward but powerful and tenacious figures of the great peasant war.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/



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Is it possible or feasible for a paramilitary group to build a crude nuclear truck bomb? Or is that just fantasies of Ted Kachinszki-type shizos and fearmongerinng by pro-deep state porkies?

/siberia/



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Are there any papers or something on the industrialization of the periphery since the 50s or so?

I think the suppressed but gradual industrialization of the periphery could explain a lot about current geopolitics.



 

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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Some translation kindly provided by 驭浪:
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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

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>>23666 weimingzi belike: "all other leftist in china are US spies and dogmatists,only i can enlighten and lead the new generation of proletariat of china and let them rally around the flag of my great ismism theory!" from my observation, i think he is china version of samuel gompers or john golden

Who else here ESL, or ETL like me and feel this pain, even if you can write perfect English, and even speak well when not tired

Like seriously, the only reason go speak or read and write in it is that so many other people also do

>>24338
Hope it helps


<POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF CAMILO TORRES

>Camilo’s life
Jorge Camilo Andres Torres was born in Bogotá the 3rd of February of 1929. His parents were Calixto Torres Umaña, a prestigious doctor, and Isabel Restrepo Gaviria. Coming from a wealthy, bourgueois and liberal family. Lived with his family in Europe, between 1931 and 1934. In 1937, the marriage dissolved and Camilo went to live with his mother and his brother Fernando.
He graduated as bachelor in the Cervantes Lycée in 1946. After studying a semester of law in the National University of Colombia, he was admitted to the Conciliar Seminary of Bogotá, were he remained seven years, time where Camilo began to be interested by the social reality, creating a group of social studies, along with his companion Gustavo Pérez. As a Christian, he felt attracted to the theme of poverty and social justice.
Camilo was ordained as priest in 1954, and later travelled to Belgium to study sociology at the University of Lovaina. During his stay in Europe, he made contact with the Christian Democracy, the Christian syndical movement and with the Algerian resistance groups in Paris, factors that made him grow close to the cause of the downtrodden. He founded with a group of Colombian students the ECISE (Colombian team of socioeconomic research).
In 1958 he graduated as a sociologist with the work “A statistical approximation to the socioeconomic reality of Bogotá” (published in 1987 as “The proletarianization of Bogotá”), that was one of the pioneers of urban sociology in the country. In 1959 he returns to Bogotá and his appointed chaplain of the National University. There, along with Orlando Fals Borda, founded the Sociology Faculty in 1960, where he was a professor.
His sociological researches initiated with his undergraduate thesis familiarised him with the urban as well as the rural social structures. He founded the Universitarian movement of communal promotion (MUNIPROC), and developed research works and of social action in popular and worker’s neighborhoods of Bogotá, as the Tunjuelito neighbourhood. As chaplain, he introduced to Colombia many of the reforms of the II Vatican Council, as giving mass in front and not giving the back, to say it in Spanish and not in Latin. He preached that the problem was notPost too long. Click here to view the full text.



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