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that reminds me i have to finish cb macpherson's short book on burke. it's interesting because macpherson shows how burke was construed in different ways to defend capitalism. like the idea he was the arch-conservative anti-French functionalist was largely a 1950s Cold War idea. earlier he was seen as a liberal reformer who made principled arguments for social progress. prior to that his writings were considered a marginal part of his career as a powerful politician.
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Spatial_Reasoning posted:

Anyone read The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot?



Do not read this book under any circumstances.

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If you're interested in the rise of communism in Korea:

http://www.amazon.com/Peasant-Protest-Colonial-Studies-International/dp/0295993804

actual scholarship on the rise of Kim il-sung/the Worker's Party:

http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Korean-War-Vol-2/dp/8976966139

North Korea:

http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-North-Korean-Revolution-1945-1950/dp/0801452139

and the North Korean system:

http://www.amazon.com/Origins-North-Koreas-Juche-Colonialism/dp/0739197266

I could recommend a bunch more, and these are not particularly pro-North Korea. Simply that books like the one you mentioned are not serious, they are pop nonsense with no standard of evidence. They are basically a joke in the field and only exist for DC NGOs that "monitor" North Korea as a front for the CIA.
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While Davies cruised the Baltic on his yacht, letters continued to "pour in" at the American embassy in Moscow, and the State Department in Washington, from anxious relatives across the United States searching for their missing loved ones in Russia. These letters would carry on arriving through the course of 1937 and 1938, and intermittently thereafter for the next two decades. Some were sent by Americans who had been freed from the camps in the early thirties and managed to return home. Emma Popper, for example, wrote on behalf of Timothy Belakoff, whom she described as an American passport holder who had arrived to work in Russia as an engineer on an Amtorg contract in 1931, only to be arrested shortly afterward. She had met Belakoff in a prison hospital, suffering from malnutrition and in "worsening" state of heath. In her letter, sent from New York, Emma Popper enclosed a small piece of black bread, which she said she had brought back with from her Gulag camp as evidence of how little they were given to eat. A State Department official read her letter, filed it, then placed the morsel of Russian bread into an envelope, where it remained, dried and preserved in the archives for the next seventy years, a strange relic of the lost American emigration to Stalin's Russia.

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babyhueypnewton posted:

If you're interested in the rise of communism in Korea:

http://www.amazon.com/Peasant-Protest-Colonial-Studies-International/dp/0295993804

actual scholarship on the rise of Kim il-sung/the Worker's Party:

http://www.amazon.com/Origins-Korean-War-Vol-2/dp/8976966139

North Korea:

http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-North-Korean-Revolution-1945-1950/dp/0801452139

and the North Korean system:

http://www.amazon.com/Origins-North-Koreas-Juche-Colonialism/dp/0739197266

I could recommend a bunch more, and these are not particularly pro-North Korea. Simply that books like the one you mentioned are not serious, they are pop nonsense with no standard of evidence. They are basically a joke in the field and only exist for DC NGOs that "monitor" North Korea as a front for the CIA.



Well sure, but as long as those sneaky cias are also publishing audiobooks that I can listen to at work, they're going to win out.

That third one looks pretty cool. Could you upload yourself reading it to the secret mp3 subforum?

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tpaine posted:

how sweet would it be if you could just keep eating stuff without having to poop it out and/or regurgitate it?

yeah why don't we get rid of the best part of something just so we can keep doing it. are you also into tantric sex.

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way into asparagus i heard tho
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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is there some kind of irc chat room? i need to brainstorm about something with somebody. serious replies only.
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yeah right. nobody wqants to have cybersex with you just because ur lonely in the swamp you live in
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<<== Proud Fruit Haver
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i love citrus
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dude try eating an orange that's not from florida. most oranges are not like that
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I'm currently reading: too many books at once
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I know that feel, cata.
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Kurdt
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i wish i lived in florida, instead of Canada, which is where i live, as an official, legit Canadian
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There's a rhizzone irc
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political car tune
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stegosaurus posted:

There's a rhizzone irc


but i thought i just made this up as a dumb joke

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Kurdt
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i thought it was a joke too until i won channel ops from bippy at the rhizzone poker game
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stegosaurus posted:

There's a rhizzone irc

Yeah i recall that correctly too, but does it have a chatroom and where?

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currently reading some juicy chats from my rhizzone buds.
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getfiscal posted:


My problem is that I usually will get super interested in a topic for like a day or two, read half of a book on said subject then totally forget that I was reading it a day later haha

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cata posted:

getfiscal posted:

My problem is that I usually will get super interested in a topic for like a day or two, read half of a book on said subject then totally forget that I was reading it a day later haha

What sort of books/topics recently?

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cata posted:

getfiscal posted:

My problem is that I usually will get super interested in a topic for like a day or two, read half of a book on said subject then totally forget that I was reading it a day later haha


same

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do you even read books tpaine
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dude this is a level of alienation i've never experienced before
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i basically didn't know how it worked, wanted to see for myself and found out. it doesn't exist anymore. apparently the ai has learned enough to figure out that the dj is the only one that has a chance of leaving with a girl.
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and the girl was very very poor
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could someone ifap this guy before i flip the fuck out i swear to god every terrible post he makes is horribly triggering for me
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I know you guys hate david harvey because he isnt a marxist-leninist-maoist, so what are the alternatives to A Companion To Marx's Capital, Volume 1 & 2?
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soicowboy posted:

I know you guys hate david harvey because he isnt a marxist-leninist-maoist, so what are the alternatives to A Companion To Marx's Capital, Volume 1 & 2?

actually we like harvey. dispo used him a lot in her thesis i think. i just wrote a seminar paper based on him. although yes he is not a maoist like all of us here so please consult "fundamentals of political economy" (aka "the shanghai textbook") https://archive.org/details/FundamentalsOfPoliticalEconomy

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Kurdt
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I like David Harvey because he has a melifluous speaking voice and doesn't dress like anarchy dad
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and that's, the rest of the story