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Seems suspect lol. Does he think the Soviets had the power to export a top-down proletarian revolution to China? Like, Mao didn't conjure millions of peasants into existence. They were the primary underclass in China. You don't just choose to be ideologically proletarian lol

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the claim

I haven't taken a deep breath since 2020.

When our time comes, we will make no excuses.

See if you can get a script for paxlovid. It reduces the chances of long-term sequelae. The zerocovid subreddit has some resources in cheap/free ways to get it

Using quotation marks for emphasis is in-style for boomers on facebook, so you're probably right. Also using them for scare quotes, sometimes in the same sentence, adds to the charm.

Also bourgeois/liberal democracy is the quintessence of adopting democratic aesthetics, forms, and language without any actual democratic function. No one can vote according to their interests, and no one's votes actually influence policy.

The reason most modern imperialist states have evolved their own form of liberal democracy is because of how effective it is at mediating domestic capitalist contradictions so they can be externalized.

If the US were somehow a true functional democracy it would have evolved beyond capitalism decades ago.

I dunno what the third or fourth stages are but the fifth stage is either "profit" or "sticks and stones".

I'm sure you've read Bevins work but if not those two are good

Aberration in the heartland of the real is fun

I liked anti-eodipus and a thousand plateaus. As far as non-Marxist, non-revolutionary, euro-leftist philosophy goes, they're pretty fun.

On the other side of Marx, Hegel is also worth studying. Maybe moreso actually, since I think western leftists tend to misunderstand Marx because they don't understand dialectics (and deleuze has been accused of such lol). I've heard it said that Lenin went back to Hegel to rescue Marx from the reformists (or something along those lines) and I'm beginning to suspect that may be necessary for modern theoretical struggles.

Kotkin is an anticommunist so I suppose his biographies of Stalin might count as non-Marxist lol

Lol what???

Marx is either gonna be number one, or the list is assuming you've already read the manifesto.

Capital should absolutely be in the top 80, and the only reason it isn't usually top 10 is because anglos are too lazy/illiterate/overworked to attempt it.

But many lists will have Wage Labor and Capital as well as Value, Price, and Profit as easier alternatives to Capital.

Most of his stuff is essay-length and wouldn't necessarily show up on a book list. But Essays on Feueurbach, the German Ideology, and Critique of the Gotha program are commonly recommended, for example.

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Lmao

It isn't that the voices don't exist, it's that capitalist algorithms artificially amplify them.

This is one of the most hope-inducing pictures I've ever seen lmao