still not a great environmental impact but this is a better way of using ammo to keep the MIC happy
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hmmm i have to admit i used to read more fantasy than sci fi and watch and play a little more sci fi than fantasy . not much time to do either now 😔
I enjoyed 'the gods themselves' by Asimov. i did read and enjoy a lot of kids sci do books but I can't remember the names, except Halo . I only ever played a few matches at my friend's place as I never had an Xbox but I read the first three books of that series and loved them. tried to read them as an adult and did not get very far into the first one. Maybe they pick up a bit. I might have time over Christmas to read a bit more of them if things go to plan (they won't go to plan, though, lol, i already know it! )
what about you? Any recommendations?
at the cash machine
casa de papel 2 : Japan
but it's a miniseries because they break into the bank on the second try - 1234bank (but in Japanese, obviously)
save up all your revolution monies and cash in when you want to retire . your pension will only be stolen anyway
step 1 take them off the list
It's as good a place as any to look for some
hello Oppo. Have a good week!
the first is harry cleaver. he calls himself an Autonomous Marxist. He's not an ML (Marxist-Leninist). See his website - https://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/
Cleaver wrote a book called 33 Lessons. each lesson explains the corresponding chapter in capital, volume I and what we can learn from it. He wrote the book based on his teaching. he published an updated version in 2019 with Pluto. I'm new to Cleaver so I can tell you he wrote this book but I can't recommend it as such as I've not finished it yet .
The second is david Harvey. he's also an academic marxist. Not an ML. He also taught capital for years. his lecture series is available on YouTube. he published a written version of his lectures with Verso. There's a volume one and volume two, corresponding to capital, volume I and II. the one that kind of corresponds more to Capital, volume III is different - it's called The Limits to Capital.
His website is https://davidharvey.org/about/ . I can recommend Harvey. his work really helped me to learn about marx .
these aren't the only two who have written guidebooks to Capital but they'll give you a flavour of what is available
when you read sci fi and fantasy they say you have to suspend your disbelief, pretending that the world is real so the speculative elements don't put you off. otherwise the character gets to the other planet and you turn off the show because humans haven't visited other planets yet
I was thinking about how that idea might apply to marx .
Marxists imo have the most accurate explanation for reality. but most people come to marx with very different ideas, based on a bourgeois framework
to get the most out of Marx, we have to make sure of two things. 1. that we don't let our previous knowledge put us off or send us down too many dead ends. 2. that we do not turn off our critical thinking
To achieve this, we have to suspend our pre-reading-marx beliefs, for example about how the economy works and what it means to say something is 'good for the economy'. let the new knowledge in with an open mind. and suspend our beliefs about what is wrong with marx - marx made mistakes and his work has some holes that others had to fill in . We each need to think of our own criticisms - the ruthless criticism of all that exists is part of the marxist method. we need to apply that method to marx etc themselves. to achieve that, we need to kind of 'start again' by forgetting some of what we know (or think we know).
this might all explain macron's actions. he's the safe pair of hands and the scapegoat rolled into one if things don't go to plan in sahel .