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  Erika3sis in theory

  Thoughts on A. Mark Liddle's 24-page "Gender, Desire and Child Sexual Abuse: Accounting for the Male Majority" (1993)? Any other theory about pedophilia and CSA(M) you know of?

  https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/026327693010004006

  I was introduced to this article two years ago but just sort of let it rot in my bookmarks until just now. I don't think my reading comprehension was all there when I read it just now, but it was an interesting enough thing about how sexual desire is socially constructed nonetheless. But I still want to further develop my understanding of pedophilia, to have my preconceptions refuted and my questions answered and so forth. Moreover I just want to see how leftist understandings of pedophilia have changed in the past 30 years since this article came out. ... read full post

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  SeventyTwoTrillion in theory

  Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 7

  

  This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post

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  RedWizard in theory

  Revolutionary parliamentarism? | International Socialist Review

  https://isreview.org/issue/99/revolutionary-parliamentarism/index.html
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  RedWizard in theory

  Look what I got in the mail today!

  
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  chobeat in theory

  What is political agency?

  https://write.as/conjure-utopia/what-is-political-agency
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  plinky in theory

  Monthly Review | Power, Control, Inequality, and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

  https://monthlyreview.org/2025/09/01/power-control-inequality-and-democracy-in-the-twenty-first-century/

  New theory slop for the masses

  also small mistake in chart 4, smdh.

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  Cowbee in theory

  Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 29, September 3 - September 9 – Volume 2 Chapter 21

  Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week. ... read full post

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  plinky in theory

  Against Losurdo

  https://newintermag.com/against-losurdo/

  debatable if it's slop or theory, but probably comrades will soon meet these arguments in the wild, and not that one has to abandon all theoretical considerations over geopolitical realism of the 20th century.

  although it's all rather useless, treatlerism stays undefeated whether one thinks stalin was correct or not, got money from cia or not, decided to become culture critic or not

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  SeventyTwoTrillion in theory

  Imperialism Reading Group - Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 6

  

  This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post

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  Clippy in theory

  The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier, the Israel Lobby, or the Zionist Para-State? - Rob Ashlar

  https://robashlar.substack.com/p/an-unsinkable-aircraft-carrier-or

  long read, but i was wondering what other people (who are more well read than i) here thought about this article

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  Cowbee in theory

  Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 28, August 27 - September 2 – Volume 2 Chapter 20 Parts 10-13

  Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week. ... read full post

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  ThanksObama5223 in theory

  Recommendations for Biographies of Stalin?

  Finally planning to read Lusardo's history and critique of a black legend, but thinking its best to read a biography of Stalin before I begin. Is that necessary/fair? if so, Any recommendations?

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  Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 5

  

  This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post

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  chobeat in theory

  Alterity without difference: the non-identity of the Augustinian Left

  https://write.as/conjure-utopia/alterity-without-difference-the-non-identity-of-the-augustinian-left
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  Cowbee in theory

  Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 27, August 20 - August 26 – Volume 2 Chapter 20 Parts 1-9

  Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week. ... read full post

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  Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 4

  

  This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post

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  Sebrof in theory

  Price, Value, and Exploitation using Input-Output Tables - Part 6: Resolving the Transformation Problem and Future Directions

  

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  Cowbee in theory

  Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 26, August 13 - August 19 – Volume 2 Chapters 18-19

  Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 pages a week. ... read full post

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  Vampire in theory

  Any reccomendations of Cuban theorists? 🇨🇺

  Preferably recent

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  RedWizard in theory

  Historical Materialism by Banyan House is out.

  https://www.banyanhouse.org/product/preorder-historical-materialism-vanguard-edition/

  EBook not yet released. I loved their first translation enough that I picked up this physical edition is Historical Materialism.

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  Imperialism Reading Group - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney - Week 3

  

  This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week's thread is here. ... read full post

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  Sebrof in theory

  Price, Value, and Exploitation using Input-Output Tables - Part 5: Some Worked Examples

  

  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ... read full post

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  Price, Value, and Exploitation using Input-Output Tables - Part 4: Capitalists, Profit, and Exploitation

  

  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ... read full post

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  Sebrof in theory

  Price, Value, and Exploitation using Input-Output Tables - Part 3: A Worker-Only Economy with Means of Production

  

  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ... read full post

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  Sebrof in theory

  Price, Value, and Exploitation using Input-Output Tables - Part 2: A Pure-Labor Economy

  

  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 ... read full post

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