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Around the 29 minute mark Peterson criticizes Marx and Engel's for assuming that workers would magically become more productive once they took over.

This actually happened historically, most of the actually effective productivity tricks work places use now were developed by Stakhanovites.

https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1936-2/year-of-the-stakhanovite/year-of-the-stakhanovite-texts/stalin-at-the-conference-of-stakhanovites/
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Post Copy pastas, videos and books which debunk common Fascist, Liberal talking points which are repeated often.

So, before the site went down there was a thread about serious, rigorous, economic books about socialism, and economics in general, so, not "pop economics", anyway, any good recommendation of serious economics books?

I keep seeing takes on the internet that claim Science™ is Marxist. Is this as wrong as I think it is, and if it's not, why? I haven't read enough of my priors on dialectical materialism to pin down exactly where this goes wrong, but I've taken enough philosophy of science courses to say this is diamat woowoo scientism.

Is all radfem literature like this?

This shit is some of the most ludicrous, hyperbolic grievance mongering I have ever read. There's interesting shit floating around in here, but it is drifting in a sea of "every man is a wife-beating rapist who caused all the world's problems." Even though the book is directly comparing Zionism and feminism and seems to advocate for a lady Israel, it's mostly just couched in whining about men. Dworkin doesn't even have the fucking stones to be a strong Zionist. She's one of these wishy-washy Zionists who thinks that Zionists and Palestinians can co-exist, and maybe one day Israeli and Palestinian women can come together and unite against their REAL enemy: men! (lol) (lmao)

Any leftist critique of the racialist religion of Judaism? Apart from Israel Shahak who was an anti-apartheid left-liberal activist that also campaigned against colonialism, I can’t think of any other polemicist that criticised Judaism, as the rest are either secular chuds or fundamentalist theists.

What's the leftypol take on this book? I'm not trolling - it's existence has haunted my life. I was raised catholic… Christianity has both ruined & saved my life and my opinions on it have only gotten more complex.

Some of the greatest art of all time has been religiously motivated. But the question of Christianity specifically is a big one. On one hand all manner of brown people are more sincerely christian than a lot of white people have ever been. It might be the one thing saving Africa right now!

But on the other hand The first Roman Empire & Greek empire were polytheistic & they might have achieved a civilizational peak that surpasses the situation we live in right now. Christianity is very homophobic & a huge portion of Europe/UK demographics are atheist & seem to be some of the happiest nations on earth. Christianity might even be the reason that the Roman Empire fell & is responsible for a lot of really bad imperialism & colonialism.

What am I supposed to make of it? Jesus was surely a good man, no? The word of god has saved homeless, sick, and morally corrupt. Where does the justification to do evil come from when people read this?

Apparently this book is quite controversial if not hated among contemporary Marxists, but I can't tell if it's because it's actually deeply flawed (I've read the first few chapters and I thought they were pretty strong) or if it's just resentment from continentals

Every book, chapter, page, and parable Nietzsche has ever written, is "the invalid is the parasite"; a lap dance with a woman's butt in your face.

In America, we call that the Central Intelligence Agency; the son or daughter of a woman in a battered women's shelter, and a military marital counselor and therapist on private medical pharmacy.

The CIA, and related organizations managed by the "Company", the insurance numbers out of American Univerisity in Dubai, UAE, can't marry into the police, sheriffs, or dean's guilds.

Otherwise, if one of ours evades, man or woman, we get a new "spy movie"; we figure out how you killed the badged spouse, and put it to film.

I earned "Mandelbrot Sequence", a DC Comics author; Cassie-Leigh Stock, Move On Political Officer; "American Ultra", the film designed to kill a Move On Feminist Critical Informer, every time; only if she approaches anything from an accountant to a military staff general.