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- Some Guy TT
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reminder for page three that this is not a discussion thread if youre looking for resources that arent here please ask somewhere else and post them here this thread becomes harder to use the bigger it gets
anyway to keep from running afoul of my own rule heres some useful videos thatll probably be a bitch to find in a week or two
https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/1289369293210021889
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1288967247193616384
https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1288968406574735360
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Aug 2, 2020 13:11
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- Some Guy TT
- Aug 30, 2011
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These were my recommendations when I was picking out books I'd read from ebook website Scribd. Not a lot of the classical Marxist literature on the list below - I can throw out some recs on that too if you'd like, but I was specifically aiming to not really get into those in the spirit of promoting "more readable" contemporary work.
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in deliberate order of what I'd most highly recommend first:
"Contradictions of Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics" by Lenny Flank is a great introduction to Marxist economics. It's a little critical of the Soviet Union/Marxism-Leninism at the very end, but the first three-quarters of the book is excellent as far as the sort of thing that you might get from Das Kapital in a much more digestible form.
"A People's History of the Russian Revolution" by Neil Faulkner to get a good history of that. You can follow it up with "Rise and Fall of the Leninist State: A Marxist History of the Soviet Union" by Lenny Flank if you want to keep going.
"Liberalism: A Counter-History" by Domenico Losurdo if you want an explicit breakdown of why liberalism is a morally bankrupt ideology.
"Why Minsky Matters" by L Randall Wray for a post-Keynesian treatise on modern economics by the same people behind Modern Monetary Theory, basing their work from one of the few people who predicted 2008.
"Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy" by Robin Hahnel for a long discussion on an alternative economic system.
"The Origins of Capitalism" by Ellen Meiksins Wood to get a good picture on how Capitalism actually developed historically (and how Capitalism is not just "people trading stuff")
"Unspeakable" and "America: The Farewell Tour" by Chris Hedges to see how the USA has been on the road to implosion for a long time now. This may give you sadbrains - it did for me.
"Maoism and the Chinese Revolution: A Critical Introduction" by Elliott Liu if you want a backgrounder on the PRC.
"Late Victorian Holocausts" by Mike Davis if you want to know about how colonialism and imperialism has been loving over the Global South since forever.
"The City: London and the Global Power of Finance" by Tony Norfield and "Fictitious Capital" by Cedric Durand if you want to know about how financialization has transformed the economy (for the worse), which is relevant to how we got to our current market-crashing moment.
"My First Days in the White House" by Huey Long if you want Bernie Would Have Won fanfiction
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if you're not completely crack-pinged by the end of all these there's no deprogramming you
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I wrote that back in March.
Other books I've read since then that I'd recommend:
"Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria" by Guy Mettan - this is a good look into the long-term historical and political context behind Russiagate
"Listen Liberal" by Thomas Frank - this is a good single-source examination on what exactly happened to the Democratic party over the last 30-40 years such that we are where we are now.
"The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein - this is a historical account of how the American real-estate housing market has developed in a way that reinforces and reifies anti-black racism, such that the benefits of the New Deal were mostly cordoned-off from African-Americans.
"Blood Lies: The Evidence That Every Accusation Against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union is False" by Grover Furr - I only include this because it is essentially a long-form refutation of the work of Timothy Snyder, a so-called historian that first gained fame with "Bloodlands", a work which equates the Holodomor and Stalin's regime as being just-as-bad as Hitler. This is of course a form of Holocaust denial by equivocation, and is relevant because Snyder has been a guest on Rachel Maddow multiple times and has since been referred to as an expert on "authoritarianism" in the context of #resisting Trump, but also while playing into Russiagate tropes, since his other prime example of authoritarianism is, of course, Vladimir Putin. If you find that interesting, then I also mentioned Domenico Losurdo's "Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend" earlier in the thread, which goes further into this topic of Reductio ad Hitlerum, where the USSR is repeatedly and disingenuously equated with being as bad as Hitler for the purposes of ideologically programming people against communism.
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Aug 4, 2020 15:19
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- Some Guy TT
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Why You Shouldn't Support Joe Biden For The Upcoming 2020 Election: a thread
1. Led the fight against desegregating schools
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-president-busing-racism
2. Long history of creepily groping, sniffing, kissing women and young girls
source: https://twitter.com/RAMRANTS/status/930065838387863552?s=20
...he then issued a non-apology where he tried to justify his acts
source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/joe-biden-iowa-2020-campaign-teenage-girl-fence-warning.html
3. Intimidated a woman when confronted about his lack of support for reproductive justice
source: https://twitter.com/thelocalmaniac8/status/1138675278933348352?s=20
4. Voted for the disastrous Iraq War
source: https://theweek.com/articles/830438/iraq-war-should-2020-issue
...and still to this day says he'd do it again
source: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-democratic-party-military-hawk
5. Wrote a racist Crime Bill
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinLLham9gk&feature=youtu.be
..that led to record-breaking mass incarceration
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/biden-crime-mass-incarceration-police-prisons
..and bragged about writing the Bill
source: https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1124300911533350912?s=20
6. Horrible treatment of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas hearing
source: https://theintercept.com/2019/04/27/anita-hill-joe-biden-non-apology/
7. Led a disastrous War on Drugs
source: https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/joe-bidens-drug-war-record-is-so-much-worse-than-you-think
...still opposes cannabis legalization
source: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/joe-biden-weed-war-drugs-candidate-2020-827319/
...despite the fact that two of his children escaped consequences for drug use
source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-tough-on-drugs-policies-did-not-apply-to-his-childrens-marijuana-and-cocaine-offenses
8. Opposed equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community until very recently
source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/104-1996/s280
9. Opposes Medicare For All
source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/26/18515699/joe-biden-2020-presidential-campaign-medicare-for-all
10. Opposes meaningful action on the climate crisis like the Green New Deal, instead pursuing the “middle ground”
source: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/443074-biden-crafting-more-centrist-plan-for-climate-change-policy-report
11. Voted to ban immigrants with HIV, locking Haitian refugees up in Guantanamo Bay
source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00013
12. Voted to build border walls
source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00126
13. Supported sending military to the border long before Trump
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-biden-anti-immigrant-deportation-policies
14. Voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants
source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=1&vote=00242
...multiple times
source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=2&vote=00108
15. Opposed amnesty for immigrants and supports requiring them to learn English
source: https://twitter.com/maryjanebern/status/1133587205308465156?s=20
16. Helped expand the system Trump now uses to commit human rights violations by 3,600%
source: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-deportation-machine-obama-built-for-president-trump/
17. Does not view abortion as a choice and a right
source: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/07/joe-biden-abortion-rights/
18. Worked to undermine the ACA’s coverage of birth control
source: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/05/joe-biden-worked-to-undermine-the-affordable-care-acts-coverage-of-contraception/
19. Opposed Roe v Wade
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-abortion-president
20. Still to this day opposes federal funding for abortion
source: https://gen.medium.com/bidens-middle-ground-politics-are-bad-for-women-704fdec0a1e7
21. Racist comments
source: https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1141753425362903040?s=20
22. Defends other fellow racists
source: https://twitter.com/WalkerBragman/status/1133814010103705601?s=20
..and more racists
source: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/everybodys-chum
...AND more racists
source: https://twitter.com/QueenInYeIIow/status/1141311792003596288?s=20
23. As part of his crusade against desegregating schools he was the only member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to block two black appointees to the Department of Justice
source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-busing-nominees_n_5ca3c03de4b03174b92904f7
24. Lies about marching in the Civil Rights movement
source: https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1135737147095429120?s=20
25. Sided with banks to overturn Glass-Steagall and deregulate, leading to financial crisis
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_repeal_of_the_Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act
26. Defends billionaires hoarding wealth
source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/09/joe-biden-clarifies-hes-no-bernie-sanders-i-dont-think-500-billionaires-are-reason
...promises to ensure it keeps happening at the expense of everyone else
source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-wont-demonize-the-rich_n_5d09ac63e4b0f7b74428e4c6
..votes to slash the top income tax rate
source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-2020_n_5c796502e4b087c2f295ba31
..and cripple the estate tax
source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-push-269-bill_n_7061458
..resulting in $83 billion lost annually
source: https://taxfoundation.org/modeling-economic-effects-past-tax-bills/
27. Plagiarized fossil fuel groups’ language in his woefully inadequate climate crisis plan
source: https://truthout.org/articles/biden-campaign-admits-lifting-section-of-climate-plan-from-fossil-fuel-groups/
28. Architected Plan Colombia, internationalizing the War On Drugs resulting in mass death, displacement, and destruction of food crops, while opening the country to US business interests
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-biden-anti-immigrant-deportation-policies
29. Supports Israel’s right-wing regime and apartheid in Palestine
source: https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-democratic-party-military-hawk
30. Sides with Trump in backing right-wing coup in Venezuela
source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/01/biden-sides-trump-bolton-and-pompeo-backing-coup-effort-venezuela
31. Voted against abolishing the electoral college that undemocratically elected Bush and Trump
source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/96-1979/s161
32. Voted against enhancing labor protection enforcements
source: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00141
33. Says the CIA torture report is not a “black stain on this country” but a “badge of honor”
source: https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/1137412059510050816?s=20
34. Is still openly courting Republican billionaires for donations, including John Catsimatidis, who’s compared taxing the wealthy to Nazi persecution of Jews
source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/18/bil...er&par=sharebar
35. His administration awarded a $1.5 billion contract to his brother’s construction firm despite his brother having no prior residential construction experience
source: https://nypost.com/2012/10/23/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother/
36. Funded by lobbyists
source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/25/hours-after-entering-2020-race-biden-attend-big-money-fundraiser-hosted-comcast-blue
...and partakes in general corruption
source: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/08/joe-biden-neoliberal-democrat-conservative-lobbying
37. Voted to deregulate the credit card industry while a credit card company was his top donor from 1989–2000 and then hired his son
source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/middle-class-joe-cozied-up-to-credit-card-companies-and-made-filing-for-bankruptcy-harder
38. Used Charlottesville as a prop in his campaign video despite never even visiting once
source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charlottesville-activists-dont-want-joe-biden-to-use-city-as-a-campaign-prop_n_5cc200d2e4b0e56130eeaafd
The worst part? He isn't sorry for any of this
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437582-biden-im-not-sorry-for-anything-that-i-have-ever-done
so gently caress Joe Biden
gently caress anyone who supports him
and gently caress the party that backs him
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