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Where should I begin and what works should I read if I don't want to go too far down the theory rabbit hole?
I'd also be open to works by authors of non-leftist views just to get an idea of what they actually believe. I see neoliberals referenced frequently but I don't even really understand what they believe besides looking at dems/repubs.

>>24499
Nobody wants to hang out with guys being like 'hur I hope things get way worse'

>>24500

i want to build momentum for change, not break shit and celebrate like a nihilist

>>24501
if by 'shit' you mean, breaking the ruling institutions' toys, that is much better than just jerking off to things getting worse.

Capitalism had two centuries to collapse, it just won't do it on its own.

>>24334
120 autism score detected

>>24252
OP I think its wrong to build a reading list on religion from a Marxist perspective because Marxist analysis (outside of hard economics) is often an obstacle to understanding religions rather than something that clears things up. A socialist perspective is more interesting.

>>24335
This.
People think college/university should be like some idle playground for wannabe intellectuals.

This is why I say higher education should require mandatory entrance exams.

>>24494

this seems counter productive and enables class inequality. unfortunately a lot of educational institutes do have some form of indoctrination, and the barrier to entry is high enough for the average person. Why require a mandatory entrance exam?

nick land on why he is a "KJV only" protestant:
https://youtu.be/PRgcQraCrL8
1:47:30-1:51:21
what i appreciate in this interview is land's WASP realism where it concerns the dignity of occult legitimacy; his central claim being that the "lemurian" (as opposed to "atlantean") technology of the numogram gives license to [AQ]: "alphanumeric qabbala" [A=10, Z=35]. this is the reason his pfp on twitter is "333" btw, since "dark enlightenment" = 333 [AQ] this in effect, makes english a holy language by concordance, the same way we have hebrew, arabic, greek and latin qabalah. my preferred system is [EO] "english ordinal" [A=1, Z=26]. some concordances made from the KJV:
<"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." [revelation 13:18]
>"six-six-six" = 156 [EO]
>"the number of a man" = 156 [EO]
<"I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." [revelation 22:16]
>"Jesus" = 74 [EO]
>"Lucifer" = 74 [EO]

other just reading Marx for yourself instead of having that shit get filtered through a bunch of dumbass party splits and sectarian shitflinging I would recommend reading the history of class struggles in your region. Us burgers got peoples history of the united states as a good start for example. This is moreso advice than a reading recommendation I suppose but I would read theory from all socialist camps and not just one. For example anarchism and marxsim-leninism both hold equal contributions to the movement while also being equally flawed and very much stuck in the past. So its best to just read from both groups and synthesize the good shit and leave the dumb shit in the past.

>>24488
>>24480

tbh most our so called "third worldist" posters are prolly white first worlders who think the rest of the world is as annoying and entitled as there suburbanite peers, think abt all the threads of people who actually live in the global south pissing these posters off by attempting to explain that being a resentful r9k poster with some vaguely marxist jargon added in is just annoying, counterproductive and really just an elaborate cope for there own inability to talk with members of the public abt socialism in a constructive manner. just tell them to post wall socket+hand+timestamp next time they go on a rant abt how there one of the good ones and the rest of us are just uncouth orcs.

>>24490
This. Most imageboards are just mainly post-adolescent males whining about how life sucks because they didn't get laid with hot virgin teenage girls.
They don't wanna do any serious work at all.
They just wanna have a hobby career.

>>24480
If you're serious about actually understanding Marxism—not the liberalized, toothless version that treats worker co-ops as the end goal—you need to ground yourself in foundational theory, not vague market-friendly nonsense.

Start with Engels for a solid orientation:

"Principles of Communism" lays out the basics in Q&A format: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

"Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" helps contrast real scientific socialism with moralistic daydreams: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Engels_Socialism_Utopian_and_Scientific.pdf

Before diving into Capital, it's worth getting a grip on Marx’s political economy:

"Value, Price and Profit" — dissects surplus value and wages under capitalism: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf

"Wage Labor and Capital" — earlier and simpler, good to pair with the above: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/wage-labour-capital.pdf

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Read the short list for beginners here https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/sw/index.htm

>>24470
but is mesoamerica famous because of modern mexico? or is mexico famous because of its mesoamerican ruins?

>>24467
for indigenous societies in brazil read florestan fernandes, curt nimuendaju, ronaldo vainfas, joão azevedo fernandes and eduardo viveiros de castro. there are some indigenous writers such as david kopenawa and ailton krenak
http://www.etnolinguistica.org/
this repository is useful

This one was pretty ground breaking to me, I had no idea that some people in the Owen's Valley were practicing agriculture, and even if I did, I would have naively assumed they were just planting corn.

>>24473
Mexico is a large country because of Spanish colonialism. It's one of the largest Latin American countries, and it shares a border with the US. The mesoamerican ruins aren't responsible for that. It's the other way around.

>>24484
>Mexico is a large country because of Spanish colonialism.
but that was not what i asked

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Looking for Michael Hudson's book, "Privatization and the Ancient Near East". Not on Anna's, anyone have it? Tysm

Does anyone got the book "Anarchism, Organization and Management: Critical Perspectives for Students" pdf?

>>22276 (me)
Found a book that is quite close to that, did someone already read it? It looks exactly like what i was looking for:
"ephemera: theory & politics in organization management business anarchism"

https://ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/2022-01/14-4ephemera-nov14.pdf

mods can you pin this thread, there's good links here

Which has more adherents, traditionalist catholicism or liberation theology? Does it differ in Europe vs LatAm? Why/how?

Looking for good books on atheism

What's some good resources for getting into witchcraft, particularly Wicca, proper? Like I understand the basics sort of, but I'd like to develop an understanding of it that isn't just scrapped together from youtube videos.

>>9083
Alawites are "ghulat", ie extermists, meaning they worship ali as an aspect of god, making them technically heretical to all mainstream forms of shia islam.

>>9052
I will say one of the bad consequences of Marxism was that it separated socialism from spirituality and religion. Before Marx, most utopian socialist movements were religious or occult groups or freemason lodges. This separation made scientific socialism crude, mechanical, and soulless form of political scientism.

>>9106
>there's a good reason atheists tend to be angry about religion and all the barbarism it involves
That's because most of them are ironically fundmamentalists who portray religion in a specific way to alleviate themselves. Its similar to how the Germans pass the Holocaust guilt onto Nazis and immigrants. And although they champion criticism, they chimp out whenever you criticize them or imply their narratives are flawed. The myth of an essentially evil and barbaric religion, timeless and everywhere the same, is pure projection, a myth cooked up by the atheist. The reason most online atheists are angry about religion is because they are as bigoted as Jerry Falwell.

>>10499
I've never liked Dabashi. I don't think this book is a good work of theology and the whole post-colonial studies thing is a dead end.

>>24337
not really , i am not even a muslim
i just love to research about religions , any religions
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honestly i did not knew where should i put it

I don't think this means very much. I've never seen anyone reverse the Quran. But if you are interested in bizarre interpretive techniques, take a look at Hurufism.