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Baker of bread, maker of wine, lover of philosophy
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Genuinely fascinating to see a stock market dip, a bond selloff, and a precious metals price dip all at the same time. You end up with an American economy where bulk commodities might genuinely be the safest store of value. Next week doing barter with my 18 tons of steel beams.

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It's rare that a headline is so wildly incorrect that I have to hate read the article, but this one got me. Obviously there is nothing Marxist about Trump's purges and they aren't class based in any coherent way. This is nonsense to anyone who understands Marx. I include screenshots in this thread

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Hot take: I think the biggest problem with Lenin as a thinker is that he took the solo writings of Engles too seriously

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They came out absolutely delicious! I may post pictures later when I have them for dinner

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Making gnocchi with radish pesto today! I've never tried to make either from scratch before so I'm excited to see how it turns out.

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I'm amazed I don't hear more people talk about the Star Trek Next Gen two parter Birthright. It's some of the best Star Trek out there in my opinion. We get both confirmation that Freud was right about the structure of consciousness and a touching resistance against cultural assimilation.

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I'll be watching and live posting my thoughts about the new Black Mirror season in this thread. Starting with episode 1: Common People I'm shocked there even is a season 7 after the departure from form in season 6, but here we go

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It was cool realizing how much of Maoist third worldism is already there in Lenin. He lays the groundwork for it in his analysis of England creating a "bourgeois proletariat" within the country benefiting from the labor of the colonized proletariat. That's just labor aristocracy in other words.

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I'm doing some reading and remembering just how much better Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism is than State and Revolution

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I'm finding myself struggling to read philosophy without clear political implications. It's absolutely a reaction to the state of politics right now. I guess I'll be reading a lot of theory in the coming months.

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