The Black Book of capitalism Beta edition BBOCAnon 2022-11-27 (Sun) 17:24:51 No. 13769 [View All]
After three months of labor, I present you the current state of the translation project of the french Black Book of Capitalism from 1998.
The raw traduction is completed, the work is in the process of being proofread to enhance the general english level. So far two benevolent English speakers manifested their interest in this endeavour, one of them already corrected the Foreword and Introduction.
Gitea of the Black Book of Communism:
https://git.leftypol.org/latexanon/bboc If you download the whole deposit and run it trough a Tex editor, a whole book appears! Credits to LaTex Anon for this magic
This thread will be used as a hub to update the progressively the book with the proofreader's input, but also to sketch the specification of an enhanced edition of the BBOC, as well as gathering material in this regard, because after a few more decades of neoliberalism, some updates would be welcome. Furthermore as some people remarked, the book is far from exhaustive.
95 posts and 38 image replies omitted. Click reply to view. Anonymous 2022-12-16 (Fri) 00:17:43 No. 13865
>>13864 >I'm more gesturing towards the fact that they're already in the process of translating Vietnamese texts to English Oh yeah, it's great that she continues to translate Vietnamese shows and broadcast.
>but also what can you do Despite what a lot of Grover Fur worshipper say, Stalin did a ton of stupid shit.
LaTeX Anon !cBWnNqbO3o 2022-12-16 (Fri) 00:33:24 No. 13866
>>13865 >Despite what a lot of Grover Fur worshipper say, Stalin did a ton of stupid shit. true. but the more important question then is what should have been done differently? hm. anyway this is not the thread for such questions
Anonymous 2022-12-27 (Tue) 02:05:32 No. 13869
I would like to translate this to Portuguese once it's finished.
Anonymous 2022-12-27 (Tue) 02:14:28 No. 13870
>>13869 After some consideration I've decided against it but I know someone who might be interested in taking the job
BBOCAnon 2022-12-27 (Tue) 11:41:13 No. 13871
While waiting for news from proofreaders of the BBOC, I'm considering translating Road to Revolution in french but I'm afraid I will bang my head against a wall when it comes to poetic parts.
LaTeX Anon !cBWnNqbO3o 2023-01-03 (Tue) 23:37:31 No. 13872
new year's bump
>>13871 not a bad idea, and would make good use of the LaTeX code we already have
Anonymous 2023-01-04 (Wed) 05:05:24 No. 13873
>>13871 Don't forget to rest :)
Anonymous 2023-01-11 (Wed) 11:20:34 No. 13875
>>13874 Pulling ones intestines out through ones anus.
Anonymous 2023-01-11 (Wed) 13:08:49 No. 13876
>>13875 What the fuck, and I thought anal impalement was bad
BBOCAnon 2023-01-15 (Sun) 20:51:29 No. 13877
>>13874 >Pierre Brocheux et Daniel Hémery, Indochine, la colonisation ambiguë I just got that in french. I'll post it in the following.
I'll translate it in the next weeks. There should be stuff interesting for the enhanced edition and will kill time until I got news from proofreaders.
Anonymous 2023-01-15 (Sun) 23:23:03 No. 13882
>>13881 [also 'tech-illiterate' tends to be hyphenated]
Actually, if I notice any minor spelling/grammar/typo issues, should I make a pull request to the git repo, or just post them here?
LaTeX Anon !cBWnNqbO3o 2023-01-16 (Mon) 01:28:38 No. 13883
>>13882 if you know your way around git then it'll be easier if you just fix it immediately. I could give you push access to the repo if you like. undoing any bad commits is easy enough
also I just pushed some things I had laying around
>d5539d4 Also clean bboc.lot >bb7194b Add Comrade Jeb! to list of proofreaders >e5bbb46 Split intro.tex into separate files for each chapter >>13875 >Pulling ones intestines out through ones anus. wtf man who thinks of this stuff?
Anonymous 2023-01-16 (Mon) 01:31:59 No. 13884
>>13875 Jesus christ.
And I thought the Howie Mandel shit was bad.
>>13877 Nice where did you get this stuff. I would love to look for more stuff colonial era as reading material.
Anonymous 2023-01-16 (Mon) 01:59:29 No. 13885
>>13883 Yep sweet, just add me (Discomrade) and I'll push anything that's a simple typo or grammar fix.
BBOCAnon 2023-01-16 (Mon) 17:53:57 No. 13887
>>13881 Well it's better for the book to be error free. You can testify the accuracy of my claim by adding the number of errors you had to correct in this single sentence.
LaTeX Anon !cBWnNqbO3o 2023-01-16 (Mon) 22:29:49 No. 13888
>>13885 >Yep sweet, just add me (Discomrade) and I'll push anything that's a simple typo or grammar fix. done
>>13886 >That's literrally what you do to birds before cooking them I've been studying animal slaughter lately, and usually what you do is cut around the anus. you don't try to finagle the intestine out through it. once you've cut through the pelvic floor extracting the innards is easier. cutting up the abdomen is also a possibility, and it only leaves you with the sphincter and the last bit of intestine attached to it. not that you bother with that for fowl, at least not wild fowl, because almost all the meat is in the breast
now if the French were actually doing what I describe then that's even more heinous. because rather than a severe case of prolapse, you're cutting around the asshole. now I'm no torture expert but isn't the idea that the victim shouldn't outright die from it? there's some large blood vessels nearby, not to mention the chock alone is probably enough to do someone in. fucking frogs man
Anonymous 2023-01-17 (Tue) 01:25:04 No. 13889
>>13886 Fucking copyrighting bastards. The EU sucks. It's bad enough that z-library got taken away by the FBI.
>>13888 >fucking frogs man Cannibalizing political prisoners was really prominent in colonial eras. The whole idea with deadly torture is instilling fear and obedience.
Anonymous 2023-02-03 (Fri) 18:14:42 No. 13890
bump
Anonymous 2023-02-04 (Sat) 08:11:53 No. 13891
Hey
Anonymous 2023-02-04 (Sat) 08:49:39 No. 13892
>atrocities of capitalism are just the consequences of natural human savagery, it is the norm, so we must blame the human condition >atrocities of socialism are the consequence of human meddling, a human-made, imposed idea, therefore it is the ideas themselves that are to blame
Anonymous 2023-02-04 (Sat) 15:58:02 No. 13893
>>13892 that'd be a like explaining the concept "wet" to a fish
Anonymous 2023-03-05 (Sun) 10:57:15 No. 13894
>>13892 Just say they're wrong and say if it's the norm then how do things get done and why do people do nice things.
Anonymous 2023-03-05 (Sun) 11:31:36 No. 13895
>>13892 By asking to show some monkeys or primitive human tribes where 1 monkey owns 99% of the banans and the rest starves to death.
Anonymous 2023-03-05 (Sun) 13:28:03 No. 13897
>>13769 How do people get involved with this? Where can we contact you?
I'm a writer/editor/proofreader and am interested in contributing
LaTeX Anon !cBWnNqbO3o 2023-03-05 (Sun) 13:42:37 No. 13898
>>13897 ideal situation: register a user on git.leftypol.org and I can add you as a contributor. then just read, make any suitable changes to the relevant .tex files, git commit and git push. it'll be easiest if you use either a Debian-like OS or maybe WSL in Windows 10 can do it. you'll want the build-essential and texlive* packages. you use make to build the pdfs
LaTeX Anon !cBWnNqbO3o 2023-03-05 (Sun) 13:43:39 No. 13899
>>13897 it's also possible to just post any mistakes you notice in the thread and either me or someone else with push access can incorporate the fixes
Anonymous 2023-03-05 (Sun) 18:11:47 No. 13900
Suggestion:
Anonymous 2023-03-16 (Thu) 14:07:11 No. 13901
Does anyone have the robert kurz's black book of capitalism? I cant find an english translation.
Anonymous 2023-04-04 (Tue) 22:25:12 No. 13902
boomp
Anonymous 2023-04-29 (Sat) 19:18:12 No. 13903
Any news from our proofreaders?
Anonymous 2023-04-30 (Sun) 01:44:14 No. 13904
=UPDATES PLS I NEED THIS TO DEBOONK LIBS==
Anonymous 2023-04-30 (Sun) 19:42:25 No. 13905
>>13904 I don't know French or Vietnamese so I can't really proofread either of the texts in question
Anonymous 2023-11-19 (Sun) 11:07:52 No. 20967
>>20966 Combine the cover page and the document into a file with poppler pdfunite or imagemagick convert (with the appropriate density).
Anonymous 2023-11-22 (Wed) 13:35:11 No. 20969
<BBOC is kill
Anonymous 2023-11-24 (Fri) 01:51:05 No. 20970
>>20966 there's a bajillion ways of doing cover pages in LaTeX itself. you can also do it with some external program then use pdfjam to join it with other pdfs
>>20969 I've had in mind to create a thread on the main board about this to try and drum up some proofreading interest again
Anonymous 2023-12-01 (Fri) 05:51:12 No. 20978
>>20970 >I've had in mind to create a thread on the main board about this to try and drum up some proofreading interest again Good plan imo, an update with initial version, plus notes oin what is to be done, would be cool :D
Anonymous 2023-12-01 (Fri) 10:01:50 No. 20979
>>20978 yeah. having proofreaders adopt a tripcode would be useful too I think
Anonymous 2024-01-03 (Wed) 14:33:18 No. 21312
HYPE
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