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workersolidarity · 7 months

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THE DEATH OF CAPITALISM.

THE BIRTH OF???

Technofeudalism

- Yanis Varoufakis

An interesting idea for Socialists/Communists to think about as traditional Left/Right distinctions seem to be becoming more irrelevant and meaningless than ever before.

Part of this may be due to what Yanis Varoufakis is calling the "death of Capitalism" and the birth of "Technofeudalism."

Varoufakis, in his new book of the same name, argues that the rise today's tech giants came at a time of a complete lack of regulation and coupled with a corporate culture of greed and complete disregard for human life, encouraged and financed by cheap government capital flowing into a deregulated banking sector that funneled the money straight into the pockets of the same investors of Big Tech, Big Media, Big Pharma and the like. Essentially, these fiefdoms are warping the very modes of production and changing the power dynamics of the previous global capitalist world order.

Combined with a political system sold to the highest bidder, this has resulted in modern tech fiefdoms popping up throughout the world and global economy that are more powerful than the governments they control, that in theory at least, are supposed to control them.

So... we're slipping back into feudalism, and now a famous self-proclaimed Marxist Economist and academic leader has wrote an entire book dedicated to something I've been saying for two years now. And I'm an ordinary worker and two-time college drop out.

Strange world we live in 🤔

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just-late-roman-republic-things · 2 months

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Since Caesar Stabbing Day is coming up, some books I recommend about him are:

A Companion to Julius Caesar (anthology), ed. Miriam Griffin - This one is especially good for learning to recognize bias and revisionism when other people talk about him, and gives you a variety of perspectives.

Caesar: Life of a Colossus, by Adrian Goldsworthy

Julius Caesar and the Roman People, by Robert Morstein-Marx

Good general introductions to Rome:

SPQR, by Mary Beard

Meet the Romans and Rome: Empire Without Limit (two documentary series), hosted by Mary Beard

The History of Rome (podcast), by Mike Duncan

Be very cautious of authors that try to categorize Roman politicians using modern political ideologies. It's misleading at best, and historical revisionism at worst. Caesar in particular gets a lot of this.

#caesar was neither a socialist nor fascist nor progressive #julius caesar #ancient rome #book rec #jlrrt speaks

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addturnip · 5 months

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The systematic man-hunt of Anarchists in general, and of Anarcho-syndicalists in particular, with the result that every prison and jail in Soviet Russia is filled with our comrades, fully coincided in time and spirit with Lenin's speech at the Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party. On that occasion Lenin announced that the most merciless war must be declared against what he termed "petty bourgeois Anarchist elements" which, according to him, are developing even within the Communist Party itself owing to the "anarcho-syndicalist tendencies of the Labour Opposition." On that very day that Lenin made the above statements numbers of Anarchists were arrested all over the country, without the least cause or explanation. No charges have been preferred against any one of the imprisoned comrades, though some of them have already been condemned to long terms without hearing or trial, and in their absence. The conditions of their imprisonment are exceptionally vile and brutal.

-Emma Goldman My Disillusionment in Russia No political system evolves in isolation. It is ultimately what is created in the moment, surviving long enough to incorporate into the global political ecosystem.

#politics #anarchism #anarchist #communism #socialism #socialist #books #quotes #book quotes

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communistkenobi · 4 months

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I really need to get more into marxist god-building. As soon as I started reading a review of Lunacharsky’s writings on how Marxism evokes religious emotion and is basically scientific theology it was like discovering what i had believed but didn’t realise it

#also have been pretty compelled by his discussion of the role of religion in socialism #like in terms of capturing the ritual and social emotion that religion evokes for the purposes of uniting the working class #it resonated a lot with the history I’d read of the Haitian revolution and the role religion played in slave organising #like obviously religion plays a massive role in most conflicts but using it as a mobilising force for proletarian movements resolves a lot #of my confusion/uncertainty about religion in a socialist society #anyway I need to read a lot more I’m not very far into it #hoping maybe I can do a bit more reading in the summer but I have comp preparation then. augh #book club

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defleftist · 3 months

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A little birthday gift for myself. A goal of mine for the year is to become more financially literate but how to do that when I resent the need for money? This book was recommended to me. Review incoming as soon as I finish it.

#madeline pendleton #I survived capitalism and all I got was this lousy t-shirt #book #reading #leftist #leftblr #communist #socialist #communism #socialism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #leftist politics #finances #money #money makes the world go round #book nerd #book recs

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troythecatfish · 20 days

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Some other good ones are Michael Parenti, Albert Syzmanski, Domenico Lasurdo, and Mao

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easternblocrelics · 1 year

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You have a house... You have a garden... You have a radio... Have a home library too! Backside: Cooperative Book Stores all over the country 1971

#library #book #ad #advertistment #socialism #socialist #vintage #design #hungary #eastern bloc #calendar #pocket calendar

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thesmokinpossum · 3 months

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I can't believe y'all almost made me pay to go watch po*r th*ngs in theater without telling me that the whole thing revolves around a hardcore born sexy yesterday trope with a side dish of pseudo necrophilia where a woman with the brain of a litteral foetus who don't have periods or body hair (but do have boobs!) find joy and freedom by having a lot of sex with a bunch of men, shoving a apple up her vagina for some reason and joining a brothel (but it's a cool socialist brothel and all the girls looove being there, don't worry guys), all of that written and directed by two men, I'm never gonna trust you guys after this one lmao

#she also piss on the floor at some point and talks about fucking with the vocabulary of a toddler but i'm supposed to believe it's not sus #lmao ok sure #'there's more to the story than this!' idgaf! 'you're taking it out of context!' idgaf! 'it's actually a feminist story!' no it's not lmao #i cannot let go of the socialist brothel either like wooooow #men are so obsessed with the idea of natural born sex workers it's almost comical #also i cannot comment on the original book since i haven't read it #but apparently a big thing is that at the end it's revealed by the woman character that the male ones where bullshitting...#...about pretty much everything to look smarter and more important than they are #but in this 'feminist' movie they actually do frankenstein the woman and give her a second life fr fr #like aiiiight lmao #btw i truly don't care if you love the movie that's perfectly fine i love plenty of movies with very questionable content #plus i don't think anyone need my approbation to enjoy anything in this world #but boy does it personally gross me out #poor things spoilers #i hope this don't pop in the tag btw #if it does i'm sorry but people who wants to see it *will* complain about being spoil

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karamazovposting · 16 days

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Just remembered that at some point Rakitin calls the whole Karamazov family a bunch of conservatives and now I can't help but imagine him and Ivan having an insane argument Twitter leftist infighting style

(this post and this post are complementary)

#I'm saying infighting because even if I don't really know how to define Ivan's politics in detail #he does represent the westernized intellectual and some of his progressive ideas are mentioned in the book #like the whole Church-State separation thing and his opinions on Russia and Russians #and he's presented in opposition to Dmitri and Alyosha who are more aligned with Russian ideals so #he's definitely not as conservative as the rest of the Karamazovs #he's not as anti-Russia as Pavel either but still #and my personal interpretation of him calling Rakitin a liberal is him criticizing Rakitin for being a fake socialist #or not as much of a socialist as he claims to be anyway #which is a leftist infighting classic tbh #but that's just how I see it #this said I don't really think Ivan is a socialist but imo we don't see enough of his politics to give them a detailed definition #the brothers karamazov #ivan karamazov #mikhail rakitin #mine

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oldshrewsburyian · 1 year

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Robin Hood is king of the forest both by dignity of birth and by virtue of his standing army: to say nothing of the free choice of his people, which he has indeed, but I pass it by as an illegitimate basis of power.

Thomas Love Peacock, Maid Marian (1822)

#supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses #there's an even more explicitly socialist bit earlier about distributive justice #all of this makes much more sense when one realizes the author was pals with the shelleys #anyway #a very strange little novel #walter scott parody #greenwood shenanigans #social satire #combined and stirred #maid marian 1822 #thomas love peacock #book quotes

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infectiouspiss · 8 months

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my grandmother held sit down protests in the middle of the streets to force the local council to put in crossings???? holy shit ?????

#i learned this because my grandad gave my dad a book he didn’t like #he didn’t like it because it’s too left wing and too socialist #but he married little miss peaceful protest?????#okay slay

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godzilla-reads · 6 months

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—Palestine: A Socialist Introduction edited by Sumaya Awad and brian bean

#godzilla reads #Palestine: a socialist introduction #sumaya awad #reading #book blog #free palestine #booklr #bookworm #bookish

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alexanaraxadel · 3 months

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reading capital by karl marx is just me realizing wait why are we only asking for a “living wage”? why are we asking for just enough money to sustain us and keep us alive so we can go back and do more labor? why aren’t we asking for compensation for the LABOR THAT WE ACTUALLY DO for our employers??? regular ordinary workers make the ceos of every big corporation literal billionaires, so why aren’t they getting paid a wage for the work they’re DOING, the value they’re providing and creating, instead of just a wage to simply “live on”???? who gave capitalists the right to take that surplus i just wanna talk

#capitalism #i’m reading this for class and the whole time i’m just like wait #wait YEAH wtf #why am i getting a better understanding of how capitalism works through reading the socialist’s book #than i did when reading the literal founding text of capitalism (the wealth of nations)#i was so lost trying to read the wealth of nations but the logic holds up so much nicer here

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defleftist · 5 months

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I only ever want books for Xmas so what are some good leftist/feminist/queer book recs? Any recs involving history, philosophy, psychology, and politics are especially appreciated.

#books #reading #reader #i love reading #book recommendations #book recs #leftist books #literature #leftist #leftblr #communist #socialist #communism #socialism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #leftist politics

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troythecatfish · 3 months

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The Black Panther Party reading list. 💗

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easternblocrelics · 7 months

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Kossuth Publisher 1973

#hungary #kossuth #publisher #book #ad #adverstistment #socialist #socialism #design #vintage #eastern bloc #1973 #calendar #pocket calendar

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