Jon Pod Van Damm posted:

There is another 5 part documentary where people who lived in the GDR talk about their life. It has english subtitles on youtube. It has been posted before but some people might have missed it.
https://kommunistische.org/interview/ddr-film/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkk-HlEJn-I

croup coughfield posted:

so whats to be done boys

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

thats nice but how do we get there

Raskolnikov38 posted:

vote blue apparently

Epic High Five posted:

MTW isn't a get out of work free card, you've still got to force contradictions and unrest so the actually revolutionary sphere of the world can have a bit of breathing room

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

camoseven posted:

not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment

quote:

To give his high-souled supporters, male and female, a complete picture of the moral level of the Russian proletariat, Kautsky adduces, on page 172 of his brochure, the following mandate, issued, it is alleged, by the Murzilovka soviet: 'The soviet hereby empowers Comrade Gregory Sareiev, in accordance with his choice and instructions, to requisition and lead to the barracks, for the use of the Artillery Division stationed in Murzilovka, Briansk region, sixty women and girls from the bourgeois and speculating class; 16 September 1918.' (What Are the Bolshevists Doing? Published by Dr Nath. Wintch Malejeff. Lausanne 1919, p. 10.)

Without having the least doubt of the forged character of this document and the lying nature of the whole communication, I gave instructions, however, that careful inquiry should be made, in order to discover what facts and episodes lay at the root of this invention. A carefully carried out investigation showed the following:

1. In the Briansk region there is absolutely no village by the name of Murzilovka. There is no such village in the neighbouring regions either. The most similar in name is the village of Muraviovka, Briansk region; but no artillery division has ever been stationed there, and altogether nothing ever took place which might be in any way connected with the above 'document'.

2. The investigation was also carried on along the line of the artillery units. Absolutely nowhere were we able to discover even an indirect allusion to a fact similar to that adduced by Kautsky from the words of his inspirer.

3. Finally the investigation dealt with the question of whether there had been any rumours of this kind on the spot. Here, too, absolutely nothing was discovered; and no wonder. The very contents of the forgery are in too brutal a contrast with the morals and public opinion of the foremost workers and peasants who direct the work of the soviets, even in the most backward regions.

In this way, the document must be described as a pitiful forgery, which might be circulated only by the most malignant sycophants in the most yellow of the gutter press.

While the investigation described above was going on, Comrade Zinoviev showed me a number of a Swedish paper (Svenska Dagbladet) of 9 November 1919, in which was printed the facsimile of a mandate running as follows: 'Mandate. The bearer of this, Comrade Raraseiev, has the right of socializing in the town of Ekaterinodar (obliterated) girls aged from sixteen to thirty-six at his pleasure. - Glavkom lvashcheff.' ·

This document is even more stupid and impudent that that quoted by Kautsky. The town of Ekaterinodar - the centre of the Kuban - was, as is well known, for only a very short time in the hands of the Soviet government. Apparently the author of the forgery, not very well up in his revolutionary chronology, rubbed out the date on this document, lest by some chance it should appear that 'Glavkom lvashcheff 'socialized' the Ekaterinodar women during the reign of Denikin's militarism there. That the document might lead into error the thick-witted Swedish bourgeois is not at all amazing. But for the Russian reader it is only too clear that the document is not merely a forgery, but drawn up by a foreigner, dictionary in hand. It is extremely curious that the names of both the socializers of women, 'Gregory Sareiev' and 'Karaseiev' sound absolutely non-Russian. The ending -eiev in Russian names is found rarely, and only in definite combinations. But the accuser of the Bolsheviks himself, the author of the English pamphlet on whom Kautsky bases his evidence, has a name that does actually end in -eiev. It seems obvious that this Anglo-Bulgarian police agent, sitting in Lausanne, creates socializers of women,
in the fullest sense of the word, after his own likeness and image.

Kautsky, at any rate, has original inspirers and assistants!

camoseven posted:

not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment

Taffer posted:

A guy I've been arguing politics with wants me to read Bookchin. Is he worth reading?

Taffer posted:

A guy I've been arguing politics with wants me to read Bookchin. Is he worth reading?

quote:

Left anticommunists remained studiously unimpressed by the dramatic gains won by masses of previously impoverished people under communism. Some were even scornful of such accomplishments. I recall how in Burlington Vermont, in 1971, the noted anticommunist anarchist, Murray Bookchin, derisively referred to my concern for “the poor little children who got fed under communism” (his words).

Taffer posted:

A guy I've been arguing politics with wants me to read Bookchin. Is he worth reading?

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy8CrizjKh4&t=2s

I asked about the GDR itt a while back, I found this video while googling and it's an interview with an American defector to the Soviet Union who lived in the GDR. It's a pretty interesting video, and I just wanted to share.

In Training posted:

I forget if it got rec'd in this thread or a reading/publications thread but I wanted to thank whoever it was that linked something from monthly review, been subscribing for a bit now and it's good poo poo

Sunny Side Up posted:

Even the most basic grasp of materialism escapes most. I, too, am a dingus, but just asking “what real, concrete place does this come from and effect?” is enlightening.

quote:

• Only less invested advantaged members are sensitive to the context of protest.

• Normative protest is acceptable when status improvement is likely.

• Non-Normative protest is acceptable when status improvement is unlikely.

• Acceptability of protest is reflected on legitimacy and support.

• The less invested see inequality as more illegitimate when protest and context fit.

quote:

Disadvantaged groups use different means to protest inequality. Normative protest is more likely when the societal context of inter-group inequality signals that there is opportunity for status improvement. Non-normative protest is more likely to occur in systems in which status improvement is unlikely. However, little is known about how advantaged groups react to (normative vs. non-normative) protest as a function of the likelihood for status improvement of the disadvantaged offered by the context (high vs. low).

Four experiments (N = 1092) assessed endorsement of protest among advantaged group members using different operationalizations of likelihood for status improvement and type of protest in four different intergroup contexts. Advantaged group members scoring lower in self-investment in their group identity endorsed protest more when the form of protest matched likelihood for status improvement than when it did not. Specifically, less invested members most supported normative protest (i.e., marches, petitions) when likelihood for status improvement was high and non-normative protest (i.e., hacking, destruction of property) occurring in contexts in which status improvement was unlikely. Highly self-invested individuals tended to be unaffected by the form of protest or type of inequality.

Mediated moderation analyses suggested that increased appraisals of illegitimacy of inequality explained why support (i.e. among the less invested) was higher when the form of protest fitted opportunity for societal improvement. Results suggest that those less committed to their advantaged position jointly consider type of protest and its context of occurrence when forming opinions on acceptability of disadvantaged protest.

mawarannahr posted:

lolling at this new study

Qualified support for normative vs. non-normative protest: Less invested members of advantaged groups are most supportive when the protest fits the opportunity for status improvement



Journal of Experimental Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104454

mawarannahr posted:

lolling at this new study

Qualified support for normative vs. non-normative protest: Less invested members of advantaged groups are most supportive when the protest fits the opportunity for status improvement



Journal of Experimental Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104454

croup coughfield posted:

i wonder how much this cost

Sunny Side Up posted:

Any recommendations for videos or podcasts (or books or anything) on a Marxist critique of Foucault or power dynamics between oppressed/exploited people? So far all I found is a quora post and BadEmpanada sharing evidence Foucault was a pedophile sex tourist

In Training posted:

The more Marxist theory I read the more pissed off i get retroactively at the amount of postmodern garbage I read in College.

tristeham posted:

there's a collective book called Foucault and neoliberalism that has some pretty good essays.

there's also this

https://ctheory.sitehost.iu.edu/resources/fall2020/Rockhill_Foucault_The_Faux_Radical_Final_Version.pdf

In Training posted:

The more Marxist theory I read the more pissed off i get retroactively at the amount of postmodern garbage I read in College.

Sunny Side Up posted:

I just lament how much time I wasted getting smart in stupid ways

Cuttlefush posted:

i really don't think it would need to be. where's zodium?

KomradeX posted:

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if academic post modernism was propped up by the intelligence agencies just like art and literature was