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Bablu posted:e: nvm i got your point a few seconds too late
babyfinland posted:I've been reading Qur'an
Acdtrux posted:also, the Qur'an mostly
/thread we've come full circle
cars posted:I am reading H.P. Lovecraft again. I enjoy how he'll be like, "There was the matter of the stones of the mountain demonstrating a characteristic curvature that geologists found unlikely to result from normal weathering," and in the same paragraph, "There was also the matter of the procession of hundreds of howling, torch-bearing strangers up and down the hillside every Walpurgis Night, when the local farmers did not fail to discuss each year the shadowy, half-materialized tendrils dozens of yards in height that lashed through the sky as a blood-red rain poured down upon the valley" as though these two things would be equally easy for the world at large to ignore. idk maybe if it's Vermont.
whisperer in darkness is my favorite for this, how the first few pages outline how everyone just collectively chose to ignore the extensive mining operations of the alien-crab-people in vermont
tears posted:whisperer in darkness is my favorite for this, how the first few pages outline how everyone just collectively chose to ignore the extensive mining operations of the alien-crab-people in vermont
Literally the one I was thinking of lmao
pogfan1996 posted:Anyone have a good book recommendation for a history of 20th century Greece
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Now your racist grandma doesn’t have an excuse
tears posted:have started a great book (more of a pamphlet really) - Mahmood Mamdani's Imperialism and Fascism in Uganda, 1984. it's a brief history of imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism in uganda, but more than that really its just one part of the african marxists' development of marxism, a huge wealth of writing and theory which is so grossly ignored in the west.
i'd love to read more stuff by african marxists but i think just accessing their writings might be difficult in a lot of cases. the guy who wrote 'naija marxisms' talks about how a lot of the works he references in that book were only available in like a couple of random provincial libraries in wales and similar places. many of the works weren't available in nigeria where they were written, let alone elsewhere. and like almost every single thinker he talks about sounds cool and worth reading, so it's frustrating!
Acdtrux posted:Walter Benjamin was reading for his entire life. He applied to a university, and submitted an essay that consisted entirely of quotations of other authors. He was not accepted. Theodor W Adorno personally criticized his philosophy and suggested he stopped being funded by the institute for social research. Under extraordinarily unlikely circumstances, he was discovered by fascist police on his way out of Germany, and subsequently took his own life.
I could not imagine a more successful career for an author.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170919180628/http://snylterstaten.dk/english/manifest-communist-working-group-cwg
It's already in plain text but I can convert it into a PDF, print it, crumple it up, scan it using a 1970s scanner, then use a Slovenian OCR software to convert it into an excel file. Judging by prior submissions to karphead I assume this is standard practice.
tears posted:i think about this post a lot.
Acdtrux posted:He applied to a university, and submitted an essay that consisted entirely of quotations of other authors. He was not accepted.
it's always nice to learn that the shame of your own personal failures link you into a glorious tradition of fail-aids, like how being punished in school wasn't really a punishment if you weren't alone. on the other end of the fellow-travellers of frankfurt school, reportedly sohn-rethel
asked for the three volumes of Capital as a Christmas present when he was about to turn 17. A few years later, at university in Heidelberg, he immersed himself in the first sixty pages of Marx’s book for a whole year and a half, riveted by the theory of value.
again, who here hasn't? some of us are probably procrastinating rn
Wells: I agree with much of what you have said.
But I would like to stress the point that if a country as a whole adopts the principle of planned economy, if the government, gradually, step by step, begins consistently to apply this principle, the financial oligarchy will at last be abolished and socialism, in the Anglo-Saxon meaning of the word, will be brought about. The effect of the ideas of Roosevelt's "New Deal" is most powerful, and in my opinion they are socialist ideas. It seems to me that instead of stressing the antagonism between the two worlds, we should, in the present circumstances, strive to establish a common tongue for all the constructive forces.
Stalin: In speaking of the impossibility of realising the principles of planned economy while preserving the economic basis of capitalism, I do not in the least desire to belittle the outstanding personal qualities of Roosevelt, his initiative, courage and determination. Undoubtedly, Roosevelt stands out as one of the strongest figures among all the captains of the contemporary capitalist world. That is why I would like, once again, to emphasize the point that my conviction that planned economy is impossible under the conditions of capitalism, does not mean that I have any doubts about the personal abilities, talent and courage of President Roosevelt. But if the circumstances are unfavourable, the most talented captain cannot reach the goal you refer to.
Theoretically, of course, the possibility of marching gradually, step by step, under the conditions of capitalism, towards the goal which you call socialism in the Anglo-Saxon meaning of the word, is not precluded.
But what will this "socialism" be? At best, bridling to some extent, the most unbridled of individual representatives of capitalist profit, some increase in the application of the principle of regulation in national economy. That is all very well. But as soon as Roosevelt, or any other captain in the contemporary bourgeois world, proceeds to undertake something serious against the foundation of capitalism, he will inevitably suffer utter defeat. The banks, the industries, the large enterprises, the large farms are not in Roosevelt's hands. All these are private property. The railroads, the mercantile fleet, all these belong to private owners. And, finally, the army of skilled workers, the engineers, the technicians, these too are not at Roosevelt's command, they are at the command of the private owners; they all work for the private owners. We must not forget the functions of the State in the bourgeois world.
The State is an institution that organises the defence of the country, organises the maintenance of "order"; it is an apparatus for collecting taxes. The capitalist State does not deal much with economy in the strict sense of the word; the latter is not in the hands of the State. On the contrary, the State is in the hands of capitalist economy. That is why I fear that in spite of all his energies and abilities, Roosevelt will not achieve the goal you mention, if indeed that is his goal. Perhaps, in the course of several generations it will be possible to approach this goal somewhat; but I personally think that even this is not very probable.
Wells: Perhaps, I believe more strongly in the economic interpretation of politics than you do...
slipdisco posted:asked for the three volumes of Capital as a Christmas present when he was about to turn 17. A few years later, at university in Heidelberg, he immersed himself in the first sixty pages of Marx’s book for a whole year and a half, riveted by the theory of value.
slipdisco posted:asked for the three volumes of Capital as a Christmas present when he was about to turn 17. A few years later, at university in Heidelberg, he immersed himself in the first sixty pages of Marx’s book for a whole year and a half, riveted by the theory of value.
On Christmas 1915, he expressed a wish for a copy of Karl Marx Capital as a present. He received one and studied it intensively. Thrown out of home, he participated in the anti-war student protest in his first year at Heidelberg University in 1917.(3)
So the guy who organized the alleged terrorist activity is probably a U.S. federal agent, well that’s completely new and unprecedented lol