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still making my way through capital vol 1. finally on part c of machinery and large industry. god damn i'm never gonna finish this book



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CORE THEORY
>The Society of the Spectacle (1967) by Guy Debord
📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
📺 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0blWjssVoUQ

<The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936) by Walter Benjamin

📖 • https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
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>>2586716
>>2587713
>>2587860
>>2587895 <-this poster is right.

So-called Mao suits predate Mao's revolution. But they are a new enough style to associate them with China's struggle for independence. I love to be pedantic and that's why I call them Sun Yat-sen suits.

>>2589046
If she dated a non-white, married, and impregnated – then she'd know of their history and stuff.
She can have the dark thoughts or whatever, but she knew that it was just a shity person.

>>2589130
>Because two people wronged you?
<you got knocked up and abandoned twice? no big deal, just like forgive them and stuff lmao
Racism aside, don't pretend this is on the same level as being cheated out of a couple dollars.

>>2589046
>nooooooooo I donated my money to a coal-burning mudshark to own the libs
There must be at least one chvddie mass shooting because of this

>>2589046
Nah this is dumb as fuck.
As materialists we have to reject lizard brain thinking. We shouldn't abandon emotion wholesale when communicating, but when constructing actual worldviews, anecdotes have extremely limited value. She is still a bad person for being racist and the entire system that lets bad people turn into grifters and make bank needs to be dismantled.

>>2589055
You have a Hollywood understanding of the world.



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Previous thread: >>2177902

Dump all the seemingly pointless, dubious, and frivolous questions that don't deserve their own shitty threads.

Got a question that's probably been asked a million times before? You're in the right landfill, buddy. Post it here.

Threads that otherwise might go in here will eventually find themselves become merged to this thread.
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>>2588575
there is no difference between personal and private property except the class which owns it.

>>2588584
So if it was owned by someone who was working class, would it not be considered private?

>>2588587
all property is either privately owned or publicly owned. marx never distinguishes between what is "personal" and "private" (since they mean the same thing), but only the classes which possess their property. if a worker owns something, that is their private property - if a capitalist owns something, that is their private property. the difference is their class, which puts them in possession of different means; workers possess means of labour; capitalists, means of production.

>>2588575
personal
private property is companies, factories, mines, tankers and container ships, the means of production basically

>>2588584
>>2588594
if you're an ignorant retard just shut the fuck instead of spouting stupid shit, seriously I almost hope you come here to troll people because how can someone be such a dumbfuck and try to answer questions

>>2392231
I don’t see why this can’t be done in any society in general.



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I'm probably going to get jumped but uh regardless, I'm feeling very frustrated because a lot of the more far left people i listen to keep saying to stop supporting stuff like DSA and junk and move to something more radical. but then they don't offer anything more radical, so we're just stuck in this feedback loop and i feel frustrated because i genuinely want to help. They keep saying that my arguments for not working on non-viable stuff is flawed but then they don't offer any alternatives and it's driving me up the wall. My main hope is that if a Dem Teaparty goes off, we can work on building actual space for third parties post trump. But I'm struggling on ways to do that, if any of you have any basic starter groups for a noobie demsoc like me please let me know. I wouldn't be here if i wasn't desperate
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>>2589188
>Just be a sophist and travel around telling individual proles about the book you read and surely they'll be instantly convinced and the revolution will happen that way

Anarchist schizophrenia and literal idealist bullshit. You have to do things in an organized, democratic, centralized manner. With hierarchy. And real power. An actual monopoly on violence within your jurisdiction. You must create your own communist controlled state by either welding a ready made state or replacing it entirely with your own.

There is no other choice. It has been done elsewhere, and it will be done in America as well. But there is a distance between point A and point B that you cannot teleport past. You must traverse it. Swallow your pride and grow up. Interact with people you disagree with on the specifics to actually help people.

>>2589200
>Just be a sophist and travel around telling individual proles about the book you read and surely they'll be instantly convinced and the revolution will happen that way

Literally none of this has anything to do with my post, but okay wrecker.
>Anarchist schizophrenia and literal idealist bullshit.
You are one of the last people on earth who should be saying this. Stop shitting up the threads you glowing ass succdem.

>>2589205
>Don't join any parties
>Vague paranoid suggestions for praxis
>Calling me the wrecker

K bud.

>>2589200
>>2589205
Right, well, im probably gonna join up with my locals groups like you said and spread the ideas you mentioned here where I can. Thanks guys.

I am a do-nothing internet guy and I would never in a million years shit on people who are actually doing things.
I don't know why some of you faggots have the gall to do that. It's really not hard to be humble even on the internet.



 

🗽UNITED STATES POLITICS 🦅

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>May Lenin awaken the workers and help them to see the necessity of revolutionary civil war in the United States.


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>>2589206
You think that if enough people got together and believed hard enough that a liberal country could restore a monarchy back into existence? When the productive forces evolve to a certain point, when technology reaches new heights of complexity, and when populations grow to necessarily depend on the mode of production, there is no turning back.

Therefore reactionary forces are intrinsically unstable. This has been stated by communist theorists since the 1910s.

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honkoid status?

>>2589199
The US is structurally schizophrenic, it's not just the Heritage Foundation… "There's someone in my head, but it's not me."

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Regarding the HK elections. The neolib pro-business party got fucked, the "conservative chinese nationalist" party won a seat and the trade unionist socialists kept their position but with a bigger swing of the vote.

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>>2588781
>31.9 % turnout
I love democracy.

>>2588785
Do you think if turnout was mandatory it would be better or worse?

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Comrade Trump is lifting restrictions on AI chips for China. His presidency is truly a gift for BRICS countries.



 

Taiwan’s ban on mainland China app RedNote makes it a top download amid fierce pushback
The island’s interior ministry announced on Thursday it had ordered local telecoms and internet providers to block access to the app, also known as Xiaohongshu, for one year over “rising online fraud cases”. Authorities also cited a “lack of cooperation from its operator in Shanghai”. But the move has unleashed a wave of public criticism, with many accusing Taiwan’s ruling independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of overreach and damaging the island’s reputation for open internet access.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3335652/taiwans-ban-mainland-china-app-rednote-makes-it-top-download-amid-fierce-pushback
https://archive.ph/0QevL

Powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake strikes Japan's northeast
Tsunami warnings were issued for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori and Iwate, and tsunamis from 20 to 70 cm (7 to 27 inches) high were observed at several ports, JMA said. In the early hours of Tuesday the JMA downgraded the warnings to advisories, meaning it now sees lower estimated wave heights and less risk of inundation.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/japan-warns-3-metre-high-tsunami-after-magnitude-72-earthquake-2025-12-08/

Thailand launches air attacks along Cambodian border
The Thai Ministry of Defence said that more than 35,000 people have left areas near the border for shelters and more are believed to have fled to stay with relatives elsewhere, while Cambodia’s Information Minister Neth Pheaktra said that residents of several villages near the border have been evacuated.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thailand-launches-air-attacks-along-cambodian-border

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Starbucks workers’ strike approaches 4th week
A nationwide strike by Starbucks workers is approaching the start of its fourth week on Wednesday. The strike, which began on November 13 with walkouts at 65 stores across more than 20 cities, expanded to 120 stores on Black Friday. Workers are demanding higher wages, stable schedules, an end to understaffing and action on hundreds of unfair labor practice charges stemming from years of union busting.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/08/mjxv-d08.html

Trump says AI executive order targeting state laws coming this week
The executive order isn't likely to try to block state AI laws outright. Instead, it's expected to attempt to gut state AI laws by launching legal challenges and conditioning federal grants on compliance. This approach has far less teeth than legislation — and will certainly face legal challenges.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/08/trump-ai-executive-order-state-laws
https://archive.ph/GUcoH

Florida governor declares Muslim civil rights group a terrorist organization
The order instructs Florida agencies to prevent the two groups and those who have provided them material support from receiving contracts, employment and funds from a state executive or cabinet agency. In an emailed statement, CAIR and its Florida chapter said the organization plans to sue DeSantis in response to what it called an “unconstitutional” and “defamatory” proclamation.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-desantis-muslim-group-terrorist-label-7113c982c43fed198cef9eaf85b23679

El Centro police fire dozens of rounds into 14-year-old Mikey Jimenez, body camera video reveals
Police claim they were responding to an automated license plate reader alert that flagged a white Hyundai sedan as stolen. Officers located the car in the parking lot of a local restaurant, then moved in with multiple vehicles to box in 14-year-old MikeyPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE
Are masked agents showing up in your town to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect each other, but don’t know where to start? We hope this guide will help you prepare to stand up to federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they attempt to abduct people from your community. The guide is not exhaustive—it could not be—but it is based on the knowledge that an array of people have accumulated in Chicago over the past several months during “Operation Midway Blitz.” As federal agents expand their assaults on communities across the country, it is crucial to share and build on these practices. Because the mercenaries who work for ICE and other federal agencies are constantly updating their strategies in response to popular resistance, a guide like this is chiefly useful for getting started thinking about how to resist. We encourage you to draw on this guide for ideas while adapting them to the local context that you and your neighbors know best.
https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/03/when-the-feds-come-to-your-city-standing-up-to-ice-a-guide-from-chicago-organizers

42 Years of the EZLN, “One of the Hearts of the Anti-capitalist Movement”
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) recently celebrated its 42nd anniversary, marking its founding on November 17th, 1983, when a group established a camp in the Lacandon Jungle to begin the first stage of organizing the movement in indigenous communities of Chiapas. This silent movement burst onto the world stage a little over a decade later when it took up arms on January 1st, 1994, to demonstrate its radical opposition to the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed by Canada, the United States, and Mexico, then governed by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the political emblem of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Since then, the EZLN has shaken the global political scene by proposing an ideology that, contrary to the long tradition of Latin American guerrilla organizations, did not aim to seize control of the state apparatus but—in the words of the intellectual John Holloway, who masterfully defined it in a resounding phrase—”to change the world withouPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Thanks News Anon



 

Opinion of Nick Land(CCRU time)/Deleuze?Are they too schizo? Also opinion on Dugin/Nick land(Atlantism vs Eurasianism). I think they are greatest philosophers and they were not clear to everyone.
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>another philosophy thread
Don't make me tap the sign again: philosophy is religion rendered into thought and hence to be condemned.

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>>2582299
>>2583210
>>2583797
Lmfao peak pseud shit, to Marx dialectics is just a mode of presentation for his ideas. People who unironically think that a knowledge of "dialectics" or whatever helps you master the world of subjects are just religious fanatics under a different name.


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>>2584322
Here are (1) Hegel, (2 & 3) Marx on Hegel, and (4) Marx on his own "method".

Marx is very clear here: he does not have a method. A scientific investigation has to "appropriate the material in detail, analyse all forms of development and trace out their inner connections" rather than starting out with a ready-made schema and distorting the material to fit it like pretty much all of philosophy does.

>>2584360
Your reading comprehension fucking sucks, lol.

>>2584399
and you are an idiot. marx was a philosopher




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>>2589121
How I know you’ve done no serious reading of Marx.

>>2587868
Iran had all abilitiesto carry out nuclear program, Pakistan even tried to nuclearize them and give Iran Pakistani nukes, but Iran had refused

>>2589159
Oh I know. They tried to use nuclear ambivalence (and massive conventional rocket forces) to deter the Zios but the bluff has been called. The clerics don’t have the stomach for nuclear warfare.

>>2588951
Gone too soon, RIP R

>>2589176
Fascists are psychopaths, and would do a no warning nuclear first strike, if Iran got nukes.



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