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zak "struggling to" cope
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the thing i dont understand about these complete u-turns is that is he disavowing the labour theory of value and its implications? the nature of the sale of labour power as a commodity and the implications therein? because any rube can draw the card that says "capitalism has resulted in a bumper yield of use-values" and unleash a grey-water geyser of 1776 Smith against the corn laws.

his style comes across as tawdry jeremiad, and perhaps its the slugs of hegel i've been drinking but there's no reason in his disavowal, its emotive confessional excoriation; where the fetters of personal reaction to individual events corrode ones ability to comprehend the messy complexity of the capitalism arc in toto. discard emotion, put politics in command

good luck sleeping in your procrustean bed, cope-man
#18603
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anyway, i read Owen Smith's New View of sOciety; th short pamphlet "on the medieval origins of the modern state" (Strayer) and am now reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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lo posted:

drwhat posted:


no, unfortunately pro wrestlers are quite bad at writing memoirs



Bret Hart's memoir is actually very good because he's so self-serious that he's convinced he is creating an actual historical document.

But then he turns around and starts lying about how awful it was for him to be constantly cheating on his wife with waitresses

#18605
UNUSUALY COOL
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yet when I say it was awful for bret hart to be constantly cheating on his wife with waitresses, im telling the truth.. this world is so corrupt…..
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hoisting myself up by my own petard on the thousand jew hill, overlooking 100,000 palestinian bodies, I said to myself, "You are the smart guy mister"
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Constantignoble posted:

Constantignoble posted:

Just finished reading Colin Drumm's dissertation, "The Difference That Money Makes"...

Update: After chewing on this for a couple of months, I think I've gestated some responses to Drumm. I no longer believe that his chapter critiquing Marx succeeds, though the rest of the book is still plenty interesting, and I give points for at least making one of the more unique attacks I've seen.

If anyone else here has read chapter 1, let me know. I'm eager to discuss the specifics, but whereas the audience here is fairly sympathetic to my position from the outset, I'd prefer that folks look it over independently; when I attempt to express the arguments alongside arguing against them, I've found the feedback has been a bit less muscular than I've hoped. It's probably just not a good way to absorb an argument, to see it summarized and then immediately attacked.



put it up and i'll give it a whirl!

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The full book is linked in the quote. My response needs a bit of tidying; I'll attempt to do so over the weekend.
#18609
mt.real
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i've been reading V. I. Lenin's "The State and Revolution". you guys heard of this guy? not bad
#18610
lies half the time
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what's it about
#18611
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wokenness, an archaic form of wokeness
#18612
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having read lots of robert owen now reading anti-duhring. really wish more communists pick up frickin a book every now and again

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i've been reading a bit about rwanda and the congo recently, and it turns out that rwanda under the rpf is essentially an entire state run along the lines of every western counterinsurgenccy strategy that's ever been devised. they saw the phoenix program and were like 'damn let's always fight wars like this', it's really insane and is making me think about parallels with more familiar countries..
#18614
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I stumbled upon a book fair run by some local book shops and picked up the following:

Sabella, or The Blood Stone by Tanith Lee
Galileo by Bertolt Brecht
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941 edited by Bruce Posner

I'll probably read Galileo first
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Looking for audiobook suggestions to absorb while at the gym

Just finished this

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Im weading gwavitys wainbow, "the political unconscious" by jameson and a gay comics in fwench for language pwactice
#18617
Deus Ex Machinist
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https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/the-destruction-of-palestine-is-the-destruction-of-the-earth
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Deus Ex Machinist
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for hard sf fans https://endnotes.org.uk/posts/forest-and-factory
#18619
Deus Ex Machinist
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anyone's got the tea on this? need to know if its worth reading in full https://decompositions.noblogs.org/writing/
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UNUSUALY COOL
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slipdisco posted:

anyone's got the tea on this? need to know if its worth reading in full https://decompositions.noblogs.org/writing/



idk if

#18621
lies half the time
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the cacaphony of xommunistm

allow us a moment to be parsimonious. Composition is a both material process and a practical activity—a noun and a verb. It follows that analyses of composition and the composition problem have historically been both descriptive and prescript--
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here's an article i enjoyed from this one substack that talks about how the terror under stalin was intimately connected with conflicts with regional soviet leaders and stalin's attempts to implement democratic reforms

https://thestalinera.substack.com/p/the-enigma-of-terror-part-ii posted:

While some may bristle at the characterization of Stalin as a democratic reformer, the archival evidence brought together by the numerous historians cited in this article does indicate this was the case—at least during the period of the terror. Stalin’s form of democracy was infused with the righteous violence of class war, as state repression and mass mobilization were intimately bound up with the notions of socialist revitalization. For Stalin, empowering the working class rank and file went hand-in-hand with breaking up bureaucratic cliques and eradicating perceived state enemies. However, Stalin’s battle for democracy ultimately ended in defeat, as the regional leaders effectively outmaneuvered him, exploiting state security fears to subvert his political vision. The vicious mass operations were the culmination of this bitter power struggle over the introduction of democratic reform. The regional leaders may have won this battle, but the war was not over.