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Iirc the host of In Our Time is literally a Lord so yeah Although definitely listen to the episode where someone brings a chromatography set into the studio to demonstrate what it looks like...on a radio show lol
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Atrocious Joe posted:I love listening to In Our Time and yelling at the conservative British academics. Its really easy to find episodes where the French Revolution is referred to as a horrific event, and how great it is that the UK avoided a revolution and succeeded with gradual reforms. I did not even bother with the Cultural Revolution episode
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Jun 29, 2021 16:52
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the Fall of Rome podcast guy (patrick wyman) has a phd and it shows in the good way I dunno if he is an actual Marxist but he squares the material conditions and socio-economic circumstances of the Roman Empire during it's late stages as fundamental to understand the whole thing. The migrations, the plagues, the concentration of capital in the hands of patricians who become ever-so-more insular and unwilling to contribute with the imperial maintenance, who suddenly see themselves lacking resources provided by the empire (because turns out to get the fancy eastern products you want in northern Gaul you need to pay for roads in Pontus)... it's good stuff
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Jun 29, 2021 16:55
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dead gay comedy forums posted:the Fall of Rome podcast guy (patrick wyman) has a phd and it shows in the good way i'll check it out, thanks for the rec. real dearth of historical materialist stuff out there (at least in audio form)
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Jun 29, 2021 17:05
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dead gay comedy forums posted:the Fall of Rome podcast guy (patrick wyman) has a phd and it shows in the good way Parenti wrote a book adjacent to this topic that is very good.
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Jun 29, 2021 17:06
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Parenti wrote a book adjacent to this topic that is very good. seconding Parenti's "The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Rome" as being an extremely fun read
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Jun 29, 2021 17:18
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dead gay comedy forums posted:the Fall of Rome podcast guy (patrick wyman) has a phd and it shows in the good way he also makes YouTube versions with maps and clips from related films that add another layer
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Jun 29, 2021 17:19
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genericnick posted:I think the correct way to pay attention to the English Civil War is "don't". Watch Wolfwalkers for an entertaining animated portrayal of Oliver Cromwell who is even more obsessed with killing wolves than Catholics Also the Diggers were pretty cool
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Jun 29, 2021 18:00
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Is Thomas Piketty worth checking out? Specifically his books Capital in the 21st Century and Capital And Ideology?
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Jun 29, 2021 18:47
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no and he never read marx
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Jun 29, 2021 19:16
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The wrong side won and the wrong side lost, that's all I need to know. Napoleonic Wars too
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Jun 29, 2021 19:19
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Demon Semen posted:Is Thomas Piketty worth checking out? Specifically his books Capital in the 21st Century and Capital And Ideology? I never read it, but the historic data collection part is supposed to be pretty good if that's your thing. Don't think he has any great explanatory models, really.
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Jun 29, 2021 19:36
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Thomas piketty's solution to alienation and the tendency of the rate of profit to decline, is to institute higher taxes
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Jun 29, 2021 19:53
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Thomas Piketty saying "Marx had no data" is the clearest indication that he'd never even tried to read Capital lol
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Jun 29, 2021 19:57
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piketty lol.
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Jun 29, 2021 20:08
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John Charity Spring posted:Thomas Piketty saying "Marx had no data" is the clearest indication that he'd never even tried to read Capital lol
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Jun 29, 2021 20:09
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Rhizzone_Txt/status/830500907024420864
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Jun 29, 2021 20:18
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That's been my official position for years now mostly because its funny but also secretly because it's correct
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Jun 29, 2021 20:19
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mcclay posted:make the stalinst professor a C-Spam mod 
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Jun 29, 2021 20:34
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Larry Parrish posted:That's been my official position for years now mostly because its funny but also secretly because it's correct Wow, how do you justify Stalin invading Hungary you drat Tankie???
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Jun 29, 2021 20:37
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euphronius posted:I did not even bother with the Cultural Revolution episode it's pretty funny. iirc one of the guests says that every single woman who went to the countryside was forced into sex work.
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Jun 29, 2021 20:49
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exmarx posted:it's pretty funny. iirc one of the guests says that every single woman who went to the countryside was forced into sex work. Lol
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Jun 29, 2021 21:04
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as in each individual woman or every unmarried woman
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Jun 29, 2021 21:05
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exmarx posted:it's pretty funny. iirc one of the guests says that every single woman who went to the countryside was forced into sex work. the gpcr deserves a lot of poo poo but that dont seem correct
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Jun 29, 2021 21:06
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Trabisnikof posted:Wow, how do you justify Stalin invading Hungary you drat Tankie??? I've always wanted to do a bit of acting constantly mad at "tankies" while also being a hardcore Stalinist
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Jun 29, 2021 21:07
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mila kunis posted:the gpcr deserves a lot of poo poo but that dont seem correct cultural revolution was very good
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Jun 29, 2021 21:21
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indigi posted:I can’t deal with listening to English people speak at length anymore, idk why but I’ve developed some sort of revulsion to their accents That's a perfectly rational defensive reflex.
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Jun 29, 2021 21:25
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Top City Homo posted:cultural revolution was very good it had some tangentially good effects with rural people seeing some of their needs attended to and the sharpening effect of the next generation of leaders experiencing the countryside (for eg, xi) deepening their knowledge of the country and how it worked and allowing them to take it to where it is now, but it also wrecked china's productive forces and was a mini civil war with brigades fighting the PLA and each other and it set the PRC back for a decade.
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Jun 29, 2021 21:34
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What's a good book on the cultural revolution?
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Jun 29, 2021 22:27
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three body problem ?
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Jun 29, 2021 22:29
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ten years of madness was a decent book of first hand accounts that was assigned in one of my Chinese history classes
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Jun 29, 2021 22:40
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one day
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Jun 29, 2021 22:43
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Does anyone still have the reading list that used to be in the last thread?
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Jun 29, 2021 22:43
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mila kunis posted:it had some tangentially good effects with rural people seeing some of their needs attended to and the sharpening effect of the next generation of leaders experiencing the countryside (for eg, xi) deepening their knowledge of the country and how it worked and allowing them to take it to where it is now, its got rid of the countryside hating trots (lil emperors) and provided a sense of self determination for the majority of the country. That's good. quote:but it also wrecked china's productive forces and was a mini civil war with brigades fighting the PLA and each other and it set the PRC back for a decade. the second civil war is what is called a secondary contradiction and its perfectly fine these things happen Top City Homo has issued a correction as of 22:57 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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Jun 29, 2021 22:53
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Demon_Corsair posted:Does anyone still have the reading list that used to be in the last thread? this one? Top City Homo posted:these things happen I feel like there may be sample size issues
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Jun 29, 2021 22:59
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Demon_Corsair posted:Does anyone still have the reading list that used to be in the last thread? just read althusser, alain badiou, the classics in the reading list and Heidegger. Heidegger although an idiot nazi in his older life still is an outstanding philosopher and is basically the yang of Marx writing about the same poo poo: why modernity sucks I am also adding Maurice Cornforth https://www.marxists.org/archive/cornforth/index.htm because he is a great popularizer of dialectical materialism and pops Popper right in his whore mouth about the "open society" trash https://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/ This is a giant in the Soviet Union who added to Theory as much as Stalin and Joseph Dietzgen https://www.marxists.org/archive/dietzgen/index.htm the OG who lived alongside Marx and of whom Marx said "this dude understands Dialectical Materialism" (direct quote) Top City Homo has issued a correction as of 23:30 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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Jun 29, 2021 23:02
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i love the security theatre and surveillance meant to code that this is bad, actually
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Jun 29, 2021 23:31
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V. Illych L. posted:i love the security theatre and surveillance meant to code that this is bad, actually that is not the intent at all its supposed to be something called "people's punk" a sort of socialist realism and upside down cyberpunk where technology serves humanity
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Jun 29, 2021 23:40
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Centrist Committee posted:he also makes YouTube versions with maps and clips from related films that add another layer where are these I couldn't find them
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Raskolnikov38 posted:please for the love of my sanity stop listening to history podcasts by lay morons and pick something from this list that says it’s made by actual academics lol, you know revolutions is on that list, right?
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