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>>22115
read the Logic instead (or… next)

>>22067
Is this an accidental reply, a reference to something, or something else I'm too ignorant to get?

Translations of Russian
https://www.marxistphilosophy.org/RussTrans.htm
and Chinese
https://www.marxistphilosophy.org/ChinTransB.htm
Marxist writing on Dialectical Materialism.

https://www.marxistphilosophy.org/Aizenberg.pdf

>>22066
not to mention the repressed anti de-stalinization protests that khrushev also repressed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Georgian_demonstrations

>>21640
Currently reading this. This book is terrifying, amazing and probably the most important thing you can currently read.

Guide To English Pornstars: The Intermediate Guide To English Pornstars
English Pornstars

>>22050

$ sha256sum 1714785718372-0.pdf 
692491f5c6a2528c7bbc14581aae2ca84bf72ec00ae833392bcd1d47ccc2725d  1714785718372-0.pdf
$ sha256sum 1714785718372-1.pdf 
f8ba16760f04d0bbdc7a0402580f1bd85ebbb16bc6be10b2c534941c365401a6  1714785718372-1.pdf

What's the difference between the two pdf's? The edition seems the same

>>22053
I thought I had two diff. cockshott books but turns out I downloaded the same one twice.

Bumping for interest.

>the website is down
over before it began

>>22109
it's caspover

>>20155
practical ways of making glacial AcOH would be useful for this, as it is a controlled substance I think. I can get 60% AcOH at a food wholesaler, but getting rid of the remaining water is not practical using distillation. maybe molecular sieves? would be slow..
where do you get the precursor?
>vid
based indian man shows how to do things yet again

Can anyone recommend me a good book for learning high-school level chemistry?

>>20977
Nivaldo Tro - Chemistry A Molecular Approach

>>22094
>I mean it's quite clearly shown through the data that the grunts who join such groups are isolated and deeply shamed, usually neurodivergent and often have backgrounds of child abuse and poverty

How comes this data?
Who did the research?

And even if, the problem of this people, the issue they worried about, is to find a gf or bf. Its true that there are unrealistic expectations like the love will heal somebody from everything. But in some cases, the knowleade that there is somebody who genuinly care is helpfull to overcome personal crisis.

>So in general protest masculinities swell when masculinity is in crisis.

The ultra masculine dudes are, in my experience, well in terms of relationsships. Even the macho ones.
The more feminine (soft, non-dominant etc.) males have greater problems.

Sure, I own no data for this assertations.

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>>22094
>For the wannabe gore worker incel, my best guess is absurdism.

If you read the rebell untill the end, you will note that Camus makes a imporant postulate:
The socialistic approach, he wrote, seens the human as endless formable by social forces. But the absurd rebell, so Camus, feel that there is a human nature who doesn't want to be used as a mean to an end.

In other words, with another justification, Camus returned to the old, Kantian ethic of the diginity of the human being.

Why I tell you this boring shit?

In my opinion, this viewpoint does not allow us to have the idea of changing social expectations regarding love, etc., in order to solve the incel problem. The individual feels the longing for a ideal love in a absurd world. The individual doesn't want to be brainwashed to forgot this longing. Their whish isn't for a chemical happyness, they want to real thing.

>I also think other nihilist thought like Stirner's Egoism is interesting.

I'm a bit passionated in this topic, sorry.
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>>22100
If you just want to know how incels can get gfs then IMO most incels are just mentalcels. I don't have any hard data on this though.

Protest masculinities include tough guys like bikers and bodybuilders, but also internet tough guys like incels.

Unfortunately, I have not found data I can trust on incels. There is too much sensationalism and incels are extremely online and avoidant. Unfortunately, I can only rely on studies of vaguely similar communities.

There are some good studies of violent authoritarians. And there are good studies of self-injurers. But these only apply to the extent they overlap with incels. Most incels aren't violent to others, and are more avoidant, neurotic and self-injuring. So many of these studies would only apply to the craziest mentalcels.

There is good work on other semi-related communities like autism, porn/kink, fanfic, bodybuilding and anorexia and bulimia communities, but I just haven't done the reading yet there. For context, on how desperate I am on semi-related communities I am considering reading furry sociology.

The two biggest sources I would rely on might be

"It’s (a) Shame: Why Poverty Leads to Support for Authoritarianism"
https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221141509
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>>22101
> I have always been a bookworm.
> My classmates suspect that I am gay. > Most of the time they treat me nicely. > Sometimes not so nice

I am deeply sorry for your pain.
You are valuable, and you deserve love and respect.

>>22101
>Their whish isn't for a chemical happyness, they want to real thing.
Chemical happyiness would be literally (but only) the "real thing", what they want is their fantasy fulfilled. Own it. What's desired is to live out a specific fantasy that orders and directs their life, values, goals, etc., and not to give that up for an alternate fantasy. Quixotic.

>>21934
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kristian-williams-our-enemies-in-blue
It's from 2015, so it's still in the last 10 years.

Oh that's the third edition, originally from 2007, so maybe OP won't like it.

>>21933

I'm in a marxist org that I think has shied away from attacking the police and I want to correct our line. I believe Farell Dobbs was in the right when he said the following in Teamster's Rebellion:

"Under capitalism the main police function is to break strikes and to repress other forms of protest against the policies of the ruling class. Any civic usefulness other forms of police activity may have， like controlling traffic and summoning ambulances， is strictly incidental to the primary repressive function. Personal inclinations of individual cops do not alter this basic role of the police. All must comply with ruling-class dictates.

As a result， police repression becomes one of the most naked forms through which capitalism subordinates human rights to the demands of private property. If the cops sometimes falter in their antisocial tasks， it is simply because they-like the guns they use-are subject to rust when not engaged in the deadly function for which they are primarily trained. No police organization is exactly the same day in and day out. Two essential factors determine its character at a given moment: the social climate in which the cops have been operating and the turnover of personnel within the force. An unseasoned cop may tend to be somewhat considerate of others in the performance of duty， especially while class relations are relatively peaceful. Even in such calm times， however， the necessary accommodation must be made to capitalist demands， including readiness to shoot anyone who tampers with private property. Otherwise the aspiring cop， if he is not kicked out of the force， will have little chance of rising beyond a beat in the sticks. By gradually weeding out misfìts along these general lines， a police department can keep itself abreast of requirements during a more or less stable period in class relations."

The issue is these are powerful words but I want to prove that they have been borne out by reality. Particularly I think since the financial crisis/anti police movements police have shifted more and more right wing as relative class peace falls apart. Similarly I'd also be interested in works that look into the nature of police unions.

>>21943
>Under capitalism the main police function is to break strikes
which is why they get the privilege of being the only work force that is universally unionized and armed. because their job is to make sure other work forces are not

>>21943
>Under capitalism the main police function is to break strikes
they kinda pivoted from this to doing stochastic terrorism

>>22038
Thanks for the encouraging words.
>the interaction of antithetical forces which leads to a radical transformation of something. With that comes new emergent qualities and phenomena.
Yes, that does sound like what I've read on dialectics before. Looking at my old notes, Lenin for example says dialectics is "the theory of knowledge of Hegel and Marxism"
and
>In brief, dialectics can be defined as the doctrine of the unity of opposites. This embodies the essence of dialectics, but it requires explanations and development
I guess my initial problem is that it all sounds so… abstract? I find it confusing and really abstract, like a sort of vague, extremely generalized statement. Do you just take this about opposite forces and apply it to whatever subject you want, like history or biology? I'm probably approaching this from the wrong angle, because my mind wants to find some kind of scientific backing behind the philosophy. I end up thinking that, since these men wrote philosophical theories related to the brain and physics, it should be the job of modern scientists to clarify and define what exactly the mind, human thought, reality, etc. are.

Also, allow me to recommend this video. I saw it recommended on /leftypol/ a couple years ago, I've been watching it and it's been helpful. It's quite theory dense so you might wanna take notes.

>>22059
>Do you just take this about opposite forces and apply it to whatever subject you want, like history or biology?
Yeah. Ever since I became enamored with Marxism I tried to translate dialectical materialism to science. I think complex system theory and some ideas in physics such as critical transition are a scientific expression of dialectical materialism, coincidentally so. Though they still harbor brainworms due to the philosophical grounding of capitalist society (e.g. mechanical materialism, idealisations)

>Also, allow me to recommend this video.
That was a very interesting watch. Are you German? If not then it must be quite difficult for you to understand the content, having to learn all of that in a different language. I'm German but I read almost everything in English, even German philosophers, and I think the English translations are harder to understand. They don't quite convey the ideas the same, after all the translator isn't just translating the language but is also delivering their interpretation of the text when they translate it.

>>22073
>Yeah. Ever since I became enamored with Marxism I tried to translate dialectical materialism to science. I think complex system theory and some ideas in physics such as critical transition are a scientific expression of dialectical materialism, coincidentally so. Though they still harbor brainworms due to the philosophical grounding of capitalist society (e.g. mechanical materialism, idealisations)
Ok then, good to know I'm going in the right direction. I get that having scientific knowledge is necessary to understand dialectics too. I've heard many times from marxist authors and soviet textbooks that dialectics has been vindicated by science. They mention dialectics in many scientific fields and in concepts like entropy, elementary particles, natural selection and so on. Karl Marx considered Darwin to be pretty important, he told Engels about Origin of the Species
>This is the book which, in the field of natural history, provides the basis for our views.
Have you ever read Dialectics of Nature? After studying a lot of science back in his day, Engels was convinced that nature is indeed dialectical and wrote this book with Marx's backing in an attempt to prove it:
>"To me there could be no question of building the laws of dialectics into nature, but of discovering them in it and evolving them from it."
>"Dialectics, so-called objective dialectics, prevails throughout nature, and so-called subjective dialectics, dialectical thought, is only the reflection of the motion through opposites which asserts itself everywhere in nature, and which by the continual conflict of the opposites and their final passage into one another, or into higher forms, determines the life of nature"

>That was a very interesting watch. Are you German? If not then it must be quite difficult for you to understand the content, having to learn all of that in a different language.
No. I should have mentioned that the video has English subtitles. Still, many of these words that the German philosophers used like substance, thing in itself, immanent, spirit, and the infamous Sublimate/Aufheben have been VERY confusing to me. I should make sure I understand them all before trying to step into German idealism.
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>>22106
>Have you ever read Dialectics of Nature?
Yes, and I was quite disappointed by it because it wasn't what I was looking for. For most of the book, Engels meanders about scientific questions that are archaic today and when he spoke about what dialectical materialism means in scientific terms he did so relatively briefly.

>have been VERY confusing to me.
Bet. The terms are more intuitively understandable when you speak German.

>Really? So you don't prefer to read in German? I thought Marx and Hegel would be way easier in the original language.
I didn't explain that well. I do read them in German nowadays and also think it's easier to understand them when you read them in the original language. What I meant was that I used to read everything in English because most of the content I engage in is in English. Free English PDFs are much easier to find than German ones so I started reading German philosophers in English first.

>>22025
Traditionally, dialectics was a subdivision on of logic and was about the study of how arguments are derived. Hegel's dialectics (which is what Marxists are usually building on) refers to a particular kind of dialectical method used by Hegel. If you want a simple introduction read Hegel's Encyclopedia. Its a basic short summary of his whole philosophical system. Get a physical copy. grab a drink, put on some music, and just read and make notes as you move along. Its the only way to do it.

>>22079
Cool I was looking for something to watch during cardio.

>>22079
>episode 2 (prehistory of china)
>recounts creation myth where nobles were molded carefully by hand first and then everyone else was made all together as a rush job
>implies or directly states throughout, in contradiction with now well-supported scientific consensus, that every "stage" of human evolution happened in China, independent of Africa, rather than various hominin species dispersing from Africa throughout human evolution
>implies our pre-hominin ape ancestors lived in China
>claims that Chinese people can trace their ancestry back 2 million years to hominins in China (Wushan "Man")
>says verbatim "Peking Man, ancestor of the Chinese"
>claims among the "ancestors of the Chinese" were the first people to use fire, before any other humans
>gives only a throwaway line at the end about this ancient line interbreeding with the out-of-Africa Homo sapiens who came later
Gotta be honest, I was not prepared for this level of pseudoscientific nationalist mythmaking for something produced this century by the Chinese government.

>that one time a spanish habsburgo emperor wrote in his plan to conquer the chinese empire was to "fuck and outbreed them out of existence with our Spanish, Filipino and Japanese subjects"
>It was actually possible given that the Ming were incompetent and they got rekt by the Manchu with the last Ming emperor hanging himself because he got duped into executing their best general
Even the ~100 million population wouldn't be an issue given South America;
>Our new study clarifies the size of pre-Columbian populations and their impact on their environment. By combining all published estimates from populations throughout the Americas, we find a probable Indigenous population of 60 million in 1492.

yeah its a little wild

>>22098
That's gonna be a yikes from me dog

Some Postmodern stuff

Hand over the books /edu/ or porkies wont get hurt.

Don't shoot me~