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Marxists would have you believe that revolutions occur as a result of changing material conditions. Revolutions actually occur when you have a sufficient density of Great Men; which do not exist amongst the American worker; who is uniquely morally bad.
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Oct 31, 2022 12:28
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the platypus is right. it all evens out everyone here posts on the internet these days and is a lil weeny
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Oct 31, 2022 13:10
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Have you seen the modern day cops and freikorps? Nobody is sending their best.
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Oct 31, 2022 13:21
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unwantedplatypus posted:Have you seen the modern day cops and freikorps? Nobody is sending their best. Every part of the system is so wildly incompetent they can't be trusted to do their own jobs.
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Oct 31, 2022 13:29
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people used to be so much stronger and nobler in the past compared to now. i wish i could return to that time
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Oct 31, 2022 13:30
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unwantedplatypus posted:Marxists would have you believe that revolutions occur as a result of changing material conditions. Revolutions actually occur when you have a sufficient density of Great Men; which do not exist amongst the American worker; who is uniquely morally bad.
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Oct 31, 2022 14:10
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MLSM posted:Socialism with American (liberal) Characteristics has never worked and never will so if we assume you're right and nearly 400 million people are permanently and irrevocably tainted by opposing ideology, whats the play? whats to be done?
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Oct 31, 2022 14:26
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i say we let 'em go
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Oct 31, 2022 14:26
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socialism with russian (depressed) characteristics has never worked and never will
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Oct 31, 2022 14:32
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Cpt_Obvious posted:What's a good source for the history of the American labor movement? strike! by jeremy brecher is good and gets updated, read it as a teen then again a few years ago
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Oct 31, 2022 14:40
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croup coughfield posted:socialism with russian (depressed) characteristics has never worked and never will it stopped working when russians stopped being depressed.
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Oct 31, 2022 14:41
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the true revolutionary heart of american communism lies within the american reactionary, untainted by identity, who will take up the mantle of global revolution just as soon as a twitch guy tells them that communism is good and maga, actually
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Oct 31, 2022 14:54
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Pentecoastal Elites posted:the true revolutionary heart of american communism lies within the american reactionary, untainted by identity, who will take up the mantle of global revolution just as soon as a twitch guy tells them that communism is good and maga, actually thats me
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Oct 31, 2022 15:04
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Pentecoastal Elites posted:the true revolutionary heart of american communism lies within the american reactionary, untainted by identity, who will take up the mantle of global revolution just as soon as a twitch guy tells them that communism is good and maga, actually the only people willing to pick up a hammer and go to work
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Oct 31, 2022 17:23
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The Voice of Labor posted:trotsky was certainly a better writer than stalin. do we have any literagarchies to draw comparisons to? like, any evidence that ceteris parabis the best writer will be the best leader of men? thinking about this post again and having a laugh
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Oct 31, 2022 17:54
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Cpt_Obvious posted:What's a good source for the history of the American labor movement? i havent worked my way down to it in my backlog but this came highly recommended by people https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Fight-Like-Hell/Kim-Kelly/9781982171056
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Oct 31, 2022 18:19
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Cpt_Obvious posted:What's a good source for the history of the American labor movement? Philip Foner published like 50 books on it
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Oct 31, 2022 19:29
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MLSM posted:Socialism with American (liberal) Characteristics has never worked and never will you are gay
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Oct 31, 2022 19:32
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Thanks for all the suggestions just in time for
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Oct 31, 2022 19:42
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MLSM posted:Socialism with American (liberal) Characteristics has never worked and never will 
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Nov 1, 2022 00:44
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Sunny Side Up posted:Thanks to Prolekult channel on YT I’m picking up Biography of a Blunder by Edara because apparently it has a course correction on this Althusser stuff oh poo poo, someone finally noticed this book? i used to lean toward Derek Sayer's account of base/superstructure from "The Violence of Abstraction," but then Edara's book thoroughly persuaded me otherwise (and IMO also kinda jibes better with other accounts of stratification/emergence I like, such as the critical realists')
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Nov 1, 2022 03:35
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Aeolius posted:oh poo poo, someone finally noticed this book? Tell me more??? I’m excited to read it. Also plowing through “the principal contradiction” rn and it’s good. I’m really really trying to wrap my head around the process of analyzing contradiction which also appears to just be methodologically applying diamat
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Nov 1, 2022 03:45
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Tempora Mutantur posted:
Thank you for this. Sometimes the Deprogram guys are on point but often they’re a little too immature to me. Better than many, I guess. Also hoping they don’t platform anti-lgbt Cockshott.
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Nov 1, 2022 03:46
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maybe christmas can come early this year, and by early I mean delayed into next year by several months due to shipping issues
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MLSM posted:Socialism with American (liberal) Characteristics has never worked and never will Grow where you’re planted, friend. The idea that there’s somewhere to run is idealism. Best you can do with what you have is practice-theory-practice.
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Nov 1, 2022 03:48
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Nov 1, 2022 04:12
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Nov 1, 2022 04:34
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Sunny Side Up posted:Tell me more??? I’m excited to read it. while reading it i remember thinking it reads kinda "dissertation-y," and then i found out that that's what it was -- he wrote that for his phd in English at the University of Hyderabad. it took an English scholar to really properly diagram Marx's statement from the 1859 Preface, hah the thrust of it is that he argues that from 1859 until the end of his life, Marx was consistent in using "base and superstructure" such that "superstructure" was the politico-legal instutions atop the relations of production. however, over the next century and beyond, B&S took on a sort of totalizing scope that they weren't meant to -- essentially swapping places with "mode of production," which itself took on a more "base-only" reading instead of the sort of epochal totality. and then he goes on to show how this was propagated through the years. iirc the analytical marxists come in for a big chunk of it, but you can even see traces of it in Stalin i don't super remember his remarks on althusser, though i think he had a mixed evaluation? i will be honest, he's toward the end of the book and i had pretty much already gotten what i'd come for at that point so i just kinda skimmed his part. but these days i am reading more Louie, myself, so maybe i'll revisit it Aeolius has issued a correction as of 05:27 on Nov 1, 2022 |
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Nov 1, 2022 12:09
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lol
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Nov 1, 2022 12:20
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you all ever notice how under the free market, companies move towards being monopolies and cartels whats up with that
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Nov 1, 2022 15:06
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croup coughfield posted:so if we assume you're right and nearly 400 million people are permanently and irrevocably tainted by opposing ideology, whats the play? whats to be done? mlsm answer the question you weepy bitch
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Nov 1, 2022 16:11
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AnimeIsTrash posted:you all ever notice how under the free market, companies move towards being monopolies and cartels itds because they like hanging out together
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Nov 1, 2022 16:13
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AnimeIsTrash posted:you all ever notice how under the free market, companies move towards being monopolies and cartels If by companies you mean unions then yes; and that means the market isn't free and we need our boys in blue to liberate it
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Nov 1, 2022 16:28
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croup coughfield posted:itds because they like hanging out together they're just guys who love hanging out, and talking about things
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Nov 1, 2022 18:11
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https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/red-flag-falling-the-story-of-the-manhattan-commune.132941/
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Nov 1, 2022 21:45
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map game fan fiction
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Nov 2, 2022 19:31
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Maybe there is a better thread for but how did the terms "authoritarianism" and "totalitarianism" come to be ascribed as characteristics of communism?
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Nov 3, 2022 01:45
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Maybe there is a better thread for but how did the terms "authoritarianism" and "totalitarianism" come to be ascribed as characteristics of communism? Hannah Arendt I presume
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Nov 3, 2022 01:54
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"Totalitarianism" is more or less a propaganda term designed to make right wing military dictatorships seem "less bad" (and therefore worthy of western support) compared to communist. The idea goes that because communists are "authoritarian" in the economic sector as well as the political sector; they are a new even worse thing called totalitarian. Total authoritarianism. Allende, bad guy, supported a totalitarian ideology. I don't support Pinochet; but at least he lets the Chileans have economic freedom!
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Nov 3, 2022 01:56
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