/lit/ - Literature

>>13729230
literally no one on this entire fucking planet has ever said that Communism hasn't been tried, dumbass. The thesis is that communism has been attempted many times in many forms, through many schools of thought, but was never able to fullfill the transitional stage of the state and become a moneyless post-scarcity society as it set out to be, for a load of different reasons. And that Marx quote is correct and based.

>>13661777
exactly this. thank you anon for putting it into concise terms.

Maybe read America by Baudrillard alongside S&S, it helps to get into the general atmosphere and perspective of his philosophy.

>>13509854
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I recommend Critique Of The Gotha Program by Karl Marx heavily for readers trying to get a good grip on Capital. It is a concise and relatively short analysis of the relation of labour to capital on the directer political sphere and offers good insight into the problems with reformist approaches.

>>13319603

his own wife admitted the author was telling "campfire tories", urban legends inmates told each other and repackaged them as a factual report on the gulag system. he only won the Nobel Prize because of Cold War Powerplays,his writing style is rather uninteresting imo

burgerpunk is the transitional stage between modernity consumer society and the eventual cyberpunk world that never fully arrived. massive hacking operations, corporations with larger outreach and intel than secret services, a complete commodification of culture and all human interactions, teen depression as an aesthetic, never ending cycle of nostalgia and pastiche as the current zeitgeist, incalculable inequalities, impending doom through climate change, etc. but devoid of a tangible form of protest or escape