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**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. This week's reading is shorter than most. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) – [Week 32](https://hexbear.net/post/3157354) – [Week 33](https://hexbear.net/post/3210280) – [Week 34](https://hexbear.net/post/3282303) – [Week 35](https://hexbear.net/post/3318324) – [Week 36](https://hexbear.net/post/3366318) – [Week 37](https://hexbear.net/post/3425162) – [Week 38](https://hexbear.net/post/3473071) – [Week 39](https://hexbear.net/post/3518587) ---- # Week 40, Sept 30-Oct 6 – Chapter 24 and Chapter 25 of Volume III # Chapter 24 is called 'Externalisation of the Relations of Capital in the Form of Interest-Bearing Capital' # Chapter 25 is called 'Credit and Fictitious Capital' ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
Hey, all! For over a month, I've been spending a lot of my free time creating [this list of theory](https://bulletins.hexbear.net/posts/readinglist/). The impetus for this project came from two things: first, this post by [@iie@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/iie) titled "I wish we had a hexbear wiki compendium of good books on 20th and 19th century historical topics" which set the idea in motion in the background of my mind; and second, the desire to expand the currently very small geopolitical reading list in the news megathreads. Initially, I focussed only on books directly to do with imperialism and current-day politics and geopolitics. Naturally, these events required context, so I expanded the list to include more of the 20th century. Then, I realised more nation-focus works would be necessary, and more communist theory, and it kept growing into... this. I have gone through almost every post in c/literature and c/history, looked through a significant chunk of lemmygrad and prolewiki, and gone through the bibliographies and references of several significant works (such as Prashad’s The Poorer Nations and The Darker Nations). I haven’t the time nor energy to search every nook and cranny of the internet, so it is absolutely guaranteed that I have missed a lot of books. I am certain that this list isn’t even halfway complete - it’s more of a prototype right now. But it still has hundreds of books on it, categorized into many different sections. Ideally all these books would be written by communists, left-wingers, anti-imperialists, and so on - or at least, are written in a style sympathetic to that position. For the purpose of anti-sectarianism, the works of major ideological positions should be fully featured. This obviously means that this is not going to be a reading list where there’s a consistent ideological position which unifies it - authors on this list are going to disagree with each other, and sometimes very harshly. Personally, I also don’t want this list to devolve into shitflinging between different authors on why X left ideology/state/project is good/perfect/materialist/idealistic/bad/flawed/evil, though I think more constructive criticism should be allowed. Unfortunately, for more obscure events and countries, non-leftists are sometimes the only ones who have written much on them, and so we must resort to them. Books are usually listed here with their initial publication date. This is not a recommendation that you get that particular version of the book if there are newer editions - you should of course purchase the most recent one - but a) I think it’s best to know when the book was initially conceived of and written so that we know the context of when the information was being conveyed, regardless of newer editions that may add more information, and b) I don’t want to trawl for new editions of these books every so often to update the year numbers. Additionally, books are generally listed in order of publication date. If a subsection accrues many books that fit under that category but span a lot of topics or a large time period, then a new subsection will be created and the books re-categorized. **Want To Help?** Be sure to recommend any books (or, even better, entire reading lists) that I have missed. People in my life tell me that I have a profound ability to miss the obvious, so a massively important book that every communist has heard of and read not being here should not be interpreted as a sign that I’ve deemed it not worthy - I might have just forgotten it. Just as importantly, be sure to recommend that any book be dropped - a book being here should not be interpreted as a sign that I’ve necessarily deemed it worthy. I cast a very wide net. When recommending books, I advise four criteria: 1) Non-fiction books only. I might consider eventually putting in a historical fiction and alternative histories section, but not right now. 2) Not written by a chud, unless the point of recommending the book is to illustrate how important chuds conceive of the world, such as pieces on American strategy written by people high-up in the state - or if there is literally no other choice (military matters tend to attract chuds, for example). 3) Not too much detail, too far in the past. It would be silly to say that the Assyrians or the Romans or the Mongols haven’t had a large impact on the current world, so books on those topics are fine, but ideally they should be pretty general, and we shouldn’t have a biography for every Roman Emperor or anything like that. The period that I am most focussing on is the 21st, 20th, and 19th centuries, as that’s the best bang for your buck in terms of political understanding of the current state of affairs. This should be as efficient a reading list as possible - reading a lot is hard and life is tiring, and getting lost in the weeds of Cyrus the Great’s military campaigns isn’t helpful if you’re trying to get a grip on the current Middle East. 4) Related to politics and/or history somehow. This is the loosest of the four criteria, and I don’t really want to be arguing about whether a book on how to care for succulents, or a book on pencil manufacturing, or a book on deep sea creatures, deserve to be on the reading list. If you can argue that it belongs, then, sure, I’ll put it on. --- Version 1.0 (that is, the very first version): Added, uh, the whole reading list. A ton of thanks to [@Nakoichi@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/Nakoichi) for letting me know about the Chunka Luta reading list. Also thanks to [@Alaskaball@hexbear.net](https://hexbear.net/u/Alaskaball) for their party's book repository. --- Version 1.1: Added dozens more recommended books, spread out across the list, notably including more books for Japan. Added an Indigenous Theory section and reorganized some books into it. Added a Science section and added some books to it. Expanded "Philosophy" into "Philosophy and Theology" and added some books to the Theology section. Added a Multi-Region section in the Regional Histories section, due to some odd books that cover multiple continents. Apparently I forgot Finland existed, so that now has a section, and a book. I have been recommended a few reading lists, some of which will take me a long while to get through. Nonetheless, if you have more books to add, then continue to recommend them!
I teased the idea [here](https://hexbear.net/post/1661689) and got one suggestion (Theses on Feuerbach). Criteria – * 'Important' in communist history (think Lenin rather than a cool blogpost or Jacobin article) * 'Short'; I'm reluctant to give a specific word-limit. It should be readable in one sitting. 'Short' doesn't have to mean 3 pages, but shouldn't mean 59 pages. Basically nothing you'd call a book: a speech✔, a pamphlet✔, a letter✔, an essay✔ * Available to us all online I would pin the discussion thread for one week, maybe 10 days. This would be good for people who don't want to read long things to educate themselves.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/277223 > https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/ProleWiki:Library
> 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.  ---- That quote is from the Little Red Book. That's the sort of thing I am looking for. Is there more up-to-date Chinese Thought on intersectionality or are they totally materialist?
👍 or 👎? I'm surprised that it took me this long to stumble on this book, by chance, and that it's not mentioned anywhere when looking for introductory reading. Everyone seems to compile their own reading list on introducing people to ML, but no one mentions that the CPSU went to great lengths to create their own "definitive" introduction. Which kinda begs the question why is it not mentioned (seemingly) anywhere?
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." I don't know if "false economy" is the correct term though. The [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_economy) says: > a false economy or hallucinated economy is an action that does save money at the beginning but which, over a longer period of time, results in more money being spent or wasted than being saved. But this is more about *economizing* as opposed to a broader concept of "fake" economy with a fake currency that incentivizes certain behaviors over others. Perhaps these are short-term over long-term behaviors (like in the wiki above) or that the grades can only measure limited aspects of students performance but are a reification of subjective performance into absolute worth or like [Goodhart's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) the grades are a key performance indicator (KPI) and don't actually measure what they should be measuring. The topic itself isn't strictly about education and can applied more broadly. Does anyone know if there is a better term or if I'm off base and completely wrong?
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](https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/lenin/1917/staatrev/kapitel1.htm) has *cursive* and ***bold and cursive***. These seem to largely match up with the [german translation from 1972](https://archive.org/details/leninwerke_201705/Lenin%20Werke/LW25/page/n409/mode/2up?view=theater) 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. ~~If I compare this with the [original](https://archive.org/details/derzhavairevoliu00leni/page/n7/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater) I cannot make out any such emphasis, there seems to be l a r g e k e r n i n g on some words, that might match up but a) there doesn't seem to be two types of emphasis b) large kerning can often be an artifact of stretching the line to fit the block c) I don't know russian and can barely read cyrillic so maybe I'm I'm imagining things.~~ Not an original, if one has a link to one I would appreciate it. Or [1,500€](https://www.zvab.com/erstausgabe/Gosudarstvo-revolutsiya-State-Revolution-Lenin-Vladimir/31089397865/bd), either will do... Basically I would like to do away with the strong emphasis and just use one type of emphasis, cursive of course, like Knuth intended when he blessed us with T~E~X, but would like someone to confirm whether there is a proper reason for this or if it's present in the original before I do. Posting in /c/theory because it's about books or something I don't know, I'll let the mods sort it out. Couldn't find any such emphasis in any other translation, even an old 1926 doesn't have it so it's gone from "my" edition. Fairly sure it's a weird choice the typesetter made that got copied and then spread. Goes to show how little technicalities like proper spacing between letters can make a great difference in how a text is interpreted and why proper typesetting is crucial.
While perhaps more important in literary circles than political, Frederic Jameson is a very important Marxist who died today. > [I heard someone once say that Jameson is probably singularly responsible for keeping American Marxism on life support during the interregnum by hiding it in the English department. Kind of wild to think that the former now has life again while the latter isn't going to surivive](https://x.com/matthiasellis/status/1837974203313897747) While I don't want to suggest a formal reading club, I wonder if we might just provide some Jameson quotations and our own glosses on them in honor of an important comrade (even if he was, at the end of the day, just an academic and not a revolutionary). To start, I'll provide perhaps one of the most famous (and important) bits from _The Political Unconscious_: >History is therefore the experience of Necessity, and it is this alone which can forestall its thematization or reification as a mere object of representation or as one master code among many others. Necessity is not in that sense a type of content, but rather the inexorable _form_ of events; it is therefore a narrative category in the enlarged sense of some properly narrative political unconscious which has been argued here, a retextualization of History which does not propose the latter as some new representation or "vision," some new content, but as the formal effects of what Althusser, following Spinoza, calls an "absent cause." Here, I think in somewhat dense language, Jameson is really trying to promote history to some term _beyond_ historicity. To put it another way, Jameson's capital "H" History here is the material world before its interpretation by human agents. I think this is borne out by the next (and more famous line): >Conceived in this sense, *History is what hurts,* it is what refuses desire and sets inexorable limits to individual as well as collective praxis, which its "ruses" turn into grisly and ironic reversals of their overt intention. But this History can be apprehended only through its effects, and never directly as some reified force. This is indeed the ultimate sense in which History as ground and untranscendable horizon needs no particular theoretical justification: we may sure that its alienating necessities will not forget us, however much we might prefer to ignore them. Emphasis is mine here. I think that really this gets to Jameson's conception of what material reality is - it's in some sense "beyond" any individual (or even collective) agency but nevertheless we act within and upon it. There's a kind of screen (the screen of Interpretation or representation, which the preceding chapter discusses) that always prohibits our real access to "History" that we are nevertheless part of and embedded in. Anyway, I'd love to see some other passages from comrades. I'll post a couple more as well as I procrastinate this week. RIP to a real one. Abusing my mod powers to sticky this, since he was influential for me.
**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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) – [Week 32](https://hexbear.net/post/3157354) – [Week 33](https://hexbear.net/post/3210280) – [Week 34](https://hexbear.net/post/3282303) – [Week 35](https://hexbear.net/post/3318324) – [Week 36](https://hexbear.net/post/3366318) – [Week 37](https://hexbear.net/post/3425162) – [Week 38](https://hexbear.net/post/3473071) ---- # Week 39, Sept 23-29 – Chapter 22 and Chapter 23 of Volume III # Chapter 22 is called 'Division of Profit. Rate of Interest. Natural Rate of Interest.' # Chapter 23 is called 'Interest and Profit of Enterprise' ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
**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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) – [Week 32](https://hexbear.net/post/3157354) – [Week 33](https://hexbear.net/post/3210280) – [Week 34](https://hexbear.net/post/3282303) – [Week 35](https://hexbear.net/post/3318324) – [Week 36](https://hexbear.net/post/3366318) – [Week 37](https://hexbear.net/post/3425162) ---- # Week 38, Sept 16-22 – Chapters 20 and 21 of Volume III. # Chapter 20 is called 'Historical Facts about Merchant's Capital' # Chapter 21 is called 'Interest-Bearing Capital' ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
**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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) – [Week 32](https://hexbear.net/post/3157354) – [Week 33](https://hexbear.net/post/3210280) – [Week 34](https://hexbear.net/post/3282303) – [Week 35](https://hexbear.net/post/3318324) – [Week 36](https://hexbear.net/post/3366318) ---- # Week 37, Sept 9-15 – Chapters 17, 18, and 19 of Volume III. # Chapter 17 is called *Commercial Profit* # Chapter 18 is called *The Turnover of Merchant's Capital* # Chapter 19 is called *Money-Dealing Capital* ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
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 i think this is an interesting perspective, as state role do be underdeveloped
I remember reading it and using it as a comparison against how the west talks about china today but i cant find it
What would you say are some of the best or most critical posts on Red Sails? The must read list if you will? * [Concessions](https://redsails.org/concessions/) * [Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”](https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/) Come to mind. What else would you add to this list? Edit: Compiled from the comments below: * [Why Marxism?](https://redsails.org/why-marxism) * [China Has Billionaires](https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires) * ["Tankies"](https://redsails.org/tankies) * [The Swerve](https://redsails.org/the-swerve) * [The Lost Horse](https://redsails.org/the-lost-horse/) from 139 BC * [“Black Ribbon Day” and “Double Genocide” in Canada](https://redsails.org/black-ribbon-day/) * [A Critical Read of *Animal Farm*](https://redsails.org/jones-on-animal-farm/) * [On Orwell](https://redsails.org/on-orwell/) * [On Chomsky](https://redsails.org/on-chomsky/) * [On Anthony Bourdain](https://redsails.org/on-anthony-bourdain/) * [Democracy is Not an Ornament](https://redsails.org/xi-on-democracy) * [Water Droplets Drilling Through Rock](https://redsails.org/water-droplets-drilling-through-rock/) * [Another View of Tiananmen](https://redsails.org/another-view-of-tiananmen/) * [The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz](https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/) * [Ads Don't Work That Way](https://redsails.org/dont-work-that-way) * ["Brainwashing"](https://redsails.org/brainwashing) as long as [Masses, Elites, and Rebels](https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/) is presented alongside it * [Concessions](https://redsails.org/concessions) * [False Witnesses](https://redsails.org/false-witnesses/) * [Really Existing Fascism](https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/) * [The Tyranny of Structurelessness](https://redsails.org/the-tyranny-of-structurelessness/) * [On the sex trade](https://redsails.org/on-the-sex-trade/)
**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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) – [Week 32](https://hexbear.net/post/3157354) – [Week 33](https://hexbear.net/post/3210280) – [Week 34](https://hexbear.net/post/3282303) – [Week 35](https://hexbear.net/post/3318324) ---- # Week 36, Sept 2-8 – Chapters 15 and 16 of Volume III. # Chapter 15 is the last one of Part III, the part about the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, and is titled *Exposition of the Internal Contradictions of the Law* # Chapter 16 is the first one of Part IV, and is titled *Commercial Capital* ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
brooklynrail.org
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)
Getting into some good stuff here. This week's reading is a few pages shorter than normal. **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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) – [Week 32](https://hexbear.net/post/3157354) – [Week 33](https://hexbear.net/post/3210280) – [Week 34](https://hexbear.net/post/3282303) ---- # Week 35, Aug 26-Sept 1 – From Part III of Volume III we are reading Chapter 13 (*The Law as Such*) and Chapter 14 (*Counteracting Influences*). This is the part about the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
Sorry I'm late posting this. **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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) – [Week 32](https://hexbear.net/post/3157354) – [Week 33](https://hexbear.net/post/3210280) ---- # Week 34, Aug 19-25 – We are finishing Part Two of Volume III (Part Two is called *Conversion of Profit into Average Profit*) we are reading Chapter 10 (*Equalisation of the General Rate of Profit Through Competition. Market-Prices and Market-Values. Surplus-Profit.*) and Chapter 11 (*Effects of General Wage Fluctuations on Prices of Production*) and Chapter 12 (*Supplementary Remarks*) ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
**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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) – [Week 32](https://hexbear.net/post/3157354) ---- # Week 33, Aug 12-18 – From Part Two of Volume III (Part Two is called *Conversion of Profit into Average Profit*) we are reading Chapters 8 (*Different Compositions of Capitals in Different Branches of Production and Resulting Differences in Rates of Profit*) and Chapter 9 (*Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit) and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices of Production*) ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # This week's reading is a bit shorter than most weeks. Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3182889 > So I've had this idea floating around in my head for some time now, but, I finally was able to get the tools required to run on my PC. > > [Piper](https://github.com/rhasspy/piper?tab=readme-ov-file) is a Text To Speech utility that uses deep learning voice models to read text aloud. This utility is primarily utilized in Home Assistant to allow for a self-hosted voice assistant experience. However, I think it has _revolutionary_ potential. > > This idea hit me a while back as a result of my use of the [Read Aloud](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-aloud/) extension for Firefox. This extension supports Piper voice models, and over time I have settled on the use of a model that, I think, is very nice to listen too and gets about 90% of pronunciations correct. > > I spent a portion of my day today pulling some text from various Marxist thinkers and creating a few samples. I think there would be a lot of work involved in cleaning up the output produced by these models, but only so far as to ensure the model is pausing appropriately in some situations. This usually centers around the use of punctuation such as `[] () -` and various date formats `1885, 1993`. > > For the symbols, they are basically ignored, which can create a kind of run-on sentence where it feels like the voice model should be winded due to the lack of pauses. Replacing these symbols with a comma seems to help, but it varies case by case. For dates, often the model reads the date as though it is a number, so for example, 1917 becomes `one-thousand nine-hundred and seventeen`, instead of a more natural `nineteen seventeen`. > > Tools could be built to detect these patterns in the text and replace them with the appropriate written equivalents. > > Another issue would be, how and when to read aloud end notes. My goal would be to utilize these audio files in something like [AudioBookShelf](https://www.audiobookshelf.org/). AudioBookShelf likes having the audio files broken down by chapter and section, so end notes likely would be read at the end of a section or chapter, making them easily skiable, as opposed to reading them inline. > > Anyway, here are some samples I created today. > > * [Caliban and the Witch Preface](https://voca.ro/1cjAvH2eK0ME) > * [Text Used](https://pastebin.com/vd63CDVF) - Sourced from an ebook file, converted to text using [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com/). > * [State and Revolution Preface](https://voca.ro/1yFXyvPOWLvQ) > * [Text Used](https://pastebin.com/4iGzPKf2) - Sourced from [marxists.org](https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/preface.htm). > * [Combat Liberalism](https://voca.ro/1dfnZNOLVTWP) > * [Text Used](https://pastebin.com/UD3ygcHe) - Sourced from [marxists.org](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_03.htm). > > The bulk of the labor involved in generating these files is finding those areas where the flow of reading seems off. As noted above, they can be easy to spot. But also, every author will have their own stylistic quirks that you'll need to work around. From there, chop the text up into files for each chapter and subsection, as well as end notes. Then run Piper against each text file, and finally convert the output wav file into a more digestible MP3, and then apply some metadata to those files. > > This is still just a proof of concept. I'm sure there is a way in which we can collaborate to build the text-scripts needed for a clean recording, maybe a Git repository of texts. That part of this process is still not fleshed out. > > I think as a goal, I'd like to create a kind of "Intro to Marxism" audio collection. A selection of books to onboard people, perhaps based on prolewiki's [Absolute Beginner's List](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Category:Crit%27s_absolute_beginner_reading_list). > > Then eventually I can tackle the bigger fish. > > Thoughts? >
**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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) – [Week 31](https://hexbear.net/post/3090624) ---- # Week 32, Aug 5-11. From Part One of Volume III (Part One is called *The Conversion of Surplus-Value into Profit and of the Rate of Surplus-Value into the Rate of Profit*), we are reading Chapter 6 (*The Effect of Price Fluctuations*), and Chapter 7 (*Supplementary Remarks*) ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
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. So, as capital states, each object has a use value, exchange value and value. Bitcoin clearly has a high exchange value where it can be traded for traditional commodities created with labor (drugs) and have stable, knowable values and can be traditionally analyzed. However, Bitcoin's exchange value regularly exceeds it's value abd both exceed it's use value. Bitcoin is a commodity and in buying it you are buying the labor of the engineers, technicians, project managers and other workers who made the computer hardware the miner uses as well as similar people who created the power consumed. In this lens the miner would be petit bourgeoisie and stealing the surplus labor of the aforementioned groups. However, it's exchange value is incredibly unstable and it's use value is (presumably) low. My main questions are: 1. Am I right in considering Bitcoin a commodity 2. Does Bitcoin have use value and how would it be calculated 3. What is the value of Bitcoin 4. What's the Marxist explanation of bubbles 5. Am I right in labeling miners as bourgeoisie Thanks for the help, this book is confusing and I prefer theory in a Twitter sippy cup for baby leftists and not the barrel of vodka that is Capital
danieltutt.substack.com
>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. >Rather, this tendency of the left conceives of the left as needing to remain in fidelity to the working class as possessing a transitive relation to the social structure. It will tend to maintain that the task of the left is to independently organize the working class for emancipation. Its affect risks falling sway to frustration due to the resistance it experiences with liberal institutions as well as with the counterculture left. The forces of liberalism and leftism insist that any determined or transitive theory of class emancipation will risk fomenting an impending fascism, to which the counterculture left and the liberal left claim is imminent. It is to this Leninist expression of the left that we must center the reinvention of leftwing practice, but only by carefully resolving the basis of rivalry it has with the counterculture left >Competitive bourgeois individualism not only reproduces a fetishism that conceals the true basis of class-based exploitation that retains existing class hierarchies, it adheres us to a form of doing politics that is illusory. >What anchors the left is not merely an idea of the left; the left is defined by the organization of social and class forces capable of revolutionizing the existing class forces that perpetuate exploitation. This means that the left is defined both by its utopian impulse to remain committed to the ending of exploitation and oppression, combined with a rational and materialist strategy for achieving emancipation. >What post-Marxists who insist that the left need only rely on a contingent series of social groups and not the wide scale organization of the working class get wrong about the meaning of the ‘abolition of the existing order’ is that they fail to see that Marx and Engels formulated a political vision from the class standpoint of the working class. >Marx at one point says that communists should help to remind existing struggles why they struggle, which is a statement that requires some parsing out to fully understand. Because if you have rejected the necessity of the cultivation of a political organization that is grounded in the standpoint of the working class and you read this statement, you could quite easily find yourself complicit with the post-Marxist view that all struggles are contingent. But the notion that there is a contingency of struggles only negates Marx and Engels’s core insight into the independent organization of the working class. >The vision of bourgeois politics is a reflection of the logic of the market, and the logic of the market molds the wider field of politics as a web of fetishism, i.e., bourgeois politics covers over class-based forces, it conceals the real basis and therefore the true function of class power and domination. Marx and Engels also realized that this fetishism is so entrenched that it is necessary for the working class to develop a distinct worldview and thus to subtract from bourgeois institutions.  some struggles (like tenant unions) are easily reducible to marxist conceptions, while others (like medicare for all) are more involved (people don't often say "you can leave your shit job without fear", rather its "wouldnt it be nice to not pay bills"), one is marxist-ish, the other is liberation-ish, while talking same policy. but obviously not all struggles are easily reducced to class interests tbh
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!
[linky to natcom 😮 article](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49687-y) [twitter thread](https://xcancel.com/jasonhickel/status/1817905711642206404#m)
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**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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) – [Week 30](https://hexbear.net/post/3046623) ---- # Week 31, July 29-Aug 4. We started Volume III last week. From Part One (called *The Conversion of Surplus-Value into Profit and of the Rate of Surplus-Value into the Rate of Profit*), we are reading Chapter 4 (*The Effect of the Turnover on the Rate of Profit*), and Chapter 5 (*Economy in the Employment of Constant Capital*). ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
>In France the development of the effects of the economic crisis appeared at first more slowly. But in the latest period the situation has gone forward with extreme rapidity, and the question of Fascism has become a burning issue. The events of February 6-12, 1934, and the fall of the Daladier Government, leading to the formation of the transitional Doumergue Government of National Concentration, have brought to the front the whole question of Fascism and the increasing signs of advance to a direct armed struggle. These events are of vital importance for the Western “democratic” countries, because in these events are set out with crystal clearness the two alternative paths, the path of the “left bloc” or bourgeois- liberal democracy, leading in fact to Fascism, or the path of the united working-class front of struggle, which can alone defeat Fascism. >What was the situation on the eve of the events of February 6-12? The national-chauvinist, Fascist and Royalist forces in France-at all times active beneath the democratic-republican exterior--developed extreme activity in the gathering crisis, and especially since the advent of Hitlerism, with the open alliance and assistance of the police authorities in Paris and of the big press, that is, of the State and finance-capital. At the same time the governmental forms were showing the same increase of executive powers and repression of the workers common to all capitalist governments in the present period. Even The Times on February 5, that is, before the decisive events, was compelled to note: “A contrast has been drawn between the severe repression of Communist manifestations and the comparative immunity from punishment of Royalist demonstrators and the Royalist newspaper which directly incites its readers to riot in the streets.” >This was under a “Left” bourgeois Government, maintained in office in practice by the support of the Socialist Party. The majority in Parliament was a “Left Cartel” majority, consisting of the Socialist Party and of the “Left” bourgeois groupings. This “Left” bourgeois Government (previously under Chautemps, then under Daladier) was heavily discredited by one of the typical recurrent financial and police scandals, the Stavisky scandal, which was being utilised by the reactionary forces to raise agitation against the parliamentary regime and to prepare a Government of National Concentration, just as the crisis of the franc was similarly used in 1926. After the dismissal of the police chief, Chiappe, who was notoriously hand-in-glove with the Royalist and Fascist elements, preparations were openly made – without interference – and proclaimed in the big press for a jingo riot on February 6, which was to serve as a preliminary trial of strength and spear-head for the Fascist advance. What was the line of the Daladier Government and of “left democracy” in the face of this challenge? The Socialist Party voted its confidence in the Daladier Government, in the “Left” bourgeois Government, as the defender of “democracy” against Fascism. On the basis of their support the Daladier Government received a substantial parliamentary majority of 360 to 220 on the critical evening of February 6. As against this line the Communist Party, which had approached the Socialist Party for the united front against Fascism in March 1933, and been refused, called for the united front from below, called the workers to the streets against the Fascist attack, and through the unions began to make agitation for a general strike against the Fascist menace. The two lines were now to receive their practical demonstration in the events that followed. >***The Daladier Government massed heavy military forces in Paris in the days preceding February 6. But did it act against Fascism? The leaders of the Fascists and Royalists were allowed to carry on their preparations in complete freedom. Previously, on the eve of a Communist May Day demonstration, three thousand Communist leaders had been arrested in Paris in order to cripple the organisation of the demonstration. On the eve of this reactionary demonstration not a single Fascist or Royalist leader was touched.*** The organisers of the reaction were given freedom of the streets to burn, destroy, set fire to Government buildings, and advance on the Chamber of Deputies; no adequate forces were placed against them; the police were inactive; the “Gardes Republicaines” and “Gardes Mobiles” were steadily commanded to retreat and give way before the bourgeois mob; only at the last moment, when the Chamber was nearly reached and the bourgeois demonstrators began to fire with their revolvers, the “Gardes Mobiles,” not on the order of their officers, but in instinctive self-defence, fired back, and about a dozen of the dupes of the reaction and onlookers were killed. >The subsequent Commission of Enquiry established that the shooting was begun by the Fascist demonstrators and maintained for half an hour before any answering fire took place on the side of the Government forces; and that even so no order to fire was given by any officer, but that the rank and file of the “Gardes, Mobiles” began spontaneously to fire in self-defence and were immediately ordered to stop by their officers. The sequel to this incident is instructive for the whole future of parliamentary democracy. Immediately following this incident, on the very next day, on February 7, the Daladier Government, which bad just received an overwhelming parliamentary majority, resigned; and there was installed, amid the plaudits of the millionaire press, the Doumergue Government of National Concentration, with the semi-fascist-Tardieu in a strategic position in its midst. >How did this happen? Why this sudden surrender of the legal Government with a parliamentary majority before the first Fascist street-offensive? This question is of crucial importance for all the Western “democratic” countries, where confidence in “democratic institutions” as the defence against Fascism is still preached. Why did Daladier, “champion of democracy” and chosen representative of French Socialism, immediately resign before the Fascist extra-parliamentary offensive? Where, then, was the “sovereignty of Parliament,” “law and order,” the “will of the electors,” and all the paper paraphernalia of bourgeois democracy? Flown to the winds, as soon as finance-capital gave the order in the opposite direction. The parliamentary majority might vote one thing; but finance- capital ordered another, and finance-capital was obeyed, including by the representatives of that parliamentary majority. >The Daladier Government issued an explanation that it resigned “to avoid further bloodshed”: “The Government, while responsible for the maintenance of order, declined to ensure it by the employment of exceptional means, which might result in severer repressive action and further bloodshed. The Government bad no wish to use soldiers against the demonstrators, and for that reason bad laid down office.” The transparent hypocrisy of this “explanation” is manifest. As if any French bourgeois Government had ever hesitated to use the utmost violence against working-class demonstrators, not merely using soldiers against them, but organising complete military operations against them, as was done on the night of the far more serious fighting of February 9, amid the applause of the entire bourgeois press. Daladier resigned, not because be was a pacifist, but because he was a puppet of finance- capital and could do no other. -FASCISM AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION A Study of the economics and Politics of the Extreme Stages of Capitalism in Decay by R. PALME DUTT Ch. 11
Another jason hickel drop  [twitter thread in compressed form](https://xcancel.com/jasonhickel/status/1816384766364553266)
**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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) – [Week 29](https://hexbear.net/post/2993128) ---- # Week 30, July 22-28. We are starting Volume III. From Part One (called *The Conversion of Surplus-Value into Profit and of the Rate of Surplus-Value into the Rate of Profit*), we are reading Chapter 1 (*Cost-Price and Profit*), Chapter 2 (*The Rate of Profit*), and Chapter 3 (*The Relation of the Rate of Profit to the Rate of Surplus-Value*). ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
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
**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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) – [Week 28](https://hexbear.net/post/2946051) ---- # Week 29, July 15-21. We are reading the Chapter 21 of Volume II, titled 'Accumulation and Reproduction on an Expanded Scale' ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments.
[The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism](https://www.banyanhouse.org/product/ebook-the-worldview-and-philosophical-methodology-of-marxism-leninism/?sync-done) This took me a long time to finish, but that's mostly due to starting and stopping for a period of time, but I'm so glad I did stick with it. At first, the density within the annotations was almost comical. Having finished the book now, those annotations were invaluable. The concepts within feel almost simple upon reflection, but the complexity is within the way each of these concepts are interlinked. The material world is the base of consciousness, and consciousness can impact and change the material world, which in turn changes our state of consciousness. This motion of practical activity within the world creates quantitative changes in our consciousness that eventually become qualitative changes in consciousness. Relative Truth becomes aligned closer to Absolute Truth the more we perform this practical activity within the world. This process allows us to theorize about reality, test those theories, revise them, and test again. This process is Practice\Praxis. Understanding, too, that this method of analysis can be applied to many different systems both small and large really shaped my thinking. As I worked through this book, I could see how I could apply this framework in my own personal and work life. On my own personal reflection, looking back at the last couple of years through this lens, I can see the quantitative changes that lead to the qualitative changes within my own thinking. How the events of 2020 pushed me in a direction that lead me here (both personal events and political events), writing this post, consuming books at a rate that I never have previously in my life. It hasn't just changed my understanding and knowledge, it has also changed my level of interest. I find myself _excited_ at the prospects of reading and learning. Something I would say wasn't true only a few years ago. Every book I finish, only makes the next book less daunting, and so here too I can see the qualitative changes as well. The final chapter and the afterward really impresses on you the need for _action_ within the world. This is a lesson, even before I reached the end of the book, that I began to understand. Finding an organization to donate some of my free time too is on my list of things to do for the future. When I'll be able to do that, is unclear, since being a parent is a full-time job as it is. Even still, I have thoughts on how I might implement small amounts of Praxis as a result of this reading. I used Logseq to organize flashcards based on the glossary at the back of the book to aid in reading / studying this book, helping keep concepts fresh in my mind. I might find a way to publish that work online for everyone to consume. In closing, I think this book does a great job consolidating all the different writings that make up the whole of Dialectical Materialism and synthesizing those concepts into a digestible and cohesive work. What more could I expect from a college level text book? Thanks to Luna Oi for her work in translating this text, and I look forward to the future release on Historical Materialism.
**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. I'll post the readings at the start of each week and @mention anybody interested. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. ---- **Just joining us?** You can use the archives below to help you reading up to where the group is. There is another reading group on a different schedule at https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou (federated at [!genzhou@lemmygrad.ml](https://lemmygrad.ml/c/genzhou) ) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year. **Archives**: [Week 1](https://hexbear.net/post/1506527?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 2](https://hexbear.net/post/1562295) – [Week 3](https://hexbear.net/post/1614933) – [Week 4](https://hexbear.net/post/1660850?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 5](https://hexbear.net/post/1707426) – [Week 6](https://hexbear.net/post/1752714?scrollToComments=false) – [Week 7](https://hexbear.net/post/1805763) – [Week 8](https://hexbear.net/post/1861070) – [Week 9](https://hexbear.net/post/1918790) – [Week 10](https://hexbear.net/post/2021859) – [Week 11](https://hexbear.net/post/2037253) – [Week 12](https://hexbear.net/post/2084287) – [Week 13](https://hexbear.net/post/2135241) – [Week 14](https://hexbear.net/post/2197835) – [Week 15](https://hexbear.net/post/2267130) – [Week 16](https://hexbear.net/post/2338512) – [Week 17](https://hexbear.net/post/2357286) – [Week 18](https://hexbear.net/post/2412449) – [Week 19](https://hexbear.net/post/2491063) – [Week 20](https://hexbear.net/post/2536512) – [Week 21](https://hexbear.net/post/2581110) – [Week 22](https://hexbear.net/post/2635808) – [Week 23](https://hexbear.net/post/2701942) – [Week 24](https://hexbear.net/post/2739256) – [Week 25](https://hexbear.net/post/2808027) – [Week 26](https://hexbear.net/post/2836364) – [Week 27](https://hexbear.net/post/2893886) ---- # Week 28, July 8-14. From Volume 2, we are reading Parts 10-13 of Chapter 20, *Simple Reproduction*. ---- # https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/index.htm ---- # Discuss the week's reading in the comments. ----
I've just finished reading ["How Marxism Works" by Chris Harman](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:How_Marxism_works), as part of Prolewiki's [Absolute Beginner Reading List](https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Category:Crit%27s_absolute_beginner_reading_list), and I wanted people's thoughts on its section about [Marxism and Feminism](https://en.prolewiki.org/index.php?title=Library:How_Marxism_works&oldid=66918#Marxism_and_feminism). This edition is from the year 2000, and this section feels like the weakest section in the entire pamphlet. It feels like a very surface-level dive into the topic, and I'm wondering if I'm simply picking up on a lack of familiarity by the author. I will admit, as well, that this is a weak topic for myself. I know that there were Bolshevik women who had to advocate for their inclusion in the state after the October Revolution. Their admission led to huge social progress and amenities for working-class women, but there is no mention of them by name in this section. There is no mention of intersectionality, either, from the 'Feminist' side of the section, but lots of focus on the "separatist ideas" of Feminism. No mention of works such as Angela Davis's Women, Race, & Class (which is on my reading list). Queer Marxism, Feminist Marxism, often feel like an under discussed subsection of Marxist thought (to me anyway, as a cishet man, who could probably do better about seeking this information out). I have to imagine that, being a woman, being queer, being non-white, and looking at Marxism and its focus on class can feel like an alienating experience to some. To have your struggles collapsed and folded together into the "Class Struggle" with no real mention or notion of what life will look like for you and your intersection with society at large after the elimination of the class society must feel like someone telling you to "take it on faith" that things will improve for you. That somehow, in a post capitalist state, the biases and prejudices are simply washed away from the minds of the masses. You would need to take a step further, to study the history of places like the Soviet Union and its efforts in decolonization to get an idea of what that looks like. This could also be my own shallowness showing regarding theory, however. So, what are your thoughts? What are some historical perspectives I should be seeking out that flesh out this section? What are some works of Theory within the realms of Women's Liberation, Black Liberation, and Queer Liberation I should consume to expand the foundation for my world view? Thanks!
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