From Marx Engels Collected Works vol7
Overall the Neue Rheinische Zeitung articles have been very interesting both theoretically and to see Marx and Engels engaged in organisational work during what they hoped would be THE revolution
ComradeRat
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It is sorta neat how over 7ish years (counting the quarantine) of isolation a dialect gradually developed. The discord server was probably the big inflection point that added emojis, upped the speed of conversations and meant (near) total isolation from random people joining
Also smh GOOD post 
It keeps getting shittier but I will use the free version until it dies or i learn of a (free) alternative with scottish gaelic
Big brother is watching
I always figure theres little point having better opsec than me org (we use google lol 💀)
do they rly need a study for this they should just pay me a few million to watch War Games (1983) instead
Yeah thats fair. I havent been around children that young since my brother wss that age, forget how quickly they grow
Someone else has made a point re: object permanence not kicking it i find more convincing
Regarding this point, in marxs time it was less "fill bags and boxes" and more "run stuff back and forth" or "squeeze into the machine and see if you can see whats jamming it", "sort these products into groups" or "push this button every time X happens"
Fair point
Repeating this here too bc people (shockingly) have too high an opinion of capitalism: Idk about 2-3 year olds in chinese factories, but there were 4 year olds in English factories described in Capital, so its the "in chinese factories" part that sounds least plausible to me tbh
Dont need object permanence to repeat the same action over and over or you get beat 
been reading Barbara Allen's biography of Shlyapnikov. Very well written and sourced almost entirely by archival stuff. But depressing because the workers' opposition gets run roughshod over by basically everyone in power (Lenin, Bukharin, Stalin, Trotsky, Molotov, etcetc). Been wondering what others' have read on the workers' opposition and what your takes are.
The 1930s have been by far the most depressing
But even the late 10s and early 20s have some "dude wtf" moments from leadership imo
Somewhat relatedly, what do folks think of the Democratic Centralists? I've actually never heard of that faction in the 1919-21 debates before
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Some excerpts from The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939
(hexbear.net)
Very good book on soviet nationalities policy using archival research
This one does a good job of showing how rapidly the (centre) of the party shifted lines on nationalism
Russian opposition to affirmative action programmes was pretty strong
Nationality could be shockingly arbitrary and sudden (and often informed by politics)
Stalin begins to turn towards supporting Russians
collectivisation interacted badly with the nationalities policy
The degree of internal conflicts within the party and soviet bureaucracy was also a huge part of the book.
Ethnic cleansings going on, and there's still tons of affirmative culture programmes running. Weird contradictions
Paper talking about both the race of Marx, and how Jews were viewed in 19th century Europe
This particular set of quotes from Cuno (a German socialist who moved to Yankland) is particularly neat imo (cw for slur)
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2402275
I'm reading Levy's The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11 and thought I'd share this screenshot. Really well written and researched book. Levy cites the midrash (fn77) from:
Pirqe Rebbe Eliezer, 24. [Heb], editio princeps, Constantinople, 1514. folio 16b. Digitized Copy, Hebrew Union College, Klau Library, in the Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer Manuscript Database.
I'm reading Levy's The Dawn of Agriculture and the Earliest States in Genesis 1-11 and thought I'd share this screenshot. Really well written and researched book. Levy cites the midrash (fn77) from:
Pirqe Rebbe Eliezer, 24. [Heb], editio princeps, Constantinople, 1514. folio 16b. Digitized Copy, Hebrew Union College, Klau Library, in the Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer Manuscript Database.
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The idea of Stalin being soley responsible for it (or anything else in the ussr) is absurd. That said, it is true that under Stalin in the mid 30s the Communist Party stopped, dropped and rolled back many of the progressive social/cultural changes they introduced in the 20s (after like 1924, also under Stalin!). This included gender roles, arts, nationalities policy, labour, etc.
The influence of the rank and file party members through property party procedures and through refusing to carry out policy cannot be ignored. In the late 20s, for example the whole CEC is onboard with indigenization of the national republics, but party members (especially Great Russians) often disapproved and refused to carry out orders. A large part of this is a large minority, bordering on majority of the rank and file party members, were russians who disapproved of affirmative action and having to learn and use non-russian languages
For a variety of reasons, those refusing to carry out economic orders were punished much, much more harshly than refusing to carry out social/cultural orders, so e.g. suspected "national right communists" were punished much more harshly than confirmed "Great Russian Chauvinists." In all instances, the priority (particularly from 1929 on) was increasing production, with all other goals often ignored if and when inhibiting increased production.
The result is that some.Russian saying e.g. "Kazakh concerns over new agricultural methods are just local superstitions" gets a reprimand; while "our people dont agree with this new factory on our land" gets a prison sentance. I havent studied it in detail, but i have seen mentioned (in Martin, Affirmative Action Empire) that similar processes were at work wrt gender