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UNUSUALY COOL
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I read the Communist Manifesto for the first time since the 2016 U.S. election and it struck me how far rival socialist tendencies have fallen in light of the momentary revival of "socialist" as a way to describe yourself in that country... The "socialist" and "working class" appeals of Sanders or right trade-protectionism are mostly a tiny loose pile of shards, fragments and broken gears from the demolished reactionary, conservative and utopian projects criticized in the text, while all the stuff at the beginning about how every party calls every opposed party communist regardless of politics was recently acted out on the streets in the most garish and comical way. And, well... that's all pretty good news for Marx & Engels in 2017.
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Probably at least my third most rewarding of my yearly readings of the Communist Manifesto, out loud to myself, in a sexy girl voice.
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submission for the next rhizzone book club meeting



prance autonomously til the morrow, my darlings
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Gibbonstrength posted:

submission for the next rhizzone book club meeting



prance autonomously til the morrow, my darlings


marxist_goons.txt

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dialectical logic by evald ilyenkov
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mods please filter "girlfriend" to "firmament"
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This paper is dedicated to the now wandering away, other half of my core self, and by far the shiniest star-differing by degree but also by nature-of my firmament, t H E r H i z z o n E, with whom the warm discussions I had bred and fed the following arguments.
#14530
UNUSUALY COOL
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this post is dedicated to the unstable stellar core of my life & her planet killing gamma rays
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UNUSUALY COOL
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consider this paper our baby because in a creepy but very real way, we fucked. Jasmine we fucked. text me baby
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UNUSUALY COOL
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Gibbonstrength posted:




let me talk to her

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ilmdge posted:

Bablu posted:

http://www.slate.fr/story/125520/martel-cuba-paquettegod this was a depressing read. wonder if someone keeps a log of what's on those week by week, or if it's as formal and well dispersed as the article makes it seem

the authorities should find the people at the top of the chain and by threat of force have them clandestinely submit the packages to party review and censorship. so people still think theyre getting something unauthorized and subversive but theyre not lol

also people at the top of the distribution network who dont comply should be arrested and imprisoned



http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html

turns out this is called a 'sneakernet'

the permaculture/natural-building type movements have a concept of 'appropriate technology' which the tech sector does not ... something to consider imo

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I'm reading this thoughtful portrait of the life and times and hardships and triumphs and travails of "your family owning a person"


and also this
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Currently reading the first edition of Belgium's answer to Jacobin: https://lavamedia.be/
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i read Revolutionary Suicide and The Genius of Huey P Newton pamphlet and am now reading Defying the Tomb by Kevin "Rashid" Johnson

I've also been reading Ceasar's the Civil War and huizinga's "The waning of the Middle ages" on and off for a while now, obth of which i know i will probably not finish

i hope everyone else is busy reading books
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i'm reading David Talbot's Devil's Chessboard which I assume was a recommendation from someone here, so far lots of great callouts of WWII era nazi-sympathizers altho I had a lot of whiplash when I discovered first that he was accusing Dulles of killing Kennedy (which is fine but had no idea was a subject of the book) and then that Talbot founded Salon dot com
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Poronto
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im reading china mieville's book abt the russian revolution. hes a massive trot but that won't come up till the last chapter
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i really liked the novel revolutionary suicide. very well written.
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Oakland
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I'm about halfway through a newish selected Mayakovsky translated by James McGavran. The poem where he talks to the sun and also the anti bureaucratic poem "all meetinged out" that Lenin liked are really good. Unfortunately there are no excerpts from his long poem "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" which I've been trying to track down in english. I also got the Mieville revolution book but I feel very strongly I will not end up getting to it.
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Then you should probably avoid Wilson's book Consilience, because it is all bad chapters outside of his wheelhouse without the good bug ones
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im pretty sure eo wilson is like a straight up eugenicist/"sociobiologist"
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More like Peeven Stinker!
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c_man posted:

im pretty sure eo wilson is like a straight up eugenicist/"sociobiologist"



imo wilsons theories on eusociality are important, esp when challenging the dominant paradigm of "kin selection", but apart from that he's bad

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Eo wilson is good if you're like, a..... nevermind he's bad. But he's prolific!
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wilson does support group selection as one mechanism of natural selection, which makes stephen pinker extremely mad, so that's at least a little good?

beyond that idk but he seems pretty turdy from what's been posted so far
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#14553
Dont Mess With Sucess
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the "reproductive caste" in insects wouldbe analogous to the ruling classes, in that they seek to reproduce existing class relations
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toyotathon posted:

i'm interested in what looks like class society in eusocial creatures, where demography and an extensive division of labor are determined in the creche.


check out Bee movie

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rename toyotathon REO Speedwilson
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Online
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re-reading the classic

Are you following the presidential race?
Not at all.
You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton.
His name is Barack?!
Barack Obama, yeah.
Barack?!
Barack.
What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?
Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.
Barack Obama?
Yeah.
What the fuck?! That ain’t no fuckin’ name, yo. That ain’t that nigga’s name. You can’t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta here.
You’re telling me you haven’t heard about him before.
I ain’t really paying much attention.
I mean, it’s pretty big if a Black…
Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” “That ain’t your fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.
So you’re not following the race. You can’t vote right?
Nope.
Is that why you’re not following it?
No, because it’s just—it doesn’t matter. They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do. It doesn’t really make a difference. These are the last years.
But it would be pretty big if we had a first Black president. That would be huge.
I mean, I guess…. What, they gon’ give a dog a bone? There you go. Ooh, we have a Black president now. They should’ve done that shit a long time ago, we wouldn’t be in the fuckin’ position we in now. With world war coming up right now. They done fucked this shit up then give it to the Black people, “Here you take it. Take my mess.”
Right, exactly.
It’s all a fuckin’ setup. It’s all a setup. All fuckin’ bullshit. All bullshit. I don’t give a fuck about none of that.
We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.
I mean, either way it doesn’t matter. I don’t care. No one person is directly affected by which president, you know, so what does it matter.
Yeah, but the country is.
I guess. The president is a puppet anyway. The president don’t make no damn decisions.
The president…they don’t have that much authority basically?
Nah, never.
But Bush pretty much…
You think Bush is making fuckin’ decisions?
He did, yeah, he fucked up the country.
He act like he making decisions. He could barely speak! He could barely fuckin’ speak!
Can’t be serious. He ain’t making no damn decisions.
Well Barack has a good chance of winning so that might be something.
Good for him, good for him.

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started on "ten days that shook the world" today and i just got to the part where it's all kicking off and all the russian junkers are like "hmm maybe we're losing after all. give my address to the americans, yank reporter"
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ilmdge posted:

re-reading the classic


gigantic galaxy brain exploding into a million dog barks

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DMX posted:

These are the last years.


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belgend posted:

started on "ten days that shook the world" today and i just got to the part where it's all kicking off and all the russian junkers are like "hmm maybe we're losing after all. give my address to the americans, yank reporter"

im also reading this