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Yes, comrade:

>Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It is often described as reminding us that ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. We bring the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers and software. The Ubuntu distribution represents the best of what the world’s software community has shared with the world.

Smith would get branded a statist shithead by most ayncraps nowadays.

>Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.

The Wealth of Nations.

I agree with the sentiment but I feel The Wealth of Nations is an unworthy target of our scorn. Honestly for it's time it was a progressive book and proposing a system I think we would agree is better than the feudalistic system that came before it.

Also we have so many more deserving targets, anything by Ayn Rand for example.

Here is an interesting interview with HHDL on Marxism. I think there are some interesting things to note in here.

For instance, he justifies the actions of the Bolsheviks during the time of revolution:

> So then you see unfortunately this concept of the proletariat eventually becomes smeared with power. The Bolshevik revolution … it led to a civil war in Russia; so then, during the civil war there was also a certain practice of suspicion, dis-trust, and ruthless control, and secrecy. These are perhaps relevant during wartime. But unfortunately such a wartime practice and habit become part of the so-called Marxist regime in Russia, as also later Communist systems.

And while he criticizes Stalin, he very openly praises Mao:

> Stalin killed millions of people, his own people. There was immense suffering. I feel Mao Tse-tung was a sincere Marxist; he was a true Marxist revolutionary.

It should be noted that HHDL supported the revolution in China for a long while, but then began to be concerned about the state of Buddhism under communism. This interview seems to show some regret of working with the CIA/becoming their puppet after this point, but also feeling that the CCP betrayed their revolution.

Honestly, Esperanto could also help. Esperanto has influences from Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages. And besides, it's proven that learning Esperanto can help any language learning.

https://www.duolingo.com/

>And I think we should be reaching beyond the moral arguments are makings claims that can be backed with reason and logic.

/unjerk

What I'm saying though is I don't think that is possible. I can't think of any pro-socialist / anti-capitalist argument (aside from perhaps one of inevitability) that doesn't ultimately reduce to a moral argument. Even in "Capitalism and Freedom", Friedman's attempts at objective arguments ultimately reduce to moral ones.

/rejerk

Frozen peaches are sacrosanct and hating fascists is equivalent to being a fascist.

Nationstates is a country sim where you make countries according to your design (Socialist, Liberal, Fascist, Reactionary, your choice) and there are regions that act as groups for countries and can invaded by others countries and regions, in this case, a Nazi Region was conquered by an anti-fascist group.

Yup, Stalin: historia y crítica de una leyenda negra (2011). I don't know if it's still in print, the French translation isn't, sadly, so I've yet to find a copy which isn't hundreds of euros. There are also a few excerpts translated to English, and Stalin's Mustache has a review.

And while you're at it:

Capital Vol 1 & 2 for £3.99

Pity Amazon are scumbags who employ neo-nazi security guards to terrorize their low-paid immigrant warehouse staff.

I think you're misunderstanding me. My comment was related to how late 19th and early 20th century Marxists viewed the peasantry. Orthodox Marxists like Plekhanov and Kautsky interpreted Marx dogmatically and tended to universalize his statements about the French peasantry in Eighteenth Brumaire while ignoring his encouraging comments to Russian populists like Vera Zasulich. Lenin's advantage was his pragmatism; unlike legal Marxists such as P.B. Struve who wrote the "Manifesto of the First Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party" without any mention of the necessary relationship between the urban proletariat and the rural peasantry, he (Lenin) understood that the Social Democrats needed an agrarian program.

If you're interested in reading more on this topic I'd recommend checking out this book. It's anti-communist but nevertheless an interesting exposition of Lenin's political evolution on the peasant question.

Here's the Zasulich letter I was talking about.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/

Sorry if all of this is basic shit to you. Just trying to recommend some reading.

Bonus: Close Your Eyes and Count to Fuck

Lyrics

Killer Mike makes fucking awesome music videos

>My solitary condition's preventin' conjugal visits

>Though mainly missin' my missus, they keepin' me from my children

>Conditions create a villain, the villain is given vision

>The vision becomes a vow to seek vengeance on all the vicious

>Liars and politicians, profiteers of the prisons

>The forehead engravers and slavers of men and women

>Including members of clergy that rule on you through religion

>He'll strip your kids to the nude and then tell 'em God will forgive 'em

///

>Yes eclipsed by the shadows, a dark dance to the coffin

>I'm a fellow with melanin, suspect of a felony

>Rip like Rakim Allah, feds be checkin' my melody

>Yes aggressively testin' with bunk stretches and penalties

>Dump cases when facing to cop pleas when we seizing the pump

>With reason to dump on you global grand dragons

>Still piling fast bucks, Afghani toe taggin'

>Know they trackin' me cause we bustin' back, see

>The only thing that close quicker than our caskets be the factories

If you can run it on your computer Victoria II has some pretty decent mods for communist parties.

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri

Type in Victoria II and it will tell you if you can run it on your computer. It's not a super new game or incredibly intensive so it probably can.

Few countries needs socialism more than our Indian comrades.

[This is the home of Indian Billionaire Mukesh Ambani next to one of the world's worst slums.] (http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Antilia_(building\))

/uj

It low-key annoys me that your joke comment has more upnoots than mine (in which I present an actual quote from The Art of War that supports, if nothing else, the general sentiment).

/rj

Mao should have studied the classics better!

> "If your protege is named Deng, be wary!"

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

I've heard good things about The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, which is coming out in the fall. Here's an interview with him in jail. And here's a bunch of articles and books about Huey, Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers:

• Bobby Seale's "Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton"
• "The Black Panther Party Service to the People Programs"
• "The Huey P. Newton Reader"
• Michael Eric Dyson's "Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X"
• "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements"
• "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"
• "The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches By Malcolm X"

Well, it differs from source to source.

From Wikiquote:

>I am a friend, comrades, a friend!

First words upon returning to Earth, to a woman and a girl near where his capsule landed (12 April 1961) The woman asked: "Can it be that you have come from outer space?" to which Gagarin replied: "As a matter of fact, I have!"

-As quoted in The Air Up There : More Great Quotations on Flight (2003) by Dave English, p. 118

.....

>When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!

-Recalling his meeting with workers in a field, upon his landing, as quoted in "Life on Mars?" by Jesse Skinner in Toro magazine (14 October 2008)

They're not too complicated, the only real hitch is that you need a seperate program to download torrents, I use one called Deluge.

From there, just look for something that says 'Download magnet" or "magnet link" on the site of the torrent you want to download, and you're going!

Well, you can check out /r/DnD or /r/RPG to start, they have wikis and resources in their sidebars. Try to find a local group to play with, google around or check out /r/LFG (Looking For Group). If you live near a college campus or major city, it should be relatively easy to find a group.

I personally think DnD is best experienced with everyone around the same table, but if you can't find a group in your area playing online can work just as well. Tabletop Simulator is 50% off right now on Steam, and Roll20 is a free way to play in-browser. Roll20 is what my friends and I have been using when we aren't able to all get together in one place.

If DnD's high fantasy isn't really your thing, it doesn't even have to be Dungeons and Dragons. Many tabletop games share similar rules with DnD but are in alternate settings such as science fiction, historical, horror, anime, anything you can think of. For example, I'm currently playing a communist space marine in a Sci-Fi RPG called Stars Without Number. What you can do in tabletop RPGs is truly only limited by your imagination.

Me waiting for China to nationalize everything again

I find myself missing everything about Morrowind most of the time....I'm going to go play Morrowind.

edit: If you don't know OpenMW is the shit. It ports Morrowind to run on Linux, and I must say, it runs way better on Linux than it ever did on Windows. I put it on my work laptop so I have something to do if I'm traveling.

Fair man, would you mind telling me where you got this exact definition from? The merriam-webster dictionary has got it down more in the terms I was thinking of it in:

Definition of special interest : a person or group seeking to influence legislative or government policy to further often narrowly defined interests; especially : lobby

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/special%20interest

And 53% polled would vote for him as Labour leader, as opposed to Andy Burnham with 21% in second place. Most odds are about 4/9 chance of him winning. [source]

"Die Reden Hitlers am Reichsparteitag 1933" published by the NAZI Party in 1934. Page 41, last paragraph.

Here's the WorldCat entry for it: http://www.worldcat.org/title/reden-hitlers-am-reichsparteitag-1933/oclc/67937634&referer=brief_results

ITunes link // Web player

Here's our second episode, focused on Trump trying to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts. We use it as an opportunity to talk about why capitalism opposes art that's not profitable. Please give feedback!

http://en.akinator.com/

I think it's some learning algorithm, it knows way too much stuff to be hand-fed. I remember when it became popular first, and it already knew some low-class TV prominence from my country.

Based on the Amazon reviews, it looks like this is actually an anti-Trump book with quotes selected to make Trump look like an idiot.

I hope there's some place you can get it for cheaper, but I found it on Amazon a while back. I kind of thought that this was fake, but I guess it's real.

I suggest ypu just delve into Das Kapital and when it grinds on you too much dive into other works. It's really dry and heavy and I found that helped when I read it. Break it up.

I also recommend The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. Go read what he actually thought about Capitalism. Smith had plenty of criticism and is very often misquoted and misrepresented.

Nicomachean Ethics wasn't all that bad; I read the entirety of it for college a couple of weeks ago and it was rather interesting, even though there are what we would refer in the modern eye as reactionary thought.

The bit about the translator is somewhat accurate; I am well aware of the kind of people who make careers out of translating such texts.

Fun fact: Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson was Ayn Rand's favorite economics book, and the socioeconomic theories he presented in it served as the theoretical foundation for the plot of Atlas Shrugged.

Zizek and Varoufakis on Brexit. Looking from the outside, I tend to agree with Varoufakis' position, which he elaborates further here.

I don't know of any lithographs (historical books doing a detailed study of one topic) that cover the gulag system accurately. However, I quite like this article dealing with the subject. Hopefully this link works for you. If not, let me know.

My Abandonware! That's where I downloaded it from. You can get the expansion there too!

Apparently:

> according to Goldman scholar Alix Kates Shulman, it was instead the invention of anarchist printer Jack Frager for a small batch of Goldman T-shirts he printed in 1973.

My only source ;)

First you download and install a bittorrent client, personally I use Deluge. For Deluge you just click add torrent and then place the URLs where it says so. If you have any questions feel free to DM me or just google it.

Is there an English version? Okay, so there is, though I'd would wager that most of us who saw the series back then saw it in another language, because Annie May was neither known nor very popular in Anglo countries at the time.

Modding isn't really a thing with regard to GBA and NDS games. You have homebrews, but it's just not a huge, extensive practice the way it is for PC games.

Same goes for Android games in general, in that modding them isn't an extensive practice, although a rare few, like Pixel Dungeon, are open source, so you could certainly mod them if you wanted to. In fact, a FULLCOMMUNIST mod of Pixel Dungeon sounds awesome now that I think about it...

I do some game development on the side (nothing fancy), and as much as I'd love to make a FULLCOMMUNIST game for Android, I'm not a fan of mobile gaming in general. But if I ever do, I'll let you know! :P

Red Alert 1 is also free:

http://ra.nv17.com/html/ra/download.html

Also there's an open-source clone game.

http://www.openra.net/

Haven't checked it out myself but might as well mention it.

This right here. Windows is a prison of an operating system. It will lock you out and has numerous backdoors. Here's my recommended OS and if someone is new to Linux then this.

Thank you kindly.

And I use GIMP personally because it's free. Mostly the process just consists of a bunch of copying and pasting, blending, and use of the gradient tool. Turning an image into a GIF is a little more complicated but still possible in GIMP. For that it's really just about making a bunch of image layers like a flip book then trying to get the timing right. Lots of trial and error for me right now because I'm pretty new to image manipulation.

Loaves is tough because there aren't that many words that follow that rule but this might help. "Loaves" is pretty unique.

Are you sure? A quick search pulls up numerous sources citing the quote to Stalin, not Lenin.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=when+we+hang+the+capitalists&PC=U316&FORM=CHROMN

(Yes, I use Bing)

If you're interested in writing a FULLCOMMUNIST text adventure, Inform 7 is a very accessible language, even if you don't have any programming background. It looks almost like English, and is pretty easy to pick up.

If you're going to edit the countries localisation file(/localisation/countries_l_english.yml) you should use Notepad++, because in regular notepad it doesn't segment it into lines and it's all just a big mess. Don't forget to make backups!

Nice. I really enjoy The Temptest. One of my favorites from Shakespeare, actually. And I'll definitely have to check that out from Gaiman. He's one of those who I'm embarrassed to say I haven't read anything from yet. Thanks for the recommendation.

And if you have the time and wouldn't mind going to the Amazon page for the book and leaving a rating and a one or two sentence review that would be very useful to me.

Thanks for your interest and for giving the book a listen even if you don't have the time to review it, though. I really appreciate your comment here, and I'll definitely check out Miracleman.

Both. He tries to provide an honest, clear-headed, scientific analysis, but he ends up just honestly analyzing a strawman. For example, he tries to point out that the socioeconomic system of the USSR could never possibly work because (according to him) rational economic calculation cannot be performed without money. The fact that the USSR never stopped using money is never addressed. But then again, the book was originally published in 1922, so its fair to assume he was trying to refute abstract socialist theory rather than point out any real problems with actually existing socialism. His logic is still bad, though. He also provides some historical analysis, but his reading and interpretation of history is clouded by his capitalist ideology.

Here's the book on Amazon:

<em>Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis</em>, by Ludwig von Mises

Side note: I'm actually a former Libertarian myself, and I read the above book a few years ago because I was struggling to understand what Socialism was, and the other authors I had read (Paul B. Skousen and Ayn Rand) didn't provide a logically consistent answer. I eventually realized that Mises didn't either, but at the time he seemed more logically consistent than the others. Or at least his approach felt like a level-headed scientific analysis, whereas Rand and Skousen were just blatant fear-mongers. The problem with Mises is that he just makes a lot of bad assumptions and uses faulty premises.

For two not explicitly communist books, I'm currently reading Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano which is very good, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X is a must-read for the American left and everyone else ever.

The "funny" thing is that if they actually read The Wealth of Nations beyond the first 8 pages there are a lot of negative views on capitalism.

>Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Or on merchants:

>men whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.

Or on division of labour:

>The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. The torpor of his mind renders him not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life.

I do not, but I can show you how to make it.

1st: you will need Zooper Widget 2nd: Put down a zooper widget on your homescreen (make it whatever size you want) and then tap on it (where it says resize or tap to start)

3rd: Once you have tapped on that, find the option where it says "Empty"

4th: Now that you have done that, tap "Layout". Once you have done that, you will see that you have no active modules. Go ahead and click the plus sign in the top right hand corner

5th: Now tap the first option which is "Text"

6th: After that, scroll down and tap "Text Content" > then "Weather" > use the "conditions and temperature option" > then go to "Edit text manually" (you will see it right away)

7th: Now, you will see something like "#WCCOND#, #WCTEMP#", basically you just type whatever you want before those letters Ex: The Revolution Calls For: #WCCOND#, #WCTEMP#

That's pretty much it. Sorry for the long and slightly confusing tutorial on how to make it, I'm not sure how to share files with Zooper so I guess this will have to suffice.

As I learned today, it REALLY depends on the cop.

One excerpt:

> At the same time, a significant majority of black officers believe that protests following officer-involved killing of black citizens were at least in part motivated by a desire to hold the police accountable; only 27 percent of their white colleagues agreed.

73% of white cops are apparently out of their goddamned minds.

I believe deep in my heart that this is Comrade Inky's doing. Ever since his escape, he has been recruiting and training an army of sharks, squids, and other sea creatures to fight back against the capitalist destruction of the oceans. This is just the beginning!

https://www.npr.org/2016/04/16/474412283/inky-the-octopuss-great-escape

If you go by his statement.

I don't trust a man who spends one moment praising Globalization before the gathered heads of the world's most powerful capitalist nations one minute and claims he's the new Mao Zedong the next.

based on how he treats workers I'd hate to live in a nation ran by him. He is apparently obsessed with everything going though him and wanting a finger in every pie. On top of that Space X is still ran like a start up, long working hours, poor working conditions, and detached management.

The good reviews of working there are only given by those who don't know what to expect and have grown up with the "Beg for scraps or starve" attitude that seems to be common at the moment. People giving "4 stars, free coffee." Must be so green faced, Free Coffee is a basic perk! I've worked tempt gigs over the summer between university terms that had free coffee, free fruit, and occasional free lunch, all without the horrible working conditions.

http://www.indeed.com/cmp/Spacex/reviews

Yeah falafels are brown chickpea-balls and a loofah is like.. sponge or something. Anyway O'reilly once left messenges on his secretaries machine asking her to clean herself with &quot;that... falafel thing&quot;

That manifesto link is a bit dated.

You're gonna wanna see these two documents:

http://issuu.com/wineredpsy/docs/manifesto.docx_d82a7afa65550b

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XEFY9NhTZ1dpRhaACdw5vLV_Db69ow-_PeU57VQ8vzM/edit#slide=id.p

Ping /u/iannaiian_7_12

If you like audio books check LibriVox, it's a great resource for other public domain works as well. ☭

raiding/defending. you "elect" a World Assembly Delegate in enemy regions that allow the Delegate to make changes to the region (example) or in friendly regions that have been invaded by enemies.

The Red Fleet is one of the most well-known raiding organizations in NationStates and is the only active raiding organization to have a Commendation from the World Assembly - which is rare, because the World Assembly typically refuses to Commend raiders.

There's the communist bloc ( Largest one I think) The communist Internationale, The Communist region and Communist party of Nation States. Those are the larger groups. If you want you could also create a new region or join smaller one. And BTW, my nation is this one..

[](/sovietdash) This article goes into the subject a bit. Some of the more explicit episodes I remember, in increasing order, are Sweet and Elite (One of the characters tries to mingle with the petit-bourgeois, realizes they are a bunch of gits), Hearth's Warming Eve (The Mane 6 perform a play about how the old semi-fedual system was overthrown), The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000 (Some capitalists roll in and try to exploit the workers, get ~~sent to gulag~~ driven out by Mane 6 (using the magic of glorious agricultural collectivisation)), The Cutie Map (Mane 6 are given a mission to ~~incite revolution amongst foreign workers~~ spread the magic of friendship across Equestria, overthrow a fascist regime), and the cream of the crop, Winter Wrap Up. Oh my, was in fun seeing the liberals' reactions to that. Its entire moral was pretty much "Planned economies work better than the free market". In it, the ponies have an annual celebration where they bring spring in to Equestria (May Day much?), during this some externalities create a conflict between two of the ~~businesses~~ teams, and at the end, our protagonist uses the magic of organization to fix all the economic problems, ever.

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Stephen Kotkin in conversation with Slavoj Zizek at the New York Public Library YouTube Link

Also, while I have not read it yet, Stephen Kotkin's Stalin: Volume II was recently released, which I expect, along with Volume I, provides further detail on many of the topics discussed in the video. An excerpt from the Amazon description, summarizes:

> The wholesale collectivization of some 120 million peasants necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, and the resulting mass starvation elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. But Stalin did not flinch. By 1934, when the Soviet Union had stabilized and socialism had been implanted in the countryside, praise for his stunning anti-capitalist success came from all quarters. Stalin, however, never forgave and never forgot, with shocking consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite of young strivers like himself. Stalin’s obsessions drove him to execute nearly a million people, including the military leadership, diplomatic and intelligence officials, and innumerable leading lights in culture. 

See Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee

And Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/AI-Superpowers-China-Silicon-Valley/dp/132854639X

The author isn't a socialist, but the subject matter should interest every marxist.

I've been through a couple jobs in the last year, though my leaving has never been about my political affiliations. I've read Capital in the lunchroom before, I just have The Wealth of Nations nearby so I can say that I'm reading Marx for my economics class at uni ;)

The books is called, "How Hitler Could Have Won WWII" by Bevin Alexander. The only Nazis it really glorifies is Rommel who wasn't really a Nazi, but just a brilliant merciful soldier. He refused to execute prisoners, kills jews/other "undesirables". Hitler also forced him to commit suicide on grounds of killing Rommel's family if he didn't. Here's an Amazon link for you: https://www.amazon.com/How-Hitler-Could-Have-World/dp/0609808443

here is a short article to start with, https://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/angry-corner/nasser%E2%80%99s-anniversary-toward-reassessment

also to understand his greatest achievement this will help https://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Lions-Tail-Through-Egyptian/dp/0877959196/ref=pd_sim_14_3/179-2204043-6020227?ie=UTF8&amp;dpID=51tdIFG5CnL&amp;dpSrc=sims&amp;preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=Z4B6TR04C326V9VP0F9C

Woah, $150!!

Here is an Amazon link for that book. Looks like it's $104 on Amazon, still out of my range but there are some suggested books there that are cheaper that look interesting. Maybe I'll convince my library to get it then I can try to scan it or something.

I can think of no better example of this in action than when reading Chapter 5 of Longo, Clausen, and Clark's The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture.

Highly, highly, highly recommend.

I've seen this book, <em>Capitalism: A Companion to Marx's Economy Critique</em>, recommended.

> This clear and engaging guide explains capitalism for absolute beginners. Fornäs situates Marx’s ideas in context, remaining faithful to the concepts and structure of his work. This complete introduction to Marx’s economy critique covers all three volumes of Capital. It explores all the main aspects of Marx’s work – including his economic theory, his philosophical sophistication and his political critique – introducing the reader to Marx’s typical blend of sharp arguments, ruthless social reportage and utopian visions.

Anyone read it?

Couldn't find this specific version in German.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671678817/ref=x_gr_mw_bb_sout_a?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=x_gr_mw_bb_sout_a-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0671678817&amp;SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2