In this thread, various members of the community have listed recommended literature regarding leftism, i.e. economics, political theory, philosophy and other subjects related to leftism. Some recommendations are for starters, or for those in advanced literature.
Holla Forums has many ideologies, Marxist, Anarchist, Left-com, etc. so there is a variety of different literature with different viewpoints.
Reading literature is recommended, as it helps you understand leftism better and is much better than reading Wikipedia synopses.
And PDF related, economics for beginners (non-bourgeois) Economics for Everyone USSR Political Economy Das Kapital (Abridged version)
James Reed
Well since this is sticked I'll post this "list of reading lists" again. None of them are mine, but they're what I use for reference, so maybe you guys could use something here as template for this.
platypus1917.org/pedagogy/ Probably the closest to what you want, at least as far as philosophy goes. The reading material tends to be good and to the point. Don't fucking join them tho.
la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/ Harry Cleaver's page at UT with many courses and their respective reading lists and shit. There's an introduction to Marxist theory there.
I don't want to make this too lengthy but I can post more later.
James Lopez
I've heard of this platypus group before. What's thier deal?
Elijah Rivera
Deleted moderation messages at start of thread and redid the original post.
Cooper Martin
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Angel Foster
I don't have any reading to offer but I can recommend a bunch of youtube channels.
Leftist:
Democracy at Work is the main channel of Richard Wolf. He is a left economist and has been very active in analysing the current economic problems, how they relate to capitalism and how to move past them. He is a good point of entryism, since he mainly advocates for worker coops. youtube.com/channel/UCK-6FjMu9OI8i0Fo6bkW0VA
Muke is a Holla Forums user, which distinguishes him from most other leftists channels on youtube, since most of them are high on idpol. He makes some okay theory and debate videos and can be funny. youtube.com/channel/UCDULjo1v2Hivuu4h4LZSTUQ
Bad Mouse is, according to Muke at least, the best active leftist youtuber (not counting lecturers like Wolf). His content has a higher production value than most other channels and he does both humour and serious theory pretty well. youtube.com/user/xaxie1/videos
Philosophy:
Wes Cecil is a great lecturer that talks about many topics in an eye opening, humorous but effective way. He has done various lecture series, including my favourite, Myths of the American Mind, as well as Forgotten Philosophers (which has a Stirner lecture) and Uses of Philosophy for Living, which I also highly recommend. While not openly leftist, he exposes the ridiculousness of capitalism and what it has done to our culture, as well as generally breaking up myths. youtube.com/channel/UC9ff15w4ufviWfv9UfIuByA
Theramin Trees and Qualia Soup do similar content and are irl brothers, so I'll list them as one. Their channels are focussed on religious criticism on a philosophical basis as well as on moral philosophy in general. They are probably the best channels on religion on yoututbe. youtube.com/channel/UCJ-vHE5CrGaL_ITEg-n3OeA youtube.com/channel/UCc_xdkOBgSYLmXTn-VSQ4uA
Yale has an open access project, meaning that they film various lectures and upload them. If you weren't born boug enough to go to Yale, this is your chance to get some of their knowledge. While the lectures cover all kinds of topics and can be really interesting, this is by no means a leftists institution, so don't let them spook you with their human nature. youtube.com/channel/UC4EY_qnSeAP1xGsh61eOoJA
Science:
CGP Grey is a favourite of many. His videos have high production value and he covers many topics, from voting systems to mechanization, all of which are quite relevant to the modern leftists. You should watch all of his videos, they are that good. youtube.com/channel/UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w
Frame of Essence is a small channel with a low output. He has some pretty good physics videos explaining relativity and quantum computers, among other things. youtube.com/channel/UCQHsMwcGoH1ygyi-pJs5Z8A
Myles Power is a more entertainment focussed channel that debunks various conspiracy theorists and snake oil merchants. He has done a good series on 9/11 truthers and a lot of good stuff on conspiracy theories about biotechnology like evolved plants. youtube.com/channel/UCS_H_4AmsqC705DObesZIIg
Wendover Productions is a channel with pretty mixed content, just take a look at his stuff, it's all interesting in it's own right, covering economics, architecture, geography and more. youtube.com/channel/UC9RM-iSvTu1uPJb8X5yp3EQ
Lastly, this is more of general recommendation. The PBS has a lot of youtube channels that produce high quality content on various scientific topics. Take a look through their list of related channels to find more stuff that interests you. The one I'm linking here is PBS Spacetime, which covers physics. youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g
Brody Ross
Original OP, started making a wiki here: leftypol-reading-list.wikia.com/wiki/Holla Forums_reading_list_Wiki Feel free to edit as it is fairly terrible and doesn't include any of what is on here
James Roberts
Relevant to this thread, this torrent needs our help. Download and seed pls.
Excellent, thanks guys. In a recent thread I committed to starting a structured reading club, I'm in the process of reading through some works and organising how it will be structured so we can work to it together- which means we can learn more together and support those who have a difficult time committing to reading. You'll have to bare with me though, I've just started a new job so it might take me a few weeks.
I asked a fairly well-known commie blogger if he had a reading list, because I was worried not just about what to read but in which order. He said he would look it up, then ignored me. Oh well.
Adam Gonzalez
If this was 2005 that image would make a good YTMND.
Ryan Sullivan
Since you are already posting here whatever, have some Soviet propaganda. Quality is hideous, language is Russian, but there are English subs and it's about US elections.
For anyone who wants a structured, comprehensive, well written introduction to Marxist theory which aims at also teaching you how to think critically, I'd recommend using the attached reading list. The further readings for each seminar are ordered in such a way that one links into the next; the aim of which is to make you think about what you are reading and what each author has to say on the other.
Not all of the further readings are available online, but for those that are you can use either bookzz or libgen to find them. This is an undergraduate reading list, so it's designed to be accessible to almost anyone.
Logan Gutierrez
Ah yes, the true experience from the fascist sympathizer who claimed the NKVD executed 110 million Russians
Carson Gonzalez
Recommended informative videos and lectures would be nice too
Nolan Parker
are these pdfs virus free? I use a samsung phone to read ebooks so I get unironically paranoid about this stuff
Joshua Wright
Here's a collection of Ted's Writings that I've found. Not sure how legitimate it is, but I just took a cursory look over Industrial Society and Its Future in this and it seems fine. I've also included the version of Industrial Society and Its Future that I have.
Charles Gomez
This is the stuff. Easy to read. Analysis of class struggle throughout America. Info can be used to redpill nomies. 'nuff said.
In the theme of easy to read and good for converting normies, Debt: The First 5,000 years is amazing. I'll paste a short review I wrote:
Semi-related question: why can't this site check the fucking captcha BEFORE I upload a giant PDF, instead of waiting three minutes and cockblocking me, then forcing me to upload over again?
Michael Carter
I read several excerpts from this for a class. I think it'd be one of the first things I'd read cover to cover if I were running for office (kek) or getting into some serious organizing. Seems like a talking point goldmine.
Good for exactly how, where and why class forces cause identity oppression, so you can punch out SJWs metaphorically and so on
Jonathan Carter
I made such a post already, here you go:
I also happened upon a few other channels worth checking out afterwards.
The Finnish Bolshevik does various informational videos, similar to Bad Mouse. He has a good introductory series on communism, check his playlists. youtube.com/channel/UCCvdjsJtifsZoShjcAAHZpA
Activism Munich uploads various videos, often lectures and talks, in both german and english. If you like one of the people talking there, they are bound to have more videos on other channels, so look them up. youtube.com/channel/UCe5hl70Es-VQ4OWvxssFH4A
Lastly, Gregory Sadler is a philosophy lecturer. One part of Marxism, Dialectics, is hard to get into, because it's based on Hegel and he writes less understandable than End of Evangelion. Sadler goes over his writings in minute detail, so even people like you and I might be able to get what he is talking about. He also does some other philosophy stuff. youtube.com/channel/UCEtxsMx4qsoitFwjBdLU_gA
Brody Brown
I usually just go to Holla Forums and post nigger in a random thread before uploading anything large. Good way to make the captcha show up. I'm pretty sure codeman has heard this complaint before but just to be sure, why don't you go over to /sudo/ and ask him? He made a bunch of good additions already, no reason why he can't fix this as well.
Jacob Wood
I would seriously recommend reading this. I know Bookchin is kind of a meme at this point, but this book is very short and contains many good insights whilst giving a clear overview of both his theories and how we can take action to put them into practice.
Aiden Lewis
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Parker James
On leninism I might add: Principles of Leninism by Stalin Trotzkism or Leninism by Stalin
Nathaniel Morgan
I just want to say how proud I am of Holla Forums and everyone on it for having this thread.
I have been stressing the importance of revolutionary theory and education for about two years here, I made /freedu/ and I always try to post pdfs and articles online for people asking questions. I feel like I've contributed, in my own small way, to this ethic on Holla Forums, and I'm proud of myself too.
Let the ruling class tremble at the power of an educated, organized, revolutionary working class!
Jack Carter
We have nothing to lose but our brains! We have a world to win!
Michael Gray
Hey, it's the bookfag that said he'd make a torrent of his collection. I'm retarded and have never made a torrent before. What trackers can/should I use when creating the torrent file? Using qBittorrent for whatever it's worth.
Logan Sanchez
Imo Ego and Its Own Stirner's Critics Wage labour and Capital Value Price and Profit Das Kapital Mutual Aid Debt: The First 5000 Years
I have the torrent file here: mediafire.com/?x686g2agpqdvgs8 I was going to just slap it on the piratebay but since I just registered it'll be an hour before I can upload anything there.
If there's a better way of doing this or I fucked something up, please let me know. I'm not good with computers.
Jeremiah Stewart
Imo Ego and Its Own Stirner's Critics Wage labour and Capital Value Price and Profit Das Kapital Mutual Aid Debt: The First 5000 Years
Lucas Mitchell
I'd rather read Lenin to learn about Leninism.
Owen Lopez
m8
Hudson Price
im getting like 4kbps, check your settings if i can get it ill seed for a while
Maybe it's just vpns and proxies but I've seen connections from all over the world. USA, Nepal, South Korea, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal, India, Tunisia, and even more, and it seems like more show up with each passing moment.
He was a leftist. Story of the Eye isn't so political, but Blue of Noon dealt with radical politics in the lead up to WWII. Albeit as a minor theme.
David Collins
Lenin never had a chance to sum up all his works, did he?
Kevin Campbell
Kek. If you want Lenin cliffnotes get Lenin cliffnotes. No need for a politically mangled take by the gravedigger of the revolution.
Dover's Essential Works of Lenin contains What is to be Done, Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism, and State and Revolution all unabridged, plus key sections of The Development of Capitalism in Russia. The physical book is cheap, compact, and convenient, but I'm pretty sure you can read all four online. That represents the "core" of his theory.
Jason Gutierrez
Are you friends with Liberal burgers? Maybe they don't really like Clinton but still think a Bernie type figure could succeed inside the party? Want to save them but don't want to go hard on the diamat and the socialist rhetoric? Read this, it explains exactly how and why the Democrats stopped representing anyone but those who have money. How they sabotage and purge reformists and radical working class representatives and just how flimsy and fake all of Clinton and Obama's achievements are. No big words or fancy concepts, just facts and a sordid history. gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=B49FD02A4E6EB9CBE5A8A53A35A89B06
Ethan Clark
Unless Trotsky was the only one capable of understanding Lenin - did Trotsky even make a review? - your opinion requires a bit more substance, since book was approved by the Party at the time.
Doesn't even include Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism - a sum up of Marxism by Lenin.
Incidentally, LeftCom would also call it "politically mangled take by the gravedigger of the revolution".
Well, this is as politically correct as they come, but it has some nice quotes.
Landon Sullivan
Lol no. The "gravedigger of the revolution" is how Bordiga referred to Stalin, it has nothing to do with Lenin (who was pretty based imo).
Julian Ross
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Hudson Garcia
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Hunter Walker
Here's mine contribution.
Aiden Wright
This is the updated Leninism reading list I made to replace that one quite some time ago. My only regret in this list is not deciding to replace Unfinished Leninism (which I never read) with Lukacs's Lenin and the Unity of his Thought because Lukacs is great.
Man, I remember making that list. My regret there was putting the Anti-Duhring in Advanced Political Economy when only a third of it is economics while the other two-thirds is philosophy.
In my mind Leninism isn't the political/philosophical thought of Lenin per se, but rather that of his followers directly after his death. After Lenin had died, his self-proclaimed successors each postured against each other, presenting their "Leninism" as the true authentic one, using Lenin and his writings as legitimization. (which is why, despite having little contemporary significance, my list uses Bukharin and Preobrazhensky so much since Bukharin was increadibly influential upon post-October Bolshevism and 1920s Soviet ideology and Preobrazhensky shaped how socialism was percieved throughout the 20th century) Lenin was not a Leninist as Marx was not a Marxist, and just like Marxism, Leninism is an organic movement who's ideological shifts match shifts in the practical movement. The Marxism of a hundred years ago is different from today; the Leninism 50 years ago is different from today.
"Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence." ~ the German Ideology
The Essential Works omits several essential chapters from What is to Be Done?, and waves it off by misinterpreting Lenin as an elitist and concentrating on parts where he can tear out of context and portray Lenin as an elitist, and the book's commentary in general is rife with anti-communist nonsense. If you really want to get Lenin, or rather into a systematic refutation of the common prejudices by bourgeois academia against him, I with full confidence (with my only complaint being how Lih de-emphasizing Lenin's split with Kautsky and therefore the Third with the Second International can easily be read as a rationalization for a revitalization of Kautskyism, which is stupid) recommend Lenin Rediscovered by Lars Lih.
If you want a decent collection of writings of Stalin, you're better off reading Problems of Leninism.
Jackson Campbell
And few others to add.
David Foster
Some youtube docu's on the biggest nominally socialist state, the People's Republic of China. Needs to be studied if we want to see where to go from here, as they have reached a point not that different from our liberal societies: a perception that there is no alternative to the current system, but also no future for the system, in a sense.
(it's a very film-student-esque vid, but the interviews are really interesting)
Hunter Long
I know you're trying to troll but Wealth of Nations lends itself to leftism, but you wouldn't know that because you haven't read it.
Jason Clark
Adam Smith was neoliberal just like myself. Of course it lends to leftism.
Ryder Cruz
neoliberalism didn't arise until the 1980s mate
Smith was a classical liberal which is why the neoliberals are neoliberals. Marxism, like most ideologies, borrows heavily from classical liberalism (and back in Marx's time this also included support of 'free trade' but has nothing to do with Marxism nowadays)
also a lolbertarian would never call himself a leftist unless he was an idiot
ur bad at shitposting
Alexander Torres
Bordiga is not the only (or the mainstream) LeftCom.
For example, Mattick:
What's with people here suggesting anthologies? There are online libraries with all the works already. If you want suggest a specific reading list, it would make more sense to simply list the works.
Isaac Miller
Because an anthology is a collection of works in one place, which is the entire point of compiling a list in the first place. Why make a list when the list has already been made?
I could have given a pdf, but the first link from literally googling the book gives exactly just a reading list marx2mao.com/Stalin/POLtc.html
Joshua Brooks
This is how you tell someone doesn't read
Gavin Lee
You forgot one.
Justin Kelly
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Nathan Nelson
We weren't talking about Trotsky, and I don't see how he's relevant to the matter .
Its like two pages long dude You get the same info from just talking to someone or lurking here
Wew lad Incidentally, Stalin and Hitler both had mustaches
>The Essential Works omits several essential chapters from What is to Be Done? Hm, now that you mention it, it does seem to be missing "V. The “Plan” For an All-Russia Political Newspaper," which the back seems to deny while the section's introduction acknowledges… Not sure how "essential" I would call it, though. and it's complete besides that and this brief appendix marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/appendix.htm I don't find the editor's forward and introductions remotely useful or authoritative. The commentary is really quite minimal so it doesn't make a huge difference, but mostly, the volume is your public transit buddy.
Ayyy, you forgot to put Orwell's 1984 in the fifth slot
Alexander Perry
Wasn't "History and Class Consciousness" considered revisionism or something? I know Lukács had to do self-criticism because of it.
Kevin Thomas
I want to begin reading Proudhon - do I need to read other stuff prior to this to fully understand him? Like Hegel with Marx, etc?
Brayden Perry
You can just read him. My copy of What is Property provides all the necessary historical background and it is just a pocket edition for instance. Don't fall for that meme. I know Lenin said it but it is not true at all.
Isaac Walker
Alright, thanks friend. Marx and Hegel was just something I've heard on here several times. I'll probably pick up What is Property soon-ish.
Jordan Murphy
Can you guys recommend good fiction books/writers with a leftist perspective (as in The Grapes of Wrath, The Jungle etc.)?
It doesn't need to be outright communist works, just by seeing the viewpoint of the working class and other exploited people would be fine.
Jason Taylor
Berthold Brecht (anything), Maxim Gorky - The Mother, Ursula LeGuin - The Dispossessed
Leo Sullivan
It's one of the most influential books in Western Marxism, the school of Marxism opposed to offical Soviet Marxism.
And the book he wrote to deflect criticism aimed against him was Lenin and the Unity of his Thought, which is a great book by itself regardless of the context behind it.
Don't deny the influence of ABC of Communism and Imperialism and World Economy. Those two books where used as textbooks approved by the Communist Party and Vladimir Lenin himself following the October Revolution. Economics of the Transition Period is there because Bukharin was prominent in debates following Lenin's death, and it offers a counterbalance to New Economics which is on the opposite side of Bukharin/
It's essential because it's precisely the chapter that gives the name to the whole book. Everyone emphasizes the first three chapters because that's where Lenin's polemic against Rebochaii Delo lies, when the truth was that the last two chapters (which most ignore), where written before the prior chapters, and was Lenin's practical solution to the problems of organization in his day, and also why the book was influential when it was published. Lenin's call for a single unified central organ was in truth a fight against the disparate organization of competing sects (which, looking at the situation of the Left today, we can all understand) in exchange for a unity of an authentic radical Marxism, which underlies the whole premise of the book. The point isn't that "the conditions are different so lets do something else", but to find the framework that Lenin employed to put theory into practice.
Also, the 'public transit' translation is garbage. Stikhinost does not mean "spontaneity" and stikhinyii does not mean "spontaneous". Their etymological root (stikhi) has nothing to do with "spontaneous" and more so to do with what is elemental (cosmic force) and elementary (the original building blocks). The word Lenin uses inherently implies disorganization and the initial arising. In translating from English to Russian Webbs' Industrial Democracy, where these two words appear prominently, nowhere does Lenin translate "spontaneous" as stikhinost. I could go on and on (ie "professional revolutionary" has nothing to do with professionalism but moreso to do with profession, as in job/occupation). Lenin Rediscovered dedicates whole chapters on refuting these myths surrounding What is to Be Done.
Eugh, besides, reading What is to Be Done? by itself without context is so confusing because it's so very polemical. The book wasn't even seen as 'defining' Bolshevism until after Lenin had died, and even then years after that happened people just forgot why it was. Being given something that only makes sense in context with horrible context means giving people the wrong impression.
Ryder Wood
oh wait that wasn't a smug anime gril face
Bentley Wood
I made a reading list and more for y'all, in a six-week programme to get it done.
Choose three days a week that you can take under three hours out of a day for education. Do what it says to do each day - each task shouldn't take more than 3 hours.
Find a buddy who wants to read with you to discuss with every other week, or discuss it here on Holla Forums.
In six weeks, you'll be well grounded in revolutionary theory, economic and philosophical understanding, and historical knowledge to back up your case.
Adam Carter
I don't think that's realistic.
Noah Bailey
But it's true. Each piece can be read in under 3 hours, most in under 2. If you need a little more, take a little more time.
Christian Thompson
The Crab Cannery Ship
Chase Wright
How about you fags provide links and/or short summaries about what you get from reading you recommendation. Just throwing names around are more likely just going to turn people off from reading.
Elijah Morales
When does Voltaire's Bastards get good? I'm two chapters in and it seems to conflate technocrats with the 'overabundance of reason' in the West.
Then rants like a freshman in their first philosophy class about corporatism.
Elijah Hall
almost sounds a bit lite one dimensional man. the main thrust of the argument is that we experience a rationality of irrationality.
neo classical economics is one such example. increasing productivity through the empirical sciences which cause more misery due to unemployment than the labour saving increases. A 'natural rate of unemployment', necessary for keeping wages and therefore inflation down but as a result underutilising the use of workers.
labour unions fighting against automation is another.
he cites a few sociological papers that confine the capitalist system to the background. economics call these factors, 'external'
Gavin Baker
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Christopher Watson
That guy spammed it in a bunch of threads
It's funny, because he's not wrong, it's just that he's not using "leftist" to refer to who we call leftist but instead to adherents of "left"-liberal idpol. Holla Forums thinks this is an argument against us and our position because they literally can't grasp the distinction between the two, or see how the positions are antithetical, because they don't have the foggiest grasp on our actual position. Comrade Kaczynski would have a lot to say about them, boy howdy.
Eli Gomez
I hope you aren't serious. He's no "comrade," he's as alt-right as it gets.
Alexander Wilson
So a liberal friend recommended me this book and I reached the part regarding the Ku Klux Klan. The author references a former member who joined in order to have an expose on them:
Reminds me of a certain neo-Nazi board…
Aiden Ramirez
The rebel - Albert Camus Albert Camus' 1951 study of the development of rebellion and revolution in European thought and society discussing, amongst others, Hegel, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Max Stirner, and anti-Tsarist Russian nihilists, as well as the Bolsheviks, who he accuses of having betrayed the fundamental principles of rebellion.
Nathaniel Barnes
Title: How Nonviolence Protects the State Author: Peter Gelderloos Date: 2007 Topics: nonviolence, violence
intro: Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities—even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In a call bound to stir controversy and lively debate, Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.
Contemporary movements for social change face plenty of difficult questions, but sometimes matters of strategy and tactics receive low priority. Many North American activists fail to scrutinize the role of nonviolence, never posing essential questions:
• Is nonviolence effective at ending systems of oppression?
• Does nonviolence intersect with white muh privilege and the dominance of North over South?
• How does pacifism reinforce the same power dynamic as patriarchy?
Days of War, Nights of Love Crimethink for Beginners
By crimethink
This book isn’t designed to be used in the way a ‘normal’ book is. Rather than reading it from one cover to the other, casting perfunctory votes of disapproval or agreement along the way, and then putting it on the shelf as another inert possession, we hope you will use this as a tool in your own efforts—not just to think about the world, but also to change it. This book is composed of ideas and images we’ve remorselessly stolen and adjusted to our purposes, and we hope you’ll do exactly the same with its contents.
“As for the contents themselves: we’ve limited ourselves for the most part to criticism of the established order, because we trust you to do the rest. Heaven is a different place for everyone; hell, at least this particular one, we inhabit in common. This book is supposed to help you analyze and disassemble this world—what you build for yourself in it’s place is in your hands, although we’ve offered some general ideas of where to start. Remember: the destructive impulse is also a creative one . . . happy smashing! “
Your ticket to a world free of charge can't find pdf , must read tough if you like debord's society of the spectacle
Kevin Wood
kkk
Aiden Walker
I think it's essential we verse ourselves in the ideas of our enemies so we may better dismantle their poorly thought out concepts. Mein Kampf and Art of the Deal are both at the forefront of fascist modern thought, they need to be combed through and each arguement weighed and considerd to find it's weak point and then throughoughly dismantled.
Sebastian Turner
Hahaha, c'mon Holla Forums, at least rec something fun like the Turner Diaries.
Jose Edwards
Please, it's like Django Unchained but for white people. Do not want.
Ian Lee
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Kevin Campbell
eat a bag of dicks
Evan Robinson
pretty engrossing
Bentley Richardson
that must be one short history ;)
Mason Ward
I'm gonna say somethign that'll sound crazy but hear me out before you stone me.
Wealth of Nations.
Not because the stuff Adam Smith argues is particularly good (really its mostly tangential since he's after such fundamentally different things) but because its really useful for understanding the context the people that came after him were writing in.
Chase Russell
Link?
Caleb Flores
Wealth of Nations is a good read. Right wingers who hold it up as some kind of bible of capitalism have usually never read it.
Connor Ortiz
yeah totaly, i cant wait to see their reactions once we school those dumb righties on the shit they're suposed to know
Noah Lee
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Adrian Sanders
Requesting these bad boys, plz post pdfs ;_;
Liam Robinson
wtf guys
Found the actuality of communism
The idea of communism found but missing pages and very poor quailty
This is legitimately one of the most eye opening and touching Socialist works out there. It's the documentary account of one village going through the Chinese revolution in the late 40s from a UN development Observer.
I think this is up there with Homage to Catalonia as one of the great documentary Socialist works.
John Campbell
Can comrades recommend more writings of libertarian socialism ?
Adrian Evans
I can't deduce from your post if you liked Bookchin, but this is another text detailing the gist of his ideas.
Wyatt Ward
Much appreciated comrade.
I found his writing well thought out but I'm not exactly convinced if communalism is achievable without violence.
His ideal society seems as unrealistic as Plato's philosopher king. Guess I'll have to dig deeper.
Gavin Price
At the same time that President Trump swore in Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, he signed three executive actions on crime and public safety, including one that targets drug cartels.
"I'm signing three executive actions today designed to restore safety in America,” Trump said in the Oval Office after swearing in Jeff Sessions as attorney general.
"These dangerous times require a determined attorney general," Trump said at an Oval Office ceremony for Sessions, who said rising crime is a "dangerous, permanent trend" in the United States and also promised to "end this lawlessness" of illegal immigration.
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 9, 2017
It's unclear what any of the actions would do precisely, and the White House did not immediately provide copies of what Trump had signed. Trump said he is directing the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security “to undertake all necessary and lawful actions to break the back of the criminal cartels that have spread across our nation and destroying the blood of our youth.”
Another action, Trump said, establishes a Justice Department task force aimed at reducing violent crime and orders the agency to develop a plan to stop crimes against law enforcement officers, or as Reuters put it, an executive order directing the DOJ to create a plan to "stop crime."
As Bloomberg adds, President Trump signs three directives today, including one that will direct DHS and DOJ to “break the back of criminal cartels.” Trump also signs DOJ directive aimed at stopping violent crime, and another DOJ directive to implement a plan to stop crime and violence against police.
I assume The Society of the Spectacle is the best place to get started on the spectacle, right? Does anyone have a pdf?
Jaxon Roberts
I really believe that even as communists we should read this, so as not to reproduce the mistakes of the past.
Brayden Stewart
Cucks
Nolan Sanchez
Here's an audiobook channel I made a while ago because I liked the TTS voices for reading, but the ones on Marxist-Leninist Theory sounded a bit weird to me.
That book lead to some really boring art though. (Hard line minimalism and so forth.)
Matthew King
I want to gain access to advanced shitposting options, but I googled for a copy and the two main results were quite different when I compared paragraph by paragraph. I'm after the copy most true to the original.
Hudson Watson
I believe this is it, comrades.
Wyatt Johnson
Anyone got these 3 books?
In exchange have this 12 GB torrent of academic papers and books:
In the past few days there was a thread, similar to the online publications one (>>1332403) that had some useful websites for lefties, which I failed to save because I'm a moron.
Try archive.is/L26ME , comrade. The first few are occult nonsense, but that's to be expected of them.
Thomas Turner
This is really interesting. How come the right always had this fascination with the occult? Is there any particular explanation? Even today, despite Holla Forums's illiteracy, they've regressed into what could be called "techno-mysticism", what with all the ironic? Kek worship and make-belief.
I genuinely haven't seen a single esoteric text from a Leftist perspective. I would like to tho
Tyler Torres
your the faggots who rape children in the name of maloc
Daniel Roberts
I understand you are a wayward Holla Forumsyp who stumbled into this board for whatever reason, so I'm guessing you are referring to the Hillary and co scandals, spirit cooking etc, correct?
Well, regardless of the validity of your conspiratorial schizophrenia, we are not on their team they are not leftists. Read the FAQ, moron, or better yet grab a book from the this thread and start reading.
Jack Richardson
The right is abscessed obsessed with spooked ideas like morality, god, truth, nation, destiny, etc. It's only natural that they would be fascinated by other fictitious sorts of magic.
Jeremiah Bailey
Gnosticism is closer to Leftism than Rightism, but religion is to be separate from politics so it isn't Leftist.
Cooper Clark
Your comment is a good example of why it's so difficult to debate leftists. You are smugly sure of things you don't have evidence for. The fundamental divide between left and right is that leftism is emotionalism, and logic be damned.
Jack Hill
Nice isms.
You are correct about liberals but the right is fueled by emotions that the conflate as logic or draw conclusions from data presented that they already had concluded according to emotion in their head. "Most crime is done by niggers, niggers nig because they are niggers, it is in what my emotion dictate as their nature", so because of this they also feel having a feudal lord and being a serf is "good"?
Hudson Diaz
'Nigger' is a term invented by democrats when they owned slaves. Most crime is done by black people, but that wasn't true before the 1960's. After the democrats started using them for vote machines. Democrats accuse the right of doing what they themselves are guilty of. For example, leftists hate blacks, so they push that emotion onto us. It's not a coincidence that the only serious "black" Presidential candidate was, to quote Joe Biden: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." –Joe Biden, referring to Barack Obama at the beginning of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, Jan. 31, 2007
Isaiah Allen
Transference is typical of every leftist talking point. Did everyone see the 'professor' last week who screamed at the cops, 'I'm trying to teach these kids humanity!1! BEAT those guys!' But still my favorite, the 'free speech' activist prof pictured here.
Colton Brooks
The entire Collected Works of Marx & Engels in English.
You're confusing trolls with serious talk. They post that to get you to leave. This is just silly, and probably why they wanted you gone. There's no connection between political beliefs and the occult. If by 'occult' you mean God, (and if so you should learn to communicate more clearly), that's not related.
Easton Gomez
As cautionary tales? Because as you know, there's never been a successful nation built on anything other that capitalism in a republic.
Kevin Garcia
Yeah, sure. I guess Evola just before dying shouted "I WAS ONLY PRETENDING TO BE RETARDED" and disavowed his entire work. And the whole Ahnenerbe thing? Himmler was just weeding out the normies.
I wasn't suggesting there is a connection, but there is a clear tendency. Even now it's apparent that Holla Forums has an obsession with the occult, whether it's ironic or not they've reached the same point their "intellectual" predecessors had. Same goes for pagans who are mostly visible as right wing.
No, by 'occult' I mean occult. Evola and the entire MEGA folders devoted to magic.
Why are you so defensive about it? It's clear as day. Is it uncomfortable for you knowing right wingers have a tendency to have nonsensical beliefs?
Lucas Howard
so Holla Forums were the liberals all along…
Hudson Jackson
So you just read this from A-Z and become a master of theory?
thats one way of putting it, the moment you start being effective is generally the moment when they start trying to kill you, nigga. You have a lot to lose
Aso lenin was a german agent and the krauts were playing right into the hands of the perfidious anglos, I still agree for the most part, just dont be so bushy-eyed kiddos
two books for the reading list, also never trust a greenie
Leo Sanders
Where can I read up on the le bunker man, his theories and so on?
Chase Ramirez
ask Ismail on /marx/
Ethan Cox
Anyone know any good Japanese far-left people who have their writings published in some form?
Logan Thompson
I picked it up in a PDF thread here months ago
idk how leftist it is, but I know he's been influenced by leftist thinkers
Nolan Edwards
Which of these are the easiest to read and the best for a libertarian to read? I'm gonna trying waking a friend of mine.
Matthew Jones
+ anarchism (mutualism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-communism, individualist anarchism), social democracy, democratic socialism, deep ecology
- Leninism, Maoism, Stalinism, national communism, state socialism
I'm on the libertarian left, but I'd prefer capitalism to an authoritarian system on the left or right.
Matthew Morris
hello liberal, how does it feel to be both anarkiddie and a classcuck? bet it feels like belonging to dustbin of history
Wyatt Gutierrez
Wow, quite an extreme case of projection you have going there. If you think there's any future for Leninism or its derivatives, I have to assume you're some uneducated basement-dweller blaming his fast food job on broader society. It makes you upset to see people enjoying their personal freedoms, doesn't it?
The authoritarian left are a perversion of the labor movement. They literally took a movement meant for self-rule, and co-opted it for a nationalistic-authoritarian model meant to create a new elite, which they put themselves at the top of.
The future needs to be more democratic, more advanced, and more open. If you're an enemy to advancement and openness, then you're literally an impediment to human progress and the world would be better off without you.
Lucas Ward
You are left of nothing and still pretty much classcucked. I'm with the tankie here, get some fucking dialectics.
Brandon Taylor
If you agree with him, then I'm far to the left of you. I did use some right wing rhetoric right there, but in my actual stances I'm for democratization of the workplace, and I believe large national programs like universal healthcare, the right to housing, and living wages are necessities of any justifiable government. You Leninists are more actually reactionary than most Republicans.
Jacob Watson
Don't see the torrent thread up any more but requesting some help from comrades in about 2 or 3 days. Will be seeding a 75gb audiobook torrent with all of the worthwhile audiobooks found on public trackers as well as a 150 - 200gb torrent with the best courses featured on public trackers. Should I post it ITT or make a new thread? Thanks.
Parker Diaz
Anyone have a pdf of this?
Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance
by M. Testa
Dominic Kelly
Liberal detected
Isaac Fisher
Right. Hate to be a fuckin pleb but I have to. I am garbage at motivating myself to read and half the time I do I feel like it just goes straight through. Whats the biggest piece of pleb literature relating to socialist or libertarian socialist ideas and whats the best way to read it for someone with no motivation.
Luis Gonzalez
Audioboks while jogging, walking or biking
If you listen them in front of your pc you will get bored and end up googling tranny porn
Julian Turner
Dont. Its little more than just watered down Stalin + "TITO==MEANIEE!!"
Jaxon Robinson
also /r/ing that story about Hoxha getting bullied.
Hunter Jenkins
I have these that might be of interest alongside the Society of the Spectacle.
Christopher Cox
I went through Lenin's Collected Works and cut out the important bits. Open to suggestions on what else could be extracted.
This isnt leftist per se, but I feel like the reason why I feel this way is largely tied in with my nihilistic leftist views. Anywho, the topic of the thread is: what should I do with my life? I hate almost everyone I meet, even on here there are more bigots than reasonable unspooked people. I have a little less than 2k saved up in usd and am probably gonna lose most of it soon due to insurance and taxes and vehicle maintenance etc. I want to do something radical. Something leftist. I want to go somewhere or do something that gets me away from capitalism. I have no idea what I can accomplish that is of that nature with only 2000 bucks. Please help leftypol, I dont want to have to kill myself, I have such hopes for witnessing cool shit in the future. You might be my only hope.
Logan Thomas
this is why I must die
Samuel Flores
Just delet this and start a thread.
Kevin Sanchez
Start / contribute to your local Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, create an Agitprop Vandalism project.
Basic study guide for Marxism-Leninism, if you want to get more knowledgeable in tankie theory
Owen Harris
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Brandon King
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Noah Jones
Guys, do you have some PDFs of strictly communism/socialist (not socdem or capitalist) critique of fascism and Not Socialism?
Want to learn how to debate Holla Forums and other patriotic capitalists.
Aiden Thompson
Mchael Heinrich Introduction to Karl Marx Capital 3V
Carter Clark
You are so based
I was looking everywhere for that pdf
Jaxson Taylor
Does anybody have a pdf of Murray Bookchin's:
Joshua Young
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Nolan Foster
Anyone got works by Franz Fanon?
Gavin Adams
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Ryder Foster
I recently read chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" and found it pretty interesting, do you guys think it's adequate to post it here ?
Liam Wright
He has user right in his name, must be our guy.
Gavin Scott
Go for it.
Joseph Collins
The first thing the commies will do when they get in pwer is ban these books
John Kelly
k.
Jordan Perez
Under their rule, tankie Hungarians banned all of Marx works except for The Capital Vol. 1.
Samuel Martinez
Is this a new and even shittier, version of the classic "you'll be the first to die in a revolution!" line? You guys don't get smarter but you are creative
This thread is missing Gramsci, I need Gramsci, complete works and some analysis/introduction.
Matthew Miller
no Berkmann itt? this work is good for the layperson
the dialectics list…All you really need is Lesser Logic. interest in dialectics is also a good excuse to read some Eastern canon too
seconding this! 10/10 amazing not even a Maoist/ML
based, user! if you like Agamben you might be interested in his work The Coming Community and the work of Tiqqun
will try to post separately
Dominic Lopez
Wretched of the Earth is too big to post but it's a google search away
Jace Morales
I think the better place to start is with Young Marx (1844 manuscripts), Lukacs (Orthodox Marxism/Phenomenon of Reification), possibly Frankfurt School (Culture Industry) (I recall Foucault wrote the French wouldn't be reading Frankfurt Schule texts till the 70s), and previous Debord/SI texts such as
Do not judge instantly that i am uploading right winged book for your attention.
This is a book that contains all the methods right winged americans use to debate you. I am uploading this as a useful reading to understand how Holla Forums fucks with you, and how to counter it. If you learn how to counter this book's bullshit, you will learn how to counter Holla Forums, or you can read it as comedic novel too, doesn't matter. You will know your enemy better with this.
Aaron Lee
Okay, Holla Forums.
I've been browsing this board daily, along with a multitude of leftist subreddits (I actually joined reddit just for those and some language stuff) ie /r/Ultraleft and /r/LateStageCapitalism, for a solid eight or nine months now.
I've read almost zero theory. I've read through this thread, and all of the reading list images, and decided to start with The State and Revolution, but I'm having a harder time following than I had expected.
I want to become a well-read leftist wizard. Where do I start?
Gavin Garcia
Step 1: quit using Reddit.
Nathan Rodriguez
You are a perfect example of modern generation brainwashed idiot. I don't care if you are right or wrong, this shit is so retarded on many levels and ideologies, i would punch you irl.
Justin Fisher
I made an effort to start reading theory, and in having trouble figuring out where I should start, I came to the Holla Forums reading list general and asked for help.
Again, I don't even claim any strong positions. I'm undecided, I just know that I'm anticapitalist. I wanted to strengthen my knowledge, so I tried reading and asking for help here.
What's your fucking deal?
Christian Walker
Lurk more, faggot.
Connor Howard
How about "Wage-Labour and Capital" or "Value, Price and Profit" as a more general introduction to the economic side of things. I'm not quite sure what kind of "leftist theory" you're out for, but these two should do well enough.
Other than that, these seems good:
And I always like to recommend:
Juan Collins
just start with Marx.
wage labor and capital is a nice place to start. but if you truly want to be a wizard I say start with the Greeks because philosophy is the key
Thomas Richardson
I would like one "Theology, philosophy and the history of i…" please
Gavin Brown
Is there something like a "for dummies" version of philosophical and sociological texts? Every time I read a piece of writing I have the feeling that the author is trying to drown me in words to show how smart he is, instead of carefully selecting words to make a point.
In some cases I can understand, such as Adorno who wrote about the commodification of arts and language, but in general it is more of a burden than a blessing.
Alright, lads, I don't have a lot of time to read, but here's what I plan on reading eventually. It was originally a longer list, but I removed the philosophy books, non-socialist economic books, and everything written before modern socialism emerged.
What Is Property? The Ego and Its Own Capital, Volume I The Conquest of Bread The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists The Sublime Object of Ideology
Chronologically, there's a big gap between the last two books, the former being published in 1914 and the latter in 1989. Are there any essential books between these two that I should put on the list?
Jacob Reyes
I'm glad you have What is Property?. Too many people skip it.
Chase Lopez
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Gabriel Ross
Any comrade have a good pdf/source regarding the Nicaraguan Revolution, civil war, and the Sandinistas?
Jack Ward
My introduction to socialism was from a book of essays and excerpts on anarchism that I read in community college when I was bored as fuck. Proudhon was the first one in it that made sense to me. I figured I should read the whole thing. Also, here's my updated list:
What Is Property? Capital, Volume I The Conquest of Bread The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (still iffy on this one) The Society of the Spectacle The Sublime Object of Ideology
I've read like 25% of Capital so far. It's a slog.
Matthew Cruz
Share plz
Cooper Parker
Critique of the Gotha Programme if you don't want to fall into all the usual misconceptions about Marx.
Finished checking out some more audiobook rips on audiobookbay and feel that this collection is sufficient for now. Most are related to my fields of study but it also features some fiction and introductory books for philosophy and economics. Comes out to about 79GB.
I'll work on a course compilation torrent in the upcoming months but have to figure out a way to make sure the DRM content doesn't trace back to me.
Frederick Pollock: “State Capitalism: Its possibilities and limitations.” In: SPSS (Studies in Philosophy and Social Science) 9 (1941), p. 200-225. Background: Moishe Postone: “Critique, State, and Economy.” In: Fred Rush: The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory, Cambridge 2004, p. 165-193. Franz Neumann: The Structure and Practice of Not Socialism. 1933-1944. Selection: “Part Two. I) An Economy Without Economics?” (pp. 181-191) and “Behemoth” (pp. 375-389). Optional: Otto Kirchheimer: “The Legal Order of Not Socialism.” In: SPSS 3 (1941).
Social Psychology and the Authoritarian Character
Psychoanalysis and Sociology
Wilhelm Reich: “I) Ideology as material power.” In: The Mass Psychology of Fascism. Optional: Same Title, Chapter II: „Authoritarian Family Ideology and the Mass Psychology of Fascism.” Sigmund Freud: Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego. Selection: Chapter V – XI. (From “Two Artificial Groups: The Church and the Army” on.) Optional/ Background: Sigmund Freud: On Narcissism: An Introduction. Selection: Chapter II and III. Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents. Selection: Chapter VI – VIII.
Authoritarian Character
Erich Fromm: “Authoritarianism.” In: Escape from Freedom. Chapter 5.1. Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson an R. Newitt Sanford: The Authoritarian Personality. Selection: “I) Introduction. A) The Problem.” and “VII) The Measurement of implicit antidemocratic trends. B) Construction of the Fascism (F) Scale.“ Theodor W. Adorno, Else Frenkel-Brunswik, Daniel J. Levinson an R. Newitt Sanford: The Authoritarian Personality. Selection: Theodor W. Adorno: “XIX) Types and Syndromes. B) Syndromes found among high scores.”
Fascist Propaganda
Theodor W. Adorno: “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.” Theodor W. Adorno: The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas’ Radio Addresses. Selection: Preparing and presenting the different sections individually or in small groups.
Theory of Society
Anti-Semitism and Social Domination
Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer: Dialectics of Enlightenment. Selection: “Elements of Anti-Semitism.” Theodor W. Adorno: “Education after Auschwitz.”
Art and Culture
Theodor W. Adorno: “Culture Industry Reconsidered.“ In: The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. Walter Benjamin: “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. (Second Version)”
History
Walter Benjamin: “On the Concept of History.”
Tyler Parker
Its etymology is the old ML parties, who used it as an slur to denounce members who went "too left" from orthodoxy - in France it became appropriated by the 'post-leftcom' movements like the Situationists, OJTR (and certain Mao Spontex) etc.
Angel Myers
I remember vaguely Grundrisse and Critique of the Gotha Programme is banned in PRC as well.
Austin Flores
Can someone upload Terrorism and Communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky with foreword by Slavoj Žižek?
Luke Watson
All the more reason why this "left-right" spectrum is nothing but a meme.
James Sanchez
Cheers fams. Been stuck in captcha hell so have been unable to post.
Justin Mitchell
For anybody who is interested in taking their first steps towards learning about the world around them, and the science of human history:
I've got conquest of bread, mutual aid and anarchism a series of revolutionary writings. Currently reading conquest of bread. Where can i learn about the economics of anarchist communism tho?
Bentley Anderson
I recommend reading Otto Asser's manifesto. It critiques the Hitlerian system, but also highlights the importance of not falling in the trap of replacing the employer with state. I also like his view on property not being private but has the idea of Usufruct. laraj.ca/AGwiki/uploads/Fascism/Germany/Otto Strasser - Germany Tomorrow (Part 2).pdf
Evan Lewis
Are there more like this one? Like for other classical works, such as what one should read before engaging on the Phenomenology or Sein und Zeit?
Dylan Bennett
Hans Hermann Hoppe: Democracy the god that failed
Christopher King
I wanna write a book called Property: The god that failed or Markets: The god that failed
Owen Morgan
is this quotes from capitalism that inadvertedly support communism'?
It's a group of left-wing political economists uploading syllabi of courses they've given. There's reading material for virtually every topic, and it usually says if it's aimed at beginners or advanced students.
Of course going through these as an autodidact will probably be painful, but that's the sort of shit we have to endure I guess.
Henry Jackson
Have only read the Communist Manifesto and an abridged version of Rudolf Rocker's Anarchism & Anarcho-Syndicalism. Where should I go from here?
By this you'll have too many questions and misconception to just go on reading. I.e. you should talk to people.
Anthony Cooper
Check every single reading on our booru, keeping in mind what people ITT posted. lefty.booru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=reading_list There seems to be more marxism in there, so in case you are interested in anarchism, you might want to check libcom.org/library/libcomorg-reading-guide It also has other topics that could interest you. Googling "[Ideology] reading list" is also an option, but be on guard in case of reddit reading lists unless perhaps they are made by leftcoms
Elijah Barnes
this is LIT as fuck fams
Jonathan Foster
fug forgot my file
David Wright
Critique of the Gotha Programme so you learn how full of bs MLs are.
I haven't read 'Value, Price, and Profit' or 'Wage Labour and Capital' (started immediately on Grundrisse and Capital) but I've heard they're good intros as well.
Anarchists commonly recommend 'Conquest of Bread' by Kropotkin and 'Anarchism and Other Essays by Goldman', so read them if you want continue to read from both camps.
Some things to keep in mind: Marx and Engels is not the same person, despite many insistence that they are. Same goes for Marx & Lenin, Lenin & Stalin, etc.
Marxists and Anarchists aren't as different as either side would have you believe.
Don't become "x" based on a wiki article or a single book, and don't defend everything related to "x" just because you identify with it.
Jose Rogers
This.
Justin Reed
So, you are essentially claiming that only Marxists who agree with Anarchists are real Marxists?
Xavier Hill
Aren't they?
Alexander Myers
No. Bakunin/Marx split did not happen due to personal reasons.
is shitposting.
Marx explicitly pointed out (in the aforementioned Critique most clearly) that you don't get to have Communism (i.e. truly free society: "to everyone according to his needs") without material conditions (developed productive forces) that can support it.
Jackson Hall
Hmm….
Jayden Hill
Even with the backing of the USSR, M-L tactics did not lead to many successful socialist revolutions at all, with the vast majority of M-L states being created as a result of Soviet conquest. Why would they be useful now that the USSR is gone?
Jaxson Diaz
Are we pretending that "ML tactics" (Lenin's article from 1901) weren't the ones that created Bolsheviks - then and USSR - when neither existed?
As compared to what? Hundreds of imaginary LeftCom revolutions?
Did you imagine World Revolution happening in each nation separately, with Socialists being xenophobically Nationalist and never having any kind of international cooperation, while Capitalists are presenting united front and crushing being crushed by each nation separately?
Ayden Ramirez
Does a chronologically ordered reading guide already exist for leftists? If not, does anybody want to help me start one?
Blake Sanchez
I hope you all buy all the books ITT, it'll make for a more profitable quarter!
Logan Bennett
Almost all books itt are free as pdfs
Camden Moore
Yo where do I start with Zizek?
Evan Bennett
First page
Owen Ramirez
Do we have one like this with labels for different ideologies and so on?
Ryan Stewart
I was 100% sure there would be william blake on that chart. We need to start co-opting shit too.
Max Weber - The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Kevin Taylor
Do you lefties ever read outside your echo chamber? Surely you must be curious what formed nazi ideology.
Here's my Nazi collection.
Hudson Thompson
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Aiden Gutierrez
anprims aren't alt right my friend
Jaxon Campbell
Mussolini is the only fascist capable of forming a coherant thought, but it just nationalist jerking with Nietzschean characteristics. In terms of Nazism, you need the previous assumption of your inherant superiority or the inferiority of others to actually take any of it seriously.
I don't think Nazi literature is relevant to anybody who is considered not white either.
Landon Morris
Japanese are considered honorary aryans too. TBH why should anyone else exist anyway?
Anthony Ward
oxford very short introductions, pls upload
where did you get all these?
Jackson Sanders
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Noah Perez
I prefer novels to pure philosophy/economy/history books. I like when ideas are experienced through the evolution of characters. Anyone got something to recommend?
I went and read Manufacturing Consent. Could you guys recommend anymore "straightforward" content like this? Something I can drop on people without revealing power levels. Yeah, my philosophical understanding is kinda rusty and I'm a code monkey with zero debating skills, you got me. So I need the cold, hard facts that are easy to communicate.
Any books that harshly criticize US Policy, the CIA, wallstreet etc. would be much appreciated.
Jack Harris
Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
by Howard Zinn
And
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
by Chris Hedges
Leo King
Ok it seems perfect thanks>>1490740
Levi Price
Will look into this, thanks!
Ethan Collins
This one is gut
Dominic Roberts
Third of these are confusing liberals with leftists, a third aren't even contradictions and the other third are things that nobody has ever said ever.
I mean "Race is a social construct"? Seriously? Not even the most idpol-ish of liberals believe in this shit.
Is this the state of right-wing propaganda nowadays? How the fuck do people believe this shit?
Jeremiah Williams
Race isn't a social construct? There is no such thing as the black race, the white race, or the yellow race, let alone a superior "Aryan race" (which somehow excludes Slavs, even though their languages have more in common with Proto-Indo-European than Germanic languages) and an inferior "Semitic" race united in a plot to overthrow the former. It's all in your head.
Joshua Kelly
Jesus fucking christ it's "Moloch"
Caleb Lee
he meant memory allocation its a sick, fucked up cult of C Programmers
Jaxson Myers
Where can I find these books in epub?
Nolan Rogers
you don't need epub, just use pdf also eReader Prestigio
Jeremiah Butler
How is it compared to Moon Reader Pro? Cause It's a pain the ass to read PDFs in the latter.
Jonathan Morris
*does it compare
Noah Green
This is a longass thread now, but anyway here's The Murray Bookchin Reader.
Anthony Mitchell
Hey guys. Is there a list of recommended Frankfurt School books I should read?
Jackson Reed
The Dialectical Imagination is the classic introduction to the Frankfurt School
Brandon Diaz
I read some but it was basically "muh national tradition" or "da joos act as one monolithic hivemind" I also read some esoteric-hitlerist shit which was good for a laff
Aaron Morales
the left is more into empirical reality and cold hard rationality. Mysticism and esoteric content is definitely lacking on the left and IMO is necessary to have. Mythology and mysticism doesn't have to be taken literally and can sometimes convey concepts that help with your understanding of reality. They may be spooks but to appeal to the masses spooks are important.
what would be wrong with adopting said "spooks" if you recognize what they are.
Austin Rogers
the gospels
Hunter Moore
Holy shit this is good
Kayden Ortiz
wew
Lincoln Carter
oh boy the stupid ass "human nature" spook that Holla Forums retards love. You know for them it's: Humans vs Orcs after all. They're that fucking dumb.
Christian Fisher
Rules for Radicals
Henry Cox
we're going to hit 250 replies sooner or later
Mods, edit the OP and add the sources posted here.
Jayden Thompson
450*
Sebastian Collins
Thats exactly what threads like these are. You read 50 books on a failed ideology like Communism and you condition yourself to think its a good idea.
Pretty sad really, it's practically a religion at this stage. Telling each other fairytales of the perfect communist society which defies all logic and reason in order to "exist."
Connor Diaz
literal retard, you seem to have never read a serious book about politic in your life
Jaxson Rivera
You can write a thousand books on any topic, talking about how it's the best idea in a theoretical manner. Doesn't mean it'll work out in practice, though.
Elijah Torres
Several people read Mein Kampf here. There was a thread about it about a week ago.
Josiah Ward
What are some tips to get me actually motivated to pick up a book. I always say I'm going to and never do. Help a brainlet out lads.
Cooper Morris
It's something you have to just do. That might not sound helpful at all, but it's the truth. Don't overwhelm yourself. Start small and read like 10 or 20 pages a day, then slowly increase how much you read everyday. Make sure to turn off all other distractions while you read like your phone, your computer, your TV. Just keep at it, it'll be easier as time goes on.
Dominic Gomez
microdose lsd lad
Joseph Williams
This is a really fucking stupid meme, dont do this. Lsd tolerance builds extremely fast. After taking it once you'll need to wait 3 days for the tolerance to go down to half and 7 days for it to go down to baseline. Taking it in hourly intervals will literally do nothing. This applies for most psychadelics. Do not redose during a trip, it will not do anything.
Gavin Morgan
Hahaha bitch. You probably measure your shit in ug and not mg like a pussy.
Kayden Scott
You need to wait longer than that, more like 2 weeks for baseline. And also redosing does a bit but not as much as the first hit.
John Miller
Well I've been able to knock out a few pages a day of The Conquest Of Bread which is better than nothing. Some kids were sat where I normally go to read on my lunch break yesterday which was annoying though.
Luis Rodriguez
Anyone got a good version of “In Defense of Lost Causes“ by Zizek?
can you point to a page number and the factual error in it?
Connor Bell
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Alexander Fisher
Is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man worth a read?
Angel Foster
It's required reading
Juan Ross
I had a lot of gift cards for book stores so I went on a shopping spree. Here's what I bought.
What Is Property?, Proudhon, 1840 Capital, Volume I, Marx, 1867 The Conquest of Bread, Kropotkin, 1892 The State and Revolution, Lenin, 1917 The Revolution Betrayed, Trotsky, 1937 The Society of the Spectacle, Debord, 1967 The Sublime Object of Ideology, Zizek, 1989
Wish me luck. I've already read a few hundred pages of Capital.
Lucas Adams
I started reading it on the train today and I'm on the first 5 pages of chapter 1 and I'm already confused. I envy you.
I've heard Chapter 1 is the most confusing chapter, beacuse Marx wasn't the best writer. But from its contents I can tell that it's fundamental that I understand it.
Aaron Baker
I seriously hope you guys don't do this. Libraries exist for a reason.
Pic related is what I'm reading.
Justin Morgan
It's silly but I'm proud of my mini library and I buy lots of used books.
I keep pdf's and mirror online libraries… and take books from the trash and just keep em all, no matter how stupid they may be. I'll keep copes of Atlas Shrugged alive out of respect for the foolishness it taught - to teach others what to ignore
I can't be honest to myself in regards to preserving history or knowledge if I abate the end of print
Logan Long
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Carson Rivera
I really enjoyed what I read of Freakonomics, its a really interesting book. Def gonna finish it this summer.
Zachary Nelson
I like owning books. I have a pretty good collection.
Oliver Moore
Sauces on the French Revolution?
Cameron Sullivan
I was half-kidding, it doesn't concern me.
However I couldn't count how many times I wanted to check out a leftist piece of literature and it was either A. 1 copy and already checked out B. Damaged to hell or C. Not carried. Meanwhile there's enough self-help your way to millions bullshit books readily available. So perhaps consider it.
Luis Morales
Is there any site like this for the UK? Looks interesting.
the BO of /polk/ behaves EXACTLY THE SAME WAY AS Holla Forums BO and mods. (the archives above are a great example) they delete all the same exact things, and give the same shitty excuses. I would not be surprised if /polk/ is run by exactly the same people as Holla Forums.
in fact, Holla Forums /polk/ and Holla Forums moderation, volunteers, mods, board owners all exhibit the same exact behaviors. do not be surprised if they are all the same group of people all working together to manipulate everyone and disrupt the spread of the truth.
after some serious critical thinking about the events taking place in the present, and seemingly unrelated experiences in the past we have uncovered the extremely strong possibility that /a/ and Holla Forums to a moderate but slightly lesser extent were shill testing grounds for the disruption and culture molding tactics to be later used on Holla Forums, Holla Forums, and /polk/, only moving on when the community had been permanently ruined. they needed alot of training because /a/ didn't have the willpower and the meme magic that Holla Forums
The moderators are banning people who out them. The moderators are banning people who do nothing more than link to threads on the /sudo/ board. The moderators are banning people who QUOTE POSTS from the /sudo/ board. The moderators are REGULARLY banning groups of 70,000's of IP addresses (in explicit violation of the site rules against doing so). The moderators make a point of banning people who explicitly violate No BOARD rules, SITE rules, or US LAW, while also EXPLICITLY leaving up content that violates rules.
Oliver Torres
^ dumb
Luis Baker
Where do i start with Mikhail Bakhtin?
Zachary Sanders
God and the state
Parker Rogers
BAKHTIN, user! ITS BAKHTIN!
Landon Richardson
Never heard of him.
Zachary Garcia
Where can I get Karl Marxs books cheaply?
Lucas Brown
The Marxist online archive.
Evan Barnes
I smell pork.
Brandon Foster
Relax.
Jonathan Long
luk
Joseph Taylor
ty
Gabriel Wright
Ah, nuts.
Gabriel Lewis
Physical copies > pdfs
Michael Wood
Forgot to take off shitposting flag
Cameron Lopez
I agree but thats cause I'm a pretty shit reader in the first place so it makes it easier to concentrate on it as well as making me more likely to pick it up.
Logan Reed
Can anyone recommend me some nazbol literature?
Connor Ortiz
Need Violence by Zizek, and anything else if you have more written by him. Help.
So I thought since this is a thread about books you guys can help me. I was looking at Nick Land and I thought he looked good to read even from an entertainment perspective,since his writing style seemed intresting.
I know he is like a meme in the accelerationist & NRx sense but is he still worth reading? Does he have any intresting thoughts or is all just a meme?
Evan Jones
He's definitely worth reading, and Accelerationism isn't just a meme. most people evoke it as one, but if you read Srnicek and Williams Accelerationist Manifesto and Inventing the Future you'll see it isn't entirely bullshit, in fact, unlike the memes that Accelerationism is just out of control immiseration theory, actual Accererationism is pretty practical/pragmatic. As for Land though, I'm not going to lie to you fam, he's an amazing prose stylist, but his politics are beyond shit, and I don't just mean now, as a literal Nazi, but even back then it was just a weird mishmash of postcolonialism, Lacanian-Feminism, and crypto-Deluzean-anarchism. That being said, if you like cyberpunk, or H. P. Lovecraft, then his work is A E S T H E T I C af, and his influence is undeniable and pops up just about everywhere. Personally I'm not the biggest fan of Deleuze, I'm much more drawn to Badiou, but I like Land, he's interesting, and more then worth reading, required reading if you're a Deleuzean yourself.
Jeremiah Powell
That said, you probably should have just started a new thread, maybe it'd also have turned into a discussion.
That revoluition in rojava book, It's probably useful to someone, but it's I've read half of it, and it's mostly about the 101 different acronym groups in Rojava from military-political to civic and social, with explanations for all of them. not very fun reading, tbh. I say this as someone with an intimate connection to the revolution there. just want people to be aware of what they're getting into with that book. it's no Homage to Catalonia.
Levi Long
Empirical Marxism & Planned Economics/Economic Computability Reading List. Warning: Math and Computing Intensive, except 'Arguments for Socialism', I think. If you read nothing else, read 'Towards a New Socialism' and incredibly important text in socialist economics.
Ryder Garcia
What does this board think about Étienne de la Boétie ?
Leo Martin
The German Ideology, reformatted from the libcom.org epub
Brilliant, thanks mate. That book is at least £70 from anywhere I've seen.
Adrian Perry
I know a lot of texts are free on the Marxist Internet Archive anyway, but for anons who like physical copies, and stuff that might not be on the MIA - marxistbooks.com/
I get your point, but come on - we exist in capitalism, we have to buy clothes and books etc anyway, why not buy them from a company/organization that is going out of its way to provide socialist educational materials to people?
Jeremiah Bell
is there a minimum list of works one has to read in order to get to Hegel? i want something that will allow me to read not only Marx, but also at least some of the niggas Zizek can't stop talking about
Levi Long
Just refresh Greex and then hit up Kant and you should be good my friend and so on sniff
Justin Bailey
MODS
we're nearing the post limit, PDFs and resources will start disappearing. Do something to preserve, or someone compile a list or archive the page.
Luck to you for sure. It's a chunky read but it's so good. I've only read Capital: Volume I, but I loved it so much. I especially enjoyed seeing the progressive nature of his writing; it's interesting to see how much of Marx's ideas are used in the everyday West, far more than people will actually accept (shorter work hours, labour laws, anti-slavery/anti-child labour, etcetera). Great read. Have you finished it by now, if not - where are you in it?
I feel that in many ways, Marx almost wrote in his own type of language. Once you get past 50-75 pages his use of language really sinks in and his work just makes sense. Give it a shot.
Logan Powell
God damn it. I was in a bit of a pattern of reading a bit each day then but something caught me off and I stopped. Maybe I'm forever doomed to be a brainlet. Gonna try and pick it up again today though.
Jaxson Morales
enjoy
Nathan Morris
I've heard good things about this novel, haven't read it myself yet, however.
Jacob Russell
one Holla Forums book Holla Forums should read? I already know about class and agree with it but I think it's outdated, so no DAS KAPITAL or other ancient bullshit. saw around zizek and stirner and they seem interesting, maybe something like that.
Angel Reed
Principles of Communism by Engels. It's more like a pamphlet though.
Josiah Reyes
the first points are enraging
I still think you need a Hitler to deliver the first points and mobilize the masses and take control of the industry AND I still think this can be done only in white countries
national communism
THIS SHIT WAS WRITTEN IN 1847. There were no non-whites in EUROPE.
Camden Edwards
I fail to see what exactly is it that makes whites the only capable people capable of "doing" this.
Regardless, I don't believe this is the appropriate place to hold a discussion on this script, why not open a thread instead?
Lucas Adams
each race can do it in his own continent, not like today with multiculturalism. consider that, maybe multiculturalism is done because they know races will never fight along against porky and instead fight each other. whites already fight each other over gender and other shit that was produced also by.. (jews) porkies.
no. this is all the discussion. recommend a better book.
Jayden Anderson
dsdsd
Ian Clark
Does anyone here have a PDF of the book "The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America"? Really want to read it but don't want to come out of the closet by actually buying the book
James Perez
anyone have that intro to lacanian psychoanalysis book?
sup comrades it's not a book, but I'm looking for Oliver Stone's documentary on Ukraine revolution "Ukraine on Fire", and I can't find it anywhere on the web (except russian version on youtube, all english versions have been struck down for copyright infringement) anyone have a torrent or a streaming link ? It's like it has never been distributed in the west at all, I find obscure 1970 art film more easily
Juan Nelson
Do anyone know one good book about Assad or Syria? Everything I could find was biased as fuck by the US. (I know is unrelated and I apologize for that.)
Zachary Wood
I don't know any books specifically on Syria, but the Middle East 11th edition gives a clear cut look at Syria for good and bad (or of the Middle East for that matter.)
Julian Lopez
Does anyone have any reccomendations for history books on revolutionary Catalonia? Seems ilke an interesting period to read about.
Jeremiah Richardson
George Orwell homage to Catalonia
Leo James
>>>/pdfs/5907
Luis Wood
How does my study plan look?
Evan Collins
needs more marx
Camden Watson
But Marx is super dense and kind of hard to understand.
I prefer to read about his concepts via more concise/clear people like Lenin or Trotsky.
William Long
needs Mao and Sakai, comrade.
honestly Settlers > A People's History
Chomsky is also a hack.
anyway:
Jacob Richardson
files didn't load :/
Camden Rogers
readsettlers.org
Kevin Lewis
fucking white supremacist scum
leftypol is so morally bankrupt, you fucks think slaughtering indigenous peoples is "based" and have a constant thread about a significant threat to Syrian unity and boon to Western imperialism holy shit. I started off on leftypol but this place is utter shit.
go literally anywhere else. consider Maoism-Third Worldism, consider Stalin's thought, consider fucking Posadism but get away from this counterrevolutionary bullshit
are any lefties actually liberal anymore you anarcho commie faggots
Ryder Gomez
I won't defend Assad AFTER Western forces get the fuck the out of Syria and Syrian's have self-determination, but until then he can do no wrong.
never said every word of Settlers was from the mouth of God. the main point is to develop a critical view of the labor aristocracy and its movements through amerikan history.
I'm not going to call the labor aristocracy bourgeois, but there are some significant difficulties we have to face in reaching them, and Settlers provides a good starting point. no legit MTW is going to say we have to expropriate the means of production from the lower-middle class in amerika, because they obviously don't have anything significant to expropriate. the issue is more with "how do we fight these regressive mindsets, especially when the material conditions are such that giving what is rightfully owed to Global South would, at least temporarily, cause a fairly significant decrease in quality of life for the labor aristocracy"
Sakai/Settlers is a good starting place, as he's a pretty easy read and Western leftists really need to consider anti-imperialism more deeply. this is the defining issue in moving socialism forward globally, but people crush it down because "muh kurdish partitioning of Syria" "muh tankies"
Anti-imperialism should be recommended even before stuff like Capital, as we need to understand why this struggle is necessary and the visceral truths behind it.
also, re: tankies
tankies are the only ones who have ever accomplished a god damn thing w/r/t furthering socialism :)
Kevin Powell
Spoken like a true tankie.
You would have been against the October revolution because "They're dividing Russia and keeping it from defending itself against the Central Powers!"
Also, Lenin was staunchly in favor of struggles for national liberation, like the Kurdish struggle. Read a fucking book.
Kayden Sanchez
It is though you delusional sheltered cocksucker, would you tell a BBQed yemeni child that your fucking wage situation is more important than them not getting fragged?
antiwar first, and dont give me your fucking chomsky spiel about how this shit is all rooted in gapitalism, gapitalism is shit but a lot of you hippy dippy faggots dont understand geopolitics or even really who the constant aggressor has been in all this shit.
after that is the fucking banksters, capitalism is not the prevailing but the underlying order, finance and derivatives garbage is what all this shit is built on and its a ticking timebomb
Hudson Hughes
You literally aren't a Marxist.
Also, spoiler that fucking shit, I don't come here for gore.
Jayden Walker
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Gavin Davis
you seem to be misinformed, sir. This is a board for marxists, not for edgy liberals.
Parker Smith
Does anyone have any books on co-ops? It's my dream to one day start a co-op.
Juan Howard
Thorstein Veblen is absolutely essential. I'm surprised so few know about his work, especially these three:
The Theory of the Leisure Class The Theory of Business Enterprise The Engineers and the Price System
William Butler
This reading list is hella long and looks really boring. Which book is the communist analogue to Mein Kampf, is it Das Kapital or the Communist Manifesto? I wanna read that and Hitler's book so I can comoare them.
Carter Thompson
I don't think their is an equivalent to My Kampf when it omes to Marxism, but i wouldn't start into leftism with Das Kapital if you start from nothing, whereas the Communist Manifesto is communism applied to XIXth century context rather than its very tenants. Maybe Wage Labour and Capital? If you look into communism in general, like Mein Kampf would be fascism i general i'd say Mutual Aid by Kropotkin…
Nolan Sanders
shitpost
Jaxon Martin
If Looking for like a lefty memoir, look no further than Guevara's motorcycle diaries. Regardless of the way you look at him, that's shit beats mein krap any day. It's incredible.
Leo Allen
Does anyone know of some important Marxist books that tackle anarchist thought (Kropotkin, Goodman, Berkman etc.)
Already read Poverty of Philosophy
Isaiah Roberts
engels wrote on anarchism i believe
Xavier Anderson
Can anyone grab me Imperialism Pioneer of Capital by Bill Warren off gen lib. I'm to dumb to use a proxy.
William Rodriguez
If you had to give me 1 book, and I mean just 1, which would you choose?
I have a few friends I'd like to introduce to leftism but I can't hit them with all the volumes of capital or Bordiga's nuances. But one of them specifically said he would read and discuss 1 book with me, to "entertain" my ideas (he's still at the stage where socialism = big government promoting islamig gommunism), and I think it would be a good chance.
Zachary Hall
While it isn't a book, Richard Wollf has a great lecture explaining socialism called "Socialims for Dummies Part 1" up on YouTube. He basically goes through the basics of Marxism, historical materialism, capital accumulation, etc in about 50 minutes. youtube.com/watch?v=ysZC0JOYYWw
Blake Hernandez
I have to do a paper on the frankfurt school next year
Can anyone recommend some summer reading about the Frankfurt School? It needs to be during the WWII era.
I already have some books at hand, but I'm wondering if there's any I'm missing, this includes:
Gavin Powell
anyone have Why Nations Fail on pdf?
Luis Long
Introduction to critical theory: Horkheimer to Habermas by David Held is pretty good.
Joseph Richardson
Does anyone have a pdf copy of 'Fascism: What it is and how to fight it?' All I can find is the HTML version on marxists.org
Carson Ortiz
Stay away from that postmodernism crap, this is literally where idpol gets its ideology from, we wont get a proletariat vs bourgeois revolution well get and identity revolution, these people think identity is more important than economic class, they are an odd neomarxist scum that need to be purged and warp marx's theory
Brayden Jenkins
See attachment. Also, it's pretty easy to convert a marxist.org page into a pdf with pandoc. Or at least epubs that can be converted into reasonable pdfs with calibre, since direct conversions with pandoc use TeX and that doesn't look to nice when it's automated. Maybe it will improve with groff support, that should become available soon.
Jayden Cox
Also, here's Anwar Sheikh's book "Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis". I had to compress it a bit to upload in in here, so it's not the original pdf.
fascism was created as a direct counter to blood thirsty communist enslavement
Liam Campbell
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Joseph Baker
It's sad how to oppose Communism, you have to fall back Conspiracies, fallacies, strawmen and naive assumption on how every 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧Jew🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 has the same interests, as if they can't have their own reasons to do things. You simplify history, politics, biology to fit your narrative, and have to assume therr is some great outside force that overseas the whole world, controlling everything. And by shear coincide they oppose your beliefs. It's sad.
And not to forget your comment if off topic, so I'd kindly ask the mods to delete this comment for promoting ed and disproven spam masquerading as "the great red pill". And delete this one too.
Chase Anderson
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Nathan Rodriguez
/lefty/ will deny fascism rose in Italy, Spain and Germany as a reaction to communism.
Dylan Gutierrez
[email protected]/* */@l socialism is filtered into not socialism. Why?
It's a completely different brand of socialism, I give you that, but it do taste like socialism.
Alright, so I find it easier to pay attention to/study real books as opposed to ebooks, so I think it's best that I get a copy of Capital 1-3.
My question is, if anyone knows of which translations are preferred, and which are terrible? Is the Penguin classics version ok?.
Nathaniel Jenkins
Thanks comrade.
Ryder Foster
Does anyone have "Further selections from the Prison Notebooks"? I can't find it anywhere…
Anthony Mitchell
cvsdv
Oliver Ortiz
Alright lads. I was thinking about picking up a kindle. Are they good for converting pdfs from places like here so I don't have to pay for shit?
Ethan Moore
Kobo Aura is better.
Benjamin Cook
Educate yourselves.
Jack Lewis
I got you, comrade.
Hudson Parker
Does anyone have a full version of ABC of Communism by Nikolai Bukharin. The only one I got was from archive.org and it has the first part only. marxists.org has it more complete but seems to lack a PDF for it, and reading there is not very pleasant.
Carson Jones
Does anyone know any good books on Israel and Zionism?
Julian Turner
this is a test reply
Liam Ortiz
It's so hard to read with poor focus. We need audiobooks read by cute sounding girls.
Leo Garcia
I remember a while ago someone here posted a bunch of papers that btfo mainstream economics.
Does anyone have them by chance?
Luke Edwards
Any book in particular?
Wyatt Perry
makes sense
Michael Garcia
Only as a fun novel… like a fictionalized retelling of recent major economic events. It's too good to be true, but it's also an interesting read.
I have this book too, plan on reading it by the end of summer
Ryan White
thx mate
David Diaz
THE END OF THE MEGAMACHINE. A Brief History of a Failing Civilization. by Fabian Scheidler. Promedia, 2015
Joseph Richardson
If you believe in a labour aristocracy you don't have a critical view.
Living under a nepotist autocrat is "self-determination"? Who let Holla Forums in here?
"The only way to Communist is to maintain the status quo at every cost!"
Tankies are responsible for killing most communist revolutions and working class uprisings in the 20th century, look at Berlin, Hungary, Shanghai etc.
Tankies have always been nationalistic social democrats, without the marginal value of a respect for democratic rights.
Nolan Morales
Polish philosophical magazine Hybris, issue dedicated to marxist revisionists. English language.
worth reading
KRZYSZTOF ŚWIREK
GETTING HANDS DIRTY: ON ADAM SCHAFF’S POLITICAL WRITINGS page [081-102]
KRZYSZTOF BRZECHCZYN
FROM INTERPRETATION TO REFUTATION OF MARXISM. ON LESZEK NOWAK’S NON - MARXIAN HISTORICAL MATERIALISM page [141-178]
Robert Adams
At least you admit being an idealist liberal. Back to /r/communism or whatever shithole you came from.
Robert Cook
Other than the unabomber manifesto , what are some other anarchist-primitivism texts?
Jace Brown
Surprised that nobody has posted these yet…
Kevin Taylor
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Leo Lee
Anyone here got links to Blas Infante? Specially La Dictadura Pedagógica
Noah Miller
More of this
Hudson Reyes
I just started reading Nihilist Communism (tipps fedora). What a coincedence.
Charles Murphy
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Kayden Johnson
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Brandon Rodriguez
Excellent and often overlooked critique of classical Marxism
Charles Williams
Ah, Baudrillard! If you are curious about the world-altering power of reality TV and internet memes, he is your go-to philosopher. I will say one thing for him: at least he actually bothered to develop his own theory unlike all of the other useless pomos.
Julian Harris
My gott!
Adam Lopez
Parenti - Inventing Reality; does anyone here has it?
Apologies is the formatting is broken, had to convert to PDF from epub. Scrolled through and it seemed readable.
Bentley Howard
Thanks man.
Leo Moore
Yo, any good communist comics ?
William Ross
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Lincoln Young
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Caleb Powell
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Andrew Myers
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Dominic Roberts
what the fuck even is the point of that image? What does it entail?
Angel Garcia
Anyone know why the image has failed to load?
Matthew Gutierrez
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Jonathan Richardson
My enemas are pretty simple. I am a FFer so I want and need a deep, total cleanout. I want my ass clean for 12 hours if need be. use a fleet enema bottle. Just my preference. I use the larger size, there is a very small fleet enema that can be used but it requires several more bottles shot up my ass. The larger size 5oz is quicker. I shoot 4 of those up my ass. I then get down on all 4's. I then drop down on my shoulders while keeping my ass high in the air and let that water run deep in my colon. Trust me, this will take practice as you will have the major urge to release it. For the sake of keeping your bathroom floor clean, STAY NEAR YOUR TOILET! You will have a major urge to release but it will subside if you can hold it. I then stand up and shoot 4 more(another 20oz) of water up me and yes it gets really hard to hold it in but I once again get down on my shoulders, ass up and let that water run deep in my colon. By that point I am SO FUCKING ready to release. It feels so good to plop down on the toilet and let that eruption go from my ass. I feel like it cleanses my soul! I gently push all the water out. BUT IN NO WAY AM I FULLY CLEANED OUT YET. The worst has yet to come out and needs to be lured out. That nasty shitty water that if not cleaned out will likely come out while later getting fucked. Inserting a dildo makes quick work of luring out all of that shitty nastiness. As deep as you can take the dildo will lure out the water faster. Any good bottom at that point should be inserting a dildo, just for hole prep for fucking. It is a good way to open up your hole anyway, to get it ready for a good hard cock pounding. But it also serves the purpose of luring out that final shitty water. IMO I can't get that dirty water out unless I insert a dildo for a few minutes. While I insert the dildo, I hold it in and brush my teeth, shave etc and get ready for the shower. I leave the dildo in for at least 10 minutes while brushing teeth etc. I pull it out and out comes the remaining dirty water. One more quick fleet bottle to rinse and into the shower I go. It takes me 10 minutes to enema and push it out. Another 10 minutes or so of dildoing to get the water out while prepping, shaving etc. I can be fully enemad, showered and out the door in under an hour and be 100% confident of my hole being clean for up to 12 hours after the enema.
Isaac Edwards
Has anyone got any redpills on the activities, successes and perhaps theory of the DDR, in contrast to western propaganda?
Staff Sergeant Kurt Hummel, Military Post Number L 31 605 Lg Pa. Paris, to his local group
Northern Russia, 12 August 1941
Bolshevist conditions are indescribable. I had never imagined that such misery was possible. People here know nothing about electric lights, radio, newspapers and the like. One can't call what they live in houses. There are only shanties with rotten straw roofs. Huge neglected fields lay around. We haven't yet found even a small shop. This is what people call the Soviet paradise. I wish the few outsiders who still remain in Germany could be shipped here. There is misery wherever one looks. One has to see it to realize how beautiful Germany is.
Gavin Kelly
Soldier Heinrich Stähr tells his work mates at the Hamburg Hochbahn A. G. about conditions frequently mentioned in other letters as well:
The roads. We in the infantry are probably the best judge of good and bad roads, since we have to march for kilometer after kilometer on them. Here too the Soviets haven't lifted a finger. The main roads are no better than field paths. Believe me, my dear comrades, the soldiers have had many a justifiable curse after marching 40 or 50 kilometers on such a road. Besides, it is 30-35 degrees C. in the shade, and huge clouds of dust make it almost impossible to breathe. Swamps, forests, and bad roads make military action unpleasant, but we keep moving forward.
Evan Rivera
Medical corporal Paul Lenz, Military Post Number 7 14 628 Posen, to the local group of the NSDAP, Arneburg:
Only a Jew can be a Bolshevist; for these bloodsuckers there is nothing better to be, for there is then nothing to stop them. Wherever one spits there is a Jew, whether in a city or a village. As far as I know (we asked the people, wanting to know the truth) not a single Jew ever worked in the workers' paradise. Even the smallest bloodsucker had a post with big muh privileges. He lived in the best buildings, if one can call them buildings. The real workers lived in small buildings, or better, in animal stalls, just like day laborers in old Russia. It makes no difference whether one is in a village or in a city like Minsk with over 300,000 inhabitants, the stalls are everywhere. Even before the war, most workers knew nothing but hunger, misery and slavery. Some may be interested to know that there were theaters, operas, etc., even big buildings for them, but only those with money got in, and they were the blood suckers and their lackeys.
Brandon Martinez
Soldier Walter Sperath writes to the [NSDAP] county office Hamburg 6
Everything I have seen of the so-called workers' paradise is everything but lovely. One should send every citizen who even slightly criticizes our efforts here. He would thank the Führer and the movement that these conditions are not found in our Fatherland. Animals by us live in better conditions than the people here. Our successes so far have been great, and we will not stop until we have rooted out this evil root and branch, which will be a blessing for European culture and humanity.
Benjamin Adams
Flyer W. M., Res.-Lazarett Salzlwedel to his Cell Leader Schroeder
I have seen the "wonderful workers' paradise" in the Soviet Union with all its terrible misery, and wish that those who thought differently could spend a few weeks here to see and experience what we have. The misery and horror of Bolshevism is terrible.
I hope that volunteering for our proud army may atone for my earlier sins, and that when I am back home, you, dear party member, will accept me as an honest person. In that hope, I send you my warmest greetings.
Heil Hitler!
signed W. M.
Nathaniel Fisher
Corporal Otto Kien, Military Post Number 18, 756, to the Factory Leadership t the Conrad Scholtz Factory. Barmbeck
Russia, 8 August 1941
Anyone who earlier had different opinions of the Soviet Union is quickly cured of them here. The poverty is terrible. Not even the farmers have anything to eat. They beg from us. There are lice and filth everywhere. One has to be careful one doesn't get them from the inhabitants.
These people don't know anything else. They sit in their huts and remove lice from each other. They don't mind if anyone watches. I've had my fill of this workers' paradise. We'll be glad to be out of here. In the past we saw pictures of malnourished children. They were not exaggerated. One can't believe it if one hasn't been here.
Camden Sanchez
Corporal J. F., Military Post Number 26,280 to his Local Group
In the Field, 3.8.41
What we have seen of the so-called Soviet paradise is worse than we ever imagined. Anyone back home who still has any doubts should come here. All his doubts will disappear. Everywhere we go, the people are happy to be freed from Bolshevism, and looks to the future with confidence. We soldiers can say to those back home that he [Hitler] saved Germany and all of Europe from the Red Army. The battle is hard, but we know what we are fighting for, and, confident of the Führer, we will win. In the hopes of a victorious return,
Heil Hitler Corporal J. F.
Andrew Smith
Wtf I love genocidal capitalism now
Ethan Collins
It's an oldie but goodie, Fantomos and the multinational vampires. Written by Cortazar
What I must read beforehand and in what order to read him?
Thomas Nguyen
I really don't know what to recommend to you since I'm barely on my philosophical feet, but this intro is really good so far and elucidates well into his concept, even if they are not immediately understandable. 4shared.com/office/eRApAsRice/Introducing_Alain_Badiou__A_Gr.html
Still, his other works like his hypertranslation of the Politeia (which I am reading, pretty good so far), and the Communist Hypothesis, which I've heard is also accessible, should be good too. I'm however going to recommend you take a look at the first book, the Introduction, because it explains tidily some concepts which he commonly uses like the Event, Truth, Event-Trace, Subject, Site, Situation and a ton more I've yet to see. Good luck user.
Noah Ramirez
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Levi Phillips
No you really fucking can't. Where the fuck do you people live and what are you buying that keep talking about abebooks like some magic site for buying used books? Looked up 10 other books of various types and publishers and nothing under 2 dollars.
Bentley Johnson
hahahahahahahaha how the fuck is paying for Marxist literature real hahahaha nigga just go to Marxists.org like nigga just download one of the many thousands of books available in their expansive library haha . . . . . . . This advertisement paid for by Marxists.org
Charles Jackson
anarchist library too
Christian Morgan
i like how your board decided to include a "do not bump" option in the super adorable
Zachary Powell
It's not just this board, it's how it is on this entire website my dear newfriend.
Kevin Hernandez
I disagree with the assertions that 1) Postmodernism (as a monolith, rather than a wide school of thought whose ideas are diverse and often contradictory) is crap and 2) "this is literally where idpol gets its ideology from" I can't be arsed to type more, so I'll just post these links that I hope will be of interest: rationalwiki.org/wiki/Postmodernism youtube.com/watch?v=GvWMmkw8euc (He's scum, but he cares enough to o proper research)
Carter Johnson
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Jeremiah Flores
Err Nice reasoning. You'd be wrong to associate Rationalwiki with the Youtube "Rational Skeptic" Community, just btw.
I'm reading Against His-tory, Against Leviathan right now. Any other caveman books you guys can recommend?
Brody White
ted kaczynski's writings are good primitivist material. I especially liked his criticism of anprims like zerzan.
John Thomas
thank you my friend! I don't know where I stand on Primitivist thought yet. I have HARDCORE sympathy towards Anti-Civilization politics aswell as Primitivist lifestyles but I find it hard to escape the world I'm in today. I love the idea of perhaps one day being completely disconnected from electronic technology while also still being able to have some of the benefits of modern day medicine among other things.
I want to read Ted Kaczynski but I'm afraid the people i live with are already afraid I'll become a domestic terrorist so I might hold off for a while on his books haha.
Also I've looked into Zerzan very few times but from my brief Wikipedia read on him, he critiques language? I like English :/
Isaac Edwards
Everyone here, particularly the arrivals from Holla Forums, should be reading this.
Robert White
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Henry Stewart
Ever since Soros became the official boogeyman I was kind of curious of his ideas and books. Anyone got any? Their PDFs are quite hard to come by. Here's one I found, requesting "The Alchemy of Finance".
Tyler Cooper
I can find no benefit from learning his ideas other than neoliberal financial tips and such.
Anthony Ross
requesting pdf if possible
please and thank you
Juan Robinson
anyone got some good leftist fiction besides Solzhenitsyn?
Anthony Ward
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Dylan Wood
I don't think you got the joke there buddy
Nicholas Nelson
Best introduction into one of the most innovative radical movements, autonomism
Jaxon Mitchell
What exactly is this? And thanks
Anthony Cox
A lot of the older pdf link (i.e. at the beginning of this thread) are down/404s. Is there anything that can be done about this? Could live versions of the dead links be posted?
A lot of turd books on this thread. Not surprising. The quality of this fucking forum has plummeted.
Nolan Ortiz
Did you get owned and now just shitpost every thread? I keep seeing your bitching and whining about turd this and turd that in every thread. Just turn off the computer and get a cold shower or something.
Justin Anderson
Get the fuck out of here. Tired of you shitting up my board.
Ryder King
Where can I get a honest analysis of the soviet union?
Kevin Watson
In Charles Malato’s Philosophie de l’Anarchie (1897) we find both raciste and racisme: No doubt that before arriving at complete internationalism, there will be a stage which will be racism; but it must be hoped that the layover will not be too long, that it will be rapidly surpassed. Communism, which appears that it must inevitably be regulated at the beginning of its functioning, especially in regard to international trade, will bring about the establishment of racist federations (Latin, Slavic, Germanic, etc.). Anarchy — which we can glimpse at the end of two or three generations when, as a result of the development of production, any regulations will have become superfluous — will bring the end of racism and the advent of a humanity without borders. nationalvanguard.org/2015/06/on-the-origin-of-the-word-racist/
Ryan Perry
Hitler was left as well, whats your point? He even fought the banks when he stepped out of the global currency and started a resource based trade. This is the real reason poland attacked germany by burning border towns with the ppl in it
Jordan Brooks
how many times do we have to teach you this lesson, retarded man
Wyatt Williams
In China we can see same picrture, but half of this board believe in what China communist country.
Ian Evans
Its because the same globalist arms industrialist control both sides and create 2 sides that they pit against each other using the same methods with different titles and terms
Meanwhile they get richer, gain the means of productions and manipulate voluntary institutes ending up with people dying in the streets.
It makes me sick seeing how people are manipulated in these sets of believes that just results in more suffering of people.
Kevin Harris
Does anyone have books about basic economics? In some thread there was recommendations for two books about principles of micro and macroeconomics but I cant find it anymore
Xavier Sullivan
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Zachary Cruz
Das Kapital?
Eli Fisher
faggots
Elijah Sullivan
Here is what I have allready read: chapter 1-3 of capital volume 1 wage labor and capital value price and profit state and revolution socialism utopian and scientific
what should I read next?
Julian Wright
Probably an introduction/guide to capital then the big ass book itself. There are also Marx's Economical Philosophical Manuscripts tooo.
Brayden Diaz
I've literally jizzed everywhere. Pic related
Ian Jones
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Ayden Foster
fuck off tankie retard
Charles Wilson
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Grayson Bennett
The irony is that Marx did read Wealth of Nations
Aiden Scott
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Luke Myers
This is non-constructive dialogue.
These two above are me btw.
Josiah Martinez
We need to stop listing Das Kapital without anything else to help on the side, as it's only worth reading it if you're studying economics, otherwise you'd be better off with reading Cafiero's abridged version. Everybody lists Das Kapital because it started it all but no one ever reads it in its entirety.
Jeremiah Flores
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Eli Gutierrez
Developing your own theory would be both anti-Nietzschean and participation in the tyranny of the meta-narrative, so its obvious why most po-mos won't or couldn't do the same thing.
Nolan Johnson
test
Brody Cruz
hey I've been wanting to read about the arts and media in the soviet union. such as music, art and news. it's existence and role. If there is a book that talks about this topic, tell me about it.
Jonathan Scott
yeah here's the book
Sebastian Ortiz
I'm too lazy to type out the urls for this list
Brayden Morris
What should I have read before reading "The Society of the Spectacle" by Guy Debord?
(So far I've read "Socialism: Utopian & Scientific" by Engels, and "The Foundations of Leninism" by Stalin).
Levi King
First chapter of Capital vol 1 or at least have some kind of understanding what use-value and exchange-value are. You can also read "The Phenomenon of Reification" from Lukács's "History & Class Consciousness" but it's not necessary: marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/hcc05.htm
You don't have to understand everything on first read, there's no shame in rereading.
Aaron Jenkins
Sun will rise
Josiah Murphy
i need memes memes against this shit
Camden Morris
anyone got this retard's booklet in PDF? I feel like I could use some entertainment
Lincoln Torres
I've read the updated version of 'The New Paradigm' and it is an interesting insight into the man's political and economic ideas. These ideas are typically rooted in centrist, neoliberal ideas and the solutions Soros was proposing to the 2008 financial crisis were no different than what some of the centre leaning Democrats and Republicans were proposing at the time. Soros also spends the first few chapters of the book going on and on about how his father fought in the First World War, about how Soros himself became a hedge fund manager and how his ideology shifted from more libertarian leanings, to the more neoliberal ideas he extols in the later chapters of the book.
Ian Wilson
Does anyone got a .pdf
Joseph Davis
I'm sorry for the fact that I'm not going through 500+ replies to see if this book was already recommended, but its a good read, Dont have a PDF, though
Lucas Moore
I don't have it but just so you know, you can search for keywords with ctrl+f.
Come the fuck on, Cuba is still a 3rd world country, it's even worse than Vietnam, which opened up in the 80s.
Aiden Richardson
1. Not an argument faggot. 2. It's literally 2nd world nation you stupid Ameriburger claptard.
Nathan Brown
Just got this book, but I haven’t read it ye. It’s about Afghanistan and how American Imperialism is bad.
Camden Scott
If the Fertile Crescent is the cradle of civilization, then Afghanista surely is the coffin. The British Empire, the Soviet Civilization and now Western Globalism all got the silver bullet there.
Justin Foster
What does Holla Forums think of this book.
Logan Morales
Someone said it was the least retarded of lenin works and it was alright
Isaac Thompson
*stanlin
Brayden Jones
Do you have a link to this discord that isn't dead?
Leo Cruz
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Luis Gray
Does anyone have a pdf of Steve Keen's Developing an economics for the post-crisis world?
Dylan Hernandez
does anyone have the pdf for this?
Hudson Rivera
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Owen Edwards
The Buddha on Wall Street - What's wrong with capitalism & what we can do about it - by Vaddhaka Linn ⚔️⚔️⚔️ Shanti shanti shanti ⚔️⚔️⚔️
Camden Collins
How about Lick My Asshole Antifa.
Jack Powell
Test
Eli Wright
Will this be the new meme book of Holla Forums
Jace Kelly
Any literature on the Maoism-ThirdWorldism (M3W)?
My friend asked for that when I told him he maybe could become that
Evan Foster
the economics of fallout
also anyone got a pdf of althusser's philosophy for non-philosophers?
Lincoln James
I'm mexican and can testify that they are third world.
They wont stop trying to cross mexico to reach lousiana or texas.
they have black markets for newspapers and World of warcraft servers fo fuck sake.
Caleb Cox
I have a feel this is going to have a sad tone which tries to be optimistic which will only make it sadder.
If there is anyone who doesn't deserve the helicopter its definitely him.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. Being against "Eurocentrism" because of evil white men is retarded, but there isn't anything wrong with exploring theories of development that don't center on Europe isn't bad per se, especially since Europe won't achieve its hegemony until the 19th century.
Ryan Richardson
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Ryan Turner
That's short, shouldn't take more than three days but could be done in a single.
Nathan Hernandez
I know but is just an introduction.
reminds me of titles like "the very short series" of books with marx and their 400 pages or the shortened versions of don quijote with 1000 pages.
Elijah Bailey
I'm so fucking pissed that I can't find this anywhere.
HALP
Brandon Bell
Well the thing is that almost all modern political ideologies stem from or are heavily influenced by the enlightenment, which comes from Europe. As such any understanding of modern politics must be from an eurocentric perspective. Trying to understand politics from a non-eurocentric perspective would be like trying to understand Abrahamic religions from a non-Middle Eastern perspective. it simply isn’t possible.
Brody Taylor
order it from a bookstore.
Ayden Morgan
I dont live in the USA
Daniel Perez
There’s bookstores in Europe. Aren’t there?
Jose Collins
Seriously I googled once for an online store and found it immediately. Right in europe.
Camden Stewart
I'm not Muslim.
Mexico
Oliver Hall
There;s bookstores in Mexico. Aren’t there?
Austin Robinson
order it via ebay, amazon or barnes and noble. I've had new books delivered from India to Mexico. I've also found a bunch of used books on Ebay that also ship to Mexico. you chose to be a cunt.
Mason Miller
I know the guy who wrote this is a retarted conservative. But is what he says about war correct?
Gabriel Hill
pol tier garbo about how war is a clash of cultures and the west must install their superior culture to the inferior brown people
Brayden Robinson
But in terms of class war could it be useful.
Cooper Peterson
Just finished capital volume 1. What should I read now?
Adrian Green
The guy restarted the cultural marxism conspiracy theory.
Anthony Brown
I know I watched this video about how cultural marxism is bullshit and it interested me in the book. In war it’s common to steal tactics from the enmity.
Any recs on basic books on bourgeoisie economics? Criticisms of MUH FREE MARCET and such would be neat.
I can't use Marx to shut up libtards, but I'm finding myself arguing with them all the time. It is actually pretty easy to make their minarchies look absolutely undesirable, but I'd still like to argue against their purely economical points about how LESS REGULATION, MORE MARKETS fixes everything. I've liked Piketty before and I'll probably try to get deeper into his stuff.
Luis Howard
Any good intro to anarchy books besides the bread book?
Nolan Sullivan
this was reply number 666 ITT. I thought you should know.
Isaiah Green
Books writen by Bookchin while he was still an Anarchist.
Essential viewing here, that takes account of all of the lies portrayed by the stupid capitalists that overwrite the true history of communism. Plus everything is sourced on part 10. youtube.com/watch?v=WqREtbt__O8 don't mind the racist beginning, it gets better later on
Anthony Collins
wtf
Isaac Gonzalez
Can someone point to some good books on Christian Communism or Anarchism?
Samuel Rogers
The bible
Ian Ortiz
That Holy Anarchist by Mark van Steenwyck is the best one I've read.
Though at some point I want to read more about Dorothy Day and the Catholic workers movement.
Also check out some encyclicals and Church documents. Like "centesimus annus" by PJ 2.
Leo Lee
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Samuel Smith
Yes, Nikolai Berdyaev was a socialist in his youth and became what could be described as an anarchist later. He criticized both the Orthodox church and the Russian despots. You could say he's the Orthodox Kierkegaard. He saw Russia in the religious, eschatological sense, that Russia has a destiny to lead the world into a brighter future. The exploration of the Russian spirit and its connection to the Christian (and Pagan) faith went in hand with his analysis. I can understand if it's too niche, but nevertheless it's a pretty good history lesson since he goes over the intellectual tradition in Russia and has some criticism for the Russian communists as well.
Some quality quotes from the PDF:
Anthony Torres
ironic
Daniel Sullivan
What's a good and comprehensive history of the USSR that isn't awash in Neoliberal ideology?
Does anyone here have a way to access the Monthly Review archive? Shit looks like pure gold to find a leftist perspective on recent historical events. If anyone gets it in print there's a universal login code for the month at the end of each issue.
requesting any books by Althusser, especially reading Kapital or philosophy
Nathan Fisher
Wow surprised to see Berdyaev on Holla Forums. Extremely underrated thinker. I'd highly recommend his work The Meaning of History. A bit too idealistic for my taste but nonethelss every leftist looking to expand on Marxist conception of history should read it.
Xavier Bailey
Anyone have any books, perchance?
Charles Campbell
Anyone have this? I think it would be really useful generally for people on this board as a 'starting place' (I flipped through a physical copy my friend had).
what to read by Deleuze before reading Dark Deleuze?
Joshua King
I agree. Focult is a faggot.
Evan Johnson
Animal Farm.
Juan Garcia
Hey guys, I am pretty much a notheory brainlet just lurking this board, but I'd like to get to reading. Also, I'm a graphic designer, so something related to creativity, arts or culture would be neat, something coming from leftist angle. I prefer audiobook format but a regular paperback also does it. What would you like to recommend? Thanks in advance.
Chase Anderson
I would suggest reading Gramsci's "prison notebook" in which he develops his theory of cultural hegemony. IMHO Gramsci is quite underestimated by this board, but it may be also due to the fact he is not the easiest to read (he did write from Mussolini's prisons).
Also pretty much anything from Adorno, the famous archmage of the Frankfurt school of witchcraft and wizardry. In particular "Aesthetics theory" I would say.
Nathaniel Thomas
I'll keep those in mind, thanks, but to advance enough to read Gramsci and Adorno, I need to start from somewhere easy to read. What in your opinion is some easy reading that would help me steer in general direction of Gramsci and Adorno?
Caleb Smith
Begone, Peterson.
Austin Allen
It's far inferior to the fifth edition. But thanks anyway.
It's a 1954 Soviet Texbook on Political Economy. In some ways it's just a rehash of Capital, but also includes Leninist theory.
Gavin Powell
This has already been posted in another thread, but Corey Robin's THE REACTIONARY MIND is essential reading if you want to understand common right-wing tropes and put the modern right and Alt Right in perspective (spoiler: they have much more in common with people like Edmund Burke than you think).
Robin himself is a leftist and the book triggered lots of right-wingers who are in deep denial about how insane and predictable the right-wing has been across time and place.
Aiden Cruz
Here
Cooper Martin
Test
Jordan Powell
On libgen if you search for the specific book you might have a chance of finding it, also if you go to sci hub and enter in the DOI you might also find it, theres roughly a 50/50 chance.
Ethan Young
Read Critique of the Gotha Program sentence by sentence, it's packed with info and I guarantee you're missing 90% of it.
Julian Hernandez
That's a lovely piece of microhistory.
Matthew Gutierrez
Can you point me to where he defended Kurdish independence?
Isaiah Harris
I don't think user meant Lenin specifically spoke about Kurdish struggle in particular, but that Kurdish struggle is a struggle for national liberation, something Lenin supports. Unless Lenin said something along the lines of "National liberation is great except when it's thoses guys doing it" It's reasonable to assume Lenin would be sympathetic to to the Kurdish national liberation movement.
Altough support for National Liberation as a mean of emancipation quickly reach it's limits for nations exists mainly in opposition to each other, and you enter the steril quarrel of who's legitimate to claim land.
Hence why R0java moved to become a multiethnic confederation because ethnostatist road would lead nowhere especially in Middle East context.
Daniel Ramirez
I actually have one that's pretty good 1984
Jonathan James
There was some post months ago, it said everyone should read these two marxist.org links by Trotsky before posting on Holla Forums. This one one of them: marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1939/12/abc.htm can't remember what the other one was, anyone want take a guess?
While I understand your sentiments I have to challenge your assertion that capitalist societies aren't authoritarian. Just try using some owned but unused land for example. You're given a very limited range of options to choose from, slave away or suffer deprivations, rebel and be imprisoned or killed. Your thinking that it's not authoritarian is just the effects of years of propaganda.
Anthony Garcia
can anyone link the archive thread where A.W talks about philosophy of science
Ayden Edwards
Written by a Socialist who fought fascists alongside anarchists and communists in the Spanish Civil war
Hudson Reed
Why do they prioritize all of the shit new political books?
Nathan Evans
Funny, I actually found Stirner at a college bookstore and was quite surprised.
Mason King
because all universities and colleges are for profit centers that aim to maintain the existing state apparatus?
Asher Taylor
What specifically should I read if I want to counter the argument that capitalism is the only system for innovation?
Adrian Kelly
You don't have to read anything to counter this because the answer is common sense. Innovations have happened throughout the entirety of human existence including pre-capitalist modes of production. Because of this fact it would be crazy to imply that capitalism has a monopoly on innovation.
Non-Anarchist, non-liberal, Anti-Nationalist reading please, I need it for a friend
Nathan Baker
At least theres the internet, otherwise I would be fucked
Levi Howard
Wow fam, how?
Jordan Perez
Hint: 3rd world country and military junta
Julian Taylor
Philippines or Indonesia?
Robert Walker
Myanmar? Eritrea?
Jason Johnson
Why was Marx such a shit author while Engels wrote with such an engaging and "modern" prose?
Hudson Torres
Any recommendations for critiques of No corporatism specifically the German model?
Brandon Bennett
Meant Neo
Ethan Rodriguez
look, you don't have to pretend. we all know posting that video makes you hard as steel
Camden Williams
As someone who has never willingly read a book in their lives; seeing all these hundreds of books is really off-putting and I have no idea where to start
Jose Scott
You start from Communist Manifesto.
Henry Hill
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Aiden Carter
Anyone have a PDF of Blackshirts and Reds by Parenti?
Anthony Cruz
First thing: you can read a book. You can. It'll take a bit of discipline but it's doable, and once you read one you can do it again.
Don't start here. not because they're bad reccs but because you're a bad reader.
Perlman's pamphlet is the bare essentials, easily digestible and short. Get through it first. It'll hopefully give you a leg up.
Covering similar material in a bit more detail is the next pamphlet. It's useful because it also contains a simple numerical example.
Then, read Mandel's general introduction, which the two prior should have prepared you for. It's a little out of date now but in some aspects remarkably prescient. What he calls neo-capitalism is now generally called late capitalism, one aspect of which means the state acts as guarantor for the economy. If you're familiar with Obama's bailouts, you'll know he was right.
After that my advice is read a biography of Marx. It'll tell you who he actually was, not what you've heard he was. Sperber provides a solid account. After that dive into Marx and Engels' writings. You should be prepared by then.
another great place to get commie books, especially academic ones. however you need an invite using an email address, if anyone wants an invite reply to this post with a throwaway email address and I will invite you
Can more comrades learn to use sci-hub & library genesis before they ask for a pdf?
Is it dangerous to use & visit sites like libgen and sci-hub which have far more books than any physical library. You can get tons of communist books for free there too, Have you considered using the Tor browser to reach these sites?
Colton Smith
Also one should learn how to pirate ebooks from google play's ebook section using knowledge on how to abuse google play's refund service & an .acsm file cracker
