I have believed since childhood that prisons should be places of healing and recovery rather then of "punishment", as it was obvious to me that people being "bad" was the result of the conditions that made a person who they are, not of some kind of "magical" "evil" or so called "free will", each of which is just a label but it is treated like an explanation, that to my view, a "bad" person was the same as someone who is injured and in need of help, since I've been learning ML I've also come to see the need for practicality, so I don't expect it to be perfect or it's just trash anymore, if the resources are lacking but people are still destructive, even non healing prisons may simply be needed until they aren't, as it is all very complex you can advocate for a better system and work towards that, but it isn't the end all be all if it isn't perfect. Of course that's all a moot point if Revolution isn't achieved as in Capitalism only cares about profit and control, so prisons are there for slave labor, not even "punishment" let alone healing.
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Using "licking balls" as an insult is misogynist and/or homophobic, don't do that.
Exercise, firing ranges, organizations, on bravery specifically, baby steps, find small scary things that you can handle and work your way up. The point is that these are all skills or similar, and skills can be developed, people aren't just masters at things, it takes time and work, and what you do is what you get better at, if you sit around, you get better at sitting around, if you break the mold, you get better at breaking the mold, an example for me recently, I started participating in this sort of "Socialist Summer School" type dealy, and during the first class they did this thing called a "breakout" where zoom threw me into a room with 3 random strangers, I have crippling social anxiety but I still managed to talk with them, it was scary but exhilarating and I'm excited for the next class.
Looking in the epub from marxists.org, looks like it is the Soviet Union version, even talks about Kautsky omitting and distorting in the preface
There's a forth?!
Edit: found it on marxists.org, here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/epub/capital-v4.epub
It isn't even that the first group does nothing, but rather it lays the foundation, the slow accumulation of a quantity until it reaches a point where a transformation in quality occurs, that leap in awareness and understanding, that couldn't have happened without a foundation to stand on when making it. You need decades where (seemingly) "nothing" happens in order to reach weeks where "decades" happen, so to speak.
Edit: that said, there are definitely books that really hit the Marx (badum tiss), and liberal works which use many words to say very little as they are hiding just how little they have to say.
The key for me has been to combine the two, it isn't that the light must defeat the dark, like in Christian "good and evil" culture, but that the light and dark must work together, the light illuminates the path, and the dark has the experience and strength to weird the sword in defense of humanity, the dark alone cannot see the foe to strike, and may only see shadows that are bigger than what is real, the light alone only knows how to live in the light, and cannot handle the dangers ahead, only together can one see things through, the fight exists within us just as it exists without, growing up in this environment our minds have been colonized and must be decolonized before we can advance our fight past ourselves into one of solidarity with those who have reached the stage to do so, Marxist Leninist Dialectical and Historical Materialism applies to the human mind just as it does everything else in nature for it is how reality itself even works, even space/time is in a dialectical relationship with each other. This has all been most relevant to me on a deep level, the trauma that split my mind made an injury within me that only this path can heal.
"Put on a fake smile as you die inside, that is how you become an adult!" -my parents if they were more honest about what they've been taught to think.
I think this is one of the lessons China learned for the fall of the USSR, that you can't just "make" the revolution happen before they are ready to happen themselves, or you spread yourself thin, and so the Chinese have the saying "an egg cracked from the outside is breakfast, and egg cracked from inside is new life", the people have to be ready for revolution, the conditions must be ripe for it, and they must be willing and able to defend it themselves even after winning it, and then China does provide help, like with the aid they send to countries being brutalized, including even non Socialist countries when it makes sense, like for example aid they've sent to Iran.
I'm reading a contribution to the critique of political economy, after I'll read ludwig feueurbach and the end of classical german philosy, I couldn't sleep a wink last night so I decided to just get up instead, if I can't sleep I might as well read.
Thanks, I probably need to read that, the PDF I have is only 10 pages so I slapped it onto my desktop to read next, oh by the way if anyone else wants to read it here is the prolewiki link: https://en.prolewiki.org/index.php?title=Library%3AOn_revolutionary_morality&oldid=75847
When the root cause is systemic, the solution also needs to be systemic, like for example, a high security facility to keep them while they recover wouldn't be the end all, but there could be more outside work as well, such as investigating the conditions that drove them to the crime, and helping them form and follow through on a plan to change those conditions, with state support in what ways are needed to change those conditions. It needs to be treated as a whole and everything relevant integrated into the process of making sure a repeat incident is unlikely, with more serious crimes having a higher bar of thoroughness, though at the same time, their life is not more important than that of others, and what one does affects the system just as the system affects them, so a persons recovery cannot come at greater expense to the rest of society then that of the life of the person that did the crime compared to those that did not, if someone murders someone, the bar for insuring that they will never murder again needs to be no less then on the moon.