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[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

His riddle: What am I laying on right now

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago

RIP to one of the greatest Marxist thinkers of all time. This man was still writing slammers in his eighties. I've read like 5 of his books and learn something new from every one.

You can find a lot of recordings of his books on torrents and youtube.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 days ago

Maybe, not like the bolsheviks didn't go up against some equally repressive enemies. It's hard to speculate.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Some of the bravest people on the planet are those business owners (i've only ever seen cafes do this) in the US who proudly say they don't serve cops (in uniform obvi). They're rare but they do exist.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 days ago

Highly recommend comrades read Lise Vogel - Marxism and the oppression of women, which should be seen as its successor, and gives a good historical overview up to the 1980s also.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 days ago

They rule. I've only listened to podcasts from Nick Estes, but I'm told his books are wonderful. Based indigenous communists.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 days ago

I feel like Lenin would have the urge to write a polemic against Kautsky after seeing this.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 days ago

No idea if it's true or not, but unlike most other countries, russia does follow the talk shit get hit rule.

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 days ago

Dennis from IASIP: I can go wider

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Cialdini's the psychology of persuasion is, although not communist, probably one of the best psychology books ever written. Highly recommend it. You can find audiobooks for it on torrents.

I'm currently in the middle of Gabriel Rockhill's Who paid the pipers of western marxism, which is wonderful so far, but its quite a slog. It dissects much of the "intellectual world war" on communism, and the tactics used by western intelligence agencies to demonize communism, and platform hollow, individualist, or reformist philosophies, education, and cement pro-capitalist superstructures throughout the entire world.

 

I recently watched a documentary on Tetris, and Maxwell and his son Kevin had a hand in the fight over its distribution rights in the west.

Then I realized its the same Maxwell that was a British magnate and likely an Israeli spy, his daughter ghislane carrying on that tradition and getting pedo material on all the world's ruling circles.

Does anyone have any good articles that dive into that family? The only ones I could find aren't going into the deeper story.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml to c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
 

From the wiki on Gloria estefan.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and I work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Unfortunately the amount of donations has decreased to only 2000€ per month. This leaves only 1000€ per developer, which is not enough to pay my bills. With the current level of donations I will be forced to find another job, and drastically reduce my contributions to Lemmy. To avoid this outcome and keep Lemmy growing, I ask you to please make a recurring donation:

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7718980

From Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley (great book btw).

Side point, but one of the main ppl on this project was another state department trot: Ithia sole de Pool.

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