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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.

Previous QTDDTOT Archives
https://archive.is/Ae0c5

Is there a way to access Monthly Review for free? Like any pirate websites.

>>2381676
Nevermind. I was actually able to access it through my university library. In case anyone else was wondering.

I'm thinking of reading Marx in the follow order: Capital 1 > Civil War in France > Gotha

Those are the latest work of which Marx wrote before passing away, in my head those are the mature works full fledged works of him

>>2382506
I'd go in the exact reverse order. Gotha is quickly read, capital is big and hard theory

>>2383894
I think Capital should be the first

any good books on the history of social democracy and how it's changed over decades?

I understand being anti-police, but I'm trying to figure out how things would be handled without them. Would a different type of law enforcement take over that isn't necessarily police? I genuinely want to know, this isn't some gotcha.

>>2384879
History of the Three Internationals by William Z. Foster
The Internationale by R. Palme Dutt
The Death of Social Democracy by Ashley Lavelle

How will the pedophile question be solved under Gommunizma

>>2392136
Preventing child molestation in the first place, and should that fail, various forms of psychotherapy and treatment up to chemical castration should it be necessary

How would a planned economy work for a consumer economy?

>>2392234
Planning based around consumer trends I guess?

Did Lenin ever have acne?

>>2392466
They didn't call it acne back then, they called it face devils.

How do I get e-mail list of GOP and MAGA supporters to send crypto scams too?

Materialist explanation for suicide?

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my boss admitted to me she doesn't know what I do all day and doesn't care as long as things don't fall apart, and that she used chat GPT to write my performance evaluation… are we gonna get socialism just because bosses are too lazy to exploit people?

>>2394843
>exploitation is when the boss is mean to me
leftypols biggest brains

>>2393224
local voter registration data is available online in a lot of states. you can probably find a list of registered republicans.

>>2394846
if the boss isn't even bothering to make sure your work is producing surplus value through its sheer intensity/duration they are basically turning a blind eye to slowdowns and other resistance tactics

>>2394847
Shit niqquh! Thanks.

Why did the Czarist police even bother with arresting and exiling Lenin and other communist to Siberian prisons when it would have been far easier and less hurtful to them to just execute all dissidents on the spot?

>>2394849
Whats a resistance tactic? And isnt a slowdown just a man being tired?

>>2395241
YOU ARE WRONG. YOUR ERROR: Suggesting nobles and communists were exiled for the same reason.
>Why did the Czarist police even bother with arresting and exiling Lenin and other communist to Siberian prisons
Selective exile maintained the illusion of bourgeois law, preventing unified revolt. Dissenting nobles were often exiled while thousands of masses would be murdered. Nobles were exiled to preserve aristocratic unity.
> it would have been far easier and less hurtful to them to just execute all dissidents on the spot?
WRONG. It would have been worse to kill every dissenting noble because they would be made martyrs for masses. Exile served to develop domestic periphery.

How does one learn to think? How to think?

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>>2395534
you have to think about thinking
"reason" (λόγος) is "logos", which becomes "logic"
logic is the structure of the mind therefore
applied logic becomes mathematics and mathematics broaches into natural science. so its all related.

as a test of thinking, we may use hypothetical propositions which test the limits of our thought. once we come into conflict with λόγος we may call this a "contradiction", or a unity of opposition. the "illogical" is therefore the unreasonable, and so is the untrue. as a perfect example, from a sum's own terms, 1+1=2. can we therefore imagine 1+1=3? they say the mind is endless, yet we cannot imagine the impossible. the mind's movement from imagination to reason thus entails considering the structure of thinking itself. the mind thus, is always thinking in its own terms. the art of thinking thus entails a search for truth.

Is Prison Notebooks supposed to be such a dull read?

>>2396111
Writing enjoyable prose probably not the biggest priority while being in literal prison.

What exactly is "Communization Theory"?

>>2398521
I can't really describe communization theory without sounding like a shitpost. It urges people to just produce and give away that stuff right in the here and now.

Good podcasts that aren't shitlib?

If this is an ML forum why does it allow porn? Didn't ML states ban or curtail porn?

What is your opinion on ICP?

There can be a non marxist socialism? I think would be a good things to have a non marxist socialism for the XXI century, majority of left leaning people think socialism = marxism, I think would be good to have a plurality of socialist views.

>>2404245
Because they were wrong in the ban or curtail of porn, same way their treatment of LGBT, GDR showed this on both cases.

>>2404245
it isn't and so what?
>>2404290
100% down with the clown WOOP WOOP
>>2404887
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=non+marxist+socialism

Are marginal employment subsidies just a scam since full-employment under capitalism is impossible? Guess the best you can do is make productive use of the downtime via training and similar initiatives. Its even possible for subsidized internship programs which are careful to avoid shrinking firms to create dead weight loss from job growth being replaced by interns (iirc this happens in Finland, or Walmart). So really probably unprofitable activity is the only option, increasing human capital and the like.

>>2404887
We have the opposite problem. People use the term "socialism" for anything that is not some pure hypothetical version of capitalism, so putting the label "non-Marxist" in front of it still is far too unspecific. You should rather choose another term. And don't use "market" or "democratic" either here, you really have to get more specific than that: Try to come up with a sentence that describes the gist of it and that you can abbreviate to a word that you can pronounce.

>>2407106
We have ample empirical evidence that capitalism everywhere comes with mass unemployment, but we don't have a tight logical proof that capitalism is incompatible with full employment. The argument for unemployment being necessary in capitalism is that the threat of unemployment disciplines labor. But the threat of a more shitty alternative form of employment with enough social stigma would also do the trick. So I do believe that a capitalist state could run a full employment scheme with the state directly employing anyone asking. Such a state could do without requiring a minimum wage in the private sector and it could drastically cut benefits to anyone who isn't very old or disabled without public outcry.

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>>2407192
>But the threat of a more shitty alternative form of employment with enough social stigma would also do the trick.
It's interesting that even among mainstream economists (e.g. excluding MMT, and some post-Keynsian economists) NAIRU (non-accelerated inflation rate of unemployment) seems widely accepted. I'm now skeptical of the notion of non-counter-cyclical attempts to reduce unemployment, that is to reduce unemployment below NAIRU.
Doesn't workfare just reduce the number of discouraged workers (technically not unemployed because they're not seeking work), and specifically low-skill discouraged workers. It isn't an unemployment policy. But then again looking at the labor participation rates we see no positive change following the welfare reform of '96. How is this possible?

>>2408113
>How is this possible?
Suspect this is actually due to demographic change so the 3 million discouraged workers that entered the workforce just so happened to correspond with a flattening of the rate of women entering the workforce and the continued decline of men. (Discouraged workers not being unemployed while technically true, is mostly just technically true.) So what we have is not a reduction in the number of people actively seeking work via workfare but an increase in the labor participation rates after controlling for demographic change. Even still the first claim about not being able to reduce the unemployment rate (which still doesn't include discouraged workers) below NAIRU is probably true.

>>2408113
>>2408140
>NAIRU
Hysterical term. If you wanted to argue for inflation existing at some level of low unemployment, the accurate term would be NIRU; and if you wanted to argue for the existence of an inflation-increasing effect, the accurate term would be NIIRU. The existence of an acceleration rate of the inflation rate would mean something like the inflation rate itself doubling every X days. Of course, you can argue it's technically correct to say NAIRU because your mental model is probably NIIRU and NIIRU implies NAIRU (if the inflation rate does not increase, it can't accelerate either). You can argue like that if you are pure slime.

The US does not follow a policy seeking full-employment, so all your pooping about how they "fail" to reach full employment is besides the point. What the US gov actually does is that it chokes the economy with higher interest rates whenever unemployment gets too low (as seen from the POV of a certain class of people), with the blahblah about reining in inflation the officially stated reason. "Ah, but you see you stupid proles, since it takes a while for the inflation effects to happen we can't actually look at these effects to recalibrate our theory, we'll have to take the unemployment rate as a proxy of the inflation that would come later, sorry bout that, uwu."

>>2408113
NAIRU is retarded (((monetarist))) neoliberal tricknology that should be buried with Milton Friedman's corpse. Anyone who suggests a "natural" rate of unemployment, or who attempts to argue that there is some such, needs to be immediately liquidated as an enemy of humanity.

whats a good way to splice good parts from a youtube video to spread around

>>2408317
Splice, or trim?

If you have a computer then `yt-dlp` to download in full quality, then use handbrake (a convenient wrapper around the legendary ffmpeg software) to trim the clip that you want.

If you want to splice a montage together, download kdenlive for easy video editing.

If Lenin did stand-up, what would his style be?

>>2408519
I don't know why I thought about this
Probably the same as mine, hypothetically. But politics aside, angry white guy? Well, that's no good.
I wonder if he'd tell people to kill themselves. He could be quite polemic, which would be amplified by the medium (standup instead of "respectable" politics).

>>2408140
>>2408287
It seems that inflation is a leading indicator of unemployment rather than the other way around.
And the naming of the article doesn't seem to be too interesting at the moment.

Amusingly the means to reduce NAIRU all seem terrible, because they target increasing the discipline of labor.
Not only that, but they also seem to be based on relatively weak empirical evidence.
The only exceptions seemed to be active labor market policies which improve work-employee fit.
If the idea of "creating jobs" in a noncountercyclic nonstructural way just left we would probably be better off.
Then again maybe we're already doing this.

Is the jewish conspiracy just a retarded down version of bourgeoisie class rule?

best ancom book recs? ive read anarchy, the conquest of bread, anarchism and other essays, the right to be greedy, and industrial society and its future (im not sure if thats widely accepted as ancom but i take it that way). also accepting just communist and just anarchist recs

>>2410951
basically, that and realizing that Israel controls everything


>>2410951
Not exactly. Nazis had a highly idealist view of jews, believing that they had a mystical force tied to objects and ideas, so anything they didn't like could be jewish by proxy.. Jewish finance, jewish bolshevism, jewish art. Likewise a jew could "corrupt" the souls of the aryan people, if a german girl slept with a jewish man she would conserve his malevolent "essence"


>>2411832
>>2411834
thank you kings

>>2411833
Microchimerism

https://www.lesswrong.com/
what do yous think of these guys?


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