/edu/ - Education

Techno-Capitalism reading list:
Shoshana Zuboff - The age of surveillance capitalism http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=88F4E36A731B1594144F40497AF25C34
Brett Scott - Cloudmoney http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=D8D28B8D622C939973A87B16A5C4EAE6
Yanis Varoufakis - Techno-Feudalism http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=0BA99CA5241D520DCF86C93DF0FFB7C9
Edward Snowden - Permanent Record http://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=A5BDA164BB2B8419C57E57012A2F7F82

>>21640
Currently reading this. This book is terrifying, amazing and probably the most important thing you can currently read.

>>21582
Roland Barthes is one of several theorists associated with structuralism and post-structuralism. Start with these books then read Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Jakobson, Barthes, Lacan, Althusser, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Baudrillard, Derrida, and Kristeva

What is relative surplus value? Idk, it sounds like something to do with prices but I can't really wrap my head around how it is different from normal surplus value.

Reposting an effortpost from a while back about Super-Profit

Let’s say that the average television takes 1 hour to make. 1 hour is the SNLT for televisions. But the owner of the ACME TV factory invests in some fancy new machines that make his workers twice as productive. They can now make a television in 30 minutes. They are producing way below the SNLT. This allows ACME to produce twice as many televisions in the same amount of time.

Now if ACME sold their new TV at half the old price they wouldn’t make any more money than before and there would have been no point in investing in all that new stuff. Rather than sell them at their individual value (30 minutes) they continue to sell them at the SNLT (1 hour), or perhaps just under the SNLT in order to out-sell their rivals. Because the price of TVs hasn’t changed significantly there is still the same demand from consumers for TVs, but now there is a giant surplus of TVs on the market because ACME has been making twice as many TVs. ACME’s rivals won’t be able to sell all of their TVs. Part of their product will go unsold. Meanwhile ACME will sell most of their TVs at the SNLT, making not just their normal profit, but an additional “super-profit” because they sold their TVs above their individual values by selling at or near the SNLT.

Profit vs. super-profit

Profit comes from exploiting workers. The only way to turn money into more money is to invest it in workers, or to be precise, in labor power, the only commodity which can produce more value than it costs. (This is all covered in the video “Law of Value 5: Contradictions”.) When ACME sells TVs at under the SNLT they don’t just reap their normal profits from exploiting workers. They also get super-profits: profit appropriated in exchange because their TVs are made at under the SNLT.

It is this race for super-profits that drives much of the technological dynamism of a capitalist society as capitalists compete to constantly lower SNLT. By doing so capitalists don’t just exploit value from workers. They also appropriate value in exchange.

https://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/law-of-value-6-socially-necessary-labor-time/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6dPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>13027
Fair point but you can't read while doing what's required daily to be an effective political citizen. Like some cardio and calisthenics, cooking healthy food, cleaning and chores. You do all that on the daily right anon?

Dr. Cornel West is interviewed by his peer (imo) Pascal Robert on the Mau Mau Hour on This Is Revolution podcast's last episode. Listening now and he's giving comprehensive answers. He's defining himself as a workers council communist not a revolutionary vanguard communist replying to the first question. Alright then.
Can post it here if it's not on the feed.

>dammit, we gave the DeSantis sonnenrad wunderkind the soapiest interview back in 21 and our patreon pigs are making enough noise about it to affect our real careers and standing
>what do
>sorry not sorry, we are non-confrontational by nature, the WORK that we do is hard and professional interpersonal relationships are also hard
>also I kind of like conservatives anyway
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/592071?episode=15574655513
pretty educational

The Intifada Podcast discusses Dugin, part 1. It's pretty educational, they give a lot of historical context that most people will be unaware of. Two years ago was the time for this episode.

>>13027
when im working full time and with long commutes audiobooks and good podcasts are a great alternative, stressing the purity of the book is counterproductive when most people do nothing to educate themselves. also plenty of people who have trouble reading for various other reasons that are more likely to listen to a podcast, i find its helpful to be familiar with a range of educational podcasts to be able to recommend to people who are sharp and curious but dont read

You better appreciate this anons, it took some time to figure out how to shrink the mp3
American exception recent Patreon episode. Why is it notable? It includes a close reading of brand new less redacted transcripts of the testimony of James Jesus Angleton from the 1975 Church Commitee Hearings. This is the guy who on his deathbed admitted that they thought they were kings of the world and admitted that he was going to hell. Not much consolation to Indonesian communists.
>TLDR Here's previously unknown specifics on how Israel exerted control on US foreign policy beyond Presidential authority.
The first half of the episode is nbd also, just Col Lawrence Wilkerson admitting culpability for misleading the world and the UN on WMD.

>>21919
What do you think about the dichotomy between loyalty to individuals and loyalty to institutions? Pre-modern political systems had more of the former while modern political systems attempt to impose the latter with varying degrees of success. Progress occurs when the state functions as a machine, imposing a collective order over government officials. Degeneration happens when institution loyalty collapses and people revert to patronage and personal loyalty.

>>21920
Coorperate personality (the idea that a cooperate body is a legal person) is a feature of Western law and you can't find a similar concept in Islamic or Chinese law. Hence, people in say the Ottoman empire or Tokugawa Japan weren't loyal to institutions or abstractions but to social networks, dynasties, personal relationships. A modern state demands absolute loyalty from all of its subjects in a totalitarian manner. A good example is the headscarf affair in France where women who wear dress perceived as Islamic are portrayed as disloyal to the republic. Homosexuals were once seen to be undermining national values and causing decline with their sex habits. Modern states and work environments demand absolute mind-body obedience while a so-called oriental despot like the Shoguns only wanted tax money and occasional support against their political rivals.

>Progress occurs when the state functions as a machine, imposing a collective order over government officials.
There is no such thing as progress. There is social and material change but if this is an improvement or not depends on your relation to it. The cotton gin was "progress" if you were a slave plantation owner but if you were a slave it made your life worse. Capitalism and militarism need the totalitarian mass surveillance and technologies of social control of the modern state in order to dominate society. But is this kind of totalitarian loyalty necessary to make life better? No. If anything it has made life worse for the vast majority of people.

>Degeneration happens when institution loyalty collapses and people revert to patronage and personal loyalty.
Or maybe that's just our own culturally conditioned brainwashed assumption? We think personal loyalties lead to corruption but not fanatic loyalties to institutions or nations and we think we need rational bureaucracies to manage life for us but there are plenty of human societies that have functioned fine without either.

I need to reread what Banaji said about ""asiatic"" ie tributary modes of production in Theory as History before I will post about this.

Isn't "Asiatic mode" just palace economy by another name?

>>21994
No, it refers to all modes of production that have existed throughout Asia in all of history, including but not limited to the palace economy.

Reference bible. You never know when you might need it.

Some Postmodern stuff

Hand over the books /edu/ or porkies wont get hurt.

>>21862
>>21862
> ie marx was a faggot
marx was kinda gay though

Battle of the Eclipse

Sicarii (dagger men)

Cromwell was called "Angry Heaven's Flame" after what he did in Ireland

hydroxideshttps://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/YA/D3YA00154G
Extracting uranium from seawater looks cool, not only as a more sustainable way of getting U but also for remediation

>>20849
>>20852
If the Fukushima Water Dump is so harmless, then why was there such concern across the world when a little more than 5 tons of (radioactive) water leaked out? News outlets from all over the world were alarmed, and Japan has a long history of brushing environmental health concerns under the rug and denying impacts, there's a reason The Four Big Pollution Diseases of Japan is an actual title.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Contaminated-water-leak-at-Fukushima-Daiichi

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New German bacterial experiments found a radiation consuming bacteria. Reminds me of the radiation eating black fungus talked about a while back, relative to Chernobyl.

https://topwar.ru/240909-nemeckie-uchenye-vyjavili-sposobnost-nekotoryh-bakterij-obezvrezhivat-radioaktivnye-othody.html

https://allthatsinteresting.com/chernobyl-radiation-fungi

>>16922
You are genuinely retarded and schizophrenic. You should seriously think about the rabbithole you are in and consider reaching out for help.

>>21492
Already made a post demonstrating why this is a sensationalist and misleading headline.
>>21392
>>21394

>>17982
>why does he insist the Yonaguni monuments are artificial
I don't recollect him claiming this but Kimura Misaaki has stated such and has the education in tectonics, geology, archeology etc. to know what he's talking about. The idea of a sunken city or remains of such are not far-fetched. Russia has many legends of such sunken ancient cities, with at least a few accounts of Soviet explorers finding such places in the early 1930s but being unable to locate them again because they lacked the mapping equipment to mark the mountains and canyons they were exploring.

>>21850
yes and various other geologists insist they are a natural phenomena

>>21945
>various other geologists insist they are a natural phenomena
<The mainstream assertion claims the opposite
No shit.

why

Our enemies in blue

>>21934
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kristian-williams-our-enemies-in-blue
It's from 2015, so it's still in the last 10 years.

Oh that's the third edition, originally from 2007, so maybe OP won't like it.

>>21933

I'm in a marxist org that I think has shied away from attacking the police and I want to correct our line. I believe Farell Dobbs was in the right when he said the following in Teamster's Rebellion:

"Under capitalism the main police function is to break strikes and to repress other forms of protest against the policies of the ruling class. Any civic usefulness other forms of police activity may have， like controlling traffic and summoning ambulances， is strictly incidental to the primary repressive function. Personal inclinations of individual cops do not alter this basic role of the police. All must comply with ruling-class dictates.

As a result， police repression becomes one of the most naked forms through which capitalism subordinates human rights to the demands of private property. If the cops sometimes falter in their antisocial tasks， it is simply because they-like the guns they use-are subject to rust when not engaged in the deadly function for which they are primarily trained. No police organization is exactly the same day in and day out. Two essential factors determine its character at a given moment: the social climate in which the cops have been operating and the turnover of personnel within the force. An unseasoned cop may tend to be somewhat considerate of others in the performance of duty， especially while class relations are relatively peaceful. Even in such calm times， however， the necessary accommodation must be made to capitalist demands， including readiness to shoot anyone who tampers with private property. Otherwise the aspiring cop， if he is not kicked out of the force， will have little chance of rising beyond a beat in the sticks. By gradually weeding out misfìts along these general lines， a police department can keep itself abreast of requirements during a more or less stable period in class relations."

The issue is these are powerful words but I want to prove that they have been borne out by reality. Particularly I think since the financial crisis/anti police movements police have shifted more and more right wing as relative class peace falls apart. Similarly I'd also be interested in works that look into the nature of police unions.