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  • There's not a lot of reason to read Capital unless you're academically interested in all of the details therein; there are good summaries and explanations of that work that are less cumbersome and more relevant to our current time. I'm not saying people shouldn't read it, just that it's pretty dense and not really something that should be considered absolutely mandatory for understanding.

    Much of what Lenin wrote, however, is a different story. State and Revolution, for example, is short and easy to read and understand. Even someone who has trouble reading could finish it an afternoon, it's like 100 pages. Just reading 10-15 pages a day - which should be trivially easy - will have it finished in no time. It's hard to believe someone couldn't get through a dozen pages of it at a time unless they're very lazy.


  • If it doesn't factor that much into the book, what purpose does it even serve to be there? Sure you say it's 'narrative backstory'; but then, so would be a thousand other historical events which happened prior to the start of the story. It must be more than that, else there's no reason to spend so much time and detail on it in the first place.



  • They're projecting. They're imaging the petty things they'd like to ban to control and humiliate their political opponents and then applying that same deranged behavior to people of an entirely different culture.

    In lib world, they would definitely arrest huge swaths of the poeple daily (or at least try to) for frivolous bullshit which is, for some reason, of huge importance to them. The difference is that they think they could actually be effective in doing so and that those primitive Chinese people are just too inherently inept and weak to achieve the desired result.






  • This is actual Roger Stone/Trump behavior. I simply do not understand how people who call themselves democrats are not demanding her immediate resignation and that any communication she has with the media/general public be strictly controlled. It should be unbearably embarrassing to anyone who even remotely supports the Democratic party.

    It's so incredibly far beyond the pale for one of the most prominent leaders of the party to publicly say this shit at all, let alone during an election year to the very group of people they claim to represent.

    I honestly did not think Dem leadership could be more openly craven and disgusting to their constituents than they already were, but here we are. There truly is no limit.