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Welcome to Free Education!

Early Human History/Pre-history

This thread is dedicated to learning about the development of the human species in its earliest days, from the first evolutionary ancestors to the first human civilizations.

Critical War Studies

"War is a mere continuation of policy by other means" - Carl von Clausewitz

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" - Mao Zedong

Critical War Studies is a budding field in social sciences that seeks to understand the human phenomena of war. It's primarily studied from the perspective of International Relations, but also incorporates elements of critical theory, gender theory, post-colonialism etc, as well as traditional theories of strategy and tactics.

I'll dump a mix of pdfs and links to articles that was used in a course I took on the subject. In general, the content deals with the topics of "What is War", "How are humans affected by War", and/or critiques of modern and "post-modern" warfare. Frequently mentioned is Carl von Clausewitz, Michel Foucault, Deleuze & Guattari, and Jean Baudrillard.

I'll start of with some chapters from the defining work "On War" by Clausewitz, in which we find the genesis of the important friction between Perfect and Real war, i.e. war as we desire it to be and war as it actually plays out, a distinction that becomes important in the analysis of so called post-modern warfare.

http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/OnWar1873/BK1ch01.html

http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/OnWar1873/BK1ch07.html#a

http://www.clausewitz.com/readings/OnWar1873/BK8ch06.html#B

Youtube/Video Courses

General leftist political literature

Physics & Chemistry

The Norman invasion of England, 1066

Hello /freedu/cators, this thread is about the Norman invasion of England in 1066, and the Norman period thereafter.

The historic effects of the conquest included changes to the court and government, the introduction of Norman French as the language of the elites, and changes in the composition of the upper classes. More gradual changes affected the agricultural classes and village life: the main change appears to have been the formal elimination of slavery, which may or may not have been linked to the invasion. There was little alteration in the structure of government, as the new Norman administrators took over many of the forms of Anglo-Saxon government.

Content Creation

You would be surprised how many anons don't make any OC simply because they don't know how to use graphics software. So lets collect some educational resources for them!

Ukrainian Revolution

Looking for books on the Ukrainian revolution in 1916.

Would def love to learn about their economy and their politics. Also would like to learn more about the conflict between anarchists and the soviets.

Antinatalist literature thread

Dropping most well known.

http://vk.com/doc151440227_220518152

North Korea

Looking for interesting reads about north Korea.

Rare PDF's that give unique insight into north Korean culture and ways of life inside the hermit kingdom.

I want stuff, in particular, from North Korea that has leaked out one way or another. Things that you aren't going to find on their webpage and just interesting readings from the DPRK in general.

Zapatistas

Books, writings, and essays on teh zapatistas in mexico.

I am looking to broaden my horizons on the social structures of the Zapatista people in the Chiapas.

Specifically I want to understand their sociological, economic, and political lifes and how they operate..

hook me up, please.

Rape Culture

Anarchist General

Post all of your Anarchist Literature Here

I'm also looking for a pdf of the Communist Manifesto, and The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Pose, optional.

fill me in on socialism

what's the people controlling the industry all about? does it mean people make their own rules for the workplace or am I just extremely mentally challenged?

Left Literature Library: FREE PDFs -!## see bottom notes##!

Note from original author: "Brackets incl. original publication date and edition or reprint I have [pd/e]." Also note that "PDF" in date tags are of an undated reformatting online.

[1883/1907] Paul Lafargue - The Right to Be Lazy and Other Studies

[1891/1905 "Fourth Edition"] Paul Lafargue - The Evolution of Property from Savagery to Civilization

[1892] Edward Aveling - The Sudents' Marx An Introduction to the Study of Karl Marx's Capital

[1898/1940] Giorgi Plekhanov - The Role of the Individual in History

[1897/1925 "Revised Edition"] Alexander Bogdanov - A Short Course of Economic Science

[1906/1918 "Fourth edition: revised" Translated] Karl Kautsky - Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History

[1906/1918] Paul Lafargue - Social and Philosophical Studies

[1907] Louis Boudin - The Theoretical System of Karl Marx in the Light of Recent Criticism

[1907/1911] Ernest Untermann - Marxian Economics: A Popular Introduction to the Three Volumes of Marx's Capital

[1910/1981] Rudolf Hilferding - Finance Capital: A study of the latest phase of capitalist development

[1913/2003] Rosa Luxemburg - The Accumulation of Capital

[1915/1917] Nikolai Bukharin - Imperialism and World Economy

[1917/1948 "Third revised edition"] Maurice Dobb - Wages

[1917/1999] Vladimir Lenin - Imperialism The Highest Stage of Capitalism

[1920] R. W. Postgate - The Bolshevik Theory

[1923] W. H. Emmett - The Marxian Economic Handbook and Glossary with Numerous Corrections, Explanations, and Emendations of the English Version of Vol. I of 'Capital': For the Use of Advanced Students and Beginners

[1923-1930/2008] Karl Korsch - Marxism and Philosophy

[1924/2003] Evgeny Pashukanis - The General Theory of Law and Marxism

[1925/1928] Nikolai Bukharin - Historical Materialism

[1927/9/1988] Karl Kautsky - The Materialist Conception of History

[1927] Nikolai Bukharin - Economic Theory of the Leisure Class

[1928/1990] Isaac Ilyich Rubin - Essays on Marx's Theory of Value

[1928/2009] Pavel V. Maksakovsky, Richard B. Day [Trans.] - The Capitalist Cycle

[1929] John Keracher - How the Gods Were Made; A Study in Historical Materialism

[1929] Iosif Abramovich Lapidus, K. Ostrovityanov - An Outline of Political Economy: Political Economy and Soviet Economics

[1929/1979 Translated from Russian second edition] Isaac Ilyich Rubin - A History of Economic Thought

[1929/1992] Henryk Grossman - The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System Being also a Theory of Crises

[1930/1990/PDF] Group of International Communists - Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution

[1931/1985] Evgeny Preobrazhensky, Richard B. Day - The Decline of Capitalism

[1934] Lewis Corey - The Decline of American Capitalism

[1935] John Keracher - Economics for Beginners

[1936/1978] Franz Jakubowski - Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism

[1937/1946 "Reprinted"] Maurice Dobb - Political Economy and Capitalism: Some Essays in Economic Tradition

[1941] Solomon Bloom - The World of Nations A Study of the National Implications in the Work of Karl Marx

[1942-44/2009] Franz Neumann - Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944

[1946/1950 "Fourth impression"] Maurice Dobb - Studies in the Development of Capitalism

[1946/1962 "Reprinted"] Paul Sweezy - The Theory of Capitalist Development: Principles of Marxian Political Economy

[1946/2003] Anton Pannekoek - Workers' Councils

[1947] Karl Obermann - Joseph Weydemeyer Pioneer of American Socialism

[1955] Hans Kelsen - The Communist Theory of Law

[1955] Maurice Dobb - On Economic Theory and Socialism: Collected Papers

[1955] Charles A. Gulick, Roy A. Ockert, and Raymond J. Wallace - History and theories of working-class movements; a select bibliography

[1956/1973 "Second Edition"] Ronald L. Meek - Studies in the Labor Theory of Value

[1957/1962] Paul A. Baran - The Political Economy of Growth

[1958/1962 "First American Printing"] Maurice Dobb - Capitalism Yesterday and Today

[1960/PDF] Robert Vincent Daniels - The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia

Mathematics

Something for the Train

Hey there Free Education.

Because i'm technologically challenged read:autistic i'm not sure how to convert pdf's for my kindle. They always come out awful.

Can anyone upload/recommend a good site where I can get political and historical EPUBS. I will take literally you have

Dialectical Materialism

This is a thread dedicated to learning all about the philosophy of Dialectical Materialism.

Dialectical Materialism is a philosophy of science and nature, based on the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and the philosophies of dialectics (which have their roots in Hegel) and materialism.

This link is a good start, will post pdfs after: http://www.marxism.org.uk/pack/dialetics.html

Esperanto, the internationalist language

I just had a idea. we should, on this board, start learning esperanto. This language is quite awesome (very easy, complete etc…) but no one is really talking it on the internet.

If we start to speak esperanto, people from all around the world will be able to join our project of /freedu/ , not just people from the western world.

So, I'm searching mate to start studying with me of esperanto. Also, feel free to share anything to help studying of esperanto.

I'll start with duolingo:

https://www.duolingo.com/

Ancient Greek Philosophy (Book Request)

I understand that this is a very specific request, but I wanted to check if there was any copies floating around that I could acquire so that I don't have to purchase it to read it.

The book I'm looking for is:

"Philosophy Before Socrates (Second Edition): An Introduction with Texts and Commentary" by Richard D. McKirahan (2011)

https://books.google.com/books/about/Philosophy_Before_Socrates_Second_Editio.html?id=EmtFGKmWa60C

Does anyone have this perchance? If not, I suppose I could purchase it, but I would rather not.

Language

Don't got much of anything leftist but I would like to contribute

Another language in your belt is another world of people to share the word of revolution with

Starting with a meme language

Meta Bitching

>come to board hoping for free educational materials

>it's mostly just a /leftypol/ version of /pdfs/

Come on, guys. You disgusting communists are welcome to your opinions and whatnot, but it's quite misleading to take over a board like this with them. It's not like /pdfs/ bans leftist/communist content. Take your soapbox there or to some commiebunker .pdf board.

Boards like what this board is advertised as should be more about neutral subjects like maths, fixing cars, languages, agriculture or even weapons. It wouldn't even need political or philosophical threads because you guys and /pol/ are more than happy to share their ideals on other boards. This board has neutral stuff too, but it is quite lacking and outnumbered by the /leftypol/ stuff.

I suppose this is board is a pretty accurate critique on the modern education system, eh?

Before you call me Porkie and throw faeces at me, could you perhaps redirect me to a board more to my tastes?

Biology

Sexology/Sexuality Studies

Post documents and infographs on the study of sex and sexuality, including both general works and more specific studies on the biology, psychology, philosophy, and sociology of sex.

Sexual education, consumer guides, porn, and written erotica are discouraged because they tend to come from non-academic sources or are fictional works, but docs that concern theories of sexual pedagogy or the effects of sexual consumerism and porn/erotica on sex and society are fine. Exceptions to this guideline include:

a) historically important works (e.g. the Kama Sutra, the works of Sade)

b) comprehensive, well-sourced works on sex education written for mature adults (NOT Tumblr posts, Oh Joy Sex Toy, introductory texts meant for schools, or instructional porn videos)

Philosophy thread

Post philosophy and theory

Mostly Soviet PDFs in English

All sorts of (mostly Soviet) texts in English from the (mostly) 1960s-80s:

* https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22kocotosi%40gmail.com%22&sort=-publicdate

All sorts of (mostly) 1920s-40s (mostly) Soviet texts:

* https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1ZP6ZurgOg-REtjWmJoeVRJUlE

Tech Thread

/freedu/ info thread

Post some of your favorite info graph or educational pics

Learning Strategies

Educating others

Alternative Voting Methods Thread

Let's post pdf about voting methods. This document describes two methods for electing a single seat. Both methods detect some majoriarian patterns that plurality voting doesn't, reduce the problem of similar candidates splitting the vote, have some robustness regarding tactical voting, and are still relatively easy to count.

martial arts

do you know some web where i can lean some martial arts free?

Tailoring

I'm looking to get into tailoring. Are there any decent sources out there (besides Pinterest)?

The Russian Revolution

Let's learn all about the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the political and historical situation leading up to it.

Gunsmithing

Ello /freedu/.

I was wondering if you could help me learn about gunsmithing.

Economics

Economic theory - post, read, request.

First Aid

First Aid Posting Starts…. Now!

Language Learning

I'm curious about who here is into language learning, whose good at it, and what are some excellent resources and tricks for becoming knowledgable, literate and fluent in a second language.

Languages and language resources can be related to national languages of socialist countries but do not have to be.

Education and the State

v

Anything about Viruses?

Also biology in general.

A Very Short Introduction:

ITT "A Very Short Introduction" series from Oxford.

Starting with Geopolitics.

Requestiong Antroplogy

Anyone got anything related to Anthropology please post it, im desperate.

Come Visit /hope/!

Board Owner of >>>/hope/ here. We're a very recently created board with a mission to help downtrodden imageboard users everywhere. We admire your commitment to the free spread of knowledge and would like to be friends! We'd appreciate it if you'd come visit us, and we will be sure to do the same in return.

If you have any questions, ask them in our Q&A thread: http://8ch.net/mod.php?/hope/res/97.html

Also read our mission statement: http://8ch.net/hope/mission.html

We look forward to sharing educational resources with you! Have a nice day, anons.

Gotta catch 'em all

REQUEST THREAD

ITT: we request .pdfs and pray to receive them.

sticky, when?

Requesting Éric Laurent's 2014 Lost in Cognition

Standup/Improv Comedy

I'm usually a funny guy when talking to friends, but I've been wanting to learn to transfer that to a set I can do independently of other people on stage, written jokes in all. Alternatively, learning to just be funnier with other people on stage is something I'd love to do, too.

Any of you guys have any PDFs on the subject?

Psychology

Hey anons. I'm looking for some good Psychology shit

Smoke Weed Everyday

420GET

Learn about cannabis.

Red Asterisk

educate me on why I find furries to be hot

African History

These files were too big to upload, but here is a series of interesting books on the history of Africa.

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0004/000422/042225eo.pdf Vol 1

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001842/184265eo.pdf Vol 2

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001842/184282eo.pdf Vol 3

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001842/184287eo.pdf Vol 4

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001215/121577eo.pdf Vol 5

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001842/184295eo.pdf Vol 6

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001842/184296eo.pdf Vol 7

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001842/184297eo.pdf Vol 8

The history of the continent of Africa before the colonial period is very interesting, and because of the scarcity of written sources in large parts of the continent, a relatively unknown continent compared to Europe or Asia.

/k/'s books

/fit/ stuff

Some good sites for learning about fitness and health that seem to be reliable to me:

http://stronglifts.com

http://scoobysworkshop.com

http://simplesciencefitness.com

http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

http://www.nerdfitness.com

Anyone know any more? Got any good books on the subject?

Oratory

Speak very well is important today. Any book on the subject of rhetoric ?

here is a very famous book of Cicero about that.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_oratory/Preface

Althusser on Materialist Dialectics

For any comr8s looking for a better understanding of what dialectical materialism is and why it matters for Marxism.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1962/overdetermination.htm

Intro to Oilfield

Tenaris(a HUGE oilfield tubular supplier) is giving courses on edX on the following

Intro to OCTG - Oil country tubular goods, basically pipes for drilling and oil production. Very basic but it's the backbone and iconic to the oilfield.

Intro to running pipe down wells - How the above is used.

Introduction to Steel - From the sounds of it, it's probably concentrating on OCTG metallurgy.

I highly recommend you check it out if you're interested about oil. As of now, week 1 is done for OCTG but the other two will start in a few weeks.

https://www.edx.org/school/tenarisuniversity

Khan Academy

Where do you search for them?

Looking for ebook sharing sites, e.g. https://onlybooks.org/

Please share your pdf hunting links!

Course sites

Is there tier list for all those sites like Coursera, OCW and so on? There are lot of them, which are the best? Also, Udacity seems pretty shitty.

PDF / Infographic collections

Hey /freedu/ I've been asked to repost some content here that I've submitted in a thread for an anarchist urban commune project in Detroit.

Some background, I didn't produce the collection myself. I acquired it in a 50gig plus torrent that was produced by an Anon that had been hoarding PDFs and infographics for years.

I'll submit links to collections via dropbox, but if anybody can share and rehost ITT that would help were I to clear my dropbox in future.

This collection consists of Cooking / How To / Energy & Fuel / Skills & Trades PDFs. Useful basic literature to get started in urban commune projects. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pq6b5bc59cm9z0q/AACpnzejq98C8V-64-w9Hhdga?dl=0

Also an additional website dedicated to aquaponic DIY & Theory as requested in the thread - http://www.japan-aquaponics.com/diy-aquaponics.html

And also a collection on survival manuals, because why not? - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1xtr9bjqg80umy9/AABUpK4S9Dwzcyfln0Ayz3jUa?dl=0

I'll make some further posts with other useful collections from the original torrent, since I'm unable to locate the original thread (or board) where I had sourced it. They may not all be on topic, but I'll give a quick overview and you can disseminate in to other threads if necessary.

Happy reading.

Historical Cartography

Anatomy of Revisionism

A classic for anyone seeking to understand what happened to the Soviet Union from a Marxist perspective. Especially recommended for MLs and anyone who maybe lukewarm on the question of Kruschev/Deng (Porky's favorite communists :D)

The author combines a deep knowledge of Marxism with many different and hard to find sources from the Cold War era. Probably a decent work for sharpening the economics skills of comrades frustrated by Capital.

Sex in the DDR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl_r7rIcds8

Documentary on the sex lives of East Germany.

East Germans had sex more frequently with more orgasms then their West German neighbors.

Law (Request)

Hi /freedu/ could you post books regarding law. I was thinking about the basics. Lets say what would get u through the first 2 yeaars of law school.

Recommendations of Leftist Literature

Hey /freedu/ first time poster here. A newfag to this board, if you will.

I was wondering what leftist literature is absolutely necessary to read, or what literature you've read about far-leaning leftist ideology/philosophy that you enjoyed and recommend to me.

Basically, what Socialist/Anarchist books should I absolutely read?

This part isn't necessary but I'm also looking for some far-leaning right-winged literature, too. I want to hear both sides of the political spectrum. Maybe some good books on fascism, or Nationalism. Not necessary.

LibriVox

Was told to post it here by the nice people of /leftypol/ , cheers!

Good day comrades

I just wanted to point your attention to this lovely site over here https://librivox.org , that has free, public to use audiobooks available, including lots of political theory.

Here is what they have on Marx

https://librivox.org/author/2426?primary_key=2426&search_category=author&search_page=1&search_form=get_results

I thought it might help the people on here who always complain about having the attention span of a dead ferret.

If you are good with reading books and have a microphone that doesnt sound like its stuck in your ass, please contribute to the public domain by reading a book and recording it.

Thank you!

meta

There's nothing wrong with being allies with /leftypol/, I'm a leftist myself, but should this board really have politicized banners like this? It's supposed to be for learning, not spreading propaganda, even if I don't disagree with the ideology itself. Good board otherwise.

Pirating your own IP

Hey guys, saw you all being promoted in /leftypol/, glad to see you exist!

I was wondering if any of you had any advice on how to disseminate my own scientific studies (grad student in physical sciences, but arXiv isn't really used by my field) to the public in a way that it can actually be used.

I'm so used to having access to the paywalled garden that I'm not familiar with how to throw my fruits over the wall.

Post anything related to Design ITT

The Non-Designer's Design Book

This is very good for getting the basic principles of making things actually look good and not like shit. It's good for anything having to do with layout and colors (pamphlets, websites, etc, etc).

http://libgen.in/book/index.php?md5=65A85241CAAD8A2DD41B5B9F3B6CFD19 (it's to big to upload here)

Music education

No music thread? I'm here to fix that, let's start off with something for the beginners:

http://tobyrush.com/theorypages/index.html

Frankfurt School

Yes, good goyim! Keep spreading Judaism knowledge…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Languages

If you guys have any sources or files on languages in general (beginner levels preferred), it would be highly informative for everyone i think. Thanks in advance.

Bookhunt

Ideas for edu sites and initiatives

First I'd like to say that the idea of this board is awesome, bookmarked. I know the intent of this board is to share material, but I think it makes sense to post what I want to discuss here.

Ever since I first had personal contact witht he Internet I got my mind thinking nervously on the possibilities of learning and sharing knowlege through it. [b]Do you have ideas for edu, specially freedu, sites or softwares?[/b]

When Steam came around I begun to think on something like this: Steam can give you "free" stuff if you do this or that, like participating in a vacation championship, etc. They can do this because as a business that relies on having people making accounts there, the relationship they have with their clients is more than straight, impersonal sales, like games used to be sold before steam.

So I thought on something like this: imagine that Gabe sets up paralel to steam an exam system, he could also create a learning system but I find this unnecessary since people could just use anything on the Internet like Khan Academy or Wikipedia. The idea basically is: you get good grades in our exams, you get credits to spend in our stuff. I don't know whether this would be better for people in school age or adults (testing stuff non-related to their area of knowledge). Of course, it would be better that whatever being evaluated must be related to what the person could spend credits on. So for a video game business, like Steam, some areas could be worked like everything related to computers, logics, some parts of Internet, storymaking, design, etc.

Do you think this idea could be developed further? What I always wanted to do is not to make a business then create an edu system paralel to it as if it was just charity, what I want to get at is a system where people will activelly dedicate themselves to go through the exams. Steam simply gave me the idea of doing it in an effort/reward based mechanism.

Grammar.

Language Learning Resources

/histories/

Hello everyone, I created an history and social sciences board with a more academic perspective. I invite you to check it out and share some of your point of views of the world, well structure arguments about your ideas and materials to enrich our understanding of reality.

>>>/histories/

Hopefully you can visit it and if you do, please enjoy it. Luckily our boards will grow and have lots of materials and opinions to share between each other.

Info Ever Guy Nedds To At Least Be Familiar With

Requesting the following information:

What you should at least know about using a gun in a pinch with no training.

The best place to strike a person in order to have the highest chance in getting away.

3 foods that will take care of all of your basic nutrional needs.

How to handle being arrested

Things NOT to do while in jail to draw attention to yourself

Basically, how not to be a beta manlet when the time calls for it.

POL EDU

Politically incorrect education thread.

/am/ine

Your goals

Anon's Book Collection

Photography stuff

Free Books

New Board

Board Circle

Free learning help sites

/edu/ wiki

Motivation Board and irc

Recommended reading and art

Marxism