Glory to the martyrs. Rest in peace, Nasrallah.

Mega mega mega THREAD

Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, the absolute steaming pile of shit that is the NYT rag.

Some are amazing zingers, the Soviet America vignette is amazing and occupies my thoughts

Death to the entity.

As someone who spent a dozen or so attempts beating New Vegas Permadeath on Very Hard/Hardcore, it’s a dramatically different level of immersion and fun. It entirely changes how you interact with the game and the world. You’re forced to pay attention.

Wait until the sword arrives tho

His main reaction would be

Similar to Prolewiki, I would probably do Principles of Communism into Elementary Principles of Philosophy into Socialism: Utopian and Scientific because I think Politzer does a good job of making Diamat extremely easy to grasp.

Exactly! You put it a hundred times better than I did. DiaMat is Marxism, analysis of Capitalism and advocacy for Socialism stems from Dialectical and Historical Materialism. Great comment!

Yep, I don’t doubt that it could have been innocent, but the fact that it’s there regardless is unacceptable for commie sites. Thanks for your input!

I really don’t know what it is I’m missing there and keep feel like I didn’t understand it properly but don’t know what it might be since it all seems straightforward and boring philosophizing like logic calculus and set theory I had to do when starting studying math.

That’s difficult to explain, but an example is that it helps us analyze Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, and the necessity of it in the context of the struggles faced by the PRC under the Gang of Four and the Cultural Revolution. That’s something that trips up a lot of left-anticommunists, they see the markets in China and believe it to be Capitalist, because they analyze static units rather than a moving system in the context of a transitional Socialist State.

It’s certainly possible to correctly come to the right conclusions without it, but it’s extremely useful if you want to do your own analysis, rather than rely on comrades.

Idk, but every link to an outside site like their lulu.com store has a google.com URL prepended so google knows what you (your to google pseudonymous you) clicked when you left the site.

Thanks comrade, purged it from my comment history. I liked it a lot more than Prolewiki’s good but minimal beginner guide, and felt it flowed better than Dessalines’s Marxism intro, so I actually linked it quite a bit (which, again, I have purged). It’s a shame, Communists shouldn’t be sending data to google like that, thanks for pointing that out

About diamat: Hmm I guess I never really understood the big deal about it, it just seems like the standard toolkit when trying to understand something.

Diamat is the backbone of Marxism, period. Without a clear understanding of it, along with Historical Materialism, it’s incredibly difficult to understand and analyze Imperialist conflicts correctly, and helps put geopolitical struggles in clearer light. Just my 2 cents.

about google: Basically it allows google to put a cookie in your browser. Google gets to build a better profile of your browsing habits and in exchange the site owner gets to see some data about the users browsing habits pertinent to their site. Like where do most of their users come from, a search engine or some other site using google analytics, how many unique visitors etc. You get jack shit.

Google can and does sell your profile which might contain personally identifying information to others like government agencies or employers so it’s the last thing I would expect on a website trying to radicalize people.

That’s fucking terrifying, thanks for pointing it out, I’ll remove the link and purge it. Do you think it’s related to them selling printed copies on the site? Didn’t see the warning because I use Mull and Librewolf I think, but inspected element and sure enough, found gtag scripts.

Edit: purged it from my comment history too.

I don’t understand why diamat is put at the very beginning?

In my opinion, understanding Diamat from the get-go is important, it makes the rest of Marxism-Leninism easier to learn and analyze. It puts you in the right frame of mind.

Also why is it using google analytics?? What the fuck

I did not know this, can you elaborate? I’m not great with that kind of stuff so I can remove it from my comment if it’s unsafe, don’t want to put anyone in privacy risk. I found it on Lemmygrad and it seemed to be alright, so that’s why I’ve been using it.

Failing the one I linked, Prolewiki’s is great too but not nearly as comprehensive or in-depth, not that it’s trying to be. It’s just the basics, but I highly recommend Politzer’s Elementary Principles of Philosophy regardless, it’s the best intro to Diamat IMO.

[REDACTED LIST] got me to finally read Lenin, highly recommend it. It’s convenient to read on my phone during lulls in the day, finally got through beginner-advanced and now I just have Org theory left (I had read other various pieces from Marx, Engels, Politzer, etc. before but this list got me into Lenin specifically).

Edit: see the comment thread, I’m spooked about the list I linked originally. Just use the Prolewiki beginner guide linked below IMO.