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EmanuelaBrolandi posted:

i've been reading a selection from the prison notebooks of gramsci but i was rly interested by the historical background about Turin during the pre-WWII days and reading about their interactions w/ the Russians...

are there any good books on the North Italian / Turin workers movement or whatever? or like about the ineractions between the german, italian, russian communists within the movement in general i'd also like to read something like that



check out a dude named alexander de grand

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https://alyx.io/mim-theory/ hell yeah
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we need more mim people here. but theyre too busy
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littlegreenpills posted:

im reading a series of posts by an llco member claiming sincerely that they actually are doing tons and tons of grassroots activism because they are clandestinely sending money to revolutionary orgs in the 3rd world honest i swear but they can't tell you what any of those orgs are because its clandestine and a secret and they have to maintain operational security, also his dad works for Nintendo



worked for frisso HEYO

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apparently a lot of MIM's stuff from the 80s is lost forever, which is too bad.
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its a tragedy on par with the torching of the great library of alexandria
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i finally read Spooks and i was more impressed than i expected to be. i expected something more Swiftian and the first part of the book definitely nods in that direction but I read a lot of SF and the book eventually paints a more terrifyingly likely future than I've ever read. everything from the first mention of the black site to the end is pro-tier writing and i think really nails the subtle interplay between unsentient but malevolent algorithmic machinations of capital/imperialism and the shrugging and borderline-amiable amorality of the individuals who carry it out (which needless to say is increasingly defining the world we live in). finished it in one sitting, made me wanna fuckin hurl, A++
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What's a good book to introduce someone who has a degree in biology and cares about the environment but has no idea what Marxism is, to Marxism. The ecological rift or something?
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I like the dialeactical biologist but I haven't read that other book you mentioned so maybe thats better idk
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LLCO got scammed by teenage Polish neonazis who spent all the money sent to them on vodka.
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Link
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stegosaurus posted:

What's a good book to introduce someone who has a degree in biology and cares about the environment but has no idea what Marxism is, to Marxism. The ecological rift or something?



http://www.unc.edu/courses/2008spring/geog/804/001/210315.pdf <- references page

screenshot for goatse risk control

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Mike Nelson here.
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stegosaurus posted:

What's a good book to introduce someone who has a degree in biology and cares about the environment but has no idea what Marxism is, to Marxism. The ecological rift or something?

If you want to taste a pear, you must take a bite of the pear. Tell them to make revolution.

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just in case you should probably also let me talk to her
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Christian Parenti's material is focused largely on the environment and marxism. i wish i could recommend something specific but everything i have on that is in little magazines. Green Social Thought is a great little journal to check out, seriously.

Here's one of his pieces from there: http://greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/gst66-26-29-Christian-Parenti.pdf
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grover furr takes on katyn

https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/furr_katyn_preprint_0813.pdf
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stegosaurus posted:

What's a good book to introduce someone who has a degree in biology and cares about the environment but has no idea what Marxism is, to Marxism. The ecological rift or something?



nafeed ahmed maybe?

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2011-05-18/review-user%E2%80%99s-guide-crisis-civilization-nafeez-mosaddeq-ahmed

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thanks i'm just going to buy all those and toss them at the person and see what happens
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edit: posted in the wrong thread but

cars posted:

check out a dude named alexander de grand



I downloaded de grand and puigs book on grundlesworthy and trotskys letters. can upload to the secret PDF if ppl are interesting

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EmanuelaBrolandi posted:

edit: posted in the wrong thread but

cars posted:

check out a dude named alexander de grand



I downloaded de grand and puigs book on grundlesworthy and trotskys letters. can upload to the secret PDF if ppl are interesting



his name means Alexander the large

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Kurdt
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hi
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3251517
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3251517&userid=106077

if u don't archives then tough.

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dang, now i am so disappointed i didn't give lowtax money to look at whatever that is
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maggotmaster posting at liberals
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Critical support
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stego u should give them this when it comes out which everyone should read

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1924-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life
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Just finished reading Semiotics: The Basics by Daniel Chandler. Just gonna go ahead and post my goodreads review cause I'm lazy


This book is an absolutely fantastic introduction to the field of semiotics as well as structuarlist/poststructuralist theories. Daniel Chandler breaks down the origins of the field and contextualizes why someone would even want to be interested in the study of signs to begin with. The overarching split between the Sausseaurean and Piercian connotation of semiotics is conveyed by gently introducing the concepts one must be familiar with to engage with the higher level discussions towards the end of the book. Everything in this book builds on top of previous paragraphs, ideas and chapters so it is definitely a book you cannot just skim through without remaining confused. I have seen some reviews on this page criticize the text for being a built too difficult to read but I would argue that whoever is saying this is just reading lazily. I found actively engaging with the text inside and out of the reading experience to be highly enlightening. To top it all off, Chandler gifts readers with a vast indexical list of works broken down by semiotic subject such as 'film', 'tv', 'law' and 'music' under the Chapter "Going Further" which opens the floodgates for more in-depth semiotic study.

Overall, this is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in linguistics, semantics and media theory of all types. The fact that this work breaks down a complex study such as semiotics with the historical context in a very digestible way makes this work more than worth it for anyone who seriously wants to understand a bit more how our world and meaning are derived.
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I guess now I should move onto some Roland Barthes works or something
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NoFreeWill posted:

stego u should give them this when it comes out which everyone should read

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1924-capitalism-in-the-web-of-life

this looks sick

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http://newleftreview.org/II/94/jan-breman-a-footloose-scholar
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stegosaurus posted:

.custom285929{}NoFreeWill posted:stego u should give them this when it comes out which everyone should read

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1924-capitalism-in-the-web-of-lifethis looks sick


i'm excited. also semiotics is garbage

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NoFreeWill posted:

stegosaurus posted:

.custom285929{}NoFreeWill posted:stego u should give them this when it comes out which everyone should read

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1924-capitalism-in-the-web-of-lifethis looks sick


i'm excited. also semiotics is garbage


how so

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Occupied Aztlan
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“The F-35 will find itself outmaneuvered, outgunned, out of range, and visible to enemy sensors. Staying the present course may needlessly gamble away a sizable margin of American airpower at great expense and unnecessary risk to American lives.”

Thunder without Lightning: The High Cost and Limited Benefits of the F-35
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i almost feel like working diligently on the f35 is basically the least damage someone working for the DoD could do
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I knew it wouldn't have been long before the third-worldist bums came in shouting their counter-revolutionary nonsense. Pay no attention to the fact that labor-power has always been more expensive in Britain and America (and yet America, despite their superior living standards to other countries, has been historically more revolutionary than most other countries), the difference in living standards between developed capitalist states and developing capitalist states is totes because of some conspicuous sharing of imperialist "super-profits."

For starters we have the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 which included the 1877 St. Louis General Strike. The Haymarket Affair in Chicago in 1886. The Pullman Strike in 1894. The Seattle General Strike in 1919. Steel strike of 1919.

The Civil Rights movement and the anti-war movement in the 60's, which while not necessarily socialistic are still examples of American working class organization.

The Seattle WTO protests in 1999.



The responses to the recent increase in state sanctioned murder of black people.



Many more examples could be given of the history of revolutionary activity in the US, but I think these are enough to show American workers, despite being "privileged" historically, have always had a revolutionary spirit which is if nothing else comparable to every other country on Earth.

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it's true that first world workers during the 19th and 20th century fought and died for the rights they enjoy now, which are continually being eroded, but that doesn't make it also true that first world living standards also owe much to imperialist super-profits.

i mean otherwise that whole thing pretty much implies that the third-world has shitty living standards because their workers won't struggle for their rights, and uh lol go fuck yourself
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rofl
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cata posted:

.custom286101{}NoFreeWill posted:stegosaurus posted:

.custom285929{}NoFreeWill posted:stego u should give them this when it comes out which everyone should read

http://www.versobooks.com/books/1924-capitalism-in-the-web-of-lifethis looks sick


i'm excited. also semiotics is garbage

how so


it mistakes the map for the territory and makes mountains out of molehills. and it's straight

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i dont know what to believe anymore. honestly thought i believed in superprofits: isnt there a material basis for economism; reformist, non-revolutionary attempts to maintain first world living standards?

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im restarting steven jay gould's book on evolution. its a lot of fun to read
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Urbandale posted:

“The F-35 will find itself outmaneuvered, outgunned, out of range, and visible to enemy sensors. Staying the present course may needlessly gamble away a sizable margin of American airpower at great expense and unnecessary risk to American lives.”

Thunder without Lightning: The High Cost and Limited Benefits of the F-35


the military-industrial complex's propaganda about the inadequacy of its own products definitely is not intended to drive public opinion to support further exhorbitant spending on "new" and "better" military equipment and we definitely should not roll our eyes and vomit uncontrollably when we hear it!