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I don’t really think he knows this site’s culture at all. No one is dissuading people from reading theory lol
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Nah his last comment is 100% spot on. Though that is the site culture most people want to be fair.
Also, I will continue quoting Samir Amin until some of you actually start reading theory.
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What of Samir Amin in particular? I haven't read too much theory recently after a hard burnout but I'd be down to read whatever you think is relevant
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Oh "The liberal virus" is a much shorter work and is a pretty good introduction to his style, to see if you like it or not. Honestly I think people should recommend it over Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, the latter is full of random digs at "market Stalinists".
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Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism
It also randomly called Tony Blair's New Labour an example of how neoliberalism could more truly embody Stalinism than the USSRs state socialism could (bcs according to Fisher, Stalinism is actually nothing to do with ML thought, its really just when there's a government and people fill in forms apparently
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The critique of "state socialism" or "state capitalism" by the western left will never not be funny. If the western left plan to seize state power and get back on the road to socialism, they themselves will have to implement similar economic systems.
Nevertheless, the establishment of a state capitalist regime is unavoidable, and will remain so everywhere. The developed capitalist countries themselves will not be able to enter a socialist path (which is not on the visible agenda today) without passing through this first stage. It is the preliminary phase in the potential commitment of any society to liberating itself from historical capitalism on the long route to socialism/communism. Socialization and reorganization of the economic system at all levels, from the firm (the elementary unit) to the nation and the world, require a lengthy struggle during an historical time period that cannot be foreshortened.
- Samir Amin, on China 2013
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this is why i don’t spend a lot of energy trying to convince my western leftist friends to critically challenge their historical perspective on people like mao or stalin. when one of those decade-weeks happen, they’ll see the revolution won’t be clean; they’ll have to acknowledge what is to be done. i think it’s much more effective to focus on proper analysis rather than factual accuracy.
of course, that is not at all to say that the latter is unimportant.
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What the fuck is "market Stalinist" even supposed to mean?
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I'm guessing a critique against the concepts of state socialism or state capitalism.
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It really depends on what you want, more social or more economic analysis. At the end of the day, it's all interlinked. You cannot truly seperate the social from the economic.
Though I think that "Eurocentrism" and his critique of culturalism should be required reading everywhere. Though "The liberal virus" is a much shorter work and could be a good introduction.
For more a more modern economic focused work, there's "Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx’s Law of Value". Be warned though that there is a lot of mathematics involved, and you will have had to have read Marx prior to try to understand it.
You don't have to read or watch anything if you don't want to, and if you're burnt out, a lot of his long from lectures from the past are available on YouTube.
I think this interview series is very short and relevant today
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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What of Samir Amin in particular?
I believe she has a suit of power armor from the Chozo and fights Space Pirates on the reg.
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