Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory, try marxists.org, Annaโs Archive, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.
DDR born Gen Xer hot takes from today:
Gorby was actually alright cause he let the people vote for โnone of the above.โ
DDR bad cause your bachelorโs thesis topic was assigned to you and you couldnโt choose where you worked.
If anyone didnโt know (and probably to no oneโs surprise), the soft drink leninade is not made by a company with any kind of radical politics, itโs just a gimmick
So did hexbear federate with us or what?
Just about to finish reading โSurvival of the richest by douglas rushkoffโ, itโs a decent contemporary tech critique but oh boy i have to put down the book sometimes because of the cringe idealist comments made by the author. Really makes me appreciate Lenin writing style more and more.
He mentions capitalism a lot during the book (also some subtle anti-china rethoric like any self respecting liberal of course) but he not once mentions anything related about relations of production, he just criticizes the infinite growth property of capitalism and ties it a lot with the contemporary tech industry. The usual shallow criticism coming from libs who know about capitalism just from the osmosis of living on it and havenโt really made any real study of it.
This paragraph is just peak pseudo-intellectual liberalism lmao, not technically his take but there is no debunking of the comment later which makes me think he actually believes it
- Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead thought cybernetics would prevent fascism. For where fascism depends on the fragmenting of knowledge and oversimplified direction from above, cybernetics would engender holism and serve as โa kind of vaccination against fragmentation.โ - ๐