/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>440272

>I doubt that, since you are apparently not aware about the difference between philosphical subjects and objects, dialectics before Hegel, about the fact that Hegel built his dialectics on Fichte's dialectics and that there are philosophers who based their own dialectics on Hegel's dialectics, around an antithesis or on a modification of it.

Hahahahahaha! Wow, i mean, wow. This idea has been completely BTFO in Hegel scholarship since the 70s and nobody accepts this.

>subject/object

Hegel destroyed this, and Marx didn't even bother with it because of it.

>Hegel built dialectics on Fichte

Hegel's sources for dialectics are Plato, Heraclitus, Hermeticism, and above all motherfucking Kant's transcendental dialectic. The method Hegel used was not even called "dialectic", dialectic, contradictions, sublations, etc. are all products of his internal critique of absolute positions driven by determinate negation. YOU need to fucking read some Hegel.

>In order to find out whether your theory is true or not true you need to research, evaluate and eliminate contradictions (antithesis) by means of logical reasoning and evaluating evidence.

No, in order to reach truth, not theories that may or may not be true, you fucking analyze their very foundational claims and run them into through a gauntlet of self-coherence, and that's simply on pure conceptual grounds. The whole point of dialectics is to destroy one sidedness and prove that no position can be absolute, that nothing is essentially eternal and immutable in itself, quite the opposite is what dialectic >proves<, not merely proclaims. Marx's own dialectical development of capitalism isn't and can't be an empirically derived theory, and he himself shows it. The entire truth of Marx's theory of capitalism hinges on the truth of the logical evolution of value. Contradictions are not eliminated, ever. They're sublated and are stabilized by some higher category in pol-econ or they become absolute contradictions that will blow the system apart, and capitalism has a few "deadly" contradictions like that.

>Your whole article is simply a foul rant against "intellectuals" and could've actually been written by an anti-intellectuals /pol/tard. It does not contain any actual substantial critic on Hegel's dialectics or dialectics in general.

>Hegel's dialectics

You didn't fucking read my article then, because it is Hegel's dialectic I vindicate along with Marx. I've read Hegel, and it's from reading Hegel and not some second and third hand that I finally saw how full of shit every formula is.

So write an article, prove me wrong concerning the last third of the article where I make the example of Hegel. Thesis-antithesis-synthesis is bullshit, not because it's not Hegel's or Marx's method, but because it's useless garbage.

God, I hope no one listens to people like you. YOU are the reason I wrote that shit. I'm not happy with it because I had to commit vulgarization myself to make it accessible, but what I describe at the end is worlds closer to dialectics than you are.

>>440272

My real challenge to you is this:

Write a response article showing why thesis-antithesis-synthesis is useful for universal thinking, because in case you don't know, that's how Hegel and Marx saw dialectics. There was nothing that could not be thought dialectically through, and it's why almost all spheres of thought were analyzed with it including mathematics and the empirical physical sciences.

Show us all how this abstract formulation of thesis-antithesis-synthesis is useful in analyzing the world in total. What can socialist science gain by applying this mutated syllogism? I can show you why Hegel's and Marx's dialectical methods are useful, and they're the same simple method. Stupidly simple method, but with an amazing complexity.

>>440312

>has been completely BTFO in Hegel scholarship since the 70s

Perhaps by scholars such as yourself.

>Hegel destroyed this,

Actually he did not.

>contradictions, sublations, etc. are all products of his internal critique of absolute positions driven by determinate negation

That's right. Sort of at least.

>Marx's own dialectical development of capitalism isn't and can't be an empirically derived theory,

Marx' analysis of capitalism is actually from a philosophic point of view very radically derived from evidence, that's why it's called dialectic materialism, as opposed to Hegel's idealism.

>You didn't fucking read my article then

I did and it made me rage, your "example" in particular. I'm not sure whether you ever read Hegel though, i'm afraid that you got everything you know about his work off mises.org.

>Thesis-antithesis-synthesis is bullshit,

It is and always has been the base of all (for you: universal) proper reasoning, scientific research and philosophical discurs, even before Fichte defined it and until Popper tried to get rid of it. Unfortunately you seem unable to comprehend what it means and how it is applied, yet you desperately want to get rid of it for some reason. Much like Popper…

Have a nice day.

>>440663

Interesting stuff. Regular updates on traffic would be much appreciated SiteDev - like once a week or something.

It'll encourage people (myself included) to write and contribute more if we can get that kind of feedback.

Good job comrades.

>>440707

>Hegel did not obliterate the opposition of consciousness as subject/object

I'm done. You're clearly an idiot, believe what you like.

Is there a twitter account to follow?

you guys need to get disqus integration for the comments below each article

>>441768

Not a twitter account yet, but we do have a facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bunkermagazinepub/

It's not updated that often though. I'll see what I can do about twitter.

>>441778

> the editor

> "write you article and submitted it"

Are you sure you're the best person for the role?

But no in all seriousness I need to get on writing something soon, apologies, I do mean to contribute

>>441768

There's RSS:

http://bunkermag.org/feed/

>>442038

fug

>>441778

too be fair we're still doing better then the vast majority of projects not only on leftypol but imageboards in general

>>442184

Definitely. I'm so proud we've been able to make it this far. But if we want to become a permanent fixture we need to keep up a solid amount of production. Me and the Sitedev decided on trying to publish two articles a day when possible, and so far we've been able to meet that ok, but we haven't had any new submissions in a couple days.

>>442204

Being that this is volunteer driven, you need to set up publishing based on the average volume of submissions so that there at least is a constancy to published stuff.

>>442473

That was the case, we had a pretty significant influx of submissions.

New article draft:

Video Games as Bourgeois Fantasy

http://pastebin.com/0BsBTk7c

It's fairly short, but I thought that seeing as submissions are needed and as the article's making a fairly straightforward point, no point adding unnecessary filler.

New article draft:

Video Games as Bourgeois Fantasy

http://pastebin.com/0BsBTk7c

It's fairly short, but I thought that seeing as submissions are needed and as the article's making a fairly straightforward point, no point adding unnecessary filler.

>>442646

You should expand on it.

You say that games offer an ideal meritocracy, and could expand on this ideal situation's comparison to reality. Why doesn't reality live up to meritocracy?

Yeah, yeah. Maybe you don't want to write a theoretical piece, but you might as well. I've learned that what seems so obvious isn't obvious to everyone for the right reasons.

My apologies to AW, but I changed my mind about publishing his article without the forward. If it was just me disagreeing with it it'd be one thing, but I don't think its a position many people in leftypol would agree with either. If I find that I'm wrong about that assumption, I'll remove the forward.

>>442727

If you're doing it for one article, you better do that for all articles, or simply state it in the about section of the site that every author is only putting their opinion out there and none other (which should be assumed as this is a loose group effort and not at the behest of an editor setting an agenda).

>>442741

I'll ask the SiteDev about that. Once that's changed, I'll remove the forward. We also did that for the antifa article since we knew it would be controversial and we didn't really agree with it.

>>442516

>>442204

How about only doing weekly posts instead of daily after all this would make the lack of content seem less drastic

Roll to figure out what you should write about (feel free to add):

(0-100) Modern schools of economics and their failings

(101-200) Philosophic ramblings on Deleuze/Foucault/Benjamin (really any leftist 20th century philosopher)

(201-300) Why the left is dying and we need new theories

(301-400) Zizek is a faggot/based

(401-500) Why all forms of Lolbetarianism are cancer, and Ayn - rhymes with it's all mine - Rand is a heartless cunt

(501-600) Stirner, the unique one, was unfairly criticized by Marx and had some pretty good ideas

(601-700) The world needs more Hegel (and fuck that guy Kant)

(701-800) Why [insert country preferably from S. America] is fucked and it's the US/capitalism's fault

(801-900) Why Robespierre is best girl

(901-999) Feel the bern (but really we won't feel shit if he manages to get into office)

>>442646

You know I think Aldous Huxley was right about technology being used to control people.

>First, that private property, in the sense I use it in, refers to private ownership (in other words, ownership concentrated in the hands of an individual, or a couple of individuals) over the means of production (any land or property with productive potential; farms, factories, machines, etc)

Shit, that means I cannot use a computer, with which I produce apps. Fuck you leftists!

>>443777

>use

*own

damnit too tired

>>443777

what do you mean you can't use it? If nobody could use the means of production, nothing would happen. It's just that according to some, that wouldn't be your property, but there is an argument to be made that is your personal property instead.

>>443784

>but there is an argument to be made that is your personal property instead.

But somehow factory machines don't fit this definition? Even if I built or bought them?

>>443827

If you were the only one using that factory machine, it could be considered your personal property

>>442680

Alright, will rewrite and chuck another copy up in a couple of days

>>443827

If you need other people to work it, it isn't personal. Something people don't mention regarding private property beyond ownership and power over it in absence of direct labor is that private property also concerns social property. Factories are not one man shows, and just because you build one does not logically lead to you enslaving people to work in it or starve, nor to take their labor as your own.

>>444406

>Marx screwed up by abandoning idealism

I'm not surprised yuiposter wrote this, he once said here that materialism is just applied idealism. He's imbibed too much pure Hegel and it's gone to his head.

>>444469

Well I liked it. Idealism makes a lot more sense and is much more useful than fucking metaphysics.

>>444508

You have no idea what metaphysics is. Please about that or stop using the word. It seems you believe idealism to just be hopeful beliefs, which is wrong. Even if it was it actually is more useless than speculative metaphysics of mysticism.

>>444553

I assure you I do not think that idealism is just a hopeful belief. It's AW, right?

You pointed to visions of Utopian societies as examples of idealism, whereby they are examples of how society "should" work, and that because of that we have an ethical imperative to work towards them. Perhaps these utopias will never come about, in fact it is likely they won't, but what I, and I think Yuiposter also, is saying is that if we don't have a utopian ideal with which we feel an ethical imperative to work towards, we will never achieve a better society. Simply put, people get more things done when they are trying to achieve a near impossible goal as opposed to simply reacting to the endless critique of the current world.

>>444669

That's nonsense. People don't more to achieve utopic ideals, they do less. Study history and see for yourself. People act when the ideal meets a material point of development not before. Desire and hope are the pushing force. Ideals are nothing without possibility. Social ideals are not like your personal pet ideals. They cost everyone, as such their price demands a real possible utility at the end. History shows the materialist position as correct, idealism never worked and never will.

>>444834

You are missing the point. Had there not been an idealist mentality among the Russian communists, would they have been able to industrialize as quickly as they did. I highly doubt it would have been possible under the Czar.

Possibility produces the status quo without ideals.

>>444952

It's just some dogmatic marxist, who is ignoring the very real inconsistencies of it, and forgetting that idealism powered pretty much every revolution in history.

The French Rev. wasn't argued or fought because of some utilitarian view against aristocracies but the ideals of Rousseau and liberalism. And similarly we aren't going to win by forcing the worker class to read Kapital, but grounding their understanding in revolutionary praxis and a commitment to a better society – one ensuring human potential.

>>444957

>>444952

Go join the Zeitgeist movement. They're making soooo much progress in revolutionizing the world.

>The French revolution happened because of ideals

How far off base can you be? The French revolution happened because things went to shit with a King who pushed his luck too far. The people revolted without the Jacobins, just as in Russia they revolted without the Bolsheviks. It wasn't ideals of a better world that called to them, it was being tired of the shit they had to live with after they had asked for crumbs and not even gotten that. Those who make a revolution and those who construct after it are not the same. When the world goes to shit, people are willing to try just about anything (assuming you crush every project counter to yours as alternative).

>>444957

I can argue my case not just with words, but historical antecedent. You, on the other hand, just keep going in circles of hope and dreams.

This site could really take off if it had a podcast to go along with the articles.

>>445870

We don't deserve a comrade as great as you.

>>445839

god therightstuff looks like someone's wordpress blog, it does not look professional at all

>>445839

A site posting content written by and aimed at mentally and socially inept teenagers isn't my idea of a good competitor.

>>446039

considering that's not only what /pol/ is but imageboards in general are then I would say we've got good odds

509: Bandwidth limit exceeded.

>>446471

Far out man that's 9gb. Anyway that's fixed.

Question to SiteDev. On what basis do you decide where to put

>Forward: This article represents the views of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of the site’s operators or other contributors.

and where just leave it out?

In case of polemics (A.W. vs. YUIPOSTER on Idealism) you should not take sides by putting it at the start of one and leaving it as-is with the other. It's unfair and dirty practice.

We can already see that a polemic piece "doesn't necessarily represent the views of contributors" since its fucking polemic with another contributor, we see that in the making so to speak, so you should delete that part ASAP, and that leaves us with "doesn't necessarily represent the views of the site’s operators" which in this case is used in a partial manner (appears on A.W. and doesn't on Yui) and otherwise we might not give to fucks about.

>>446039

>A site posting content written by and aimed at mentally and socially inept teenagers

With the last three posts concerning retardation like idealism being worth something, and two articles on the shitty idea that you can trick people by sly subtitles to get some revolutionary ideas across, I think that statement is now true.

This began as a bit laughable with the mere name of the mag, and most of the content has been bleh, but up until the anime shit the worst was the bad philosophy pop culture articles. Those at least had some veneer of attempts at intellectual understanding and analysis, bad as they were. Now the site is a weeaboo idealist autism site. Good job becoming Ahuvia Harel's mirror of bad taste in anime and plain retardation.

>>446574

A.W. here

The basis is what he agrees with, which is whatever tickles his fancy. He didn't even understand the contents of the article, nor of Yui's article, but he is a self professed idealist and claims my article was "metaphysical" and that "it didn't represent most of leftypol", a claim he cannot substantiate because he neither understands what I wrote nor represents leftypol himself.

I don't care much. This is going to die off by the way it's going. Bad articles, clear bias, and someone in charge of editing things they openly admit they don't understand a single thing about nor care to understand. It made me write down and think through old ideas, it has had some positive impact if only for that.

>>446588

I said it when he added that disclaimer here that it was a clear bias against me merely because he disagrees with me even though he doesn't understand what I wrote. This was a leftypol group project, not an anarchist group project (which he says he aligns with), and as such it should have been obvious that the editor wasn't publishing based on his own preferences.

All in all, I'm at least glad I made so many people butthurt because I attacked their precious dogmas. My articles are the most controversial because they actually spoke to some things people latch on to like leeches for dear life without any thought put to it.

>>444406

>we should change the main logo to an image of Alunya, dat would be so cute :3

This is actually a good idea!

>>446598

The editor shouldn't be playing favorites. He needs to clean up his act or he should be sacked.

You're being super bitchy about it, though.

>>446645

>bitchy

Assuming the site managers care about having a semi-decent content, which they don't, they should have better procedures and rules. They don't, so I don't care either. I can prove the editor admits they just don't understand my articles, which is nothing bad in itself except that knowing you don't understand what is said yet making a judgment against or for it based on misconceptions you make up is plain stupid and shows the level of arrogant ignorance being indulged.

Calling out incompetence of this basic kind isn't bitching, and if it is, well I'm a proud bitch.

>>446655

lay off the salt, fam, people will take you more seriously

I'm a weeb and I agree that you shouldn't post anime in the magazine, maybe 1 article at most.

Also articles are fine but they need better editing, they're too convoluted, need shorter paragraphs and maybe more images.

>>446645

>You're being super bitchy about it

He keeps contributing to a site that's using dirty tactics against him. Would you be "super cool" about it in his place? Cut him some slack. His honest work is being portrayed as some freakish anomaly.

>>446662

Fuck you.

>>446662

No, seriously, fuck you. You are saying that we should measure him based on his justified reaction to his mistreatment instead of the intellectual work he puts on the table? Seriously? What a dishonest piece of shit you have to be.

>>446913

>>446911

>>446655

>>446598

>>446588

I've asked the SiteDeveloper to put the disclaimer in the sidebar. In the meantime, I'll be removing it from all articles that currently have them i.e "The problem of Idealism" and "Why we (the anti-germans) are pro-Israel"

>>447016

It's almost like we aren't starved for content.

Does anyone use the old irc or is there a new one?

>>447150

You can often find me on the IRC 16 hours out of 24, although it can take me some time to respond depending on if I'm at my laptop or not.

>>447159

bunkermag one or just straight leftypol one?

>>447165

The bunkermag one.

>>446700

Yeah, I'll add them for ya.

Also, checked.

>>447140

Shall we leave comments on the document itself or in this thread?

Personally I think it's a mistake to introduce the boards of 4chan etc as if the audience is already familiar, we want to be hitting a wider audience with this and /pol/ and /k/ might not mean much to people outside of chan culture. Otherwise interesting article comrade

>>447598

You can do either.

And besides, plenty of mainstream outlets will have to do the same.

>>435602

Can we ban faggots only for posting sourceless graphs. They are so fucking misleading and bullshit. It is my pet hate for this board or any board, people think they have 'won this round' by posting some random infographic with spurious information and no source

>>448861

I don't think we've had anybody try to use sourceless graphs yet. If anybody wishes to use one in their articles I'll be sure to check out the source and see if they are legit.

>>448899

Sorry, forgot to namefag

Also, check em'

Here's the latest article submitted for review. I'm hoping to get it up later today

http://pastebin.com/hi2zrjyb

>>449133

>Liberals have existed for almost as long as people have

Author needs to read some history books

>>449167

That's the dumbest thing I've read in a long time..

But this is a close second:

>Democrats have always been called communists.

Maybe take a course on how to use words properly.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0FgDN9StRPnWWpCSWNwMUJzWGM/view?usp=sharing

Need a better title, recommend something.

Other than that, some criticism welcome. I don't feel satisfied with the closing, nor am I sure I made my point clearly concerning how the freedom of speech functions. You tell me.

>>449312

Demand the Impossible!

>>449313

I have that problem too, I thought it was just me. I can only see comments on my articles or ones that I make myself.

>>449313

Oh weird, thanks for letting me know.

>>449312

No Google pls

>>447275

Thanks comr8.

>>449313

>>449390

Is it just me or can others confirm? If it's just me, could it be the source of the problem that I've registered an account name I've been already using to comment?

>>450702

Happens to me on articles that I don't author.

>>450558

http://pastebin.com/3PEgbE4m

I hate pastebin, it's an eyesore.

>>450702

>>450854

>>449313

The comment viewing issue has been fixed, thanks for the information guys.

>>451056

Can confirm, it's fixed.

gj

Latest article submitted

http://pastebin.com/p4k8dnXw

Any thoughts about the critical whiteness article?

>>452948

I didn't get much of a good feeling from the use of Wikipedia for the universe's quotes, so I decided to comment about that. Aside from that, I found the article to be well done. Good job.

>>453028

>for the universe's quotes

Shit, I spaced out in mid-sentence. I meant the article's quotes, ignore that.

why don't you put adds on it? looks like a wordpress anyway

also, should have a yt channel with regularly posted content of some sort

most importantly is to put several adds on it and create a looping playlist to generate money that could be added as a patreon support for GETchans projects for example

don't be so half arsed, learn to exploit things to your advantage

>>455184

Exploit code, not people!

>>450854

AW, did you feel this is ready to be submitted for review and published?

>>457162

I'll edit it today after some further thinking on the subject.

>>457194

Ok, thanks.

>>457208

Submitted, if you can think of a better title feel free to change it.

https://www.santasshed.com/

The last gulag if the week is really good.

https://archive.is/FCNA8

I was reading this today and wondering if using this development would be a good starter for an article critiquing reformism or universal basic income as a concept. Not that I'd be writing it, just throwing the idea out there.

>>462960

>infant mortality

>murder rate

Can't it be said those things are improving worldwide? The inclusion of that shit is so disingenuous

>>463027

capitalist apologist logic:

>decreasing infant mortality and murder rate in hyper-capitalist country X proves that everything is hunky dory.

>woah, woah, you can't use those metrics to defend your horrible leftist experiments.

>leaves without suggesting alternative metrics

or comes back with an article about shortages as if that had never happened anywhere else in the world

>>462960

I wonder how well they're doing with the severe drop in oil prices on the market.

>>463726

Not good. That's one of the biggest things that caused the crisis, Chavez failed to diversify the economy so that when oil prices dropped the entire economy wouldn't crash.

>>463027

The pic shows an increase in the murder rate.

Can someone write an article on how to read marx?

>>464791

no

>>464791

You,ahem, >read< Marx first. Then you engage in theoretical interpretations via articles and books. Finally you read exegetical interpretations and watch academics sling mud at each other for not getting the 'real' Marx's point of view (Althusserians vs Hegelian-Marxists-humanists vs post-structuralist-Marxists vs post-Marxist Marxists…etc).

>>464791

I'll see about writing this, but no promises of being what you expect. My first encounter with Marx was Capital Vol. 1, never had even read the communist manifesto though I had it assigned in three classes. Frankly a lot of the intro to marxism posts I see here and in other sites are beyond ludicrous if one is to believe anyone short of an academic doing a thesis on Marxism would actually go through such a ridiculously large reading list before reading the major works of Marx. I haven't really read anything besides Capital and a lot of commentaries and articles on it and Marx's philosophy in general, and that's all you need >if< what you care about is finding the 'key' to reading any of Marx's texts and seeing what he's actually arguing given the content he's examining (more or less).

Same goes for philosophy, anyone who says you need background before reading Hegel and hands you a list containing Plato to Kant is an idiot. Learning happens by encountering new things, asking new questions, and before all that simply having an interest in the topic.

If what you care about is having key quotation skills to strengthen arguments based on appeals to authority and taking cheap shots at people who can't really think, then I guess you do have a lot of reading to do.

>>465478

>Frankly a lot of the intro to marxism posts I see here and in other sites are beyond ludicrous if one is to believe anyone short of an academic doing a thesis on Marxism would actually go through such a ridiculously large reading list before reading the major works of Marx.

I don't see anyone giving ludicrous lists of secondary literature about Marx here that often in /leftypol/. (Not like you do with Hegel anyways) Mostly its just me making a large list of Marx and Engels's writings themselves. The only secondary literature I tend to recommend are either very short, are must-reads (like Kilman and Rubin), or are on topics that Marx himself doesn't get into much explicitly but are integral to the Marxist outlook (such as dialectics). Like I've said a dozen times, it isn't necessary to read a dozen books on Marx to get him. In fact, reading 'general introductions' just produce the opposite because most of stuff on Marx's thought tend to be pseudo-polemics where concepts are borne out of opposition to other ones over discussions of 'what Marx really meant' and 'general introductions' either one-sidedly go with one camp or just reify opposing camps together into a confused mess. It's better just to read Marx (and Engels) himself and move on from there.

Also, if you're going to write an article on 'how to read Marx', it should be more literary than literal. You know, about approaching Marx's dialectic that underlies his work over what to read. Mindset over matter.

>>465519

'Dialectics' confuses more than it helps anyone understand Marx. For the average person it's better to not really bring up dialectics as a method since there actually isn't any. The dialectical relations that you see developing in all his works are best explained as diagrams.

>>465519

As I started to write this, I realized what you meant by being literal about how to read it. A reading list won't help people much, and I don't know how this could reasonably be explained, but I'll try. The terms I have to explain Marx's thinking style is mainly stuff from Hegelian scholarship, but it applies to Marx as well.

Anyway, thanks for your comment.

>>464791

>>465519

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0FgDN9StRPnQWxXLVJmbUJvZFU/view?usp=sharing

Not done yet, but this is the complete gist of two things to keep in mind with Marx. May add more examples, but tell me if this makes sense to you.

>>468305

Some of the long sentences in that article would be better broken up into smaller ones.

Other than that, it's not too bad.

My advice would be to split up sentences where possible.

>>468305

Good fucking lord, commas are supposed to be punctuation, not a lifestyle.

Other than that, looks good.

>>468305

Submit it to the website for review and I'll take care of everything.

>>468480

>>468497

The feedback is apreciated and its true I always go crazy with the commas they are used less when writing in english

>>468569

I'll submit it right away

>>468869

Yeah we are, but things are picking up. This is exactly the kind of article we need. Thank you so much.

Go ahead and submit it to the website (just register an account and make a draft). I would say that it does need a better intro and conclusion, just a brief overview about Rojava in the world today and its relevance, and then a few words to wrap up in closing, but other than that it looks great.

>>468895

>does need a better intro and conclusion

I'll knock something together and then submit.

>>468910

Awesome, can't wait.

>>468930

Seems I'm having some trouble registering. I got the confirmation email but it just gave me a normal login link to set my password. I tried it anyway but it tells me it's wrong every time.

B.J. Nelson

tagebo@vkcode.ru

>>468960

Well, only the sitedev can fix that for you, but I can see you on the user list. What that means is that if you just post you're revised copy here I can publish it and attribute it to you. In the meantime I'll send an email to the Sitedev about that.

You guys are all pretty talented. Thank you for your service.

>>468616

Hey paco, did you take the pictures in the article yourself? If not, do you know if there is a copyright on them?

>>469201

The pictures are mine so there is no problem

>>469201

I took the pictures myself so there is no problem

>>469201

I took the pictures myself so no problem there

>>469201

The pictures are mine

Kek stupid flood detected thingy

>>469239

Great, thanks.

Hey, just submitted a piece for review about the rise of Trump. Thoughts?

http://pastebin.com/kN58ymWU

>>470943

please don't use pastebin

>>465478

do you know paul?

>>471801

No, not at all. I found his stuff through /r/communism and the most we've had contact for is some posts on said sub and a question i once asked about dialectics in PM (he just told me I'd see it as I read more).

He's a good thinker although I don't agree with a lot of his views, particularly on Marx. He buys Althusser's epistemological break, I don't. He's also really politically correct, but he's very anti-idpol and anti-liberal in almost anything. I think his blog is pretty good.

He'd probably heavily disagree with my reading of Marx for being too idealist. Last I knew he thinks dialectics is more a tool to better grasp reality, but not an aspect of reality itself. I completely disagree.

>>471822

>going on /r/communism

Working on a really cool article about Saudi Arabian migrant workers, expect it in two weeks.

>>474331

Awesome, can't wait comrade!

I'm really happy you guys decided not to add a comments section

http://bunkermag.org/the-poverty-of-philosophy/

>Alienation describes the separation necessarily entailing from living in stratified class society of humans from their “species-essence” in a couple of ways. Those ways won’t be detailed here, but just from skimming the surface we can find very clear philosophical implications; the usage of the term “species-essence”, and others like it: i.e., “alienation from the self”, “estrangement from humanity”; the reliance on a “true” humanity from which alienation derails society (“essential nature”), etc. These concepts are metaphysical and garrulous and don’t actually mean anything; they are philosophy for philosophy, and thus should be discarded.

These concepts are biological. There are organisms that reproduce asexually and organisms that reproduce sexually. With some species the new parents immediately go their separate ways and with some species the parents protect their kids for a while. There are those that live in bigger groups than just parents with offspring. It is completely unambiguous which type humans are, but when you talk about economic systems in a way that takes this into account, in this society that makes you an extremist.

Collectivist production is not some potential that is buried deeply inside humans and will hopefully awaken some day, collectivist production is what humans do — regardless of how popular delusions about self-made success are. When humans talk about other animals, they immediately grasp that some organisms only survive if they are in groups all the time, not just temporarily for offspring. But when it comes to humans, the propaganda of capitalism is to ignore this physical process right in front of our eyes in our daily activity and to look at some legal accounting procedure instead. Some guy has an income stream of currency that is bigger than the outgoing stream, he is called "responsible and "self-sufficient" some other guy has an income stream smaller than the outgoing one, he is called "irresponsible" and a "leech", regardless of what they actually do. The "responsible" guy can be an entirely passive person who lives off income from owning land. Like the game of musical chairs capitalism creates "irresponsible" people no matter how hard everybody works. The regions that have a surplus in foreign trade measured in some currency streaming in and out during some time span can only have that surplus in a situation where there are corresponding deficit regions with the same amount of aggregate trade deficit during the same time span.

Humans are biologically different from other animals in terms of what a massive surplus we have in terms of how little time we need to cover our physical minimum for survival and reproduction, because of our massively different ability in foresight and planning and in changing our surroundings. But the early proto-capitalists separated your ancestors from the land and means to directly obtain the physical minimum, so that you have to work for others; and they force you, and they are pressured to force you by capitalism, they force you to follow orders instead of planning anything yourself and your wage has a tendency to go towards only covering your physical minimum, if you rely on the free market and not market distortion by trade unions. And so you lose what makes you as a human different from other animals.

>>478082

Post it on the article. Nobody cares if you post it here, the people that need to see it won't see it.

>>479035

All my texts are public domain, feel free to "steal" them for your blog or whatever. I don't know whether they would publish this if they are fine with publishing the drivel it replies to in the first place. I see no point in posting there as discussion there isn't more intelligent than on leftypol and namefagging isn't discouraged which will bring the sort of results over time that this sort of thing does.

Haven't been writing anything concerning Left stuff because I've been more interested in Hegel's phenom and taking some serious notes on that. If any of you go on /phil/ you might easily tell which posts are mine.

Anyway, working on an article about economic base vs ideological superstructure. I'm certain it will infinitely rustle the jimmies of most Leftists who are dull determinists and lazy theorists. Fear not, I shit on both sides of the argument (accelerationism and cultural revolution), but i point out they're both right in part, however, both being right only makes the possibility of successful revolution all that more difficult and improbable.

Just submitted a critique of Rick Falkvinge's copyright communism nonsense here:

https://torrentfreak.com/when-authors-demand-payment-for-every-copy-theyre-advocating-communism-151220/

Hope the editors enjoy it.

>>483865

Disgust is trash. Can you link your response directly?

>>483865

That's a really good dissection of the typical libertardian incoherence. It's a shame that you end up indirectly defending the copyright "industry" from his accusations, but terrible arguments deserve to be destroyed.

Why are 33% of our site's articles written by this one AW guy? He's a shit-tier commentator and author, yet he still gets all his submissions approved?

>>484789

1) Because I'm the only one bothering to write much.

2) Go ahead and write a polemic against me, they'll publish you even if you're retarded. Let's see your analytic muscle back up your shit talk in the public sphere :)

>>484903

>they'll publish you even if you're retarded

yeah no shit, they publish you

>>484962

>>484962

All talk, no walk.

Come on, son, join me in a little dialectic ;)

I'm not scared of being shown up, if you can prove me wrong I'll own up to it, but you have to make an argument first. Mere claims are just hot air.

>>484969

youre a retarded neocon writing tumblr tier sjw trash

youre going to sit here and fellate yourself on the long winded bullshit you write and how anyone who calls you out on being an idiot "cant refute you" or some other nonsense

id say read a fucking book but you might think the words in it might be un-real speech or some dumb shit

you need to be killed for the sake of revolution

>>484972

>neocon

>sjw

>tumblr

>me being any of those

I wish I could see through your eyes so I could know what words you read from my articles. You're in a whole other world.

>>484506

>That's a really good dissection of the typical libertardian incoherence. It's a shame that you end up indirectly defending the copyright "industry" from his accusations, but terrible arguments deserve to be destroyed.

No, you focus on the "market economy" and show the artist publisher orientation, then you show how Tsarist Russia had copyright law which the USSR had. Then, if I REALLY want to get dirty, I expose how copyright was an entitlement for publishers.

The problem with libertarians is that they tend to go right into a corporate conservative position without realizing the consequences of their actions. This is just the same stuff Falkvinge always does and me commenting on culture one good time.

Might make this a regular thing if culture really needs a good critic.

>>484433

If it's rejected, I will.

Guys, I want to write something for bunkermag, but I don't have any idea.

Give me some.

Also, if you need the portrait of any leftist thinker or whatever, tell me, I'll do one.

>>485441

Make one of Fidel Castro shaking the hands of Lenin while Stalin is staring at them for it and I'll make a story about Cuba.

>>484433

Made it:

http://bunkermag.org/copyright-communism-careful-critique-criticism-corporate-collusion-corruption/

>>485649

In progress, comrade. It'll take some days, but it'll be done.

>>485804

Maybe use that image of Stalin where he's got his hands on his head and looks stressed in the clouds.

>>487984

Can you post it here, please?

I think I dun goofed. I submitted an article to the editor via email the other day and I think I was supposed to just sign up with an account and post it? Either way I never saw anything on here to that effect, so I guess I'm just gonna register and post it there and we'll see if it goes through.

If you need any help with anything, I used to edit a section of my college newspaper and wrote a weekly column. Also I second the idea that one of the comr8s had in this thread for a podcast. We could even have some kind of roundtable podcast with posters who represent different ideologies on the left debating a topic for a given week, or something.

You could call it Bunkercast. A short news segment followed by an open discussion between maybe three or so guest posters who are relatively well versed in their specific ideological frameworks or maybe an interview with one poster or another on the specifics or something.

Either way, a podcast would be a great way to popularize /leftypol/, bunkerchan, and bunkermag.

>>489139

hey that image reminds me, did anyone watch sekkou boys yet

is it any good

>>489082

I have a Youtube account that could work for left wing stuff, but I haven't had much use for it.

If need be, a weekly roundtable would probably be best and then we work from there.

>>489483

I was thinking some kind of skype group chat thing would work best for recording a podcast, and we could just switch off on editing it and/or leave it to someone for editing that knows what he's doing. We could always upload the audio to YouTube, too. Not sure how willing the majority of people on an anon image board are going to be willing to appear in the flesh on YouTube tho.

>>489720

You could always have it for voice only. I know that cyberunions was around for a while in that manner but we can decide on that later on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55NxKENplG4

If you guys do make a podcast; just please have a good mic. No one wants to hear "built in microphone from my laptop" quality/ "20 dollar bargain headset" / "these headphones came free with my iPhone" quality audio.

>>489802

+1 updemo©®a©y

I submitted two articles. Hopefully they both meet the publishing standards.

I'm thinking of rewriting the article on dialectics. I've done some thinking on it, and while I feel I did make the core argument I wanted to make I don't feel I made it as strongly as I could, nor did I explain the real dialectics well enough. It'll be much shorter than the first since the polemic will be left out and I will merely explain dialectics. It'll be mainly three subjects: method, dialectics, materialist vs idealist dialectics (the real difference between Marx/Hegel).

Aside from that, here's an article I've sat on for a while. Economic base vs Ideological superstructure

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0FgDN9StRPnVzljWnFmM1Rpa2c/view?usp=sharing

http://pastebin.com/J6R5Gmqg

>>490428

>In order to move from mere particularly unionized class consciousness towards the necessary universal working class consciousness necessary for the struggle for communism there is a requirement of a far more penetrating understanding other than “We should be able to haggle our pay with the boss”.

That's a strawman when it comes to 99 % of unions. Unions almost always bring up the working conditions themselves and struggle to improve them, not just pay. This is qualitatively different from the issue of pay. In real life labor power is never 100 % commodified, and it cannot be unless you literally lobotomize or heavily medicate workers. Any tiny improvement in working conditions, any small limit to what a boss is allowed to do with the hired labor power, means pulling human life in the direction opposite from full commodification.

>The working class must be educated on their relationship to capital and on their mission to free themselves from it not to become a universal working class that is its own boss, but to end the dialectic of the category of class once and for all in all its forms.

That sure sounds radical. And it probably means nothing.

>Socialism as a mode of production for use and not for exchange is not possible in one country, or in even half the world.

If you have enough food and energy, you don't need to trade with the outside world.

>Socialism has not remained isolated for no reasons, the economic and ideological alignments necessary have not happened for various reasons, but an isolated socialism has hardly lived up even to the pittance of actual bourgeois (non)freedom.

The development of the average lifespan in China under Mao compared to India during the same period tells me otherwise. Also take notice how Cuba has fared better than Haiti. So I disagree.

>>490230

Did you just email them in or did you make an account and submit a draft? I don't see your draft in the submitted posts section. The sitedev hasn't been responding lately so its important you use the account.

As a matter of fact, the only article in the submitted section is a response to my sanders' article. I'm going to try to get that out today, but as a general notice to everyone

use the account system, don't email it in

>>490530

Thanks for your input. Your first point is something I can expand on, the rest concerns topic details that do not matter to the aims of my article and I might end up removing those paragraphs completely.

The idea that workers shouldn't get together to be their own collective boss is so nebulous that it's not even worth taking seriously. What does this actually mean? It sounds like something I do want as a matter of fact.

>>490694

It's a theoretical position based on an understanding of what capital entails. Like the Kantian who develops moral rules and then subjects himself to them, the same goes for the worker who is his own boss under the market's rules. It's a delusion of being free because you chose your master; you do not understand that the point is to get rid of the master completely. Is it nicer? Yeah, but if you care about the root of the problem you don't want to merely find a way to mediate the problem, but to just get rid of the root.

People should read "Hegel Myth and Legends" specifically the chapter by Gustav E. Mueller.

>>487984

Please, guys, Can I have that stalin pics ?

stop privatizing stalin's meme.

>>490968

Why do you recommend the book?

>>462960

>data from 2009-2012

of course, because absolutely nothing has changed since then.

and because gdp is so indicative of the average person's purchasing power

you're stupid if in 2016 you:

1. use statistics from 2011/2012, knowing how much venezuela has changed since then

2. use restricted exchange rates that exist only for certain medicines and certain food products from certain companies, and hasn't been at 4.30 for a while (6.30 since february 2013)

>>496941

How do you do that ?

>>496959

http://betterin2d.com/2014/08/02/pixel-art-tutorial-creating-a-colour-palette/

>>496968

Yes, this one !

You're a true comrade.

>>496959

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3480211&userid=113488

>>496967

>>496971

would look great with dithering

>>462960

2015 inflation (until september, so october, november and december aren't here) published by the BCV was around 110% (obviously doesn't count "unofficial" things so it will seem low to some people, ymmv)

The price of the barrel of oil decreased a lot since 2011 (it remained over $90 until september 2014, the 2015 average is around $45, that's where the economy was hit hard) so I don't think that oil exports could have stayed at $60bn

Here's a study where 73% of households in Venezuela were below the (not extreme) poverty line: http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2015/11/20/nota/5251059/pobreza-venezuela-alcanzo-73-hogares and I assume that they're using the official SICAD exchange rate that would put it at 11400 BsF/month (minimum wage was around 7500/month during the study, and most people earn minimum wage)

Given how fucked everything is, you can't get hard facts, but at least we have approximations.

And statistics from mid 2012 will just get you things from just right before everything really went to shit.

>>463534

Yes, because countries that have had shortages for more than a year are just fine right?

>>464791

On a 48 hour bus ride from Brașov to Toulouse.

Regarding the ongoing signup issue everyone is having, I'm going to see if I can set it to not use the email password system, that should fix it.

>>489139

And done! Thanks for the support.

Will finish up the Base-Superstructure article soon. The dialectics essay is getting a bit out of hand (8 pages with expanded examples and explanations) and I'm having some trouble closing the discussion without feeling like I'm leaving something important out.

Congrats to Bunkermag for keeping up with posts and hopefully gaining more contributors. You've made something to be proud of, Leftypol.

>>499701

…

Do you really want me to explain dialectics in an easier form than 8 pages for the common layman?

>>499709

Dialectics as such are literally this easy to describe:

"A dialectic is shorthand for a dialectical relationship.

Dialectical relationships: Such relations are of the kind of contradictory forces or concepts that in their meaning, or existence, necessarily presuppose and require their opposite. To think through one leads to thinking of the other.

This is the famous unity of opposites dialectics is described as by many Marxists.

Such ‘materialist’ relations are:

{worker-capitalist}; {[use-value]-value}; {material-ideal}; {base-superstructure} etc.

"

That's simple. Even examples of it are simple, I only give a page of three from Hegel, Marx, and one from myself. What's not simple is explaining what role this actually has for scientific understanding, how they move, and what the difference between ideal and material dialectics are.

Most of the writing is on material/ideal and the reason dialectics matter in principle for proper socialist theory.

I don't just want to say "Here. DIALECTICS". That's what confuses so many fucking people and makes them get it wrong. I'm trying to explain in as normal a language as I can what the actual meaning and importance of this shit is >without< heading into stupid simplifications which most people have made of them. I want it to be somewhat clear that this isn't just some weird dogmatic doctrine or a stupid metaphysical belief, and that is taking a lot of examples with some care to say explicitly what is going on in each step.

You need a copy editor, me. You have one day to accept unequivocally and give me space on the letterhead or I withdraw my generous offer.

>>500141

That's not an example I want to use, and that page is exactly what I'm working against. The idea that dialectics are rules to be applied is wrong. Dialectics are results, not a method of investigation.

>in dialectical logic objects or processes can exist in two contradictory states, exhibiting different properties in different times or spaces. Sir Isaac Newton concluded from his investigations of light and reflections of light streams that light is a flow of particles. Other scientists considered light to be a wave due to the effects of light diffraction and interference. Who was right? There was a longstanding discussion and the solution was unexpected – light has both particle and wave properties!

This is very wrong, it's a misunderstanding that comes all the way from Engels. For one, this has nothing to do with the logic of dialectics (immanent critique). Two, this has nothing to do with Marx's own treatment of dialectics. Marx, like Hegel, did not believe in real logical contradictions like the light particle-wave (which the experiment actually doesn't show itself, it's an interpretation–Bohmian mechanics does not work on such a duality, Bohm denied it as being valid because true contradictions are signs of error https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gFCj5PPEyw).

The only example there that actually fits what I'm writing is the barber (set of all sets) paradox. That example actually does give Marx's attitude towards some dialectics: they are signs that there is a mistake being made in engaging with what triggers the contradiction. Such contradictions are of the {ideal-material} kind in that the idea is at odds with the material reality, e.g. value is at odds with material production and cannot be reconciled, class is at odds with human social nature and cannot be reconciled, an active personal god is at odds with human powers and cannot be reconciled. These contradictions signal that these social relations/concepts must be gotten rid of entirely with no remainder.

If you pay attention to the dialectic of labor through the forces and relations of production within the mode of production, the entire root of the problem is ideological confusion caused by humanity's misunderstanding of their social nature and powers. This confusion is natural, but by the point of capitalism the confusion of our necessary subjugation to nature or god or market no longer has a material basis and is entirely a delusion at odds with the reality that we ourselves are imposing class and its problems on us.

>>500304

Let me just add something to what I said on logical contradictions.

Never. Accept. Logical. Contradictions.

Dialectical contradictions are not of the kind such as A=~A. They're conceptual contradictions of mistaking something as absolute and independent.

Example: Being and Nothing. It is >not< the case that things exist and do not exist at the same time. That's nonsense. What this means is that B/N are moments that are being mistaken as being the only ways to think about the world and making it seem an absurdity. If you change the concept you think through to Becoming, B/N no longer are a logical contradiction since they are then moments of Becoming.

Particle-Wave is a version of static being versus process being. You cannot claim something is both absolutely static and absolutely process in-itself. You're making a mistake and need to reconceptualize the matter at hand in order to get out of a dead end contradiction.

>>500304

If I remember correctly, Engels didn't utilize Marx' methods in the same manner and stopped short of the totality of the situation.

I push more for overdetermination, and I get the point you're making but I think you're missing mine. My main argument was that Sherlock Holmes utilized dialectics as his main way of understanding crime far differently than the reductionist methods utilized by the police. It has its strengths and weaknesses, for sure. But I'm just pointing out that he's a very strong success in pointing out that dialectics is a strong resource in fiction.

I'd say that the Swptuk has more influence in how I learned dialectics than this random article that pointed me to Sherlock Holmes though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIVGvzAkcZ4

>>500365

Bertell Ollman works in the same way, however, that was my problem with him as well. The work of looking at the question as process isn't dialectical itself. It's basically a transcendental inquiry into the conditions of possibility, which is similar in a way to how dialectics are generated, but does not necessarily generate dialectics.The definition i gave of dialectics is, for all intents and purposes, exhaustive of dialectics as such. What one does with them is a different matter that for clarification purposes should not be collapsed into dialectics.

The Sherlok Holmes example is an example of reaching conclusions based on a simple standard logical operation of asking for the conditions of possibility of the end you're starting from. Dialectics do not function like this, they are generated by merely asking what it is that we are inquiring into and generating the content purely from within with no resorting to anything outside.

My problem with calling the Holmes example dialectical is that it is stretching the concept beyond recognition, and that a huge part of the problem of what causes misunderstanding. Conditions of possibility are not necessarily dialectical, they only are if what you discover is that the conditions are contradictory to your starting point. Such contradictions are civilization and barbarism, peace and violence, free speech and words, etc. Without this feature the Holmes example is just an example of regular inquiry, not dialectics.

>>500365

Also, thanks for the suggestions and responses, they help in making me think through these things.

Part of what I'm doing in the article is not just restating what I've read elsewhere, but what I'm generating myself. It's been a bit slow because I'm actually thinking through most of it on my own without looking for the answers already written by Marx or Hegel. I'm engaging in immanent critique as a sort of self proof that the logic of dialectics really is there and does actually generate them. I simply want to think it through myself for philosophical practice.

>>500413

Fair enough.

I'm actually working on a revolutionary critique of the Gamergate fiasco and how it's been taken over by bourgeois forces so that's why I have games on the brain.

>>500893

>revolutionary critique

The word you're looking for is 'radical,' you fucking moron.

Writing an article about the lamest shit to come out of the chans is not 'revolutionary,' and though it's a mind-numbingly banal subject, you can have a 'radical' perspective on it.

>>500893

I think the moment is passed. Just move on, man. No one is talking about GG as if it's a hot issue.

>>501058

No, it's "revolutionary" not "radical"

Because I'm reflecting on it from a revolutionary perspective and how it evolved and how it's coalesced into what it is now.

>>501127

I don't care if it's a "hot issue" but a critique about its history is something I find interesting and maybe someone can pick up on instead of letting it fester into its own bourgeois cesspool without any input from those that look into movements.

Does anyone have any feedback for:

http://pastebin.com/PNmk1vjQ

I'm still deciding on the suitability of this for the publication. Thoughts?

>>501789

Don't. Why would you publish this?

This is a really bad crank piece to publish. The concepts they are playing with ("bourgeois socialism" etc) are incoherent nonsense. Whoever wrote this doesn't know what socialism means, and has quite the anti socialist perspective (pure individualism is the goal by "inheriting information").

All I have to say is: Jacques Fresco pls go.

What's the traffic for it?

>>503998

>>503998

Looks very good. I'm on mobile now, but if you make an account and submit it I'll publish it when I get to my laptop. The other articles on your blog also look awesome, so feel free to submit some of those too

>>501789

How delusional can you get? This is utter nonsense.

>>501703

Whenever you feel bad, folks, remember that some loser wrote an article about alleged bourgeois co-option of Gamergate.

>>501789

You're wasting your life.

>>505875

This is SiteDev btw, forgot my name.

>>505875

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

Well here's a truthbomb and a half. Just another example of unethical conduct by FB.

>>505212

There was no co-option. It was a focus on bourgeois interests while ignoring what journalism is about along with investigative issues that have gone unnoticed.

There's also the fact that the consolidation of media outlets and corruption of those institutions are far larger than just looking at gaming, but I guess pointing out the truth is something demonized over actually discussing it.

>>506231

Gamergate is stupid internet drama. Read George Seldes if you actually care about consolidation of media and media censorship. I apologize for being so abrasive, but Gamergate isn't germane to anything of any value. Writing a prolix think piece on the subject isn't going to 'point out the truth' in any way, it's just going to be another addition to the interminable sewage of opinion that swamps network cables and clarifies nothing.

As of now, this magazine sucks shit. Start rejecting submissions or it always will.

>>506466

> Writing a prolix think piece on the subject isn't going to 'point out the truth' in any way, it's just going to be another addition to the interminable sewage of opinion that swamps network cables and clarifies nothing.

Look, it's my catharsis. I was involved in it, I watched it grow and get taken over by bourgeois forces and I'm going to explain why.

Similarly to how Marx thought Hegel and Smith didn't go far enough in dialectics or LTV, I plan to explain in a way that's hopefully going to shed light on a "movement" that missed the mark and pushed against revolutionaries by smearing them as reformist feminists.

You want to read it? Fine, do so. You don't? Door's to your left.

You may not care about it. I think that explaining it can tell us mistakes to avoid and why you can't ignore reactionaries unless they undermine any form of socialist push. That's certainly within your view and your right.

Just don't expect me to see it the same way as you do.

>>506645

I wouldn't care if the Secretary-General addressed it, it was and is dumb INTERNET drama.

If something being addressed by the corporate UN and media is your metric for something not being dumb drama then you too are dumb.

>>506626

>Look, it's my catharsis.

Yeah, I get that. You're not actually interested in contributing an original thought, you're just writing the piece to do something. That's fine for your journal, and I'm not knocking journals, I keep one! but it's pablum like this that makes this dumb magazine so insipid.

>>506679

If you say so…

>Start rejecting submissions or it always will.

We have, in case you haven't noticed, that "manifesto" the sitedev posted here didn't make it to publication.

As it stands, we can't afford to be too picky. We just don't have enough submitted content for that. We are usually lucky to get 3 pieces out a week.

>>506466

>>506736

>>506679

So let me get this straight… You think it's an internet drama, you ignore a revolutionary perspective and because it's not important to you, you're telling me that looking into it from that view isn't worth my time?

So let me ask you something…

When Engels picked apart the Bakuninites in Spain, do you think it was worth his time to do so?

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1873/bakunin/

When Marx did all his stuff in pointing out the arguments of reactionaries in "Theories of Surplus Value" do you think that isn't valuable in the slightest?

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1863/theories-surplus-value/index.htm

I really don't know what to tell you… You seem incredibly focused on ignoring that which may come to bite you in the ass and close off your ears saying "lalala, can't hear you over my own awesome" with no real argument to back it up.

You don't know a damn reason why I followed the fiasco except you claim it's an original thought, nor do you realize I already put out a rebuttal to someone else and it's not just to write. I have my own reasons.

But besides trying to write in other Socialist websites and progressive areas, I write here to see BM succeed. You… I dunno. It sure seems you're only interested in being a Negative Nancy and shooting the forest and ignoring trees.

Whatever. I'll write it up as I see fit based on a revolutionary perspective. If the editors want it, fine. If not, I've got other articles I can produce as well.

>>506867

>If the editors want it, fine.

>editors

It's just me bucko. And I can promise that i'll give it a fair shake, just like everything else that goes into the submissions list.

>>506867

The fact that you consider writing about Gamergate congruent with the two examples you cited is just further proof how stupid someone who writes an article about Gamergate.

>>506920

*is.

Just wanted to say that whoever this Cagyproletarian guy is, his articles aren't half bad. In fact, they're pretty interesting.

The stuff being posted in general is seems pretty good, too. Keep it up.

>>506875

Thanks. That's all I'm asking for.

test

>>502744

bump

>>502744

It goes up and down based on the content, but as of now, 277 hits today. It typically sits around 300-400 per day, with spikes of up to 1000 when popular articles are published.

Okay guys… I have an idea about talking about socialist responses to different types of issues that socialism may fix. I'd call it "On creating a socialist state" and it looks into industries with the idea of how to fix them by pointing out the current problems.

What do you all think about such a series, say…. Twice a month?

>>500365

A couple of weeks ago I encountered an essay that re-revolutionzed my understanding of Marx and his relation to Hegel. It's from Cyril Smith's "Marx At The Millennium".

It's funny, because the conclusion is what most humanist Marxists like myself begin with, however, returning to this conclusion now I have a much higher clarity than I ever did when I had merely dogmatically believed it. This closes a train of thought I was already on when I recognized that capital never sublates into communism or socialism, rather it is it's complete destruction which reveals communism to be the true social form of the human.

Marx, in the end, is not a Hegelian nor a believer in dialectics. The true meaning of Marx's materialism is found in his early writings, it's humanism. Materialist dialectics is an error, there can be no such thing. It is true materialism which denies dialectics and shows it to be nothing but human fiction born of a mystified mind. That the world we live in is dialectical is Hegel's discovery, and his error was in thinking this contradictory world was the way it was by the nature of reality. Contradictions, that is dialectics, for Marx result from mistakes and are fated to end in either destroying us, or destroying themselves.

My conclusion that the importance of dialectics is to recognize fundamental errors was correct, yet I hadn't recognized that it was not just for capital, but for all dialectics.

Irony of ironies, Hegel himself had pioneered something very close to this very same view of dialectics in the Phenomenology according to some readings.

>>515802

Fuck off retard

Planning to write an article on Sanders after the Iowa results.

>>516247

Is this the new >>>fringe

meme?

>>521025

the only thing worse than humanism is anti-humanism fam

>>521931

That's why we need theoretical anti-humanism.

>>512461

Can you add in the site description that anyone can send their articles for the review and publishing? I can't find it on the site.

>>521982

Yeah, I've been planning to do an overhauled contributions section, just have to write the copy up. It does briefly say how to contribute in the about section, in the sidebar.

Are General Philosophy articles acceptable? Like a criticism of Foucault for instance?

>>525358

fuck off /pol/

>>525311

Perfectly welcomed, and exactly the kind of thing we publish.

Also, to current contributors, I apologize for being a bit slow this week, it's been a busy one for me. I'm going to try to roll out some articles tomorrow.

>>526504

How many are there in review?

>>526504

Awesome I've been working on philosophical essays, not all of them are bunkermag material the Foucault one definitely is.

posted comment on freud article

>>569217

>Thanks guys, If you can do that we will give you your own territory to live in anarcho-communism/whatever you guys want to live in over here after the Rayse War is won for the White man

this is hillarious

>>526504

I'll try to hand in an article I've been working on by the end of this week.

How come /leftypol/ isn't on the bukerchan "our comrades" section?

CP COLLECTION 2016

http://www.tinylinks.co/lgMS

>>571697

thanks fam

test

300 posts

>>573931

k

communism was the worst thing to ever happen to the shithole that is albania

>>576870

>communism was the worst thing to ever happen

Fixed.

>>578438

A majority of Russians think it's a real shame the USSR isn't around anymore, according to a survey released by Pew Global Research on Thursday. Out of a sample of 1000 people polled last month, 55 percent agreed with the statement that “it is a great misfortune that the Soviet Union no longer exists.”

This may strike some as odd given the not-so-stellar track record of the Soviet Union when it comes to many aspects of history (it did fall after all), but the results are actually fairly consistent with previous polls. As Pew notes in their survey, "in 2009, 58 percent described the collapse of the USSR as a great misfortune, and 50 percent expressed this opinion in 2011."

>>579787

Meanwhile, ex-USSR states are very happy that they have nothing to do with the chauvinist imperialist state of Russia.

>>579852

It wasn't Imperialist, it was hegemony. BIG DIFFERENCE.

Oh, and it's not true.

All of Eastern Europeans miss communism

http://historyandcurrentcontext.blogspot.lt/2015/09/polls-show-eastern-europeans-miss.html

>Hungarians miss communism

http://www.pewresearch.org/daily-number/hungary-better-off-under-communism/

>Romanians miss communism

http://www.balkanalysis.com/romania/2011/12/27/in-romania-opinion-polls-show-nostalgia-for-communism/

>East Germans miss communism

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-dictatorship-majority-of-eastern-germans-feel-life-better-under-communism-a-634122.html

>Czehs miss communism

praguemonitor.com/2011/11/21/poll-many-czechs-say-they-had-better-life-under-communism

>Serbs miss communism

www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/for-simon-poll-serbians-unsure-who-runs-their-country

>Reflecting back on the breakup of the Soviet Union that happened 22 years ago next week, residents in seven out of 11 countries that were part of the union are more likely to believe its collapse harmed their countries than benefited them. Only Azerbaijanis, Kazakhstanis, and Turkmens are more likely to see benefit than harm from the breakup. Georgians are divided.

www.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx

>>580220

Maybe, but nobody misses being with russia, which is and has always been a shithole.

>>580281

You suffer from romanticism (just like any other Fascist). The USSR's standards of living were based entirely on counterfeit versions of products from the west.

Skipping work = jail time, and so on, and so-forth.

>>580449

>counterfeit

Ummm? Go to shop? Everthyng there is the same, all the iphones are the same. Iphone 1 is the exactly the same as Iphone 6. All the TV's look the same, all the loptops look the same etc…

Who cares that Soviet binocular looked similar to American one?

>>580483

I strongly suspect you're a paid kremlin shill.

>>580494

See

>>580281

I cleary said that I consider contemporary Russiam federation an evi shithole.That having said, can't counter my argument that in capitalist world everthyng is exactly the same?

>>580513

Here's a good test:

Do you consider Ukraine a separate ethnicity, culture, and country from russia?

>>580516

Yes.

>>587419

Then we have no quarrel.

Rolled 1, 2, 1, 2 + 2 = 8 (4d3)

Niggers

>>570308

At some point every white leftist is going to have to face the fact that race-inclusive political ideologies are exclusively products of white culture. You can spend your life allying with minorities or the global south for their rights, but they will never reciprocate.

It's a lonely realization that will leave you alienated from your comrades, but there's people you can talk to.

Also, do you actually have comradeship with anyone, or are you still an alienated consumer dreaming of red flags that will never wave?

>>600539

>>526504

Would you take a submission discussing race and genetics and why it is something that must be understood and used in the push for universal stateless socialism?

Here on leftypol race was always frowned upon and now all mentions of genetics are met with derision and locked threads.

>>600711

You'd have to make a damn good argument that doesn't devolve into spooks. I'm not going to guarantee publication of anything like that, though, I'll just have to see.

>>601262

t. editorfag

>>600711

>us lefties need to understand that niggers are naturally gladiators or smiths and need to be forced into it for stability

>>600711

I have no idea how you'd make that argument, and I seriously suspect it's going to rest on sophistry, but I hope someone somewhere publishes it. Even if you're wrong, the willful blindness of the white left on race needs to end if it's to fucking survive.

Keep in mind as you make your argument that the ideology of International Socialism is entirely a product of white Europeans and North Americans, and is soundly rejected on every other continent where socialism and communism has been applied. Only the USSR and its vassals even bothered to pay lip service to Internationalism. All other Marxist regimes are extremely ethnonationalist.

This is what drew me to Socialism in the first place. Eventually I realized the unity that I saw in a select few Marxist societies was really ethnic unity with Marxism as an ideological vehicle for it. You don't get genuine comradeship in multi-ethnic societies of any kind.

>>603668

>gladiators or smiths

As with most leftist strawman arguments you're getting that entirely from your ass.

But they certainly need to be forced into something, because no matter how Marxist you get, the state-subsidized, idle black underclass cannot go on multiplying for ever. All overpopulated groups crash. Marxism needs a working class that actually works.

>>603844

Yes, my post was an obvious strawman.

I'm very delighted that you took its place. Keep shitting up the board, friend.