PDF / EPUB Dump Thread Comrade 21-12-20 05:21:06 No. 1250 [Last 50 Posts]
Drop those PDF's or else
Comrade 21-12-20 05:21:11 No. 1294
Books about the Russian Revolution/Soviet Union:
https://www.leftypol.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=217 You can find a PDF of almost everything in that list on Libgen.
Anonymous 03-08-21 21:08:59 No. 6704
>>6701 You can still download papers through libgen:
https://libgen.is/scimag/ It won't fetch new ones though.
Anonymous 03-08-21 23:12:44 No. 6707
>>6693 I literally have 5000 pdfs downloaded on probably every subject in existance
How the fuck am I gonna read all that
Anonymous 18-09-21 21:32:04 No. 7036
>>7034 I like epubs too because then I can read it on my ereader. But if it is something that I am going to read on the computer for some reason, I actually do prefer pdfs
or djvu simply because the software is better for it.
Anonymous 23-09-21 04:59:33 No. 7254
>>7075 En español!
Cosillas que encontré por ahí
Anonymous 14-10-21 08:26:17 No. 8101
>>8055 This looks very interesting.
>>8059 Here you go, anon.
Anonymous 06-11-21 09:07:24 No. 8566
Communiqué From an Ex-Cop:>A heavily annotated edition of LAPD killer cop Christopher Dorner’s final statement to the world. Published on the one-month anniversary of his final act, extensive footnotes and primary-sourced appendices provide extensive historical context for Dorner’s grievances with, and criticisms of, his former employer: the Los Angeles Police Department. From its rigged internal tribunals to the racket of police overtime pay to the invention of the term “suicide by cop” by the academic-law-enforcement complex, this zine discards the “rambling manifesto” frame presented by the media and sincerely takes up Dorner’s challenge to journalists to investigate his allegations of a billion-dollar institution rife with corruption, racism, and brutality. 2013. 94 pp. >A reportback from the 2020 George Floyd uprising in New York City. 48 pp. 2020. >Examining the plight of the imprisoned Pacific Northwest grand jury resisters [now since freed], this zine also functions as a primer on grand juries in general. It includes the resisters’ statements, newspaper articles, primary documents, tips on how to handle grand jury subpoenas, and a detailed history of grand juries and their use as a tool to suppress political organizing and radical struggle in the US. 75 pp. 2012. >Through its pointless rivalries and competition for city dollars, the New York Police Department allowed hundreds of firefighters to die in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Cops looted retail shops at Ground Zero, violently suppressed a protest by firefighters trying to recover the bodies of their dead friends, and arrested multiple fire department union leaders in retaliation. Cops looted retail shops at Ground Zero, violently suppressed protests by firefighters trying to recover the bodies of their dead friends, and arrested multiple fire department union leaders in retaliation. The NYPD spent the next decade-plus building an intelligence apparatus with more legal powers than the FBI. With the creation of victim compensation funds and favorable law-enforcement retirement laws, cops have systematically scammed the government in doctor-aided plots to secure lucrative disability pensions and federal payouts, lying about 9/11-related PTSD and "fear of crowds" while selling cannolis in Little Italy at the Feast of San Gennaro. Authorities and the media have made sure that the errant heroism of New York's Finest can never been forgotten, but stories of their misdeeds and incompetence have fallen into a memory hole as deep as a billion-dollar memorial pool.
Anonymous 06-11-21 09:32:05 No. 8568
The Political Writings - Karl Marx
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=24B5B1C1E77D631124FA69C66CD30C09 couldn't find a pdf of it, but it's a pretty solid compilation of Marx's non-philosophical non-economic stuff
Anonymous 26-11-21 03:03:06 No. 8779
In response to
>>>/leftypol/617455 First attachment is a decent but dry textbook over what little we know of the Roman economy.
Second attachment is from an economist who says Rome operated as a sort of market economy, I haven't read it fully but there's nothing I've seen that is outrageous.
Third is a more modern account of the "fall" of the Western Roman empire. Gibbons obviously had a motive when he wrote his book, to blame Christianity for the fall. In his writing, Christianity literally brought the apocalypse to Rome, and if Europe has any hope to not repeat history's mistakes, it was to embrace the enlightenment and perhaps even atheism (gasp!).
Adrian Goldsworthy is a reliable historian in my book, so I also recommend his biographies on the two big names in Roman history. They act as a sort of entry point into all things Roman, because it is impossible to understand the circumstances they were both facing without understanding the surrounding geo-political (gauls), economic (slaves), and societal (founding myth, patronage, auctoritas, tradition, virtue, etc.) functions of Rome.
Anonymous 20-05-22 15:39:36 No. 10737
>>10531 >>10532 >Sheila Fitzpatrick Bro, THANK YOU!
On another note, anybody have Zizek's How to read Lacan?
Anonymous 06-08-22 02:52:40 No. 11379
>>11378 Pic related.
It's you.
Anonymous 14-08-22 18:34:09 No. 11431
>>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?
Anonymous 29-08-22 00:09:47 No. 11571
>>11431 >But it might make a psychological difference. I think this is the key, it's less about the mechanics of it than it is how people use/understand them. It also, imo, communicates better in that "What is the least you're willing to tolerate to get X" tends to get people begrudgingly "consenting" (rather than consensus) to a few options. They feel as though they at least were heard legitimately (and so tended to go with the decision and support it even if disagreeing with it), at least that's the feedback I've received from trying it.
fwiw I've used a variant of this + Paul Cockshott's + Wobblies stuff to facilitate extremely tight and effective meetings and organising efforts. Not because "it's new", but rather because to enough people it's seen as a "renewed" and "direct" (no representatives, just delegates and working groups who action the decisions in order of "consent").
Also I just like it can be done with hands, digital, paper, etc.
Also it works good in a spreadsheet or their own website:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/188NNN3czQvQu8jGek-Wg8HqEbPlpM-ieTuhtu8jzkzU/edit#gid=81144936 https://www.plays-in-business.com/systemic-consensing-what-the-hell-is-this/ https://acceptify.at/en/start >>11490 >>11491 >>11493 >>11499 haha time to despook myself from media brainworms yet again!
Anonymous 30-01-23 18:35:10 No. 12306
>>12196 Since no one did it, I decided to do it myself.
This is my first time doing something like this so bare with me.
Anonymous 01-02-23 14:03:53 No. 12316
>>12314 thank you comrade!
i have the pdf of the newer one but post the older one on accident lol.
Anonymous 14-03-23 05:03:45 No. 12619
>>12404 Why do you need a companion to the Grundrisse?
It's just a bunch of notebooks that anyone can pick up and read
Anonymous 18-03-23 10:55:43 No. 12648
>>12645 There's already historical context in the Grundrisse
Again, it's a bunch of expository notes for a critique of political economy
Very straight-forward and self-explaining
Anonymous 13-04-23 12:38:15 No. 12821
>>12820 (me)
>>12818 It even starts praising the United States by p. 101, what the
actual fuck? Well at least they know their audience, but for some reason I thought the dudes at Midwestern Marx were at least somewhat better than this
Anonymous 07-07-23 12:51:53 No. 18570
>>12650 >A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital Lolwut
Pop Marxism is out of control
Anonymous 26-06-24 22:02:03 No. 22356
>>22339 Check this out:
https://eregime.jcink.net/index.php?showtopic=17670 Also I have a ton if you want anything specific. Black history? Labor history? Those are mainly what I got
Anonymous 30-06-24 18:17:41 No. 22377
>>22356 Thanks man, i was specifically looking for book that depict the US from the end of the civil war till the modern say since i've already read upon the american revolution and antebellum period.
Also generally looking for economic history of any nation for that same matter.
Anonymous 04-07-24 21:02:22 No. 22401
>>22377 You should read
The Color of Politics by Mike Goldfield
Who Built America? (2 vols) by Herbert Gutman/The American Social History Project
America's 60 Families by Ferdinand Lundberg
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