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Solzhenitsyn

>>13268381
The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn

>>13268381
Here your (you) and a reading list. Enjoy, and gut gud if this was bait.

>>13268385
This. Over time history moves toward more freedom for the proletariat

Settlers by J Sakai

>>13268461
>read state-authoritarian capitalists to get to know “communism”

>>13268381
Early socialists and anarchist thinkers.
One cannot arrive at communism by preservation of the state anymore than by preservation of capitalism. Lenin does both. How this goofy religion started and continues is a wonder of the modern world.

>>13268534
God you are based, it's a pity they hate you just for using a tripcode

>>13268534
You're a delusional retard, butterfly. I just thought I would let you know that.

>>13268534
against all odds Butterfly makes a good post

>>13268553
Hi butterfly

>>13268534
Ok. Here's a non-authoritarian capitalist.

The German Ideology
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy
Comments on James Mill, Éléments D’économie Politique
The Value-Form
Wage Labour and Capital
Value, Price and Profit
Capital Volume I

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Socialism-Works-Harrison-Lievesley/dp/1521531218/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

>>13268761
Nonsense. Capitalism requires a state, laws and authority to enforce its inequitable nature.
Destroying capitalism and the state is the only way.

>>13269726
dont you have like two dozen cats to attend to?

>>13268761
Or how to misinterpret Nietzsche

>>13268534
>capitalism is when da government do stuff

>>13270005
How many communist states have achieved communism?

>>13270015
How many libertarian socialist and anarchist ones have?

>>13270015
>>13270019
wow very insightful posts very smart and thought provoking

>>13270027
when you have no point so you play the epic sarcasm card

over 18 - gulag archipelago
under 18 - animal farm

>>13268534
I've only been on this board 2 days and I fucking hate you tripfag. Leave, or at least post anonymously like literally everyone else on this website

>>13268534
>communism
>early socialist and anarchist thinkers.
But why? None of them believed in historical materialism like Marx.

>>13270005
>camwhore

>>13270044
>CONFORM! CONFORM! My autism can’t take it!
Do you have meds?

>>13270054
I consider Marx and Stirner early socialists. They both critique the overly utopian sorts, but the OP is asking for literature to understand communism.
Even the earliest capitalists were utopians.

>>13268398
>>13268442
>fictional works by a monarchist

no

>>13270121
>>fictional works by a monarchist
yes

>>13270125
its a terrible way to understand anything

he was an anti-semitic romanovaboo who collaborated the CIA to promote fascist conspiracy theories to undermine what he saw as satanic bolshevik jews

hes /pol/ in a nutshell and as such is obviously a complete fucking retard who is wrong about everything and has to make shit up and get money from billionaires to remain relevant

>>13270044
go back to youtube faggot. we don't need more newfaggots like you

>>13270081
I get your point but Marx wasn't an utopian at all and his take on this communist/socialist societies are way different from the rest. He is balls deep in the dialectics.

>>13270181
>new to /lit/ means new to 4chan
nice try, buddy. with reading comprehension that low you can't have been here too long, either
>>13270081
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>>13268804
Marx - Capital, Value, Price and Profit, Wage Labour and Capital
The German Ideology, Grundrisse,
Engels - Origin of the Family, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Lenin - State and Revolution , What is be Done
Mao - Combat Liberalism
Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution
Kropotkin - Conquest of Bread, Mutual Aid
Stirner - Ego and its Own
Bookchin - Post-Scarcity Anarchism
Parenti - Blackshirts and Reds
Cockshott - Towards a New Socialism
Fisher - Capitalist Realism

>>13270265
Can’t wait for you to meet Rei.

>>13270265
Again I insist you to leave. We don't need more newfags from /pol/ or any other board, its already gotten so bad, I can't recognise this board already

>>13270324
Butterfly, I have a question for you: how do you reconcile Nietzsche with communism? One of the main pillars of his philosophy is antiegalitarianism. I know communism isn't egalitarian, but there can't be a Übermensch in a society without clases, the Übermensch itself is a concept that could only arise in a society with an aristocracy with abounding spare time.

>>13271085
And I mean true communism, not the Soviet socialist dictatorship type.

>>13270324
Butterfly, this is the first time I've seen you. Why do these faggots hate you, and why do you choose to abstain from anonymity? I understand wanting to stand out, but I feel like that could further encourage using names (thereby eliminating one of the greatest features of this site).

>>13270269
Well, at least if one reads them in that order, then, having read Marx, Engels, and Lenin, one should already be able to recognize Mao, Kropotkin, Bookchin, Parenti, and Cockshott as what they are (worthless garbage).

Also, I don't understand the use of reading Ego and its Own after having read chapter 3 of The German Ideology.

>>13270005
There are exactly two possible uses of "da government" right now: (1) making sure the capitalist mode of production runs smoothly by performing functions that non-state capitalist units are, as we historically learned, poor at handling (e.g. making the providers of labour-power not die by the time they're 45, fighting for the international interests of domestic capital, dealing with the resistance of the working class, etc.), or (2) effectuating revolutionary oppression of reactionary classes and the world-wide reorganization of production on a co-operative basis. All governments are currently going the first route.

>>13271129
>Why do these faggots hate you
you explained why you retard

Butterfly and :3 should be shot out of a cannon into the sea.

>>13268534
Real butterfly didn't use a trip code

>>13268381
Marx/Engels: The Manifesto
Lenin: What is to be done?
Halliday: Mao, The Unknown Story
Service: Stalin, a biography
The Black Book of Communism
The Gulag Archipelago

Start with Adam Smith and realize he'd be disgusted by what actually became of his ideas.

>>13270140
>canards
>pseudoscience
>conspiracy theories
>it was da milloonares!
>muh porky
imagine being this much of a simpleton

>>13268534
Anarchism is a fucking meme moron

>>13271520

>>13271854
you can believe this without being a commie. read George

>>13271854
Where would he be on the political spectrum if he was around today and adapted to the actualities of capitalism?

>>13268534
Prove to me that the dicatatorship of the proletariat is an unnecessary step in the process of implementing socialism

>>13272071
Step 1: Make everyone Christian
Step 2: Demonstrate that libertarian socialism logically follows from the teachings of Jesus
Step 3: Utopian socialist give away of the means of production
Step 4: End of profit as a concept

>>13268534
>female intelligence shines through once again

>>13272090
>make everyone
Sounds like the authoritarian state to me.

read the assemblywomen

>>13272071
>Prove to me an alternate reality is in fact our reality
Weird goal post. I can only prove to you that this phony "dictatorship of the working class" hasn't done anything but ruin our chances. I cannot believe slaughtering socialists as fast as Hitler is the road to socialism.

>>13272090
Is that some Simone Weil spiel?

>>13272097
You better not be Catholic

>>13271085
Friedrich was under the impression that there will always be underlings, inferiors. I think, with technological and sociological advances, we just might not leave terribly lowly people behind like that.
And Nietzsche didn't even see them as laborers or slaves. We'd have automation in place of slavery. There's your abounding spare time. He describes the Üb as a cross between an aristocrat and an anarchist. I can see it. There's no need to be cruel to fellow humans. We wont let deformities continue to be bred. Military man with terrible digestive problems was all about toughness, but there is a kinder side of humanity that the Üb will probably adopt, at least for a time. I think it reconciles just fine.

>>13272139
>Elects a game show host for president
>Recommends a comedy as gospel

>>13271854
He represented the interests of a class that fought for capturing the mass of surplus-value as their profit against the old landed nobility that strove to capture it as their rent. No wonder he would say that.

>>13271869
On the contrary, as a commie you CAN'T believe this. You can only believe it either as bougie intellectual living in a time where landed nobility exists, or as a retarded anarchoid who is so devoid of any understanding that to make an argument he has to resort to empty liberal principles that say what is an eternal "robbery" and what isn't, or who has the eternal "right" to reap where.

>>13268381
The Revolution Shrugged by Ayn Bronstein

>>13272245
I assume you've read Lenin, so can you please refute his criticisms of anarchism in The State and Revolution?

>>13272536
>implying buttertranny reads

>>13268534
Dear brainlet-mosquito. Have you ever read much about 1700-1900's Russia? Have you ever read about peasant life, old cultural values, and the institution of serfdom (not to mention the abolishment of serfdom)? You sit here talking about communism, but you take the term out of context and try to apply it to a western liberal society, or to understand it from such a perspective. It is still gruesome, but it is quite coherent if you were to study the society where it took root.

>>13272245
I had thought about automation as a source for free labour, but this brings some problems, as well. For instance, with the Hedonistic tendencies of humanity, having androids would make humanity a pleasure seeking stupid beast. If you look at the development of technology, it has always been done in order to bring comfort and reduce pain. A trait that defines the Übermensch is his affirmation of suffering as inherent to life and a means to power. If you take suffering away then no human would want to gain that power, for they are weak and they prefer instant satisfaction. So their spare time would go to waste. I believe most humans born in that future would rather ‘live’ a virtual reality than ours.

>>13272536
What is there to refute? He betrayed the revolution, killed socialists, established state authoritarian capitalism and paved the way for Stalin and Beria, and set the socialists movement back a hundred years. Exactly where his thinking betrays us isn’t important to me at this criticle stage in history. Can you cut to the chase and justify him and his ideas to me? Old /tankypol/ never could engage me on this. Can you?

>>13272792
One can always do with more studying, but yes, I have read some. Herzen’s My Past & Thoughts goes into some wonderful details. Some of it made me cry. Good stuff, I recommend. I’ve read some Hobsbawm on the era and another book specifically about the European Spring, t name a few.

>>13272846
Last part first. We are living in that age now. Most “westerners” or “advanced” cultures prefer living in a virtual world. This is decadence we need to resist. Or we die.
Again, I think Nietzsche’s obsession with hardness comes from his military background and his infirmity. The varieties of people world round will go off in their directions, as they e always done. Some will found religious communes and rot their minds out, others will go about an idle existence and die climbing mountains or jumping from buildings. Others will practice Epicureanism as it is the most agreeable way of life. Some will want to till their own land, pushing themselves, work as leisure activity. Rewilding the world and getting to know each other will still be a challenge.

>>13272920
Do you think we should accelerate Capitalism in order to have that technology (e.g. an advanced A.I.) and then establish communism?

You only need to read this

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>>13273128
That’s been pretty disastrous so far. Still the technology is here and more in the way. I don’t advocate Luddite primitivism, but I understand where they’re coming from and I think we ought to live with technology as we advance it. The market doesn’t drive innovation properly. How about letting our survival instinct drive it for a while.

>>13273150
My favorite
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FzdmDTiSFN4

>>13268381
Just read the Manifesto (really READ it), and you'll be an expert. You can argue with any neo marxist and win.

>>13271909
Regardless of what he was, he'd be called a commie. That's how the rich shut down all discussion of anything that goes against their immediate interests.

>>13268398
this unironically. bear in mind that his wife was totally brainwashed fool

>>13273225
0/10

>>13270407
>I can't recognise this board already
maybe because youre a nigger, and believe in communism, an ideology that has been proven, with thousands of arguments, to be shitty as shit

>>13273228
you just got angry because i mentioned his wife. and that's a fact.

>>13273251
You’re mad because she blew the lid off his cover and so you smear her as insane. That’s the fact.

>>13273258
i see you havent read anything but london (and thats THE fact)

>>13273193
apex lel

>>13273172
I don't really think our survival instinct needs an AI, but it's true that innovation won't thrive in an oligarchic society that much. Tension between nations has usually worked better, even wars.
How should we establish communism? Dialectical materialism seems true. However, I don't think we are right now capable of restructuring society in a natural way making it feasible. Revolution is dangerous, for it may lead to tirany, such as the USSR.
Honestly, Ancient Athens is my preferred society, it gave us so much art, which is the thing I value most. I know we won't get that back, though. So at this point, we might as well try Communism. I think my fear for art is what's holding me back, probably my misanthropy, too.
It shouldn't be worse than the dystopian shit we are living in. At least the Imperialism of the 19th century gave us Romanticism as a byproduct, but what has humanity produced since the postwar era? Absolutely nothing. Fuck.

>>13273310
Sorry but we tried real Communism more than once and somehow it always failed, probably due to the ideology itself being full of contradictions and a mere utopian fuss.

>>13273341
Marx didn't want what the USSR accomplished. I doubt we are capable of doing the real thing right now let alone a century ago.

>>13272920
I'm not going to sit here and attempt to justify Lenin to you, as I have shit to do and it's not what I was talking about. But since I see that you haven't read any Lenin here's the passage I was referring to- perhaps you can read it and we can discuss your specific disagreements

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch04.htm#s2

>>13270044
You haven't even seen some of the stupider shit they've said, they've learned not to share their opinion on anything but communism thank god.

>>13273708
>I have shit to do
>I demand you respond you my idiotic demand so I can insult you

>>13273310
States are still too powerful, so I don’t recommend a power struggle, at least directly. I think we just need to avail ourselves of all the technology available to us in order to restructure the economy to something more suitable, and no I don’t mean bitcoin!
As the economy begins to teeter out of control we chip away at the vulnerable places. Breaking people out of private prisons, putting the homeless into the empty homes, local intranets, even local elections could do some good. A bunch of stuff.

>>13273708
I’ll see if I can squeeze it in.

>>13273772
put your trip back on

>>13273782
The thing is that we can't hope to succeed doing that what you said, it would require a complet change of mindset in the population, the will of the nowadays proletarian is just too feeble, the society is atomized, the identity of a lot of people is based on their compsumtion habits, the kind of effort you support couldn't be done because people don't care due to the lack of class consciousness neither have the constancy to do it. Think about the societies were a revolution was tried, they were agrarian collectivist societies.

>>13275106
The things I’m suggesting are about healing those rifts. And people will have to care if we end up waiting for the economy to tank. Offering a duel income for the hours they work would be incentive enough for some. Organization is all this needs.

>>13273772
Coward post.

>>13274780
Wasn’t me.
>>13275166
He’s responding to a cowardly post.
Is this the same anon?

After reading some I have come away unconvinced. Slippery nonsense and misrepresentation, but for Proudhon.
It boils down to the same old thing we hear all the time. The people need a state to beat the bourgeoisie and that establishing just a rigid a class system as they, they will someday melt their state and class away when the time is right.
New flash. It never happened. Bakunin was right.
Read any Bookchin? Might be worth our time.

>>13275247
>It never happened
if that's your argument you should be dismissing all of socialism, anarchism included, not just Leninism

>>13275155
>Organization is all this needs
And that's why it isn't possible there's a lack of trust, a lack of bonds between individuals more meaningfull than: "I like this group of products", I could give a far better and more complete explanation in Spanish

>>13275263
The plan wasn’t to establish an authoritarian states that then collapses and becomes oligarchic capitalism... what a nightmare mirror you claim to live in.

>>13275316
No, that’s enough. You see where the weakness is, where the challenge lies. We do it or we won’t make it out of this century.

>>13271504
>The Black Book of Communism
>The Gulag Archipelago

Man I almost took you seriously for a second.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster_rebellion

ITT teenagers who don’t know that they’re unwitting Christian millenarians.