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Former alt-right here, what books and content can I read up upon to educate myself besides the typical "Karl Marx" content?
The past few years have been really eye-opening to me especially as someone that has had to deal with the threat of homelessness, and the general prevalence that more vacant houses exist than homeless people. I'm conscious of the fact that the problem has inherently been the american system itself rather than any outside forces. We should care more about our own damn people than any random person from another nation. We have a massive military budget that could be used for better things.
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>>24899
>Caste: origin of our discontents
probably could find videos on it too if you are illiterate like me. I can't seem to read a book for the life of me.

Honestly the best place to start is to deprogram yourself from the Austrian School economic ideology by reading classical political economy and political theory, to know where these things came from. You'll notice the Nazi sector goes out of their way to obfuscate the old liberals, because the fascist authors selected for you were the "wave of the future" (and most of these were either faggots or German ideologues, who weren't writing about fascism so much as they were writing about their preferred faggotry). If you understand British liberalism and you understand American history (this is the harder one to deprogram because there's so many lies written by foreigners and modern Americans), you understand why socialism arose and what Marx was directly critiquing. Marx doesn't make sense unless you have some basic knowledge of the liberal ideas. You're not going to fully understand it if you just take Marx as a gospel writer. Conversely a lot of bad communists tell everyone "only read Marx" and then "only read our interpretations of Marx and nothing else", and this did a lot of damage to the education of so many people.

You don't really "break out" until you start applying this knowledge to the present world, and ask how what we have now is way different from what the liberals described, and then you look at the points where it did change and see that nearly everything written in the past 100 years has been a calculated system of lying. Most of the Nazi and alt-right faggotry? It's purely Public Relations, and Hitler was a test run of PR in Germany. It's really sad to see how easy it was to make the "Hitler phenomenon" happen. There isn't actually much to the man. He was there to give the dumb speeches and appeal to certain retards in Germany who liked that speaking style, while everyone else believed Hitler was a vehicle for their personal ambitions.

Generally histories of the Nazi regime are poorly written, Some are better than others, but all were written under a taboo against acknowledging too frankly what had happened, and there was a 15-year taboo against writing about Germany. After that, the revisionist historians did a lot of work and said it was "okay" to write about the Nazi period, and that had never been done in history writing before.

>>24905
>austrian school
>nazis
you are severely confused. the austrian school dont believe in exploitation, but the maximalism of shared value in the market by voluntary transaction (since trade can only occur where one value is preferred over another; this methodology is also true in marx's case, except that he takes the classical distinction between value in use and exchange to see how a value in use is traded for a value in exchange, rather than the austrian perspective that all values are use-values). the nazis believe in exploitation, but only where it concerns either "unearned income" or usury. i go over a criticism of the political economy of national socialism from a liberal perspective here:
>>>/leftypol/2391702
>>>/leftypol/2391805

>>24480
Read Paul Williams' "Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia" and then read Spencer Sunshine's "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege". Also listen to The Empire Never Ended podcast. A lot of these fascist cults are literal CIA psyops. It's the same shit with ISIS as with crime in the ghettos and neonazi autistics online. The feds are incredibly uncreative in reusing the same basic Anglo-Catholic structure for Wicca, Satanism, Wahhabism and other fascist cults and criminal gangs. You have to understand that ideologies like Gangsterism and the Blackpill are tools of the capitalists to abuse the working class. I mean Andrew Tate is flat out an American asset, probably some kind of Epstein situation IMO.

Semi-relevant

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/brg/

https://youtu.be/A7ha3rrO08I
https://youtu.be/47pDXptT7qE

Marxism is, first and foremost, about "abolishing the current state of things", which is to say, putting an end to Capitalism and the current world order. What this actually looks like is not a serious consideration of most Marxists; all that matters is that we currently live under capitalism, and that's a bad thing.

It took me a very long time to understand this, because it's something that Marxists tend to take for granted.



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I keep seeing this, so what it is and how to learn more about it. If it's even worth learning more about it
And btw if ur one of the "Marx spend his whole life….." Please fuck off

< Marxist monetary theory examines the role of money within capitalist economies, emphasizing that money is a social relationship that reflects the dynamics of production and class struggle. It critiques other monetary theories, such as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), by arguing that simply manipulating money cannot resolve fundamental issues within capitalism.

sounds like something painfully simple, the kind of conclusion that you could get from reading just a bit of marx, that academics had to turn into a whole ass Theory(tm) just to be able to sell books like the grifters they are lmfao

< The collected papers of Costas Lapavitsas are a pathway to Marxist monetary theory, a field that continues to attract strong interest. The papers range far and wide, including markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financialisation of

lol the more i read about it the more it seems i was right. nothing but college papers and shitty books about this crap. im even finding retardation about "determining value" that goes well beyond what the point of marx was. the absolute state

>>24952
I've seen you in a big number of threads and in all of them you just spew shit without responding to the question, if you don't respond to the question can you please for the love of god shut the fuck up?



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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?

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