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Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition
you know all. Volume I of thread dedicated to Neo-China Silk Road II - Belt and Road takeover of the World.

Questions and answers:
>Q: Why should I learn Chinese?
<A: To appreciate the internet culture and humor, prepare for migration, modernize and adapt for employed labor under China.
>Q: China will fail, why should I bother?
<A: Don't think.
>Q: I have other affairs in life, I don't have time for this.
<A: Silly person, chase ducks in the lake.

To all other eager learners, welcome, to the CLLG (China Language Learning General) edition I. Here you will watch videos with pictures, animations, movies and combine yourself to adapt with the Chinese language.
Academic journals, tutors and other outdated methods will give you boredom and headache! Learn with fun.
All you need to prepare for a Kung Pao Chicken tin assembly line factory and life in Neo-China world.

Is it seen as too idealistic? Misguided? Does it come off as playing into capitalist or nihilist logics? Or is it about how some factions (like right-accelerationists) co-opted the term?

I'm personally interested in left-accelerationism — the idea of using technological/cultural momentum to push beyond capitalism, not reinforce it. But I want to know what the actual criticisms are, especially from other leftists. So if you're critical of it, I want to hear why.

ITT: resources and tips about navigating the Internet and researching topics

Feel free to post your own resources and tips too.

I'm going to post a lot of my own that I have gathered over the years.
I ask that random chit-chat in this thread is kept to a minimum except regarding technical questions & answers on the topic matter.
This is so that resources are kept as compact as possible, and so, readable.

First I'll dump resources and tips for researching various topics.
Note: I don't even have access to or use some of these myself (e.g. LexisNexis which seems to be pay-to-use), but I figure they could be helpful in some narrow cases. I use most of these myself. If the initial things I post don't interest you, keep reading anyway. I'm going to be dumping a lot of content.

PressReader
https://www.pressreader.com/
Find key terms in newspapers and magazines.
I would say this is more helpful for finding sources that do exist rather than for reading them, per se. You can try to read the articles elsewhere than PressReader if you know their titles or part of their body text. The site appears to brand itself as pay-to-use, however you can use the search tool anyway and even read some resulting articles.
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With the deluge of slop around the DPRK this is a thread to share more serious works on the project.
I'd recommend these two papers, especiallythe one on anti-revisionism. Haven't read book but it comes recommended by nons.

Hi everyone
there is a weird thing that i discovered about quran
in reverse of one of the surahs i found out it has meanings
–
from the mp3 i sent here
from 0:14 seconds it says:
یا ایها النفس النفارس سمعنی
o my cavalry persons, here me out
ارسلکی اذو علیکی
we sent this to you for you
والکلام
the massage (is that)
حقنا حقا
our truth is the (real) truth
—
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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?

Sorry, I don't really contribute here but anyone know how to hack these timed '.ascm' epubs? Idk how you're meant to deal with this online borrowing rubbish and I'm just trying to read this book which is not on any pdf website. Not in any of the libraries near me either. Fuck timed books.

A Family Collective Model for Wealth Accumulation: Foundations and Implications In environments where a wage-only trajectory often stalls, a family-based collective approach offers an alternative path to building significant wealth. By pooling resources across generations, optimizing legal vehicles, and leveraging mortgages, a single minimum-wage earner can become a multi-property landlord within a decade. This model rests on several well-established economic theories, recalibrated for common-law contexts (LLCs, family trusts, U.S. mortgages, U.K. buy-to-lets, etc.).

1. The Household as a Production Unit (Gary Becker)
Theory: Becker’s household economics treats the family like a mini-firm that allocates time and resources to maximize intergenerational welfare.

Application: Parents offer rent-free accommodation to the young adult—effectively an “in-kind” capital contribution—freeing 100 % of their income for investment.

2. Life-Cycle Inversion and Mortgage Leverage
Traditional Model: Modigliani’s life-cycle hypothesis assumes high consumption in youth and saving later.

Inverted Model: By living rent-free, the young adult uses parental guarantees to secure a mortgage (U.S./U.K. residential loan) for a first property. Rental income covers debt service, enabling rapid reinvestment in a second, then third home.

3. The r > g Mechanism (Thomas Piketty)
Insight: When the average return on capital r exceeds the growth rate of incomes g, capital owners pull ahead of wage-earners.

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Spotted this at Barnes and Noble a couple days ago. After keeping us waiting for something like 4 years after Reitter announced he was done, it's finally out! I unironically think the publisher delayed it for years just so they could put the "First translation in 50 years" sticker on the cover.

So, now that it's finally out, how is it? Is it a worthwhile re-read for someone that already has a well-worn copy of the Ben Fowkes penguin translation? I remember being skeptical a few years ago, for two reasons:

1. The translator does not consider himself a Marxist, and
2. It translates the fourth German edition yet again? Really? Why not the French edition that Marx rewrote substantially to make it easier for workers to understand, or why not the fifth German edition edited by Karl Kautsky which was the standard version for Lenin and other famous figures?

All that could be forgiven though if the translation reads well. Does it?

What the fuck did Lyotard mean by this
Was Marx really jacking off when he wrote Das Kapital