Mathematics student who upon completion of his degree was ripped from the university's caring bosom and cast into the ghastly cold world of employment
Shoah is the Hebrew term for the Nazi holocaust in the 1940s
I wonder if they managed to extract any information vegetable, animal, or mineral
Communists might on first glance appear like wizards or sorcerers when they hold wands adorned with crimson cloth or when they don caps inscribed with the carmesin pentagram, and they certainly share their love of physical tomes to carry with them, however they differ from those classes in that they like to flock together, and it is not uncommon to encounter a whole party comprised entirely of communists
So these camps Che built for homosexuals, were they anything like the modern Western gay conversion camps?
The DDR Museum is actually cool, it is mostly just a lot of finds that were unique about everyday life in East Germany. There are small lib exhibits about prison, the Stasi, and the Berlin Wall, but these are stuffed away in the corners and no one cares about them. People go there for the Plattenbau replica, the Trabant and Wartburg cars, and the thousands of collector items. Be advised though, it is packed.
Absolutely do not go to the "Cold War Museum" that promises to tell "two sides of the same story". It doesn't, it's expensive as hell, there's barely anything in there, and you have to scan QR codes to see what the exhibits are about. You can have a lot more fun in the Espionage Museum and the Deutschlandmuseum.
As a communist, it is mandatory that you go to the Soviet monument (Sowjetisches Ehrenmal) in the Treptower Park. It was built by and in commemoration of the Soviet soldiers who fought against fascism in the Great Patriotic War. Just a few metres outside, people go running with their dogs, play annoying music, and have picnics. You enter the gate and you are suddenly in another domain, the weight of history overwhelms you like an invisible wall. It is a place of calm, where only the sound of willow and poplar trees rustling in the soft wind breaks the silence. It is a place of rest, mourning those who gave their lives to liberate Europe and honouring their remains. But it is also a place that celebrates victory, with its giant statues and the two red granite flags, the white sarcophagi inscribed with golden quotes of Stalin in Russian and German, and the triumphal mosaic atop the burial mound.
If you wonder about the location well outside the city centre, it is because Treptower Park is also the place where the already-banned KPD had their secret final meeting in 1933, inside the Archenhold public observatory. This is also a good place to check out if you are interested in astronomy, given that it has a small visitor centre with a free exhibition and that Einstein gave his first lecture about General Relativity there.
Look, the problem here isn't even that you insulted your Jewish grandparents by taking pictures with an SS volunteer. The problem is that you were part of a crowd that would strip naked and take a shit in the Chamber if everyone else did it. The problem is your boundless conformity to the crowd, your inability to stop and ponder, and your tendency to impulsively react to any stimulus whatsoever as if you were a squirrel on speed. Fascism doesn't succeed because of some sexist truckers from the Yukon. It succeeds because of people like you.
This is a dangerous assertion to make, in part because it is still too early and uncertain to say very much about BRICS, in part because apparent collapse is indistinguishable from the natural development of sufficiently advanced capitalism
This is bullshit, everyone knows that your height is artificially increased by the gravitational tension your spine experiences hanging from a petrol station
Homesteaders are like kids that fling pebbles at the bulletproof glass of the tiger pit. No matter how hard they keep trying, they fail to fully escape the guardrails of modern science and the workers' movement that protect them from a life that is nasty, brutal and short, they don't realise that to regress to living "off the grid" is neither possible nor desirable, and they think they are being brave or smart when they are really just a minor nuisance to the rest of society
If you look at any modern revolution, 9/10 of the people needed to carry it out have not been involved in any physical fighting. We are not just talking about culinary or medical workers who are active during the actual revolution, we are also talking about workers in infrastructure, communication, or administration who organise beforehand and then just refuse to carry out their bourgeois or feudal masters' orders in a strategic, coordinated manner. Before the Civil War and the Intervention, the October Revolution actually overthrew the transitional government in a bloodless coup, because it was well-organised. The majority of fighting happens after the revolution when reactionary splinters of the army revolt against the new government and have to be subdued by the faction that is loyal to it. If this faction is sufficiently large and well-organised, it will not need to drag civilians into the fighting.
Collapse is a different story. Especially in the first few months, depending on how bad it gets, you will be on your own, and you will need to get physical to procure your own food, clothing, and other necessities of life. Sadly, this seems to be the more probable route right now.
They really wanted a daughter to name her "Methany", but they got a son instead
I just searched Cruz' status, and I am deeply worried, disturbed, and disgusted that the recipe apparently did not contain him
These aren't real bodyguards though, they are body doubles of bodyguards
Building a "fascist box" out of asbestos in Bayreuth, performing Wagner's Ring cycle for him and a bunch of other Nazis, and torching the box with flamethrowers when the Weltenbrand scene comes up
No, obviously there were exploiters and rent-seekers during the Bronze Age, but capital has a distinct dynamic as opposed to other means of production such as land, namely that it can be expanded: A hectar of land in an agrarian society only produces so much grain, vegetables, or livestock every year, but the only upper limit for the production of machinery is the amount of available labour.
A land-owner can only expand at the expense of other land-owners, while capitalists also can - and are even required to - expand at the expense of the workers they employ. They use machinery and labour to obtain wealth and then use that to obtain more machinery, and so on. This arrangement has a dynamic of exponential growth, which no previous form of production had, and therefore capitalists are in a position to shape society in vast excess of what land-owners can and could do.
There weren't any capitalists around the time of Jesus' death. The word "Capitalist" refers to someone who extracts surplus value from labour by owning the capital - either machines and factories, or the financial means thereto - which workers operate. A capitalist can only exist in the context of industrialing or industrialised society, and there were no such societies during the Bronze Age.
It won't be pretty outside, but hey! Most likely you will be spending big chunks of the year in your bedroom due to the increasing likelihood of the thawing permafrost unleashing even more deadly pandemics anyway
NPC streams - The highest stage of streaming
As the abstraction of the act of streaming from its individual particularities, NPC streaming presents the distillation of the streaming profession, resulting in maximal efficiency in revenue generation. A quantitative increase in this kind of stream will eventually result in a qualitative transformation of the industry where it will be sublated by an entirely novel mode of production, namely the streamer-capitalist who relies entirely on the viewer for both the production and the consumption of their product, and who will eventually become a node in a never-ending tree of subcontractors.
Beware of cranks among our ranks
Comrades, today I had the pleasure of participating in our city's First of May demonstration, and to purchase two books from the local chapter of the MLPD (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany). One of them is pretty well-known, it is the Dialectics of Nature by Friedrich Engels; the other was an obscure philosophy tract written by one Mr Oscar Creydt where he attempts to reframe the entire history of the universe from a ML point of view, which is why I went in there with high expectations, namely that it would use recent discoveries from natural science to develop new ML philosophy.
Unfortunately for me however, whilst the book started promising and ambitious and it does demonstrate a good grasp of the historical developments of quantum mechanics, by page 60 of 220 it occurs to the author that he wants to deny Einstein's theory of general relativity, arguably the most well-tested and internally consistent theory in all of physics. But this was only the hors-d'oeuvre of the work, he goes on to try and reduce every single phenomenon in the universe to the vibration inherent to photons (which he calls "radions"), he spouts metaphysical nonsense about why the speed of light is constant, he declares the cosmic microwave background radiation to be the "primitive stage" of this vibration because Big Bang cosmology isn't real either, and he makes no attempt to explain cosmological redshift, gravitational lensing, or the perihelion precession of Mercury with his mental construction.
Now bear in mind that I don't necessarily want to accuse the author of being bad at science. The foreword of the book explicitly remarks that due to the anticommunist Stroessner regime in Paraguay, he couldn't rely on qualified people to empirically test or mathematically proofread his work, it is possible that the libraries he frequented just didn't have reliable books on the topics, and even the best scientists might publish utter drivel after having to work in isolation for decades. However, it is obvious that the mistake with this approach is that you cannot start with your own interpretation of dialectical materialism, and then change science to fit into it. This is a misconception of ML philosophy which many theoretically-minded comrades have already exposed, including on this very website. The refutation to it is that rather than relying on some rigid dogma formulated by humans, nature begets the shape of her own dialectics via her own interactions with herself; which is why we must study nature to arrive at natural philosophy and not vice versa.
The last thing I want to remark is that, if instead it had been let's say a Christian fanfic of science, one would immediately have noticed from the lack of footnotes and historical background knowledge, the presence of biblical and other nonscientific references, the use of odd figures and diagrams derived from gnosticism, or the extensive use of all-capital letter words. Here, there were no such signs. Marxist-Leninist scientific malpractice is especially worrisome because you might not even notice it until several pages into the book and even then the errors are of a much more subtle nature and require background knowledge.
Autodidactic Learning
It is now over a year since I have sadly had to depart from my university upon obtaining my master's degree in mathematics. I have since obtained a job as a programming contractor, however classical mathematics done with pen and paper is still the love of my life. Luckily enough, I still live within two hours of my old campus, and I was able to obtain an external library card, which is my ticket to look into all the topics I missed out on for want of time (not all mathematical).
If anyone among you has a similar experience, I would like you to share your techniques, too. Be advised that my way might not be very efficient nor lend itself to people who still need to study for exams or have deadlines, because I am no longer under these pressures.
Scouting. The closer a field is to my interests, the more books I already know to be suitable or unsuitable for me to learn from. For me, the most important criterion for a maths or theoretical physics book is to have numerous exercises on many different levels of difficulty and abstraction. I also prefer the books that use familiar notations to my lectures, and those that are written in my native language. Least importantly, a little pet peeve of mine is that I don't like it when books are set in Times New Roman because I find the font hideous and I honestly can't bear to look at it for long periods of time.
Frequency. Due to my day job, I am usually unable to clear more than an hour each day to sit down and study. I tend to use this hour to either read through a chapter and fill in the blanks between the formulae and draw pictures, or to attempt to do the exercises when I am done with the required reading for them. If an exercise seems boring and not what I wanted to learn from the book, I still tend to look up the solution rather than not considering it at all.
Intensity. Because I am no longer under the pressure of cramming and deadlines, I might take longer or sometimes lack the motivation to learn a topic, but I also have the liberty to take a minute and ask questions about it for which there was no time during my student years. Unless there is an elephant in the room requiring more urgent attention, I always tend to go through three things to look for: Examples and applications, characteristics of the generic case and the singular cases, and analogies in the language of other fields.
Surroundings. I tend to learn at my desk for when I need to write or take notes, and from my bed when I don't, although I reckon that the latter is a bad habit. Although during my earlier time at uni I used to learn with classical or Latin music or even commentary, I now tend to find it too distracting and prefer silence for learning. For obvious reasons I learn alone now, but I have always found it more fun and also easier to have a study buddy.