/edu/ - Education

What are the best books on Russian, Chinese and the failed German Revolution and East Germany.
Books about other communist revolutions and state establishments are also welcome.

I want to know everything that happened before and after those events occurred
I want to know how the conditions and reasons for revolution happened in the first place
I want to know what happened during the civil wars
I want to know what happened after they won or lost
I want to know what were the mistakes they made

Don't care how many books to get a full understanding but as long as they're credible and good it's fine by me. I prefer PDFs.

I've seen that online courses are a thing but I don't think I could handle that with my autism, plus they seem to cost a fair amount of money most of the time
Any tips?

So what if its hard? Nothing worth having comes easy.

I feel like it'd be a bit hard to structure my studies without guidance though.

https://monthlyreview.org/author/samiramin/
Other links to his work most welcome.

https://monthlyreview.org/2018/10/01/the-communist-manifesto-170-years-later/
>There is no other text written in the mid-nineteenth century that has held up as well as the Communist Manifesto of 1848 by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Even today, entire paragraphs of the text correspond to contemporary reality better than they did to that of 1848. Starting from premises that were hardly visible in their era, Marx and Engels drew the conclusions that the developments of 170 years of history fully verified.
Last article he wrote, there seems to be a pattern of old theorists turning to the Manifesto. Comrade Xi also emphasises its depth.

What is a dictatorship of the proletariat? I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be a kind of representative democracy, but I'm kind of fuzzy on everything else.

>The body was too short or empty.
>The body was too short or empty.(evading minimum character count)

Post great socialism realism novels which are worth reading.
I'll start with the classic: How the Steel was Tempered by Nikolai Ostrovsky.

>They are effectively interchangeable terms since the vast majority of the time you see Perennialism in use it is by a Guenonian Perennialist. The basic idea that all the world's religions are manifestations of the same truth is at least as old as the Renaissance and crops up in the modern day in contexts that have nothing to do with occult fascists though obviously. Huxley would be an example of that.

>But for Guenonian Perennialists, and Nasr is one, it is as far as I know literally all of them besides Wilson. Not all of them very focused on politics, in fact that tends to be the exception rather than the norm. Evola and Dugin are the two big examples of it and Dugin's Guenonianism has always been a bit reserved and mixed with other influences. He was into stuff like Thelema and chaos magic before he got into Guenon and has written critiques of Guenon. When these people do mention politics in passing though it is always in an incredibly reactionary way where they are condemning liberal modernity as an inversion of some pristine traditional (in this perennial occult sense) order. And obviously that carries a condemnation of any possible socialist modernity. Reaction is just inescapable in that view of history, if you see history as a continual degeneration from a lost golden age then you cannot also believe in successively progressive economic stages that are leading to Communism. Every step forward has to be a step downwards.

Gosh what a malicious post in the saged thread. This is surely worthy of a thread.

Hello everyone, we have received the results of our project proposal topic, and I'm delighted to announce that we are teaming up with 'leftypedia' to deliver our planned 'argument/talking point resource' idea. In case you don't know, leftypedia is the current version of the old abandoned 'marxistpedia' which was a project started by leftypol users back in the day, so I think this is sort of like a homecoming in a way.

https://leftypedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Anyway, if you have a look at the leftypedia site you might be able to tell that they have a much more formal and 'encyclopedic' tone than what we're planning, just like wikipedia, but the admin is going to create a separate 'category' for our new content that will be called something like 'rhetoric: topic' rather than just 'topic', this will also feature on the frontpage much like the encyclopedic content. As a tenplate, I'd like you to feast your eyes on these pages which someone on leftypedia already made (albeit only on their personal userspace for now).

https://leftypedia.org/wiki/User:Anarcho-Bolshevik/compendium

I'd like to ask if anyone can come up with a slightly more catchy name for our new section than 'rhetoric', cause that sounds a bit cumbersome to me even though I came up with it, so yeah, open to suggestions.

So, since that isn't implemented yet, I'd like you all to try familiarise yourselves with the site for now, maybe take a look at the articles that are already there and improve some of them if you feel able. Unfortunately the site currently has only edit by approval so you will have to wait for any changes you make to be approved, this is because of a persistent spambot problem and I hope that we will be able to work out something to change this to normal editing as on wikipedia and the like, please just bear with it for now.

If you have an answer to a 'common question', or you have an effortpost you'd like to archive and save, then please post it in this topic for now so that we can work on it together until we can figure out how to categorise our new section of the site.

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You don’t like it? Too fucking bad.

Your acceptance of your beliefs means that you are being retarded, and there’s no way around it. Fuck you, you fucking retards. I’m sick of pretending your idiotic “arguments” are even remotely sensible. You’re a fucking retard, eating retarded shit and calling it ice cream.

The Christian generally believes that there is life after death. This, in light of what we currently know of neuroscience and how the brain works, and doesn’t work when it is damaged, is, no mincing words here, plainly retarded. If you believe in life after death, sorry, — er, no, not sorry — you’re fucking retarded.

The Christian generally believes that faith is a good idea, that believing things for no reason — just because — is a good idea. The Christian generally believes that being more certain of their beliefs than the evidence warrants, is somehow a virtue. The Christian generally is trained to believe that everyone uses faith, and that to point out that others use faith somehow justifies their own use of faith — the words “tu quoque” have no meaning to the average Christian.

The Christian generally believes, in my experience, that an appeal to consequences is a valid way of making an argument. The Christian typically believes that if it can be shown (or, more commonly, if it can be made to appear that it is shown) that belief in Christianity leads to some benefit, or that lack of belief leads to some undesirable consequence, that this justifies belief. This is retarded. If you can’t figure out why, it’s because you’re retarded. Hint: google “appeal to consequences,” you big retard.

Christians generally believe that Jesus was God, after he magically impregnated a virgin, and then emerged from her vagina nine months later, disappeared for 30 years, then turned up as the messiah. The evidence for this? A book which says so. What? Nothing more? No, that’s it, just a book. Are you fucking kidding me? Only a book? Nope, not kidding. They’re that fucking retarded.

Christians often accept the “lord, liar or lunatic” argument as convincing. Gee, David Koresh was either Lord, Liar, or Lunatic. Umm, I’m going to say, Lunatic. Jesus was either Lord, Liar, or Lunatic. Umm, I’m going to say, Lunatic. People who don’t think Jesus was a lunatic don’t know much about lunatics. There’s a word for such people: Retards.

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Grad degrees are legit if you have a field with A LOT of information. The higher you go the more specific stuff you learn.

The deal is that getting a BA is kind of exactly like high school. You take the same range of classes and don't focus on much. So, it's like a movie that starts an hour in.

Back in the 30s etc you could become a doctor in like four years, now it takes 12 and doctors don't know that much. I mean a general practitioner.

If a four year degree was specialized, you would not need a masters.

In psychology, they try to wear you out with all you must do. So, it's a money hustle and to keep people out.