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Nice! BTW should we make a book_reviews / literature_review community? I see we already have !socialistbooks@lemmygrad.ml , !literature@lemmygrad.ml , and !books@lemmygrad.ml, we should probably consolidate these.
I always think about the CIA operatives who had to learn Marxism-Leninism and apply its principles in a counter-revolutionary way, to defeat Marxist movements.
We have to assume that these are intelligent people, that deep down they understand how brilliant Marxist thought is, understand class struggle, and still do everything they can to serve their capitalist masters. It’s deeply disturbing that they know the right path in a way that others aren’t, and still do the opposite for the money. Extremely soulless behavior.
It definitely has orientalist parts, but its not the thrust of the book, which is very positive of Japan, and more often than not treats the euros as less civilized. I def recommend it, because its incredibly entertaining, and has some of the best political intrigue / realpolitik ever written. This book is massive, and I still couldn’t put it down.
Foucault be like: “age of consent laws are just like a prison.”
For context, he has a lot of pro pedophilia statements, and there’s a good chance he was one.
I finished it a few years ago, and I also couldn’t understand why ppl love this book. It was incredibly idealist (the capitalist power just agrees to not attack the anarchist commune for no reason at all).
The characters had zero depth, and were only used as props to expound on how bad the capitalist culture was. There’s an insurrection in the story iirc, but its completely unorganized and hopeless.
The default assumption of those studies you linked, is that monogamous marriage is good, and multiple partners bad. You’re linking studies from patriarchal viewpoints which already share your own status-quo assumptions.
Again, monogamy is not the norm of history, and only arose with class society. You haven’t done the reading so you haven’t learned this yet.
According to researchers, the 23 percent of participants who only had sex with their spouse prior to getting hitched reported higher quality marriages versus those who had other past sexual partners as well.
Ignorance is bliss.
Are you aware that all communist parties are banned in Ukraine, but not in Russia? And that the Ukrainian government is threatening to outlaw the Russian language?
How do you feel about Ukraine accepting military and financial aid from the imperialist powers? Why do you think they’re giving that aid?
What is the right way, in your opinion, to protect your people from neo-nazi aggression? Colorful language and witty retorts?
And why is defending yourself from nato’s eastward expansion called “invading”? Did you not see the image above?
And no, the Russian military is not killing “hundreds of thousands” of civilians, gonna need a source on that. If anything, their pace has been extremely slow, to prevent civilian deaths. Lord knows they could steamroll over all of Ukraine if they wanted to, but that doesn’t meet any of their objectives.
There are significant Russian populations there, all of whom are in danger of ethnic cleansing by the nazi-led Ukrainian government.
Again, you need to define imperialism, and why you are ‘both-sidesing’ this conflict. Clearly one side is weakening western hegemony, and the other side is trying to expand it. See the image above.
Polygamy / Polyandry is not harmful to society in any way, in fact it was the default for most of human history.
It was only under feudalism that the control over women’s bodies began, since sexual control / repression is needed to secure heirs for control of inherited capital. Under collectivist arrangements, unknown fathers are actually beneficial, since then children become those of the entire tribe. Many cultures even had beliefs that children had several fathers, and inherited the best traits of each of them.
Read sex at dawn, and the caliban and the witch for more on this.
We should also recommend some reading materials for OP on the historical subjugation of women, and how OP’s ideas are shaped by a deeply ingrained misogynist worldview.
I def recommend Gerda Lerner - the creation of the patriarchy, and Silvia Federici - Caliban and the witch, but those are both long. Also sex at dawn, for the feminist norms that took up most of human history.
Also, territorial disputes are not imperialism, and the Ukrainian neo-nazi government has been massacering civilians in the Donbass with impunity since the maidan coup in 2014.
You need to be able to define imperialism, or explain why Russia taking out the neo-nazi trash that europe refuses to do, is anything but a good thing.
Nato expansion:
https://forward.com/news/462916/nazi-collaborator-monuments-in-ukraine/
Navalny is the guy who said that all muslims are cockroaches and should be exterminated. Why are you posting white supremacists here?