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'The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.' - Karl Marx
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 No.9298[Reply]

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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 No.12199

https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-online-collections-and-archives/

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>>12199
Absolutely based ads.


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 No.12217[Reply]

Reading group for Volume 1 of Capital. The reading pace will adjust to suit the group, but we will aim for an average of 1 chapter per week, starting slower and speeding up as we move from abstract to concrete toward the end.

The Book
The version we are using as our standard is the Penguin Classics edition (attached .epub) but others including other languages are fine. We are only planning to read Volume 1 currently.
There has also been an audiobook suggested which matches this version of the text and may be useful to helping read it.
Audiobook: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjbFtkcDBlSHVigHHx_wjaeWmDN2W-h8

The Format
This thread is intended for
<announcements and updates
<supplementary material.
<Q&A
<long-form posts, effortposts, OC
<slower discussion in general
The matrix chat is intended for
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 No.12690

>>12651
Use-value doesn't factor in here beyond the fact that the commodity produced is a use-value by definition. Marx's point in this section is that the value transferred by the worker through labor fluctuates according to productivity + changes in the exchange value of the commodity (for instance due to productivity changes in other capitals that produce the same commodity). His explanation here is meant to resolve the apparent paradox that a worker can somehow transfer less value to a commodity even while his productivity stays constant.

 No.12691

>>12652
Given a certain productivity the worker will always transfer more value in two hours of work as opposed to one.


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 No.6563[Reply]

A list of reading groups and their schedules that have chosen to advertise themselves here. Take a minute to check them out. If you would like to promote your reading group, feel free to leave a comment telling people where they can go.

>>5912 /read/

>>6162 Continental Floppa
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 No.12219

/kapital/ 2023 is >>12217 here.

 No.12241

>>11754
The fiction chapter was actually pretty nice and made me a bit happier about paying full price for the book. I do feel like it would have been better with fewer citations and more primary arguments. I would hope that the authors can collaborate with eco-marxist academics or literature in the future to produce a substantial, interdisciplinary work, which includes a lot more social science.


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 No.10481[Reply]

Less about the parasocial more about the signal.

Less about subscribing to an individual podcast, more about listening to individual episodes and why that episode resonated.

Not videos. This is a chance for you to educate yourself while working, doing chores or exercising.

I'll go first. This episode of politics theory other was memorable because it made me reconsider the intersection of sex and politics, particularly as someone who sees themselves as becoming more skeptical about everything surrounding idpol as it's being co-opted and weaponized.

https://play.acast.com/s/politicstheoryother/tag%3Asoundcloud%2C2010%3Atracks%2F1136311165
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 No.10816

>>10771
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>Regarding Deprogram, I recommend Episode 20, where the editor for Mint press is a guest. He has an interesting perspective on media that I haven't seen much outside Chomsky and an interesting book on Mexican think tanks I picked up once (Conocimiento y Poder, Alejandra Salas-Porras for the curious).

This post delivers. Philosophy, an extremely memorable episode rec and a book rec ( Think Tanks and Global Politics: Key Spaces in the Structure of Power, Alejandra Salas-Porras, 2017, libgen.is).

I've just listened to two of the Deprogram episodes and the episode you mentioned stayed with me. In the exact same vein, possibly even more up to the minute with it's geopolitical analysis, is this recent episode of American Exception:

https://jumble.top/american_exception/files/post-66928158-1.mp3

It's a podcast too important to be kept behind patreon paywalls imo, so here it is:

https://jumble.top/american_exception/feed.xml

 No.11682

Decoding the Gurus, a couple of insufferable academolibs with a reasonable podcast, did a decent analysis of the recent "Sensemaking" online psychological guru fad. Sensemaking is Peterson for people who go to burning man, it looks like.

It's pretty funny. They focus on a podcast episode where 3 sensemaking gurus get together and….vibe. I'm gonna say that the sensemakers are adjacent to the Dark One in some way, and funded by him.

 No.11683

Ya Im not going to name individual podcast episodes lol, but Ezra Kleins podcast is good, especially when he has Adam Tooze on

>>10483
If you like This is Hell! Youll like KPFA - Behind the News as well, those two are my fav by far. That said idk if they are explicitly leftist or whatever, its more implied

 No.11767

You want to be educated on the technical details of the Nord Stream sabotage? In detail?

Get the latest episode of The East Is A Podcast. A Frenchist goes deep on how it happened and why it's probably irreversible.

A massive multi billion dollar infrastructure project between trading blocs blown up by another nation. Just mind blowing.

 No.12762

Latest 2 part episode from Subliminal Jihad about the rootless cosmopolitan who controls the Manhattan prosecutor is a banger. It's an extremely in depth history of the guy but also something new. An account of his influence on art scenes globally and other ONTOPS. Extremely memorable. Here's the patreon feed https://kingdex.xyz/feeds/Subliminal%20Jihad_torrent_rss.xml


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 No.12714[Reply]

I mean like are they actually working toward socialism considering they're pretty much a nationalist state heavily relying on state capitalism for funding right now? At this point, they're more likely to turn into the next globalist world power if they do manage to outlast the US.
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 No.12756

>>12754
After CIA helped him get in power and kill gommies, he no longer had any purpose after 1991 and it was time to cut loose ends

 No.12757

>>12756
Sure but why did it have to be destroyed so comprehensively?

 No.12758

>>12757
haliburton reconstruction contracts

 No.12759

>>12753
no youre right king everything should be owned by porky but go off i guess

 No.12761

>>12759
yeah exactly what i said well done


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 No.12760[Reply]

What are some good narrative non-fiction books?
I'm talking about non-fiction books telling a more focused, vividly detailed story akin to fiction. Like pic related or Pity the Nation by Robert Fisk

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 No.7295[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

i'm curious to learn about him, how catastrophic was he for soviet agriculture or was he actually not all that bad? i'd appreciate some reading material about this matter too thanks
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 No.12703

>>12702
Jesus, your analogies suck. If you don't understand how computers works, please, don't try to explain the biology through them. For example, no, storage devices don't use same segment for multiple files, that would be catastrophic. Which is why computer files are distinct. Genes aren't.

>Genes are distinct
Nucleotides are. Genes aren't. They are metaphysical concept and a pretty outdated one. Which happens when you try to use metaphysical approach to describe a process.

You basically ignored the most important parts of my argument about genes overlaping and lack of definition for them that most biologists would agree to and just threw up multiple BAD analogies to computers about the first point.

 No.12704

>>12702
Are you using "highschool computer science" too?

 No.12705

>>12703
>For example, no, storage devices don't use same segment for multiple files
Sure they do, like if I have a document that contains references to another file existing elsewhere. It works the same way as a particular protein referencing a particular DNA segment. I can have multiple documents that reference the same file elsewhere and if I change that file the wrong way it can break the reference.
>Nucleotides are. Genes aren't.
If genes weren't distinct protein synthesis would be impossible. The process of building a protein molecule needs to have a beginning and an end. If the set of instructions (genes) were not distinct the process wouldn't work.

>You basically ignored the most important parts of my argument about genes overlaping
No I addressed that. It's more efficient. When you compress a file you follow a similar principle of having a smaller number of reference points to cover more results you need to get.
>and lack of definition for them that most biologists would agree to
"Scientists can't agree on a definition" doesn't mean something doesn't exist. Do you gravity isn't real until there's a consensus scientific definition? Total non argument and you should be embarrassed to even say it once let alone to repeat it.

You are just mad because you're ideologically wed to a wrong position and resort to insults and pretending your arguments weren't addressed because you have nothing else.

 No.12706

>>12705
>Sure they do, like if I have a document that contains references to another file existing elsewhere.
The more i talk to you the more i have the idea that you just don't know what you are talking about. No, "ones and zeros" are not shared between files. That would be architectural nighmare.
>If genes weren't distinct protein synthesis would be impossible.
Not if you stop thinking in metapysical framework.
>"Scientists can't agree on a definition" doesn't mean something doesn't exist.
It does mean that the specific defition is problematic. Biologist don't have same problems with DNA or protein for example.
>Do you gravity isn't real until there's a consensus scientific definition?
Except there is. Please don't throw random argument and hope they just stick.
>It's more efficient. When you compress a file you follow a similar principle of having a smaller number of reference points to cover more results you need to get.
Learn how compression works. Information is compressed within one file. This file doesn't "reference" (what the fuck does that even mean? a link?) other files by sharing "ones and zeros". In fact it would be a separate file from the original. And "information" within that file would be compressed, which is why information is not a physical distinct thing, but file is.
> ideologically wed to a wrong position
Ironic

 No.12755

this biochemical process is 'metaphysics' according to online MLs


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 No.10452[Reply]

Recently got this book, because it sounded interesting and reading the first pages I found it to be promising. So I'm dropping it in here. Perhaps we can talk about it.

It's a collection of essays by Evald Ilyenkov, a Soviet philosopher, who acted as a figure to make Hegel's role in Marxism understandable and accessible to the general public.
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 No.12644

>>12643
Okay, stick to jerking off to TikTok then

 No.12646

>>12636
damn crypto positivist.
Diamat is theory.

 No.12647

>>10452
>Evald Ilyenkov
I like some of his stuff but he's a bit too much of a hegelian for me. I lean towards the anti Humanist stances, kinda like althusser though I think his structuralism leans too far much into postmodern positions and his comments on political economy can be retarded especially on the productive relations. their was a brand of anti Humanist sentiment within the early Soviet Union though (prolekult specifically, though I have my issues with them).
>>10650
> i never read any hegel, only marx+lenin+stalin
Have you ever thought about reading Plekhanov before?

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>>12647
Say what you want about Althusser, but he put anti-humanism into practice

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 No.12699[Reply]

Any recommendations on works detailing how Japan became an imperialist economy from its third-world origins?

I'm well aware that Japan and USSR are the two Third World "success stories"(with the latter being used by shitlibs to justify imperialism in my experience) but I have no concrete knowledge on how they became this way. I would like to fix that weakness.
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 No.12723

>>12710
Looking at Japan in the 19th century I don't see how it makes sense to call them "underdeveloped" either unless you really want to insist everything needs to run like in Europe for something to be considered "developed" even when their society was fully functional. That aside, this video is a great Marxist analysis of Japan's path toward an imperialist nation. It's in Russian but it has subtitles. Don't be a brainlet about it, it's a good documentary.

 No.12725

>>12723
>in russian
>hour and a half of subtitles

I might as well just read a book. Do you have a book?

 No.12727

>>12725
How do you watch foreign media man

 No.12730

>>12727
When I watch a kurosawa movie I'm watching a movie. Subtitles are fine. But like, why would I watch a 2 hour documentary in another language when I could just read a book.

 No.12731

>>12730
Fair


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 No.4166[Reply]

Hey /e/Im a brainlet prole that recently got a scholarships to university, and Im wondering if there are any resources that you could recommend to improve general academic skills with an emphasis on essay writing. I've done a general scan for books and courses on libgen and TPB. But I wanted to get some advise with a left perspective. When I say brainlet I mean dyslexic and when I say prole I mean any unskilled job I can land (bar work, kitchen work, construction, etc.) My degree is in healthcare and administration.
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I like this one.

 No.10556

The academic writing style for undergraduates can be summed up with a few key points/

1: Never make any claim that you don't have a source for. Have references for everything.
2: Write from the third person impersonal perspective.

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 No.12729

>>10556
Fundamentally learning is an active process of engaging with material. While what you say is true, some stupid 18 year old kid isn't going to understand the point without putting the work in to understand it. Much like people who think someone elses notes are a good cope for actually reading a book.


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