What reading stack should I get?
start with Hegel
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>>25555084I would add the British Empiricists too.
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/25490662
>>25555084Actually start with Böhme. >Everyone cries: If only I had money! >The mighty sucketh the marrow from the bones of the lowly and taketh their sweat by force.
>being a commie is based actuallyAnother banger reddit the frog drop. The official frog of reddit.
>>25555128Can you turn this into an argument?
>>25555079heinrich and ga cohen but unironically, dont waste ur time with kant etc cus you wont get shit from themmaybe the first vol of main currents too
>>25555079Stack I
>>25555135Sure. Shock, shock, shock. Shock my dog i can't stop.
>>25555144Stack II
>>25555148Stack III
>>25555172Is this really worth the read?I was recently toying with the idea of giving it a go. Is it better than picrel?
>>25555079Imagine thinking Communist knowledge starts with having a thing you need to buyhttps://www.marxists.org/archive/index-mobiles.htm
>>25555191I prefer reading physical media.
>>25555079personally any books that has hundreds of pages as to more effectively feed your home's furnace
>>25555202>Why yes wealthy overlords,these gold plated chains are quite comfy
>>25555181i read some of it when it came out and it just didn't seem very rigorous
>>25555079>>25555090Communists lose me the moment they start defending infinijeets and other creatures that spawn as a result of open border policies, despite claiming that under communism this would never happen.
>>25555228Mass migration is driven entirely by capitalist world market and managed by the bourgeois state. Capital imports foreign labor power to enlarge the reserve army of labor and slash unit labor costs. The state enforces borders specifically to keep migrant workers legally vulnerable, ensuring a flexible pool of cheap labor to discipline domestic wages across the board. >Oh you want more pay? Well, well, well, this poor jeet will work for half the money ...Blaming immigrants for falling wages and housing shortages adopts the logic that drains you. Capital cuts your pay, inflates your rent, treats you as disposable inventory. Directing your justified anger at fellow exploited workers is basically cheerleading for your own degradation (state power, property relations, and so on). Communism eliminates national borders along with capital, money, and wage labor. Without a state-managed labor market and the compulsion to turn human beings into profitable assets, forced economic migration and wage undercutting cease to exist. Easy.
>>25555211your dichotomy is forced fake and gay. communist and capatalist nations alike are all in the same club. All around the world everywhere subjugating the people in their own unique way and radicalizing rabid kneejerk zealots through some quasi-reality called the internet, of which no one can really prove is genuine. The eternal debate, like most dichotomies, were fabricated, vindicated, martyred, mythified, villified, validated, and forever cursed civil discourse, as some radical existential battleground for the ages, while the world's ruling class laugh from both their towers
>>25555279This is your brain on manichaeism.
>>25555279Can you point at these "communist nations" on a map anon?
>>25555274Those darkies still willingly come here, adopt identity politics that fuck over whitey, and claim the real reason they won’t go home is a historical grievance that I don’t have anything to do with or one that doesn’t exist in the first place except for their brownoid minds. Jews have orchestrated a campaign of open borders in many Western nations not because of their economic philosophies but because they, in their own words, viewed it as beneficial to the Jewish cause that white nations should become heavily demographically heterogeneous. How do you reconcile that with communism?
>>25555290let me guess, "real communism has never been tried"?
>>25555274>communism eliminates national borders along with capital, money and wage laborlol, lmao. Now you just do free labor for the glory of communism. Much better framing device worse outcomes, but things are already shit can you even tell the difference?>easyAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHahHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHATrue. They must be stupid or something. It's not the fact that the great power dynamics necessitates the suffering to generate enough resources to even compete on the stage its capitalism bad actually. So smart, Big brain.
>>25555084This. Descartes, Locke, Hume and Kant as well.
>>25555097Suck on sweaty balls and zhyd’s cox, sweaty.
>>25555279This is blatantly untrue the DPRK does not recognize Isntreal as a country.
We approach it as a science. Bourgeois thinkers claim that history is driven by ideas, events in vacuums, divine providence, great men. This is idealism, and it fails to account for many critical questions as it is thoroughly unscientific.Marx and Engels inverted this. They established materialism which centers the material world defined as the physical reality of nature. Physical reality and human biological survival is primary. Human consciousness is secondary. Before human beings can focus on art or literature, they must first ensure survival. Therefore, the foundational act of human history is production: the labor by which man transforms raw nature into the necessities of life. >The Base>Productive Forces: The physical means of production (factories, machines, soil, raw materials) combined with human labor power and technical knowledge.>Relations of Production: The social relationships people enter into during production. Crucially: Who owns the tools, and who performs the work?>The Superstructure>Erected atop this economic foundation is the entire social apparatus: laws, police, the state, religion, education, morality, and culture.>Its primary function is to justify, protect, and reproduce the existing property relations. Progress occurs dialectically through the clash of internal material contradictions creating a resolution. Marx borrows Hegel's dialectic and flips it from idealism to materialism. Capitalism creates its own internal contradiction. Value is generated by the laborer, but the concentration of that value remains strictly concentrated in the hands of a few shareholders who act in a parasitic matter leeching off of the exploited working class. Because of this division of property, society is divided into hostile classes: those who own the means of production, and those who own nothing but their ability to work. Depriving a man of his ability to work is denying him life, and this is the coercive power the capitalist slavedriver holds. Because capitalists compete against one another, they are compelled to squeeze ever more surplus value from workers, automate production to cut labor costs, and expand endlessly, thus leading inevitably to imperialism and crises. As the Communist Manifesto demonstrates with mathematical clarity: the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Marxism is not mere ideology but an analytical tool, an instrument of precision. It's clear science. It strips away the illusions of bourgeois ideology and shows the world as it actually operates: governed by material conditions, propelled by the struggle of labor against capital, and advancing toward the rational, planned mastery of our collective future, socializing the gains and allowing those who create them to reap the fruits of their labor. It is the most potent and authentic tool in one's arsenal for understanding reality.
>>25555290A moron missed anon’s point bc of le patriotism. The Romans were, unironically , geniuses!
>>25555274See. You’re not saying a single bad word about the brown masses shitting up my country. I’m supposed to like it because they get job opportunities too, apparently.
>>25555317>here's a lens through which you get fucked and have no recourse I claim its science, your welcomeI am starting to think the human mind is incapable of penetrating deeper into retardation than to embody being a commie
>>25555315Many others didn't. but thats not the point. DPRK leaders suck sausage in their palace while their people fish out dead bodies from the river
>>25555335His point is to screech about muh browns instead of focusing energy on the structure that enabled it is retarded to which you responded with by screeching muh browns.
>>25555079Watch Hasan Piker.>>25555274>>"Directing your justified anger at fellow exploited workers is basically cheerleading for your own degradation (state power, property relations, and so on)."It'd be nice if these so called "fellow exploited workers" could develop shared class consciousness like the native working class but it has been proven countless times that they still retains their hierarchical values at home and would go on length in bootlicking the bourgeoise even harder because of their servility. Shit, even in Soviet Union, they had to 'modernize' their minorities to fit within their 'communist' framework, which is practically impossible to do with the individualist nature of western marxists.>>"Communism eliminates national borders along with capital, money, and wage labor."Easier said than done, bro. Almost borderline lolbert-tier thinking.
>>25555353Piker is an opportunist sophist. He felates bourgoise politicians.Don't watch that retard, read Marx
>>25555349Browns are used to unionbust, are they not? I’m surprised you didn’t address that. You must be one of those new converts to the religion of communism.
>>25555369Oh yeah for sure. Brown immigrants step off the boat and without the ability to speak the language the first thing they do is apply to a job and begin organizing union busting events in a country which is 10 percent unionized. Fucking true and not at all retarded. Very good.
>>25555353capital, nation states and wage labour are ephemeral just like feudalism and serfdom was.
>>25555353https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeTDf6Anakg
>>25555377Yes, racial diversity is in fact used to stymie unions according to jeff bezos himself
>>25555338The recourse is revolution, you're getting fucked by the capitalist system. You know it too, you just disagree with the solution because you have been propagandized by the bourgeoise against your material interests.
>>25555397>you're getting fucked by the capitalist systemcitation needed
>>25555395>if only there were no browns I'd give yall enough time to piss in a toilet - the guy who get all the money>I believe this - anonlol>>25555397No. I just understand what a revolution led by champagne socialists looks like. Like every slave rebellion in history it looks like a massacre. If Hasan is the tip of the spear this is already over.
>>25555405since I can't tell if you are genuinely just braindead stupid I will explain amazon associates don't unionize because their workplace is a cloaca gentium of drooling niggers who don't even speak english. And actively hate each other. Hopefully that was stupid enough for you to understand
>>25555417Uh huh and no other pressures exist. You can flip flop all you want. You are retarded from all sides on this one.
There's this common claim that socialism "failed" because of the liquidation and act of economic terrorism committed against the USSR and Warsaw Pact nations. The neoliberals promised that by dismantling socialism, they would turn every worker into a contented little businessman of their own, you know, owning a few shares, owning a home, celebrating the freedom of consumer choice, being a big shot. Increasingly that is out of reach for younger people.To the youth, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher are historical vandals who demolished the social safety net, privatized the public wealth, crushed the trade unions, and mortgaged the future of the youth to enrich a clique of billionaires. To be sure, from authentic Marxist lens, much of this modern Western "socialism" of DSA, LFI, Die Linke, Labour and so on remains politically confused, frequently contaminated by petty-bourgeois moralism, identitarianism, vague reformism, and social-democratic sympathies. They often mistake the welfare provisions of the capitalist state for the true Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Nevertheless the liberal ideological hegemony has fractured. The myth that "there is no alternative" has died. The material conditions of life have made it impossible for younger generations to believe the lies of the class enemy. Marxism is incredibly prescient. It's clear. I don't care about what Hasan Piker says, he is merely a symptom of it being a popular idea that this entertainer monkey can latch onto. Marxism remains the foremost lens of dissecting capitalism itself. We increasingly see the DDR stood as a state of peace and antifascism, adamantly opposing the imperialist adventures of NATO, and the USSR or modern China were the more sane and noble actors compared to the motivations of the capitalist West.
>>25555417>muh amazon unionsso if amazon did unionize, then what? everything costs more? shipping is slower? i fail to see how this benefits me.
>>25555417the unionized amazon warehouse on staten island lost my package. fuck those guys.
>>25555428>A class of people who have steady work rather than looking for ways to jack my shit is bad actually and I don't want it.Epic.
>>25555418>no other pressures existand here's the classic "one precludes the other" tactic. You are a disingenuous faggot. case closed
>>25555377Your arguments are indistinguishable from those employed by neolibs to justify browning the country.Good job fighting the righteous cause comrade! See you at the warehouse! Power be to Bezos.
>>25555428>pivoting away from the pointdrop your computer in the bathtub with you
>>25555438>>25555442Is this one or two reddit spacers? Doesn't really matter. He'll literally get wiped up by a tsunami while driving on a highway and he'll never see it coming because he was paying attention to getting tailgated and doesn't have enough brain power to pay attention to two things let alone evaluate which one is going to hurt more, kinetically speaking. Also, liberalism good. Well regulated markets even better.
China is the clear dominant superpower in the world at the moment, and is a society rooted in the teachings of Marx. Those dismissing Marx are operating with an outdated 1990s mentality. China is Socialism in the Primary Stage, navigating the brutal realities of a global capitalist market system that it has systematically out-engineered. They remain our current greatest ally in the Marxist cause and refutation of the notion of liberal capitalism's inevitably. On the international stage, modern China is the objective material counterweight that has definitively shattered the American unipolar order embodied by the decaying senile criminal Donald Trump. It is a transitional workers state that utilized capitalist methods without surrendering the helm of political power. They fear China because a socialist-led economy has defeated them at the cutting edge of modern production. China is winning the future, and the narrative of defeating Marx is increasingly being refuted with the advancement of the AI economy, where Chinese models are achieving victory and fear in the profit-driven American corporations, and the sheer decline of the US empire and morale in its citizens.
>>25555454>two tiered society>drowning in debt (can't function with usd)>leader in youth unemployment>can't exert self beyond one (1) island chain>clear dominant superpowerheh
>>25555454china is revisionist
>>25555452Old school communists would have Gulag’d you. You’re just a Che Guevara shirt wearing Hasan fanboy. You have no balls to address the root causes so you join the neoliberals that castrated communism because that’s the only way you can feel powerful.I know what pisses your kind of though: Gaza status?
>>25555463lol at least you tried mr.reddit spacer (from reddit) there is L I T E R A L L Y no bigger Hasan hater than me.
>>25555079Carlo Cafiero's Summary of Capital to understand a good chunk of the political economy everyone pretends to read. Maybe read the full chapters on commodity fetishism and primitive accumulation because those come up academically all the time.Lenin is severely overrated if you take a second to understand his historical context and realize it's just him winging it with a bunch of contradictory polemics (national self-determination is a big one) that put himself forth as the Marxist Pope. Once Russia was fucked and he started begging western countries to save it people started ignoring him (Infantile Disorder) and then he died shortly after. He's the basis of the HoI4 larping left so you need to read some of his shit to understand what their problem is.>>25555181Honestly, I thought it was weaker than his lectures or even the k-punk stuff. It's like 90 pages though and it's a good tone setter for the post 2008 left and doesn't require you to deeply understand Freud, Lacan, Deleuze, ect.
>>25555470Even though you seemingly agree on everything? Even though you’re as ignorant of what “diverse” workplaces do to something as basic as unions? Yeah right mr retard.
>>25555492Yes, I love Hasan because you have no grasp of how unions function outside of your leading theory that whether union is good or bad is based on what color the people are. Many such cases. I am shocking my dog as we speak.
>>25555298Trying doesn't equal successful implementation.
>>25555279https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajCdCnzBY3Y
>>25555313No U.
