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Start with a book by Rius titled Marx for Beginners. It will make your further reading easier to digest. It is written in comic form but don’t interpret that as condescending. It’s meant in some cases to literally illustrate the subject matter visually. It’s what I started with and what I recommend to anyone starting along the path.

Purchase: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0375714618

PDF: http://ciml.250x.com/archive/marx_engels/on_me/marx_for_beginners.pdf

Seconded for this narrative.

I say this because to my knowledge, they shut down the most effective ones about two years ago (based on my comparisons using That One Privacy Guy's spreadsheet). I contacted another VPN service that was using the same domain extension (think ".com" or ".net" but a more unusual one) and they laughed at my question of whether or not they'd be next. The attack wasn't even on their radar. When I checked back with them a few weeks later they'd been shut down too. I gave up and figured Mullvad seemed to be the best alternative.

The amount of awful things the AFL-CIO has supported over the years is too long to list. It would require a book like Kim Scipes' AFL-CIO’s Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? to list them all, and even then, that only scratches the surface of of their international operations.

He's not wrong but you could say that billions have suffered from the publication of The Wealth of Nations by Smith or the Christian Bible, both books he'd be more inclined to agree with. At least he didn't start ranting about burning it ;-)

Not sure if you've seen this but there's a really good documentary -ignoring the typical liberal anti-communist bullshit sprinkled here and there- comparing sex in the East vs the West called Do Communists Have Better Sex. Guess who wins :)

This and this. There are some more on the DPRK reading list that is linked a lot. I don't have it on me rn sorry.

This and his book with the same title.

Also, The Divide by Jason Hickel.

And, Divided Class, Divided World by Zak Cope.

I didn't start the organization I'm in, so I can't help you there, but I can give you some tips on how to stay safe.

Always use an encrypted e-mail and SMS-service. I recommend https://tutanota.com/ for e-mails, and Signal for SMS.

Be safe when doing activist-work or demonstrating. For generel activism (hanging posters, graffiti, handing out flyers, ETC.) I recommend wearing plain, dark clothes, and always having someone standing guard if you're hanging posters or doing graffiti. Don't bring your phones, so the police can't check your e-mails or SMS if they stop you. Always know your rights, but don't be too confrontational with law enforcement when it isn't necessary. If you're doing a demonstration, use red block/black block strategies. Wear dark clothes with no obvious identifying marks, keep as much of your head covered as you can.

Feel free to ask any questions you have about this subject, I'm still sort of new to activism, but I'll answer what I can. :)

I use Astrill. It's one of the few that actually works well consistently in China (where I live). I think that's partially because their operations and servers are all offshore, and they are based in The Seychelles. There are so many servers available that when one stops working, it's easy to switch to another one. You can also turn on the setting to block internet access once you get disconnected from the VPN.

I think you would find Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti interesting. He discusses some of the policies of the Stalinist era, as well as some other criticisms of socialist countries and communism.

https://www.amazon.com/Cambodia-1975-1982-Vickery/dp/9747100819

This is a field where the popular understanding is so crude and fantastical that any real work of history will destroy whatever prejudices you have. This is a good work and is considered one of the foundations of Cambodian history but as you read, think about yourself as well. Why do I care about Cambodia and not Laos? Why does society care? Why does the government of Cambodia itself care? Genocide is the ideological term for post-Soviet imperialism, or at least it was in the 90s, and it's much more important to understand why rather than be led by the nose to Rwanda next, then Yugoslavia, then Syria.

https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Genocide-Edward-S-Herman/dp/1583672125

I also recommend The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone. She wrote it in the 70s, which is still modern compared to Rosa. She synthesized a lot of important philosophers into this text (Marx, Freud, Engels, etc.) and really helped revolutionize the 2nd wave feminist movement (now, you can criticize the 2nd wave all you want (and you should) but she was a Jewish Woman at the forefront with this writing). A lot of context can be brought into this if you read Engels' On the Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State, if you haven't read it yet.

Also fairly cheap on amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Dialectic-Sex-Case-Feminist-Revolution/dp/0374527873/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1510763325&sr=8-1&keywords=the+dialectic+of+sex&dpID=514jT9a7qWL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

Hilariously that is how I discovered politics through a mutual friend who managed a group back in 2009, I own it today. Check it out we are called Communists and Socialists of Roblox. https://www.roblox.com/My/Groups.aspx?gid=38489

A better question is, at what points was it ever good?

I think there are some good examples. CIO stuff, IWW, etc, but almost the entirety of the history of the US labor movement is bad. This has been known for a long, long time. Check out Lovestone's The Labor Lieutenants of American Imperialism. Lovestone himself would later become one of these people.

I was pleasantly surprised by this song and I'm glad I listened to it all the way through. For anyone interested here are the lyrics.

I wanted to write it off as another song that idolizes a revolutionary based off of the title and it definitely wasn't. I don't personally enjoy this type of music, though I wouldn't mind it having more popularity in the hip-hop community. A community that has removed itself completely away from its roots in class struggles.

The Librivox recordings of <em>Wage-Labour and Capital</em> and <em>Socialism: Utopian and Scientific</em> are an excellent place to start.

I've been listening to Captial Vol.1 to/from work for weeks. Not ideal, since it requires focused concentration to follow, but I'm hoping that this prepares me for the next go 'round with my paper-back copy.

Most Librivox narrators annoy me so I can't deal with listening to many of the great audio books out there.

One of my favorite Librivox listens is Kropotkins' Memoirs Vol.1, and Vol.2. What an amazing survey of history, geography, and revolution in 1800's Russia. I really like the narrator (or should I say reader?) for this book.

(This is my first attempt at formatting links, so please be patient if this post is clunky)

You can run lineageOS on your phone, which by default is free and open source. It comes with camera, gallery, email client and browser software etc. Most importantly it comes without anything google (including the play store and play services). You can avoid the play store by downloading APKs from a mirror and installing directly. Some developers (like Signal) offer open source apps with direct APK download on their website, including an MD5 hash so you can verify the download.

Most people seem to have focused on the privacy aspect of your post. To address the security, a basic thing everyone should do is use a password manager (e.g. KeePass) to have unique and complicated passwords for everything you use. In my own case I have over 200 unique 20 character passwords but I only have to remember the login for the manager.

There is an extension you can use to get through paywalls

I dont know about the TOR network's landscape in Brazil.

The primary way to attack TOR is to *be the first node someone connects to,* and simply have the keys to break that first layer of encryption.

Solution: pick a trusted vanguard node.

Problem with that solution:

If everyone uses each other as vanguard nodes, that gets to show established meat-space networks.

Solution? Centralized vanguard node.

Problem? That gets expensive to afford the bandwidth, AND the node becomes a target for state infiltration. With Trump pledging support for this Brazillian wannabe dictator, CIA's "Tailored Access Operations" (TAO) can use persistence to get in to a single computer.

Some should use TOR. Some should use Mullvad. Some should use ProtonVPN free (they used a not-well studied-in-public cipher, so I dont trust it). Some should use Cryptostorm VPN free. Some should use paid-version cryptostorm. Some should use doublehop.

Spread out. Concentrating on a single location makes you a target, just like for a drone attack.

I also recommend NordVPN - it's based in Panama (that has no mandatory data retention laws) while Mullvad is in Sweden (EU), though I have not tried it personally. Also, NordVPN seems a bit better rounded - torrenting, netflix, high on security, lots of servers. But other than that, just use the one you can get/afford.

It's also a good idea to check r/vpncoupons for deals, they have good discounts there, anything to make it more affordable. Do not use a free VPN no matter what

Agitprop was pretty good. The Churchill quote is pretty good. He's considered a national hero here, no one knows that he was a horrendous person who condoned the starving of millions on the Indian subcontinent. These old-school Tories were basically fascists.

Agitprop forgets to mention that the UK set up Israel.

If you want to read more into the UK' imperialist legacy I would suggest this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3004197-the-blood-never-dried

Love stuff like this. I have a pinterest where I've collected quite a variety of propaganda.

I found some interesting cartoons during the 60s, and you can see various specific events that apparently were news-worthy that a variety of cartoonists made cartoons about. It's interesting to see the attempt to subvert whatever restrictions were on speech at the time.

I really dig the Constructivist style in a lot of propaganda posters from the Soviet Union. It's just so damn good.

I find it fascinating how people will get all up in arms about "propaganda" from the "bad guys" but when they look back on their own history, they utterly ignore the same sort of thing. Uncle Sam Posters, Keep Calm Carry On, etc... Or they act as if it's not propaganda for some reason when their side does it.

Modern day propaganda is more insidious, certainly more covert, and I think masks itself more as entertainment.

I've access to all issues of Pravda via State Public Historical Library website, so if you need a specific issue, I can download it, however, downloading the entire archive will take too much time.

There is a torrent, but it doesn't have everything https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4628458

Also, there is a torrent that contains 1917 issues of Pravda https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4297311

Richard Wright's Native Son is an excellent novel from 1940. Wright was a member of the Communist Party and is one of the canonized greats of African American literature. The main character of the novel is introduced to communism, which is instantly regarded as the only ideology that has anything to offer the American black community. Really a great read. Amazon link

Last year's Pulitzer Prize in Fiction was won by Viet Thanh Nguyen with The Sympathizer, which is a spy-thriller about the Vietnam War. While Nguyen does eventually criticize the National Liberation Front, he spends a great deal of the novel criticizing American imperialism as well. Nguyen identifies as Marxist, but is taking a fairly balanced approach here, being rather critical of communism in VN after the death of Uncle Ho. Amazon link

See:

https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3M8V2DVNJK63Y&amp;keywords=white+fragility+robin+diangelo&amp;qid=1551741883&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=white+frag%2Caps%2C147&amp;sr=8-2

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No that's false, Polima Zhemchuzhina was absolutely a Jewish person. It's difficult to find information on this, but she was apparently interested in turning Crimea into a Jewish republic or oblast similar to the 1934 project in the Far East. For reasons beyond my knowledge, this was considered anti-Soviet and she was imprisoned. Oleg Khlevniuk suggests that the evidence against her was fabricated, but lone his citation is only in Russian. Seems potentially unreliable.

Yeah, my local library only had two books that could be seen as sympathetic to communism: Failed States by Noam Chomsky and The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. Other than that the only other books in the 'socialism/communism' section were The Black Book, Court of the Red Tsar, The Gulag Archipelago, Mao: The Unknown Story

I'm glad you commented, that was actually very helpful. You're entirely right, I was reading it from that "political economy" perspective. I actually jumped right into the book with the intention of reading it that way. Before began reading it, my understanding was that Capital was essentially an economics book, much like Smith's The Wealth of Nations, Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money or Friedrich von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Like I mentioned before, macroeconomics is a little hobby of mine. I had the intention of reading treatises on political economy as a sort of comparative reading after I finished Marx' Capital.

During my senior year in HS (Economics was one of my subjects) I became obsessed with the works of George Orwell and political theory in general. This lead me to read 'The Wealth of Nations', 'Democracy in America' and all of JS Mill's 'On Liberty' and 'The Principals of the Political Economy'. By that point I was extremely discontent with the concept of laissez-faire Capitalism and started to align more with Democratic Socialism.

From there it didn't take me long to consider myself a more classical socialist, though I only made the jump to communist after reading Engels' works. I generally prefer the label, not only because it more accurately describes my political/economic stance, but because it doesn't associate me with the centre-left demsoc parties of Europe.

I made a resource list of relevant readings, films and audios if you are truly willing to learn. That said, i posted a number of articles already in comments that you can start with.

No one is asking you to "root" for anyone, much less a bourgeois state and its military. But western subjects are led to believe that Russia lords over half of a continent. Meanwhile, just off screen, the old slave holding imperialists of europe and her conquistador successor regimes depopulate many of that continents’ ex-worker states via economic and other disavowed forces. It is a duty of all to fight and defeat the principal imperialist power of the planet: the US-NATO-Nazi axis.

The key to anti­-imperialism is self­ criticism and the first step is to question the veracity of what you are being told

I made a resource list that includes plenty of info on that here

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That one doesn’t have any podcasts, so here is a post I made here that includes those.

They were killed in mass during stalin, he called them degenerates , no one supported them n mass, and still don't especially in Chechnya where they kill and torture them.

I.E. They wereand still are fucked.

I hate to just leave a link to a book, but read Late Capitalism.

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafykbzacecfrwuzhadfh3b442tr4dni4nom3pazhci6nuf24ag7pfkq7amhmw?filename=Ernest%20Mandel%20-%20Late%20Capitalism%20%28Verso%20Classics%2C%2023%29-Verso%20%281998%29.pdf

I was confused at first seeing this because aren't there only 2 volumes of it... But then looking at the editions for sale most of them are under 200 pages with selections from volume 1 (chapter 1 on Feuerbach, which is the famous part, plus excerpts from either chapter 2 or 3). I have this edition which has both volumes and all chapters, it's complete as far as I can tell.

If you are fine with using ebooks, libgen can be a useful resource, and appears to have both books

I checked on a few leftist booksellers I know of (pathfinder, verso) and it doesn't look like either book is sold by either publisher. There may be others that sell it tho

For more information on the conflict, see the work of Marxist Barrie Collins Rwanda 1994: The Myth of the Akazu Genocide Conspiracy and its Consequences

I've only read a few chapters into it, but Wendy Goldman's Women, the State, and Revolution was a fairly detailed look at Soviet family policy in the USSR. She has a pretty uncharitable take on it and her perspective is fairly liberal, but the book itself has lots of interesting information.

There are PDF's on libgen.is, just search

It's Tony Norfield's blog, and he wrote a very good book on finance capital I'd recommend & otherwise posts informative things.

https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=65483AB6A7AD1A1CDA29CD1B9E33B9EB

Huh, there's actually a WordPress plugin that emulates the sort of Stack Exchange Q&A format. Free and open-source, too. Wouldn't be hard to get that going. Pair that with the wiki idea and it'd be a pretty neat little knowledge base.

This is an excellent VPN. Brazilian comrades need to protect themselves. Use a VPN to hide your IP address. You also should use a program like TOR to hide your identity. Times of great hardship are coming.

https://nordvpn.com/

https://tails.boum.org/

Tails with TOR is a live disk, meaning it leaves no traces on your computer. Combined with a VPN, your online identity would be untraceable.

While the US is trying to steal Venezuela's gold, it's probably worth mentioning that they're moving somewhere around 40 tons of gold stolen from Syria and Iraq by ISIS to the US, now that it appears ISIS is running out of room to run to.

https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/1800078/posts/2187192958

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Let me say that again - it appears that the US is moving tens of tons of gold stolen by ISIS into the US.

I have been wondering how Lenin heard about Moffett's work, but I suppose it might have had something to do with Samuel Erasmus Moffett being the nephew of Mark Twain.

In any case, it is clear that if Lenin read only the first chapter of this brilliant work, he couldn't help but come to the conclusion that English-speaking Canadians aren't a separate nation from Euro-Americans.

I just tried writing out an explanation but it ended up a mess of ramblings... This whitepaper will give a way better explanation than I ever could. https://getsession.org/whitepaper

It's free to use and I believe they plan to fund it with in app purchases of stickers and premium usernames but only 1% of people will probably pay for these additional services.

For full transparency I feel like I have to tell you that it is associated with a cryptocurrency that I put my savings into. This subreddit may not be the appropriate place to bring this up, I only mention it because it's free to use and provides the anonymity required.

Hi comrade. This is the best messager for Anonymity https://getsession.org/

It only came out in February 6th so there's still some bugs that need working out and more features are in the process of being added. It doesn't require email or phone numbers, accounts are generated on the device. It's also decentralised and uses onion routing to hide IP address and metadata.

Closed groups of upto 500 people is a feature that still needs to be added but you can currently create open groups if you host them yourself on a VPS.

Let me know if you have any questions or need help with anything. You can add me with this Session ID 05a23cbdd20237014fff6bec32c3ae1775e3e2a290975c412986fd08a97c3dc211

Briar looks to be promising. Internet communication through Tor, and allows for communication through local network and Bluetooth if there is no internet. Basically a mesh network and peer to peer. And of course end to end encrypted.

I would really recommend you to use Mastodon instead. I can't recommend any specific accounts right now, but the community as a whole is extremely leftist, it seems like almost every second person I see is a communist or anarchist. Plus it is all open source and run by volunteers, so there are no ads or user tracking.

let me make an example:

BMW has factories in east asia, african and south america. They can buy resources at a very cheap price from undeveloped countries,. They can use cheap labrour, factory, resource to make a great car in western world.

the beautiful western world is built by middle east oil, african，south american ore， taiwain，korea, japan cheap skilled labours. cherry is from Chile； cheap Honda，toyota cares are made in Japan, all the fish cans from Newfoundland or Norway.

if China don't open up its economy, China surely can't compete with US. Probably China can give people more eaually staff than US, but for propaganda, Chinese citizen would have been thinking why are we so poor?Why are US so rich？Why are western world so much better than us? They have beautiful houses, roads, gardens and fancy cars.

When you explain to the citizen, bacause we are a communist country and we are more equal. Nobody would give a fuck about that.

for one thing, socialist country don't have porn, west has ! socialism might have a great production for great things such as calculation, science, space technology, but capitalism creat things based on human desire such as porn, junk food, soap opera. You know who's going to win in the end——human desires.

It may not be exactly what you’re after but I found Molotovs ‘memoir’ “Molotov Remembers” was probably the best delve into the historical practice and personality of ‘stalinism’ I have found, and offers a very intimate and invaluable perspective. For the theory side, as others have suggested, Foundations of Leninism is the core work.

Mullvad is really good. Hosted in Sweden but has servers in oike 35 countries, and you don't give any email adress, they just generate a serial number you'll use. And they accept anonymous payment, like a 5$ with a piece of paper with the serial number writen on it so they know whuch account is paid for, and you send it throught postal service. They of course also accept more traditionnal ways to pay. This is the VPN Mozilla Firefox uses for its offer (but it's more expensive through Mozilla).

Oh. And a good point. Their open source (free as in free speech, for people knowing what I'm talking about) vpn client does have a network shutdown option when the VPN has an issue, so you're warned and it doesn't just switch to no vpn to maintain connection like some other vpn do.

Unfortunately I don't think Astrill ever really does discounts or promos. If you're looking for something a bit cheaper, I've heard good things about Nord VPN, which is about $5 per month. It looks like they're based in Panama, which does not require them to retain records and is not in an intelligence-sharing alliance with the US.

This book is wery good, i sugest you read it https://www.amazon.com/Why-Socialism-Works-Harrison-Lievesley/dp/1521531218/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=why+socialism+works&amp;qid=1597269228&amp;sr=8-2

Well comrade, the quote is apparently from Feliks Chuev's book 140 Conversations with Molotov (1991). So, this is probably a recollection from V.M. Molotov and not a letter. I don't have that book and found the quote here.

I do have a 2007 edition/version of this book: Molotov Remembers. Strangely, it doesn't seem to have this quote. So either the quote is from somewhere else or wasn't included in this version. I can't say it would surprise me if it was the latter; Soviet "historians" have done worse.

i'm trying it IRL

Shit I didn't know that about NordVPN, fuck me I guess I'll have to use a different VPN once it expires next year. Is PrivateInternetAccess good to your knowledge? I've heard a lot of people shill for it and I'm not too knowledgeable on VPNs.

NordVPN collects and sells your data.

Mullvad deletes even technical logs in an hour, pressuring their network admins to do the job now.

Cryptostorm is another good one. As is doublehop.

is a project from a guy on /r/privacy . USE IT!

If your needs are met? Cool.

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Sorry, but I can tell you from experience that Google "Analytics" isnt just there to analyze traffic - consider google your enemy. They've responded with subpoenas for people's data before, so if you're dodging state oppression, its best not to tempt that beast:

Wral - independently owned tv station local to the city in the US that started this.

Affiliate partners for promotions? Thats your data in potentially non-reputable third parties' hands. And the language settings? Is redundant with any modern browser, which, based on the Unicode standard, tells what country you're in.

I prefer VPNs that dont even know who I am. That dont use google. Who use third party payment processors that dont have access to know who I am as a user, rather than giving up everything about myself to their third-party "analytics" and "promotions". And language settings are redundant.

If a repressive state is going to find out who I am and what Im doing, I want to make it as hard as possible. I dont want "local subsidiaries" even more tightly bound to repressive laws than a hosting company.

That's why I like - they've closed up shop, and reopened under a different name as a "legally distinct business," rather than sell out their customers.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X is probably my all-time favorite book. It doesn’t really get better than that in terms of telling the story. At the end there’s even an epilogue by Alex Haley (who co-wrote the book) that gives a great idea of how he was as a person. The movie made by Spike Lee is also very good. I also recommend watching some clips of his speeches, debates, and interviews.

Definitely save Capital for until after you've read some of the shorter works on your list. It starts off very very slow and the other two volumes aren't any more exciting. I'd recommend starting with Lenin and Stalin.

Too add to your list I'd say Settlers by J Sakai is essential. Also Black Bolshevik, Revolutionary Suicide, and (while it isn't necessarily a Marxist book) The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Definitely save Capital for until after you've read some of the shorter works on your list. It starts off very very slow and the other two volumes aren't any more exciting. I'd recommend starting with Lenin and Stalin.

Too add to your list I'd say Settlers by J Sakai is essential. Also Black Bolshevik, Revolutionary Suicide, and (while it isn't necessarily a Marxist book) The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

My library is quite big, so I will only post the some of the very best I've read so far.

Beal - The Entropy of Capitalism

Christman - The Essential Tito

Cohen - Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution

Djilas - The New Class (Djilas is revisionist scum, but I still recommend the book)

Blum - Killing Hope

Marx - Wage Labour and Capital + Value Price and Profit

Kautsky - The Dictatorship of the Proletariat + Class Struggle

Heidegger - Being and Time

Work - What is so and What Isn't

Franklin - The Essential Stalin

Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations + The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Pettigrew - Triumphant Plutocracy

Lenin - What is To Be Done?

Luxemburg - Collected works, but specifically Mass Strike

Kropotkin - Conquest of Bread

Also, I personally disliked Howard Zinn's History, but to each his own.

EDIT: Also, Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse Tung is a must.

Well.. I respect your point of view. However you are asking society to perform a very large experiment, to completely overthrow capitalism and replace it with an economic system, which, to the limited extent it was tried, failed multiple times in multiple countries. Furthermore it seems to be required that it be tried on a large scale (perhaps the largest possible scale) without at least trying it as a small scale test first? I see that as a very risky proposition, and so I would at least like some answers to some very basic questions before even considering such an experiment. I'm not asking for peer reviewed studies and statistically validated experiments, just to have my concerns allayed.

As for your point that it would impossible for the rising merchant class to explain how capitalism would run, that may be true. However Capitalism seems to work out on the small scale as well, which means they could look at other countries where it was successful and emulate them, and if it failed they would have looked into a different system. Can you point out a successful socialist society and how they dealt with the issues that I raised?

I would also like to point out that The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776 and went into some detail on the practicalities of capitalism. Not everything Adam Smith wrote was right, but he seems to have got more correct than wrong and he at least attempted to answer these kind of questions.

For sure comrade.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;url=https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Malcolm-Told-Alex-Haley/dp/0345350685&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj2wdKTyKnUAhUE2GMKHTzUCIQQFggjMAA&amp;usg=AFQjCNF5cv3eW6_aAY0sCteeR6ciBhqWbw&amp;sig2=GbqaU1...

Sorry for the long link.

Malcolm X autobiography. By Alex Haley

I've had this book recommended to me, which was shockingly published by a cultural institute at my university. Though I have not read it I do trust the person it was recommended by.

https://www.amazon.com/Forced-Founders-Revolution-Published-Williamsburg/dp/0807847844/ref=pd_sim_14_11?ie=UTF8&amp;dpID=51cov1ob19L&amp;dpSrc=sims&amp;preST=AC_UL160_SR106%2C160&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=ZBQ3M98VY4DG35H71GXS

I'd recommend the documentary Korea - The Unknown War. It should be watched in conjunction with Bruce Cummings' book War and Television, which is largely about the process of making that documentary.

Once you realize how much propaganda affects even attempts to present a balanced view of the DPRK, you'll start to understand just how important the demonization of the DPRK is to the American-psyche. It's pretty much required to even have a positive view of America at all that the DPRK must be demonized, and the influence is so strong it even affects documentaries made in Britain.

I hadn't seen his videos before you made this post. I just clicked the video on dialectical materialism and he mentioned his experience in prison. And then I found this-- scroll down for his bio. Apparently he's written an autobiography called Idaho Smith's Search for a Foundation. I don't know where to find it though.

here's the link on Amazon

I personally recommend Phil Brown's Towards a Marxist Psychology. Brown was involved with a group called Psychologists for a Democratic Society back in the 60s/70s, and helped to edit the journal The Radical Therapist.

I think people like Phil Brown were unaware of Lev Vygotsky, who I think was largely rediscovered here in the 80s. The anti-Freudianism of people like Phil Brown could have benefited greatly from knowing about his work, and certainly the task of dumping Freud would be much easier with an alternative icon's work to point to.

This book isn't remotely marxist, but it is an interesting look at this issue from a coastal American liberal. Althusser probably could have rewritten the thesis to include something-something about ideological state apparatuses :)

http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-America/dp/080507774X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1446337735&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=What%27s+Wrong+with+Kansas%3F

Yeah, so E.H. Carr wrote the huge several-volume set that you are referring to. After that, he wrote a short summary book called <em>The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin 1917-1929</em> which breezes through what Carr thought were the most significant events and processes.

Here's a copy in English & Mandarin. http://www.amazon.com/Chairman-Maos-Little-Red-Book/dp/B0046NEO0E When I started learning Korean I bought half English half Korean books so I could get an idea of what I was reading to practice without (although it depends how skilled you are I guess) and personally I thought it was better.

I actually went to a group and they are reading it and a few of them had what legitimately looked like 200pg book version. I just wanted to make sure it was the right thing.

Edit: I think it was this

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0717802183/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1/175-3402843-0590100?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_r=1EA4HJEJVG38RC2NXWHF&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_p=1944687762&amp;pf_rd_i=0801495474

Well, most of the stuff I wrote are personal rants pieced together from soviet history and bits and pieces of un-orthodox (but well supported) anthropological theories floating around the scientific community. I strongly advise you give a look at this http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Modern-Relationships/dp/1491512407 and this https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_ryan_are_we_designed_to_be_sexual_omnivores (I usually dislike TED lectures but this one's great). Cheers!

>Stalin robbed trains.

And the KAK robbed banks and sent money to PFLP. One has to wonder if they would do the same thing for the CPI-Maoist today.

In any case, the issue to me isn't about whether collaborating with their own bourgeoisie or not is right or wrong. If India is actually a semi-feudal, semi-colonized country, then forming alliances like that should be done. But lots of other Marxist groups in India say they are incorrect. If they are incorrect, then why aren't they inside the trade union movement, like so many other communist and socialist organizations in India? India has millions of people who subscribe to some version of communist or socialist theory, the Naxalites are only a small part of it.

If India isn't a a semi-colonial-semi-feudal country, and instead is a normal capitalist power, then acting in an alliance with their own bourgeoisie can only be making them tools of the Indian capitalist class. Naxalites are well known for killing each other over splits, and killing CPI-Marxist people.

Comparisons to the way the US backed the Khmer Rouge are probably not unwarranted, at least for those willing to consider that the Soviet-Social Imperialist line was wrong, unless one is convinced the PCP in Peru murdering members of Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement was a great blow at Soviet-Social Imperialism in Latin America.

Geopolitical Economy by Radhika Desai is very good. It dispels a lot of myths about globalisation and 'post-fordism' and argues that uneven and combined development undermines the material basis for imperialism http://www.amazon.com/Geopolitical-Economy-Hegemony-Globalization-Capitalism/dp/0745329926

I really incredible book on this topic is Lee's Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt.

http://www.amazon.com/Against-Law-Protests-Rustbelt-Sunbelt/dp/0520250974/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1421372779&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Against+the+Law+Labor (Also available on libgen)

Not in the last instance, no, it can't, you are right, but it can severely alter the shape of the slope of the curve of decreasing marginal returns to the already decreasing marginal turns (a meta-curve) to oil production.

As for conditions leading to revolution, this depends on what precedes them. In the book Catastrophism (http://www.amazon.com/Catastrophism-Apocalyptic-Politics-Collapse-Rebirth/dp/160486589X), the authors argue that "the people will revolt when things are bad enough" argument does not hold up to snuff and that, in fact, workers start to revolt the more that they get rights, higher wages and protections. In fact, this is why some argue the stagflation and then neoliberal/financial revolution happened in the first rate, to heel workers and figure out a way to depress worker wages, increase productivity and create new markets, thus forestalling the falling rate of profit.

The instances where there is different, such as the USSR and China were preceded by international and civil war, wherein a vanguard seized the reins of the moment. The only time a revolution occurred because of deteriorating conditions and then succeeded was Cuba and that may have to do with, among other things, Guevera's Maoist theory of performative revolution.

I think, the real way to provoke revolution would be, before stagflation and crisis, to increase the standards of living of all workers everywhere by as many reformist band aids as possible, such that they grow more accustomed to higher expectatons, at home and abroad, and then, bam, when stagflation hits, especially if its responded to with war, workers will understand the complete artificiality of their immiseration and then we may have a revolution.