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tpaine posted:

if gavin likes it i will raead it also



oh my... shit... gavin posts here? oh my SHIT

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i dated a woman who was 35 years older than me for almost 3 years. it was a pretty bad decision in retrospect
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political car tune
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im dating a ghost right now. some disagree with the age gap (246 years) but whatever
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i will date literally anyone, if they can answer my riddles three
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blessed be
blah is blee
liberty
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i would have gone with "i will date literally any of thee, if they can answer my riddles three" for rhyming purposes, but i can understand not wanting to open that can of worms on this site
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inside ifap you must wait, until mustangs 5 or 8
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Why do Trots support Denmark and stuff if they don't believe in "socialism in one country"?

Also I get a little curious about how MLs in Russia talked about how they needed to go through the bourgeois revolution (well that part doesnt confuse me) but wouldn't Sweden, Denmark etc fit the bill of a bourgeois revolution?

Or are those countries like too under the thumb of Amerikkka or first world thought and the historical development of their "social democracies" (I know little about the history of that region) come from anti-communist tendencies? The latter would seem a standard ML interpretation of those countries but I was wondering what most here thought since I get a little lost with "bourgeois revolution: good or bad?"

vv ok will read https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/lin-biao/1965/09/peoples_war/ch08.htm ty bae

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whats principal contradiction in the contemporary world preshus
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gyrofry posted:

whats principal contradiction in the contemporary world preshus


No one knows

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littlegreenpills posted:

i dated a woman who was 35 years older than me for almost 3 years. it was a pretty bad decision in retrospect



damn thats hardbody af i dated a woman who was 15 years older than me for like 2 years and in retrospect i wish i was still w/ her i was just too young and immature to recognize true love and wanted to be a rowdy bike messenger and travel around the world getting drunk

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this thing samy boy wrote is crap! http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/all-the-wild-animals/
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Mike Nelson here.
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chickeon posted:

this thing samy boy wrote is crap! http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/all-the-wild-animals/

please don't criticize jihad sam kriss tor network, who is our friend and our hope.

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I'm reading Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque by Mark Driscoll. Decent book, a bit too academic. Anyway he makes an interesting distinction between 3 stages of capitalism: bio-politics, neuro-politics, and necro-politics. He clearly differentiates them in the Japanese context as the first stage of primitive accumulation of Chinese coolie labor (formal subsumption of labor), the second stage of direct colonization and creating markets (real subsumption of labor) and the third stage of slave labor and mass murder under wartime conditions (he calls this deformal subsumption). Obviously all three coexist in capitalism and he's mostly making a point for clear conceptualization. But considering I just read The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze, who being a liberal economic historian takes all the wrong conclusions from his own analysis of NAZI Germany, I thought the categories were quite helpful. If anyone's interested I could elaborate when I read more. And yes Jasbir Puar's Homonationalism has already been cited.
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reading:

Madness: A Brief History by Roy Porter

Snake Pits, Talking Cures and Magic Bullets by Deborah Kent

Masters of the Mind: Exploring the Story of Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the New Millennium by Theodore Millon

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EmanuelaOrlandi posted:

littlegreenpills posted:

i dated a woman who was 35 years older than me for almost 3 years. it was a pretty bad decision in retrospect

damn thats hardbody af i dated a woman who was 15 years older than me for like 2 years and in retrospect i wish i was still w/ her i was just too young and immature to recognize true love and wanted to be a rowdy bike messenger and travel around the world getting drunk



i was too young and immature to recognize anything with sex and kissing was not necessarily true love and wanted to be a man literally no woman could ever complain about

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laika posted:

reading:

Madness: A Brief History by Roy Porter

Snake Pits, Talking Cures and Magic Bullets by Deborah Kent

Masters of the Mind: Exploring the Story of Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the New Millennium by Theodore Millon

you got any other recs for this type of stuff? or are you just getting started in it now

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stegosaurus posted:

you got any other recs for this type of stuff? or are you just getting started in it now



I'm mostly just getting started on it now. I'm starting with Roy Porter's book and it's pretty interesting, short, and accessible. It has some recommendations for further reading in the back based on what's covered in each chapter. Mad in America by Robert Whitaker and The Bitterest Pills by Joanna Moncrieff have a little bit of it, though they are mostly about other things.

It's all part of what I want to do with anthropology/sociology, so I'll probably have more in the future.

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laika posted:

stegosaurus posted:

you got any other recs for this type of stuff? or are you just getting started in it now

I'm mostly just getting started on it now. I'm starting with Roy Porter's book and it's pretty interesting, short, and accessible. It has some recommendations for further reading in the back based on what's covered in each chapter. Mad in America by Robert Whitaker and The Bitterest Pills by Joanna Moncrieff have a little bit of it, though they are mostly about other things.

It's all part of what I want to do with anthropology/sociology, so I'll probably have more in the future.

you should check out origins of the sacred, it's a weird amalgamation of Lévi-Strauss, Nietzsche-as-philologist and physical anthropology. sort of like an freudian/quasiexistentialist evo-psych look at human spirituality? i found it very interesting

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right now i am reading every book i stored in a box over the last decade, spread out on every towel i own on every surface in my apartment that isn't covered in two floors' worth of filtered sprinkler system slime. it's like christmas if santa doxxed you. apparently i own: a stolen library copy of Now I Can Die In Peace, two subscriptions to ACM Communications under different names, a daniel clowes art book(da fuq?!?!?!), approximately 3,000 textbooks w/ CD-ROMs for something called "management science" that i have never studied or even opened in my entire life and 4 very expensive looking bras. i don't want to look at the sizes on them. who wants a gallon freezer bag full of near mint bras. i wish tom still posted.
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i also found two copies of that and came straight from reading the part where they examine the babuini to this page
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"There is, however, a far more direct justification of the war of the
colonized against their colonizers, and that is the law of nations, which justifies
a sovereign people’s self-defense. The colonizer is due no more consideration
than would a foreign invader, for “Conquérir ou spolier avec violence, c’est
la même chose. Le spoliateur et l’homme violent sont toujours odieux” (4:
249). Scholars sometimes characterize Diderot’s appeals for colonized peoples
to revolt as calls for revolution, but this is not right. When one considers that
he was merely exhorting sovereign people to protect themselves from foreign
invaders, his appeals are remarkable not for being so radical, but for being so
thoroughly conventional. What is radical, however, is the equation of European
commerce with injustice and coercion. When doing business with an inhabited
country, Europeans who abrogate those people’s liberty or property can be
justly expelled or killed (8:105-108). Thus Diderot does not hesitate to call
on colonized peoples to resist. His speech to the Hottentots is particularly
rhetorical: the Europeans, “ravira l’innocence et la liberté. Ou, si vous vous
en sentez le courage, prenez vos haches, tendez vos arcs, faite plevoir sur ces
étrangers vos fleches empoisonnées. Puisse-t-il n’en rester aucun pour porter à
leurs concitoyens la nouvelle de leur desastre!” (2:240). These exhortations are
spread across the globe, whether it be in Africa (the Hottentots), Asia (India),
Oceana (the Tahitians), South America, or North America. "

From Denis Diderot On War and Peace: Nature and Morality by Whitney Mannies and John Christian Laursen

http://institucional.us.es/araucaria/nro32/ideas32_8.pdf

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do you guys have any go to's for textbook pdfs? I lost my arg link and pass, I'm taking two intro classes at the community college thanks comrades
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his link to the past. duh. he lost his video game
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In 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the Wow! signal, Arecibo Observatory beamed a response from humanity, containing 10,000 Twitter messages, in the direction from which the signal originated.

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anyone know any good books on the 1980's war in afghanistan?
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WildStalins posted:

anyone know any good books on the 1980's war in afghanistan?

The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/opinion/thomas-friedman-we-need-another-giant-protest.html

tpaine plz fix this article
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Finished yesterday The Emperor's Tomb, continuing my trek through the minor novels of Roth. It was more coherently plotted than the Right and Left, but also more of retread of his favorite theme-the decline and fall of aristocratic houses- while the latter had the peculiar interest of being, in the last instance, a tale of the victory of the wandering, scheming Jew of Anti-Semitic lore presented as a story of romantic heroism. Nevertheless, The Emperor's Tomb certainly did not disappoint in terms of providing those Virgilian moments of terse, economical melancholy:

"We didn't bewail our lost fatherland, we kept a respectful silence towards it. Then sometimes, without any prior signal, we would start to sing old Army songs. We were all present and correct. But in reality we were all dead."

From a political angle, there was the notable disjunct between Roth's treatment of the violent suppression of the Austrian socialists by Dollfus with his treatment of the Anschluss. Of the former he comments, through the Polish aristocrat Chojniki, the closest thing to an authorial voice in the book:

"Dollfuss wants to kill the proletariat. God forgive him I really can't stand him. He is digging his own grave. The world has never seen the like...."

And then immediately thereafter, we are presented with a scene of Reisger, a Jewish cab driver known to the protagonist, mourning over the body of his son Ephraim, a communist party member. The father than prophecies against the government saying:

"The Cabinet Minister has shed blood and his blood, too, shall be shed. It shall flow like a rushing torrent."

(Which is indeed what historically happened)

This sympathy for the defeated left stands in sharp contrast to his depiction of the victorious fascists. When a local brownshirt, described as looking as he if he had come "from the toilets in the basement," disrupts an evening at the cafe to announce that a "German's People government" was now in power in Austria,the protagonist is provoked into the final sleepless night of despair that the novel ends with("Where can I go now, I, a Trotta?....). It is also here, not the description of the aftermath of the massacre of the Austrian Marxists, that a short spiel about the intrinsic incoherence of a people's government is inserted.

It is not actually surprising if you are already familiar with Roth, but it is interesting to see it in a work in which his leanings towards Rome and nostalgia for the Empire are particularly overt.

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WildStalins posted:

anyone know any good books on the 1980's war in afghanistan?



http://www.afghanasamai.com/Dscutions-poleticalcullture/Afghanasamai-2012/BATTLESafghanistanTheBearTrapDefeatofaSuperpowerMohammedYousaf.pdf

i haven't read it yet (will soon) but it seems kind of important. the cowriter was involved in the us invasion of grenada which i've never even heard of till now but seems really interesting and horrible in turns

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