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📖/read/ing - Something few people seem to do📚️ Comrade 10/12/2020 (Mon) 15:26:02 No. 4956 [Reply]

Hello and welcome comrades!, this is a reading club thread, we will be reading and discussing Marxist theory books. We've already started and completed reading and discussing The Communist Manifesto and The Principles of Communism yesterday. Anyone can join the reading club, if you want to read and understand theory and you're serious about it then don't be afraid to join! we're still reading the basics so you don't have to be intimidated. Our current reading list: https://leftyread.neocities.org/ /leftytrash/ matrix community link: https://matrix.to/#/+leftytrash:matrix.org /read/ matrix room link: https://matrix.to/#/#leftyread:matrix.org Also we are closely related to the /GET/ Reading group who helped us make our own reading group: >>>/GET/86343

Edited last time by krates on 11/26/2020 (Thu) 03:10:36.

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Comrade 03/21/2021 (Sun) 04:14:54 No. 6605

>>6599 Dunno about the English version, but the German one is available here: https://marx-wirklich-studieren.net/marx-engels-werke-als-pdf-zum-download/

Comrade 05/25/2020 (Mon) 14:07:28 No. 1773 [Reply]

What if I wanted to read more or less "contemporary" philosophers like Sartre, Beauvoir, Adorno, Deleuze, Zizek, Badiou, etc.. but don't have the time and, dare I say, sufficient interest to go through Kant, Plato, Aristotle, and all the other classical authors of philosophy? How much do I have to lose? I'm willing to spend a couple of months reading Plato, but I think I'm only willing to go through secondary sources for Aristotle. Same goes for the philosophers that predated the "contemporary" ones mentioned above. I'd be willing to read a history and primer on German idealism and maybe even read primary enlightenment texts if I have to. So how much do I have to lose? People who are good at philosophy please answer.

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Comrade 12/05/2020 (Sat) 00:51:59 No. 6314

>>1778 >political economy So shitty philosophy?

Comrade 12/05/2020 (Sat) 00:55:38 No. 6315

This might be better in a separate thread but whatever. Would it be a bad idea to learn French by reading the untranslated works of Deleuze and Guattari? Perhaps I should stick to the existentialists.

Comrade 12/05/2020 (Sat) 00:59:46 No. 6318

Thanks for the material in this thread guys, really good stuff.

Comrade 12/05/2020 (Sat) 18:05:53 No. 6322

>>6315 I think it's good to practice any skill just on the threshold of difficulty, so my guess is that if you're in the process of learning French D&G might be not ideal. (They are, after all, often regarded as infamously unclear.) That's why my own French reading at this moment is just newspapers and popular histories. But if it works for you go for it.

Comrade 04/06/2021 (Tue) 14:20:05 No. 6626

You can read some primers, but you really should spend time going through the classics if you want to understand contemporary works at their fullest. But for most of those (Baidou, Beauvoir, Sarte, Adorno) you actually don't need that much of a background. Also remember that most philosophers from the Enlightenment and after made works that basically summed up their entire thought. Kant especially. >>6315 Depends on your level of French. D+G are hard writers. I'd say stick to the Existentialists, particularly Camus (not because he's a good theorist but because he's easy to read).

Language Learning General Comrade 01/09/2021 (Sat) 15:48:19 No. 6470 [Reply]

Share tips and recommendations. Good general advice can be found in Gabriel Wyner's Fluent Forever. Two thirds of the book is him chanting that you should use flashcards. You can use physical cards for spaced repetition or use software. IMHO the biggest pro of software flashcards is that they can play sound. Anki is a popular free flashcard software, with many people sharing decks https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/ (though it's strongly recommended that you build your own or at least tweak the cards since that drastically boosts how well you remember stuff). Last thread got nuked in an act of cyber-terrorism by mad ex-jannies, but you didn't miss much. Some guy recommended these articles by Luke Smith who isn't as fond of autistic vocab drills as I am: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/learning-languages https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/other-langs https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/michel-thomas The Michel Thomas Method (TM) forces you to talk in full sentences in the new language right from the start. It begins with very simple sentences that expand and get more and more elaborate. Even though the vocabulary is kept small, your sentences soon get very long.

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Comrade 03/23/2021 (Tue) 15:16:33 No. 6612

Here's a folder full of textbooks and related resources for nearly every language there is https://mega.nz/folder/x4VG3DRL#lqecF4q2ywojGLE0O8cu4A/folder/Vl8BWJqb

Comrade 04/05/2021 (Mon) 17:23:31 No. 6622

Updated the list, now it's 200 GERMAN ONE-WORD SENTENCES. Part 1: Attention! • Achtung! Asshole! • Arschloch! I won and you lost, haha! / I got this and you don’t, haha! • Ätsch! Stand up! / Wake up! • Aufstehen! Open the door/window/whatever! • Aufmachen! Close the door/window/whatever! • Zumachen! Encore! • Zugabe! (shouted ZU-GA-BE to keep in synch with the others shouting it) Boaster! • Angeber! Give it! • Gib! (order addressing a single person) Desirable. • Wünschenswert. (basically “wish-worthy”) Remarkable! • Bemerkenswert! Bemerken means both “to notice” and “to remark”. “Good morning”, but saving time by cutting out “good”. • Morgen! (also means tomorrow) 💩Shit! • Scheiße! What one says when “shit” would be a bit too strong for the situation. • Mist! (literally “manure”) Breakfast! • Frühstück! (literally “early-piece”) Bitch. • Miststück. (literally “manure-piece”)