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What's the smartest thing you read /lit/?

>> No.16643137

murder on the orient express. Never saw it coming blew my brains out. WOW. JUST.WOW

>> No.16643151

you ever read the first chapter of the disquisitiones arithmeticae. it'll blow yo mind

>> No.16644623
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>>16643069

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

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Decline of the West
>Expect "everything used to be good, now it all sucks" bs
>Actually get a prescient philosophy of history.

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>>16644623
From a leninist perspective it is completely rational for a socialist state to enforce state capitalism and take it to its logical conclusion as imperialism. After all, the all stages of capitalism have to first play out before a transition to world communism becomes feasible.

>> No.16644691

>>16644650

China isn't imperialist. >:(

>> No.16644710

>>16644691
Well, it should be if it were to follow reason. If it's not, it's not socialist.

>> No.16644833

>>16644623
Nah, it's one of the biggest causes of brainrot in tankies.
>When a commie state invades a country it's not imperialism, even when it has genocide and the replacement of one populace with another
Extra amusing when it's about practically fascist/capitalist states like modern China.

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>>16644833
capitalism = fascism = communism

get with the times, old man

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>>16643069
>To ask the question “what is it that two or more discriminable beings or things or situations might share?” is really to ask “at what levels of analysis might two or more things be considered the same? – and at what levels different?” It is the particulars of our individuality – our specific time and place – that differentiate us from one another. What unites us is the fact of those particulars, however – the fact that we each have a specific time and place – and the implications of that fact for the nature of our existence. Our lives are open to possibility, but remain eternally bounded by disease, death, and subjugation to social structure. As mutable, limited, social beings, we are all engaged in a massive, cooperative and competitive endeavor.

>> No.16644960

>>16644885
Based.

>> No.16644969

>>16643069
My diary desu

>> No.16645294

>>16644885
Private property and voluntary association = "Everything within the state" = worker's control of the means of production
Sounds great, it's only missing an argument and common sense, when do you plan on utilising that?

>> No.16645400

>>16644908
I want to read this book so bad but I'm very much a brainlet

>> No.16645802

>>16643069
Probably Relativity (Einstein's popular science book) or Feynman's Quantum Electro Dynamics - also pop sci.

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I was only able to follow the first and last four chapters though.

>> No.16646532

>>16643069
wagner

>> No.16646548

>>16643137
Is this ironic? I've heard the book is really good

>> No.16646551

>>16644833
Imperialism isn’t just when country do bad thing it’s an economic phenomenon

China does imperialism but not bc of the reasons you’re saying. get more educated if you want to btfo tankies

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>>16644623
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People

>> No.16646975

>>16646551
>invading a country for resources isn't imperialism
>thats wrong its for economic reasons
is reading comprehension hard to come by these days?

>> No.16647817

>>16646975
I've had this argument with tankies before. They believe that imperialism is, by definition, when capitalists exploit another country. That means a communist country can do whatever it wants to another country but it can't be imperialism because they're not capitalist. It doesn't matter how much you argue, your dictionary definition of the word is different from theirs.
It's really Orwellian because they know the term "imperialism" has a negative connotation, so they change the definition of the word to suit their needs

>> No.16648707

>>16643069
My diary

>> No.16648722

>>16646948
NO. THIS IS NOT ON CONTRADICTIONS. THIS IS ON INFIGHTING PARTY SHITE.

>> No.16649833

>>16643069
Unironically the Taoteching and Chuangzi