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Bulletins and News Discussion from April 14th to April 20th, 2025 - The Lamentations of a Levy-Loving Leader in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 2 points 9 minutes ago

Yep, I suggested it, so we'll see. Still, large grain of salt.

I invoke my ancient owl piss magic against Hexbear in c/badposting@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 3 points 36 minutes ago

Good game, honestly, had a lot of fun with it

China's secret agenda to make American men gay has been EXPOSED in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 2 points 37 minutes ago

Ay, you're back!!! How goes it?

An update to the rizz situation (rizzuation? no.) in c/chat@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 2 points 3 hours ago

Great to hear things are going well! Good luck! spirit-bomb

Valeriano Orobón Fernández - New General Megathread for the 14th-15th of April 2025 in c/anarchism@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago

I saw, utter tragedy... got my questions answered though!

For what it's worth, they are either a sympathetic and nuanced troll, or possibly the real deal. There's no caricature of Yeonmi Park or anything, and legitimate stress that the west does lie while also saying life isn't perfect either.

Bulletins and News Discussion from April 14th to April 20th, 2025 - The Lamentations of a Levy-Loving Leader in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 34 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 41 minutes ago) (2 children)

There's an unverified DPRK AMA going on over on Lemmy and .world

Edit: pretty nuanced and not a caricature of Yeonmi Park, so either a well-educated troll or real.

Edit 2: .world took theirs down, lol

Edit 3: it's back. Decent but not verified info, interesting but take it with a large heaping of salt.

Valeriano Orobón Fernández - New General Megathread for the 14th-15th of April 2025 in c/anarchism@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

There's an unverified DPRK AMA going on over on Lemmy and .world

Valeriano Orobón Fernández - New General Megathread for the 14th-15th of April 2025 in c/anarchism@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

Absolutely! I also like that it tells a story, there are very much meta decks that traders will go after and this is why they prefer it over gambling, it becomes reliable income.

Not a serious government in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 8 points 4 hours ago

The US doesn't have mandatory voting, and voting is winner-take-all at a state level, meaning votes outside swing states do not matter. Further, both candidates are pre-selected by the bourgeoisie, it isn't about lesser-evilism, it's theatrics to obfuscate how little power the Working Class actually has.

Russian missiles hit Ukrainian city of Sumy during Palm Sunday celebrations, killing more than 30 in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 45 points 5 hours ago

Deeply sad. Hopefully this war will end as quickly as possible.

Valeriano Orobón Fernández - New General Megathread for the 14th-15th of April 2025 in c/anarchism@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Caravan from Fallout: New Vegas has a notoriously bad tutorial, but is easy enough to grasp and fun as an early-game money source. Would have benefited from a Gwent-style sidequest chain.

Not a serious government in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 33 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Trump is a symptom, not the cause, and moreover the idea that the USian citizenry has any actual input in which candidates are fronted for elections is also wrong. It's a two-party duopoly, both controlled by Capital.

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Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 8, Apr 9 - Apr 15 –Volume 1 Chapter 14 Sections 3-5, & Chapter 15 Section 1 (hexbear.net)
 

Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 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.

Week 7, Apr 9 - Apr 15, we are reading Volume 1, Chapter 14 Sections 3-5, & Chapter 15 Section 1

Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

Use any translation/edition you like. Marxists.org has the Moore and Aveling translation in various file formats including epub and PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Ben Fowkes translation, PDF: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AA342398FDEC44DFA0E732357783FD48

(Unsure about the quality of the Reitter translation, I'd love to see some input on it as it's the newest one)

AernaLingus says: I noticed that the linked copy of the Fowkes translation doesn't have bookmarks, so I took the liberty of adding them myself. You can either download my version with the bookmarks added or if you're a bit paranoid (can't blame ya) and don't mind some light command line work you can use the same simple script that I did with my formatted plaintext bookmarks to take the PDF from libgen and add the bookmarks yourself. Also, please let me know if you spot any errors with the bookmarks so I can fix them!

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Week 1 – Week 2 – Week 3 – Week 4 – Week 5 – Week 6 – Week 7

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beta decay | Early Access Teaser (m.youtube.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Cowbee@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net
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Looks super cool, sci-fi post-apocalyptic forever war, visible inventory, low-poly, single player focus, mechs, base building, spaceships, open-ended progression, faction choices, all of this combined makes it seem like a pretty ideal game for me. Looks to be coming into Early Access around July 2025! What are y'alls thoughts?

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Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 7, Apr 2 - Apr 9 –Volume 1 Chapter 11-14, Sections 1 & 2 (hexbear.net)
 

Welcome back after the Hiatus! Apologies for the delay.

Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 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.

Nearly a third through Volume I, and an eighth through Capital I-III!

Week 7, Apr 2 - Apr 9, we are reading Volume 1, Chapter 11-14 Sections 1 & 2.

Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

Use any translation/edition you like. Marxists.org has the Moore and Aveling translation in various file formats including epub and PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Ben Fowkes translation, PDF: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AA342398FDEC44DFA0E732357783FD48

(Unsure about the quality of the Reitter translation, I'd love to see some input on it as it's the newest one)

AernaLingus says: I noticed that the linked copy of the Fowkes translation doesn't have bookmarks, so I took the liberty of adding them myself. You can either download my version with the bookmarks added or if you're a bit paranoid (can't blame ya) and don't mind some light command line work you can use the same simple script that I did with my formatted plaintext bookmarks to take the PDF from libgen and add the bookmarks yourself. Also, please let me know if you spot any errors with the bookmarks so I can fix them!

Resources

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Week 1 – Week 2 – Week 3 – Week 4 – Week 5 – Week 6

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Capital Reading Group Resumes 4/2! (hexbear.net)
 

Sorry for the wait, but we can now start Capital back up again!

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I'm the Cowbee of this website (hexbear.net)
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Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 6, Feb 5 - Feb 11 –Volume 1 Chapter 10, Sections 4-7 (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Cowbee@hexbear.net to c/theory@hexbear.net
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Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 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.

Moving along through the Working Day.

Week 6, Feb5-Feb 11, we are reading Volume 1, Chapter 10 Sections 4-7

Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

Use any translation/edition you like. Marxists.org has the Moore and Aveling translation in various file formats including epub and PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Ben Fowkes translation, PDF: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AA342398FDEC44DFA0E732357783FD48

(Unsure about the quality of the Reitter translation, I'd love to see some input on it as it's the newest one)

AernaLingus says: I noticed that the linked copy of the Fowkes translation doesn't have bookmarks, so I took the liberty of adding them myself. You can either download my version with the bookmarks added or if you're a bit paranoid (can't blame ya) and don't mind some light command line work you can use the same simple script that I did with my formatted plaintext bookmarks to take the PDF from libgen and add the bookmarks yourself. Also, please let me know if you spot any errors with the bookmarks so I can fix them!

Resources

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2025 Archived Discussions

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Week 1 – Week 2 – Week 3 – Week 4 – Week 5

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Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 5, Jan 29-Feb 4 –Volume 1 Chapter 9, Sections 1-3 of Chapter 10 (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Cowbee@hexbear.net to c/theory@hexbear.net
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Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 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.

We are diving into surplus value extraction now. Follow Mr. Moneybags with Marx as our guide as we see where the real heart of exploitation lies.

Week 5, Jan 29-Feb 5, we are reading Volume 1, Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 Sections 1-3

Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

Use any translation/edition you like. Marxists.org has the Moore and Aveling translation in various file formats including epub and PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Ben Fowkes translation, PDF: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AA342398FDEC44DFA0E732357783FD48

(Unsure about the quality of the Reitter translation, I'd love to see some input on it as it's the newest one)

AernaLingus says: I noticed that the linked copy of the Fowkes translation doesn't have bookmarks, so I took the liberty of adding them myself. You can either download my version with the bookmarks added or if you're a bit paranoid (can't blame ya) and don't mind some light command line work you can use the same simple script that I did with my formatted plaintext bookmarks to take the PDF from libgen and add the bookmarks yourself. Also, please let me know if you spot any errors with the bookmarks so I can fix them!

Resources

(These are not expected reading, these are here to help you if you so choose)

2024 Archived Discussions

If you want to dig back into older discussions, this is an excellent way to do so.

Archives: Week 1 – Week 2 – Week 3 – Week 4 – Week 5 – Week 6 – Week 7 – Week 8 – Week 9 – Week 10 – Week 11 – Week 12 – Week 13 – Week 14 – Week 15 – Week 16 – Week 17 – Week 18 – Week 19 – Week 20 – Week 21 – Week 22 – Week 23 – Week 24 – Week 25 – Week 26 – Week 27 – Week 28 – Week 29 – Week 30 – Week 31 – Week 32 – Week 33 – Week 34 – Week 35 – Week 36 – Week 37 – Week 38 – Week 39 – Week 40 – Week 41 – Week 42 – Week 43 – Week 44 – Week 45 – Week 46 – Week 47 – Week 48 – Week 49 – Week 50 – Week 51 – Week 52

2025 Archived Discussions

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 ) (Note: Seems to be on hiatus for now) which may fit your schedule better. The idea is for the bookclub to repeat annually, so there's always next year.

Week 1 – Week 2 – Week 3 – Week 4

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Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 4, Jan 22-28 –Volume 1 Chapters 6, 7, & 8 (hexbear.net)
 

Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 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.

Congratulations to those who've made it this far! Over the harder stuff, now we are on track to take it easier and digest Capital. The reward for our efforts is significant.

Week 4, Jan 22-28, we are reading Volume 1, Chapters 6, 7 & 8

Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

Use any translation/edition you like. Marxists.org has the Moore and Aveling translation in various file formats including epub and PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Ben Fowkes translation, PDF: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AA342398FDEC44DFA0E732357783FD48

(Unsure about the quality of the Reitter translation, I'd love to see some input on it as it's the newest one)

AernaLingus says: I noticed that the linked copy of the Fowkes translation doesn't have bookmarks, so I took the liberty of adding them myself. You can either download my version with the bookmarks added or if you're a bit paranoid (can't blame ya) and don't mind some light command line work you can use the same simple script that I did with my formatted plaintext bookmarks to take the PDF from libgen and add the bookmarks yourself. Also, please let me know if you spot any errors with the bookmarks so I can fix them!

Resources

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2025 Archived Discussions

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Week 1 – Week 2 – Week 3

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What are your favorite traditionally vegan recipes? (hexbear.net)
 

Been wanting to expand my recipe list, what are your favorites?

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Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 3, Jan 15-21 –Volume 1 Chapter 3 Section 3, Chapter 4, & Chapter 5 (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Cowbee@hexbear.net to c/theory@hexbear.net
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Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 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.

Congratulations to those who've made it this far! We are almost finished the first three chapters, which are said to be the hardest. If you made it through with us now, it's extremely likely that you'll stick the rest out. Let's keep it up! Proud of y'all!

Week 3, Jan 15-21, we are reading Volume 1, Chapter 3 Section 3, Chapter 4, and Chapter 5.

Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

Use any translation/edition you like. Marxists.org has the Moore and Aveling translation in various file formats including epub and PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Ben Fowkes translation, PDF: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AA342398FDEC44DFA0E732357783FD48

(Unsure about the quality of the Reitter translation, I'd love to see some input on it as it's the newest one)

AernaLingus says: I noticed that the linked copy of the Fowkes translation doesn't have bookmarks, so I took the liberty of adding them myself. You can either download my version with the bookmarks added or if you're a bit paranoid (can't blame ya) and don't mind some light command line work you can use the same simple script that I did with my formatted plaintext bookmarks to take the PDF from libgen and add the bookmarks yourself. Also, please let me know if you spot any errors with the bookmarks so I can fix them!

Resources

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2025 Archived Discussions

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Week 1 – Week 2

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Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 2, Jan 8-14 –Chapter 2 & Chapter 3 Sections 1 & 2 (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Cowbee@hexbear.net to c/theory@hexbear.net
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Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 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.

31 members! Excited to see this taking off, and proud of us for making it thus far. We have now read ¹⁄₁₈ of Volume I. The first three weeks are the densest, onwards it's smooth sailing and only needs about 20 minutes a day. We're gonna make it, comrades!

Week 2, Jan 8-14, we are reading Volume 1, Chapter 2 & Chapter 3 Sections 1 & 2.

Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

Use any translation/edition you like. Marxists.org has the Moore and Aveling translation in various file formats including epub and PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Ben Fowkes translation, PDF: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AA342398FDEC44DFA0E732357783FD48

(Unsure about the quality of the Reitter translation, I'd love to see some input on it as it's the newest one)

AernaLingus says: I noticed that the linked copy of the Fowkes translation doesn't have bookmarks, so I took the liberty of adding them myself. You can either download my version with the bookmarks added or if you're a bit paranoid (can't blame ya) and don't mind some light command line work you can use the same simple script that I did with my formatted plaintext bookmarks to take the PDF from libgen and add the bookmarks yourself. Also, please let me know if you spot any errors with the bookmarks so I can fix them!

Resources

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2025 Archived Discussions

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Week 1

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Das Kapital Reading Group 2025 – Week 1, Jan 1-7 – Volume 1, Chapter 1 'The Commodity' (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Cowbee@hexbear.net to c/theory@hexbear.net
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Hop in, comrades, we are reading Capital Volumes I-III this year, and we will every year until Communism is achieved. (Volume IV, often published under the title Theories of Surplus Value, will not be included, but comrades are welcome to set up other bookclubs.) This works out to about 6½ pages a day for a year, 46 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.

Week 1, Jan 1-7, we are reading Volume 1, Chapter 1 'The Commodity'

Discuss the week's reading in the comments.

Use any translation/edition you like. Marxists.org has the Moore and Aveling translation in various file formats including epub and PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Ben Fowkes translation, PDF: https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=AA342398FDEC44DFA0E732357783FD48

(Unsure about the quality of the Reitter translation, I'd love to see some input on it as it's the newest one)

AernaLingus says: I noticed that the linked copy of the Fowkes translation doesn't have bookmarks, so I took the liberty of adding them myself. You can either download my version with the bookmarks added or if you're a bit paranoid (can't blame ya) and don't mind some light command line work you can use the same simple script that I did with my formatted plaintext bookmarks to take the PDF from libgen and add the bookmarks yourself. Also, please let me know if you spot any errors with the bookmarks so I can fix them!

Resources

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2025 Archived Discussions

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