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Can someone get me a digital copy of Pikkety's Capital?

>>10691
History is one of the most powerful types of texts you can give to people who are new to leftism. By that I don't necessarily mean pushing Howard Zinn (though that can be a good idea, depending on the context), but simply finding a good marxist text about a time period the high-schoolers you're taking care of might be interested. Like, finding out about how nightmarish the formation of capitalism was can be just as powerful as reading Marx. So Parenti (for more recent stuff like Yugoslavia), Thompson, etc. can be great introductions without being too difficult to read.

>>11049
I like Byung-Chul Han, but he does go on some Hegelian and Heideggerian tangents that are nigh impenetrable if you're not already acquainted with the stuff (and even then…). Graeber is fine though, but maybe some of his other works might be more interesting?

>>11066
This is a fun one.

I've been reading this document on the history of the PLP, and this passage stuck out to me:

>SNCC was critical of the non-violent King leadership, but correctly united with him during the mass campaigns like the 1963 March on Washington, the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer and the 1965 Selma demonstrations. In the heyday of this phase of the movement (1961-1965) PL was far too small to be considered as a useful ally for SNCC, which had at one point 700 full-time cadre, more than 90% Black and 50% working class, and directly led more than 150,000 Black people in SNCC chapters or in allied organizations, like the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. PL, on its part, was turned off by SNCC’s official non-violent policy. (In practice, however, especially in Mississippi SNCC cadre were involved in armed self-defense; the PL leadership was largely ignorant of what was really going on in the South.) PL’s members were tied to New York City and either too ignorant of what was going on or too arrogant towards the Southern struggle to participate in the struggle as rank and file SNCC cadre.

Given that I'm also dealing with eager urban kids, I want to make sure that they don't fall into the same traps of being eager to act with fellow comrades in a different region but being too ignorant to act properly. Is there anything I can teach them in that regard other than the obvious "Get debriefed by local comrades"?

>>11448
Link, of course: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/5retreats/chapter3.htm

>>10122
Thanks anon.

>>10122
Why did Marx say this:
>England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia.
?
https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1853/07/22.htm

>>10133
Engels is talking about Britain essentially uprooting India's culture and unlike prior conquerors (all of whom are Asian) The British had a completely foreign culture and developmentally surpassed India in all regards, permitting them to utterly dominate Indian culture. This and their selfish industrial development provided India the push to break off from its under-developed feudalism. Essentially Britain's power acts as a force to push the historical dialectics of India to the next level.

>>7965
giga-based

>>11437
I am not worried because I don't give anyone a reason to start a witch hunt. No posters, or evil flags or memes, I do try to present "all sides" in a way that lets them analyze things critically and teach them research methods. I'm not here wearing che guevara shirts.
>>11436
All branches of government, and then a semester of basic economics and financial literacy. I do not want to do a "stock market game" as many people do.
>>11438
You're right, and if I skip it I might end up being accused of being a commie and all. The students are already aware of it being heavily ideologically and politically driven since they're about to graduate.

>>11440
It's always good to let students discover things on their own. Like the other anon suggests. Once a kid was asking me about socialism and stalin and the crimes of communism. I simply questioned him and his sources, like "could you find out where this infromation originates? who wrote this? where is the original research? is this a reputable researcher? what criticisms have people made about them?". Originally I told him I wasn't convinced about socialism. A month later he was trying to convince me that most things I had heard about communism were not true. Hehe, great success.

So I think having kids do their own research is profitable.

I think it can be good to introduce the idea that naziism was a project by industrialists to expand their profits and rid the country of all "innefficiencies". Idk how true it is, I'm not an expert.

Also great to encourage kids to find commonality of naziism in the conflicts of today. They'll for sure say "russia!" but if you encourage them to look beyond the ethnic cleansing and see other instances of scapegoating that have been used to wage war on others. Also good to not have "wrong" answers, more than anything to exercise thinking, but you're probably a better teacher than I am, so what the fuck do I know.

>>11440
>branches of government
I think you want to emphasize the origin of the bourgeois republic in the absolutist state apparatus. Germany's civil service had a near seamless transition.
>basic economics
You could teach some classical economics as a gateway to the LTV.
>stock market game
What if you simulated an economic cycle but most students were workers and some stakeholders? You could tie both into each other, as the coordination of funds is the most important aspect of the stock market.

>>11441
>I think it can be good to introduce the idea that naziism was a project by industrialists to expand their profits and rid the country of all "innefficiencies". Idk how true it is, I'm not an expert.
wait, didn't nazism exist in the first place and then got taken advantage of by capitalists?

This isn't an answer, but I just want to congratulate you on trying. I had a lefty teacher too once, and he was the one that helped me find the other few leftists in the school(which in a school of majority asians isn't easy) and actually start to do shit, learning from the activists in the school and learning how to avoid becoming useless or figureheads from the student gov(though to be honest, there were a few students and faculty[even a fucking librarian] that were allied with us involved in that, so it's not like there wasn't motivation to try).
He(along with an English teacher I didn't like at first but grew to respect later on) also got me out of my Caleb Maupin-ish phase, so I have to thank them for that too.

Mein Kampf

Giovanni Gentile

>>11378
Pic related.
It's you.

>>11429
They are just taking the average ratings. Among US advocates for electoral reform this is called Range Voting. The only new thing (though even this is debatable since I don't know everything) is that the voting scale goes not from zero to something positive or is symmetric with positive and negative, but it goes zero to very negative. From a mathematical point of view, this is completely irrelevant. With strategic voters it works out the same (they will only use the most extreme ratings). But it might make a psychological difference.

You could do much, much worse than using average ratings. But this text appears very superficial and misleading. First of, outside of the writings of these authors the word consensus means something else. Almost any voting method in use prevents that an option A wins whenever there is an option B that Pareto-dominates A, that is B is preferred by at least one person while nobody prefers option A to B. In that sense, consensus methods are used everywhere. But saying you "use consensus" refers to the more restrictive idea (which doesn't scale well) that literally nobody in the group is against the decision.

And second, the "analysis" of strategic voting is hilarious. Some little kids tried to be strategic and it didn't work out for them this one time, so strategy doesn't matter… SERIOUSLY?

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>How to argue and win every time
a good book about how to argue ?, if not is there others.
one i'd like is how to combat sophistry, because right winger and right-wing adjacent like breadtubers and their fans love it.

The arch-typical capitalist story features a guy who starts with nothing but an idea, an idea nobody else has, and then this marvelous guy (who is a fusion of entrepreneur and engineer) is the first to bring the idea to market and is justly rewarded with fabulous riches. The Box by Marc Levinson (I read the 2nd edition, 2016) is not such a story. It's about the development of container shipping. And it's not really one thing, but an interlocking system of parts that must be compatible to bring the big savings. It did not take off earlier because of multiple reasons like anti-monopoly regulation standing in the way of one firm controlling several parts and making them compatible and transport fees depending on the particular goods (since you can't look inside containers, the default was to charge the highest fee!), and last but not least, unions being afraid of losing jobs (and with good reason).

It's a good book but drags on a bit.

>>2940
is there a book talking about this guy ?.
Molotov has more books about him.

>>11406
And all of 12 comments.

Leftypol must be filled with fatasses

>mfw I just ran over a mile because I had some time to kill.
also here's that excerpt about Lenin being a gymbro

>>11413
I sure the time deserved it, but I hope the mile is ok

>>11092
>>11124
>Isnt fittness just something extremely common in general
lmao this
but either way, the major communist parties have run sporting groups since at least the comintern in many countries

>>11416
who are you talking to lmao