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Artisanal Intelligence: what's the deal with AI Art
https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2023-02-03-Artisanal-Intelligence.html13
1.2yr
The obscure politics of artificial intelligence: a Marxian socio-technical critique of the AI alignment problem thesis - AI and Ethics
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-024-00476-98
1.2yr
Das Kapital reading group – Week 41, Oct 7-13 – Chapter 26, Chapter 27, and Chapter 28 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. ... read full post
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The Post-Marxist Philosophy of Donald Harris (by The Marxist Project)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYs0IMlAkT0Expecting a video on Pete Buttigieg's dad next.
16
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Chinese commentary on idpol
Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles who oppress the Negro people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people. ... read full post
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Das Kapital reading group – Week 40, Sept 30-Oct 6 – Chapter 24 and Chapter 25 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. ... read full post
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1.2yr
History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks): Short Course
👍 or 👎? ... read full post
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Princeton Press publishes first new English translation of Marx's Capital in 50 years
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190075/capital37
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The concept of a false economy
I remember reading or watching something that I can no longer find about how US public education creates a false economy for its students by its use of numeric grades which they accumulate throughout their schooling and how these grades are a kind of currency exchanged for being "good students." ... read full post
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Question on "State and Revolution" in russian vs german
I'm trying to typeset "State and Revolution" in german and a lot of sources use a kind of double emphasis. E.g. marxists.org has cursive and bold and cursive. These seem to largely match up with the german translation from 1972 where there is cursive and c u r s i v e w i t h l a r g e k e r n i n g. This makes the text very weird to read and there doesn't seem to be a proper rhyme or reason to when super-emphasis is used. ... read full post
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RIP Frederic Jameson (1934-2024)
While perhaps more important in literary circles than political, Frederic Jameson is a very important Marxist who died today. ... read full post
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Das Kapital reading group – Week 39, Sept 23-29 – Chapter 22 and Chapter 23 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 35 pages a week. ... read full post
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Das Kapital reading group – Week 38, Sept 16-22 – Chapter 20 and Chapter 21 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 35 pages a week. ... read full post
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Das Kapital reading group – Week 37, Sept 9-15 – Chapter 17, Chapter 18, and Chapter 19 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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Against the People | Malcolm Harris and Melinda Cooper
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/against-the-people/
i think this is an interesting perspective, as state role do be underdeveloped
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Anyone got that quote where a nazi (maybe hitler) is seething about how the soviets can only copy technology, not invent.
I remember reading it and using it as a comparison against how the west talks about china today but i cant find it
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Best of Red Sails
What would you say are some of the best or most critical posts on Red Sails? The must read list if you will? ... read full post
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Das Kapital reading group – Week 36, Sept 2-8 – Chapters 15 and 16 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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Fascism Late, Early; Fascists Now, Then | The Brooklyn Rail
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/09/field-notes/fascism-late-early-fascists-now-then/tl;dr fortress evropa will be the name of the game
but rather interesting piece, seeking to find common ground between class-based fascism and racist-based fascism (don't think it (the book in question) succeeds tbh)
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Das Kapital reading group – Week 35, Aug 26-Sept 1 – The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall – Chapters 13 and 14 of Volume III
Getting into some good stuff here. This week's reading is a few pages shorter than normal. ... read full post
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Das Kapital reading group – Week 34, Aug 19-25 – Chapters 10, 11 and 12 of Volume III
Sorry I'm late posting this. ... read full post
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Glimmers of Totality: Frederic Jameson at ninety
https://archive.ph/qHKrB11
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Das Kapital reading group – Week 33, Aug 12-18 – Chapters 8 and 9 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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On Automating Revolutionary Audiobooks
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3182889 ... read full post