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The Leninist root of Third Worldism (Maoism) Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:05 No.1821 [Reply]

>Those workers (proletarians) in the developed countries who benefit from the superprofits extracted from the impoverished workers of developing countries form an "aristocracy of labor". The phrase was popularized by Karl Kautsky in 1901
I'm noticing this really is a recurring theme with Lenin, but I'll leave this for another thread…
>and theorized by Vladimir Lenin in his treatise on Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. [b]According to Lenin, companies in the developed world exploit workers in the developing world where wages are much lower. The increased profits enable these companies to pay higher wages to their employees "at home" (that is, in the developed world), thus creating a working class satisfied with their standard of living and not inclined to proletarian revolution. It is a form of exporting poverty, creating an "exclave" of lower social class. Lenin contended that imperialism had prevented increasing class polarization in the developed world and argued that a workers' revolution could only begin in one of the developing countries, such as Imperial Russia.[/b]

By contrast, the definition within revolutionary syndicalism is that trade union bureaucracy, 'yellow unions', or social democratic unions were labelled 'labor aristocracy', (the IWW for example instead being a revolutionary industrial union, created within the orthodox Marxist theories of De Leonism).

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:05 No.1823

>>1822
This thread addresses Leninism primarily cunt.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:06 No.1838

bump

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:50 No.2276

What is to be done as class-conscious proletarians of the developed countries if Revolution can only arise from developing nations, and those populations do not desire our adventurist migration there?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:51 No.2280

>>2276
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neI-ol2AowM
>How to Think Like a Vietnamese Communist: An Intro to Dialectical Materialism!

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:57 No.2360

>>1821
>The increased profits enable these companies to pay higher wages to their employees "at home" (that is, in the developed world)

has anybody verified this using data if possible? doesn't this imply that as places like China become more 'developed' and wages rise, wages will balance out between the developed/developing world and perhaps agitate the proletariat in developed countries to revolution?

early burger history Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:54 No.2324 [Reply]

I'm teaching US History I to high schoolers next year; if I can pill the more curious students (in a non-obnoxious way), that's obviously ideal.

Things I'm looking for:

1) Rapidly catching up on my own knowledge of the period. I know a bit, but US history I'm weaker on than in most subjects despite being a burgerlander myself.
2) "Antiracist" teaching resources that don't suck. I'm in a metropolitan area in the northeast so the hold of radlib thinking over the profession is quite strong; but this seems more of an opportunity to me than a problem in this case because there's a lot of overlap in themes (settler colonialism, exploitation in slavery, the construction of race, skepticism towards "patriotic" narratives, &c.) and that gives latitude to introduce things related to that even when it doesn't slot in easily to the official curriculum. Books are good, but non-book resources are better, since I love books but most high schoolers don't.
3) From those who teach HS or lower, anything more generally that they'd recommend re: navigating the profession etc (although maybe that's something that deserves a separate thread)

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:56 No.2346

There is some stuff on the MEGA libraries on >>/leftypol/668814

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:56 No.2347

>>2346
>>>/leftypol/668814

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:56 No.2352

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>>2324
>>2324
1) & 2)
Where to even start American history is so rich with examples of racial and capitalist development in how America was discovered at the very beginning of capitalism as a system. It would not be hard to put America into context the need for capitalists to generate wealth to fuel their home industries and put into place racist, violent systems to divide the working class. Capital Vol 1 (Part VIII) has a section describing the basis for colonization on the early history of America.
>The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings are the chief momenta of primitive accumulation. On their heels treads the commercial war of the European nations, with the globe for a theatre. It begins with the revolt of the Netherlands from Spain, assumes giant dimensions in England’s Anti-Jacobin War, and is still going on in the opium wars against China, &c. … These methods depend in part on brute force, e.g., the colonial system. But, they all employ the power of the state, the concentrated and organized force of society, to hasten, hot-house fashion, the process of transformation of the feudal mode of production into the capitalist mode, and to shorten the transition. Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. It is itself an economic power.

You most likely know about this but I would recommend A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
-The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made it by Richard Hofstadter
-An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
-The Road Not Taken by Lerone Bennett ( https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/bennettroad.html ) Not a book and is a short one.
>What makes this all the more mournful is that it didn't have to happen that way. There was another road – but Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:56 No.2353

Oh and to add on to that there is a fair amount of relevant writing that Marx did on race/ethnicity and the American Civil War. He was a journalist for the NY Tribune https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/subject/newspapers/new-york-tribune.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1870/letters/70_04_09.htm
>And most important of all! Every industrial and commercial centre in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself. He cherishes religious, social, and national prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude towards him is much the same as that of the “poor whites” to the Negroes in the former slave states of the U.S.A.. The Irishman pays him back with interest in his own money. He sees in the English worker both the accomplice and the stupid tool of the English rulers in Ireland.
>This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this.

https://marxists.catbull.com/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm
>The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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Lets Study Cinema History Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:20:55 No.1158 [Reply]

Quote from the Soviet film "The Great Citizen" (1937):
"Oh, twenty years after a GOOD WAR, get out and take a look at the Soviet Union - composed of lets say thirty or forty republics."

On January 1, 1937 as part of the so-called USSR there were only 11 republics, implying that that USSR has planned to annex at least 20 European states during WW2. Communist propaganda also portrayed total war as something "good".

After the war the propaganda has drastically changed, now claiming that USSR is the "Bastion of Peace" (СССР оплот МИРА). But there is a catch, since in Russian language both "peace" and "world" have the same word "mir" (МИР). So when a Russian says "we need mir", he can mean botch "we need peace" and "we need the whole world".

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:20:55 No.1160

>>1158
The Soviet movie itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXQo1o4RrpI

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:51 No.2285

What the fuck does this has to do with cinema history?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:51 No.2286

>>1158
Nikita, please take your meds

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:51 No.2293

>>1158
I've been meaning to look more into the history of Russian and Japanese cinema. Does anyone have reading recommendations on Sergei Eisenstein or Edogawa Ranpo?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:53 No.2317

>>2293
>I've been meaning to look more into the history of Russian and Japanese cinema
>reading recommendations
Study their movies and read what they wrote themself. Eisenstein wrote tons of theory. Eisenstein is just a small fish in a big pound of revolutionary filmakers at the time.
But you need a bit of general cinematic culture tho, to say the least

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I don't like reading Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:19:19 No.327 [Reply]

I'm a highschool drop out who never had the tension span to read anything more than 200 pages, why should I now read some 700 pages of confusing dialectics? isn't it enough to read some wikipedia articles or something? aren't there any movies that explain all the theory?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:36 No.1516

>>1490
Wait

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:36 No.1517

>>327
>I'm a highschool drop out who never had the tension span to read anything more than 200 pages
I'm in the same boat friend. undiagnosed learning disorders. My path was to listen to audio lectures by various people. Richard Wolf is a good entry point as he has all this on youtube. Just listen to these while you're on the job or go for a walk or whatever you need to do to keep listening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wkO3qsZY_U&list=PLPJpiw1WYdTNMCC0ypXHZ-kW7yCz4T0Zg

Joining a reading group helped, and I was able to read on my own for a while when I was on medication, but those ran out and were too expensive to maintain so I just kind of gave up on reading. Still feel pretty confident in my knowledge on this stuff. Asking questions on leftypol of course also useful for learning.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:43 No.2191

I also don't read or like doing it a whole lot either but unfortunately it spells the difference between being cultured or not and the same also for achieving material wealth.

I find a good way to absorb written works is by listening to audiobooks while going along with the text of it without obsessing too much over trying ti process every last word.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:45 No.2217

Build your attenion span up by reading genreshit that interests you and work your way up to big boy books.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:53 No.2308

You're not sufficiently bored by the modern consumerist life yet. You don't have to like reading, it's just better than any other form of "entertainment" these day.

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Historian 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:18:51 No.106 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

let's play a game
someone draws a historic event in paint and other people try to guess what event that person drew

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:50 No.1654

>>171
Sinn Fein

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:50 No.1655

>>585
I like how you made Fidel look like Wario

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:50 No.1656

>>592
Mussolini's death?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:50 No.1657

>>1656
that'd be upside down

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:52 No.2302

>>562
The future?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:29 No.2051 [Reply]

So now I really started to want to really understand math and learn more concepts that I didn't learn because I never really liked it very much but now I am more interested in it. What are some resources or basic principles that I can use to understand math better?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:30 No.2060

this thing + is used to put stuff together
that thing is used to take stuff away from something else

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:31 No.2069

There's nothing to understand, maths is arbitrary.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:31 No.2070

you can use khan academy. I believe they give out free lectures and practice problems.
if you haven’t learned calculus start with that and go onto calculus 2 after. then learn multivariable calculus and linear algebra, and then differential equations. once you do that you’re at a level where you can start learning undergraduate stuff, for which most people recommend looking at the springer “undergraduate texts in mathematics” book series. I can’t say anything about it though since I’m not at that level, but you can probably find the books themselves for free on libgen.is

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:43 No.2190

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>>2051
take a a Mathematics proofs class (also called Set theory), you don't need to be actually that good at arithmetic to understand higher math, all you need to be able to do is manipulate equations and add fractions, its mostly applied philosophy

I am a mathematician who got C's all through calculus

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:51 No.2289

what kind of math are you interested in? Abstract stuff? Topology? Applied stuff? Geometry?

I recently got some students into math through working through "The Nature of Code" book/tutorials in the programming language Processing. It was a cool sort of hands on way to interact with different equations that help us define/understand natural phenomena. Creating particle simulators and cool art and all that shit. The "nature of code" is more on the physics end of things but there is a lot of cool visual stuff you can do with geometry and vectors in Processing.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:07 No.1851 [Reply]

Any good documentaries for oogling at the wealth amassed by America's industrialists?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:44 No.2206

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Like the Gilded Age?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:51 No.2287

>>1851
this one is quite good

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:51 No.2288

>>2287
forgot link
https://youtu.be/ySnk-f2ThpE

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What is postmodernism? Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:15 No.1337 [Reply]

explain in simple terms pls

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:47 No.2235

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>>2232

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Ioseb 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:47 No.2238

>>1337
Marxism for people who don’t read books

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:48 No.2244

>>1342
so when people freak out when other people use the term "postmodern neomarxists", they're wrong?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:48 No.2253

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>>2226

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:49 No.2270

>>2244
Very. Postmodernism rejects historical materialism.
https://youtu.be/U4hS5NSzPxw?t=146
(Watch from 2:26 - 3:56)

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:46 No.2224 [Reply]

I've been working on formatting Black Bolshevik into EPUB and webpages to make it more accessible, as it's a very long book. At the moment chapters 1-3 are finished. Please contribute if you have the time.

https://github.com/scaredporky/scaredporkylib

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:46 No.2225

For typos and misprints, I am using this PDF as a basis of comparison http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=AAF60EC535C8BCBE403DCF8E83CB5406

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:47 No.2233

thanks for sharing Anon. what exactly do you need to "finish"? it looks like all the chapters are there on the page

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:47 No.2234

>>2233
I need to finish formatting the other chapters properly and correcting their spelling mistakes. These have just been converted from the scanned PDF as-is, so the automatic transcriptions are still a problem.
I'll keep working in this as I have time, but I appreciate any extra help as it's taking some time.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:47 No.2240

how do I compile EPUBS

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:48 No.2256

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>>2240
I've been working on the epub that generated after converting the PDF so I'm not sure how you would compile it from scratch. Here's what I have so far compiled to epub (again, only the first three chapters are finished).

Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:30 No.2061 [Reply]

I don't want to leave the house, do any work or anything at all. I would rather lay in bed all day and do heroin. In a socialist society, what happens when I simply refuse to work at all? Do I get housed and fed, or do I starve?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:32 No.2077

>>2074
Feel free to have an argument hedonist.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:32 No.2078

you go to rehab

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:32 No.2079

my take is that in socialism, if you don't work you get like your basic subsistence met, like you don't starve, but that's it, you don't get to enjoy the good things in life without doing some work

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:32 No.2080

"He who does not work, does not eat" - Lenin

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:48 No.2245

Really it depends on the level of productive forces/abundance in the society. Compare "From each according to his ability, to each according to his contribution" with "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." I think, for example, in a socialist (lower-phase communism) Germany, you would be provided with a house and food, but probably not much more than that. In a sufficiently abundant higher-phase communism, I'm sure you could be afforded some luxury goods, depending on the level of abundance. People who don't wish to work (where what counts as work is much broader than modern-day capitalism) would be rare. The reason why "forced labour" existed in the USSR was simply because the society was poor and needed to develop quickly, etc.