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  Das Kapital reading group – Week 32, Aug 5-11 – Chapters 6 and 7 of Part One of Volume III

  Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week. However, we're a bit ahead of the curve right now, and can slow down to about 41 pages a week. ... read full post

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  Bitcoin and questions about Das Capital

  What is Bitcoin and what is it's value under a Marxist economic lens? I've been trying to read capital recently and I've had a few questions I've been trying to work out. ... read full post

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  The Theory of the Two Lefts

  https://danieltutt.substack.com/p/the-theory-of-the-two-lefts

  The first tendency is the counterculture left. Its affect tends to be joyful and collective, its focus is libertine, it is concerned with furthering the project of micropolitics and counterculture. It construes politics as an act that itself is liberating, it relies on a theory of the commune as a site where experimental forms of living should be furthered. Its advocates tend to be highly ensconced in bourgeois institutions in part because much of its praxis entails a radicalization of welfare for the poor and the marginal. It maintains a relationship to bourgeois institutions that will often support forms of paternalism as long as that paternalism is giving cover to marginal groups. It maintains the view that the subject of revolution is fully contingent, and that there is no transitive relation of any particular class to the social structure or to labor. If anything, they follow the liberal and progressive liberal view that within American society it is black populations that remain the only viable revolutionary subject. ... read full post

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  Reading recommendations about race?

  Race as such, as a category. Been pondering about whether it is something to be abolished in the same sense as one might speak of gender abolition or class abolition. Looking for refinement on this thought if possible. Thanks!

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  Jason with a receipt chair

  

  linky to natcom 😮 article

  twitter thread

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  Varn Vlog: Justin Sledge on the Historical Materialism and Western Esotericism

  https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dXPj8sFWF7w

  interesting guest

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  Das Kapital reading group, Week 31, July 29-Aug 4. We are reading Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of Part One of Volume III

  Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week. ... read full post

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  How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493

  Another jason hickel drop

  twitter thread in compressed form

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  Das Kapital reading group, Week 30, July 22-28. We are reading Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 of Part One of Volume III

  Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week. ... read full post

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  Lectures/Articles on Society of the Spectacle?

  Does anyone have any good additional materials/secondary reading on society of the spectacle? just finished it and I would love to get a deeper understanding bc i'm not sure i understood everything

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  Das Kapital reading group, Week 29, July 15-21. We are reading the 21st and final chapter of Volume II

  Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week. ... read full post

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  Just finished: The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism

  

  The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism ... read full post

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  Das Kapital reading group, Week 28, July 8-14. From Volume 2, we are reading Parts 10-13 of Chapter 20, *Simple Reproduction*.

  Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week. ... read full post

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  Thoughts on: How Marxism Works: Marxism and Feminism

  https://en.prolewiki.org/index.php?title=Library:How_Marxism_works&oldid=66918#Marxism_and_feminism

  I've just finished reading "How Marxism Works" by Chris Harman, as part of Prolewiki's Absolute Beginner Reading List, and I wanted people's thoughts on its section about Marxism and Feminism. This edition is from the year 2000, and this section feels like the weakest section in the entire pamphlet. ... read full post

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  After the Wave, Winter: Demographic Decline and the “Production of Men” in the Twenty-First Century

  https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/After-the-Wave-Winter

  some choice paragraphs: ... read full post

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  Das Kapital reading group, Week 27, July 1-7. From Volume 2, we are reading parts 1-9 of Chapter 20

  I like it when the week and the month start on the same day, feels tidy. When will the Politburo impose a perennial calendar??? Anyway good job to everyone who is still with us, we have passed the halfway mark of the book (and the year!). Chapter 20 Simple reproduction of Volume II has lots of parts, we're only reading about half of it this week. ... read full post

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  An Introduction to Queer Theory: "The Beast in the Closet" by Eve Sedgwick

  http://ereserve.library.utah.edu/Annual/ENGL/7740/Potolsky/beast.pdf

  I want to share with you all an essay that has been particularly influential on my way of thinking, kind of a skeleton key for how I think about a lot of issues of surrounding male sexuality, and one that might also serve as an entry point into people’s individual inquiries into theory generally or queer theory more specifically. ... read full post

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  Das Kapital reading group, Week 26, June 24-30. From Volume 2, we are reading Chapters 18 and 19

  Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week. ... read full post

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  Clausewitz and the Marxists: Yet Another Look — (paper about the influence of military thinker Carl von Clausewitz on various Marxist leaders, including Lenin and Stalin)

  https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/260915.pdf?casa_token=mrVn8sRt8-EAAAAA:gNSgvn3eyKVy4uwtqnBZyoBIxqgJiqTkjfSw_laFoBKw9B8gbME0Lrc6g3U3O_J8q32e4lhDy4v3IFLT-oqkS8CGRRDKZ39ST80GLKGdJ7P62Z5Pxpo
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  Das Kapital reading group, Week 25, June 17-23. From Volume 2, we are reading Parts 2-3 of Chapter 16, and all of Chapter 17

  Oh my goodness it's Thursday and I'm posting this. I'm ashamed. ... read full post

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  High priests of telescopes and cyclotrons: Marxism and revolutionary strategy as science

  https://www.black-lamp.com/posts/high-priests-of-telescopes-and-cyclotrons-marxism-and-revolutionary-strategy-as-science

  

  (with each long theory piece i'm becoming even more third worldist (in a colloquial sense) and economist pilled

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  Das Kapital reading group, Week 24, June 10-16. From Volume 2, we are reading Chapters 15 and Part 1 of Chapter 16

  Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week. ... read full post

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  Das Kapital reading group, Week 23, June 3-9. From Volume 2, we are reading Chapters 11-14

  Sorry this one is late. ... read full post

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  The Ghosts Of New Atheism Still Haunt Us | Defector

  https://defector.com/the-ghosts-of-new-atheism-still-haunt-us

  well, its weakly theory, but interesting observations

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  Das Kapital reading group, Week 22, May 27-June 2. From Volume 2, we are reading the 2nd part of Chapter 8, plus Chapter 9, plus Chapter 10

  Explain the bookclub: We are reading Volumes 1, 2, and 3 in one year and discussing it in weekly threads. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included in this particular reading club, but comrades are encouraged to do other solo and collaborative reading.) This bookclub will repeat yearly. The three volumes in a year works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46⅔ pages a week. ... read full post

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