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Bought Extrastatecraft by Keller Easterling because I didn't read anything about architecture/urbanism this year and it sounds fun.

I'm reading The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato, so far a very good book about market-state/public-state transition stuff written by a bourgeois academic writer (it's packed with hideous academese prose, but it has all the evidence/data presented like any good scientific Marxist book does.)

Plus I have Trotsky's autobiography on the backlog.
#13242
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so i don't wanna buy off of some guy on the street when i have a friend who can help me out
#13243
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those all sound like the Wrong type of reading
#13244
Mike Nelson here.
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i was looking at wikipedia for mao and i think one of the statistics they use of his kill count is by saying that they had a policy of killing at least one landlord per village and then multiplying that by number of villages in china.
#13245
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sounds legit and probably even underestimating it since im sure there were some villages where more than one was killed
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getfiscal posted:

i was looking at wikipedia for mao and i think one of the statistics they use of his kill count is by saying that they had a policy of killing at least one landlord per village and then multiplying that by number of villages in china.



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UNUSUALY COOL
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Makeshift_Swahili posted:

i probably aint buying it.... ill think about it if i see him again.



quit market stallin' and start market stalin!!!

#13248
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so i've been pretty cut before. i was in college, delusionally thinking i was going to get with the girl of my dreams. music was good, it was 2012
#13249
political car tune
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methlabretriever posted:

it was 2012


ah simpler times, when pictures of dead kids graced the front page of these once thriving forums.

#13250
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lol at the thought of these forums ever having been thriving
#13251
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thriving in the same way a coffee cup thrives after you put it on a shelf and forget about it for a few days
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Poronto
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COINTELBRO posted:

Bought Extrastatecraft by Keller Easterling because I didn't read anything about architecture/urbanism this year and it sounds fun.



im halfway thru it and its seriously awful, the worst pomo plus ted talk technofetishism

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someone gave me a michael harrington book and it was either that or a malcolm gladwell book, but if you can manage not to throw it at a wall it can be entertaining:

-marx was actually a utopian socialist like saint-simon or fourier, the proof?
"In one of the most important of his brief references to what socialism would be...Marx equated "socialized man" with the "associated producers." That is, the mature Marx used the classic phrase of French utopianism for the worker-managed enterprise to explain his ideal"



-the whole concept of class struggle is a deviation from, get this: kautsky.

-the man who not only rescued socialism from the dogmas of bureaucratic stalinism, but also made the most important advances to its theory in the 20th century? John Mustang Keynes.

this is what social-dems actually believe
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postposting posted:

this is what social-dems actually believe


im dying lmao

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from a lovely and well meaning person, i received a zizek book for christmas im not reading it.
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Mike Nelson here.
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michael harrington seems like he was a nice guy who basically was like "socialism is good things that i like and nothing else". some of the jacobin types love him. the problem is that they seem to think he is sort of a response to stalinism rather than like an old set of beliefs that were obsolete over a century ago.
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getfiscal posted:

the problem is that they seem to think he is sort of a response to stalinism rather than like an old set of beliefs that were obsolete over a century ago.


ignoring the past century is in fact the most popular response to stalinism!

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Mike Nelson here.
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one time milton friedman debated some new left guy and one of the questions was like do you support a draft. and the socialist guy said well we don't want one for like murdering the vietnamese but like if there was an obligation to serve in like health services or something that would be fine. and milton friedman was like what's this hippie bullshit, the draft is slavery and must be abolished. and they say that all the young people cheered. and this is used as an example by libertarians as to why the kids love capitalism.
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UNUSUALY COOL
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*closes gigantic torso-height storybook titled LEGENDS OF THE WHITE MAN*
#13260
YUNG JIRO AKA SHOWA STUNNA AKA
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politicing like a chump, that is the 69th type of liberalism
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getfiscal posted:

some of the jacobin types love him



that explains A LOT

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are there any jobs at all?
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methlabretriever posted:

are there any jobs at all?



t here's an opening at the "not posting" factory iirc.

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I just read farm to factory it was p good.
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do they get to the factory, no wait, don't tell me
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Ya mostly but some of the kulaks and polish dont make it
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EmanuelaBrolandi posted:

Ya mostly but some of the kulaks and polish dont make it



rip

#13271
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EO - you wanna do a book trade on FtF? y/n
#13272
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Wuts FtF
#13273
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the godddam book you just read
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#13275
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I downloaded it
#13276
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oh. good thing the secret pdf forum exists i guess.
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Kurdt
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hey, remember when mustang wasn't allowed to post? what happened to that?
#13278
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I just downloaded kruschev lied lol
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UNUSUALY COOL
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tpaine posted:

nobody likes you when you're methlabretriever



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