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I saw that E.H Carr wrote a 14-volume history of the early years of the Soviet Union and it seems pretty interesting but I've never heard anyone talk about it before and it seems to be somewhat obscure. Does anyone know if its worth tracking down??

Of course we all know that music (and art in general) is inherantly idealist, but is there any music that is so proletariat that it can affect material reality?

I'm interested in learning more about his personal life and how that shaped his ideas.

I've been listening to music while reading theory for a couple years but I'm not sure if it distracts from grasping the content. I'm wondering what the general consensus is?

i feel like i struggle to understand things generally and i was wondering if reading plato, aristotle, kant, hegel, etc would help me at all in my comprehension of marx?

As comrade vaush (pbuh) said, Marxism is an extension of liberalism

The Reason ultroids say shit like “Feminism is anti Marxists” or “Anti racism is anti Marxists”

Is two fold. First pseuds. But second and majorly. It is because they are engaging primarily with people who haven’t read Marx.

Marx can have a nuanced splendidly scientific take.

He can write “On The Jewish Question” with all its layered arguments and reasoning.

But the ultroid isn’t engaging with people like that.

They are engaging with people who will never read Marx who operate in sound bites and abhor scientific socialism as something of rigorous study.

So instead of regurgitating Kollontai’s whole argument from “The Social Basis of the Woman’s Question”

The ultroid says feminism is anti Marxist.

Instead of regurgitating all of the myriad of arguments about the primacy of the class struggle in combating racism and abolishing nations and nationality. Of the fact that racism is a product of class society.

Instead of reproducing all the terrific research study and work of “Factors of Race and Nation in Marxist Theory”

The Ultroid says anti Racism is anti Marxist.

There isn’t a real solution to this. You can only get the real takes from the real works. So in the endless engagement with those who refuse to read the real works. The ultroid is reduced to his bitter sound bites. And the pseud to parroting them.

The sound bites however do inflict damage. They make it easier for pseuds. And they can warp thinking and perception far away from the actual positions. This can clearly be seen in the topic of imperialism and colonialism. But it effects all the sound bites.

✅️ Genetically proletarian - every Silesian is a miner

✅️ Naturally revolutionary defeatist - no chance of independence, but still hate gorole, therefore will root for the defeat of their state in an imperialist war and turn it into a civil war

✅️ Replacing racial identity with class consciousness - they wear blackface but in a class-based way, not racially charged way (their faces are black from working in the mines)

❌️ Lassalle was a Silesian - nevermind, we're so cooked....

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"The mystical rebel Monkey God - Sun Wukong - returns to earth in the form of Mao Zedong. He leads Sun Yat-sen's People's Army in a Long March to Mongolia. His Godlike strength and intelligence radically shape the Russian Revolution and 20th century science and technology leading to a World Communist Soviet Republic"

There's a part where Mao uses his superior understanding of dialectics to disprove formal logic and create an AI to revolutinize the field of neuropsychology