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sadchip [he/him]

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    Black Rose Anarchist Federation - Novo General Megathread for the 6th-12th of February 2026

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  • Medieval history book recs? I don't really understand feudalism at all, all of these alien concepts. Duchys and electorates? Pre-citizen subjects? Indulgences? Holy Roman empire? Guilds? Lords vs Princes? Charlemagne? "Catholicism"?

  • Finally I can read theory on easy mode.

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  • Beanis on my 'dilla till I "yum"

  • Amazing

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  • lenin quote

    The Economist,[1] a journal that speaks for the British millionaires, is pursuing a very instructive line in relation to the war. Representatives of advanced capital in the oldest and richest capitalist country, are shedding tears over the war and incessantly voicing a wish for peace. Those Social-Democrats who, together with the opportunists and Kautsky, think that a socialist programme consists in the propaganda of peace, will find proof of their error if they read The Economist. Their programme is not socialist, but bourgeois-pacifist. Dreams of peace, without propaganda of revolutionary action, express only a horror of war, but have nothing in common with socialism.

    "bourgeois-pacifist" is letting it off too light, they'll eagerly push for war when it benefits capital. Of course after they've spent many paragraphs expressing how sad it is that there's no choice because [the most morally repulsive sentence you've every read].

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  • Good ideas, thank you. Giving it away to someone here actually occurred to me, but not great for opsec, in both ways. Looks like people are actually selling it on ebay for not even super cheap, so that could be an option.

    And yeah I could start reading it I guess. Read with a pen and get angry in the margins. There's something particularly infuriating about the Economist though. Like I would happily take Atlantic, Financial Times, New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal. While those all have similar bourgeois lines, the Economist has a shittiness in tone that grinds my gears. No author attribution, all in the same high English tut-tut tone.

    I remember listening to a Citation's Needed episode with Alexander Zevin who wrote a book on the Economist. They went over the magazine's defense of slavery in the 1860's, their active on-the-ground collaboration with the CIA on the overthrow of Allende, and tied it to the overall history of liberalism since the mid 1800's. (transcript here).

    From Adam:

    And The Economist provides a sort of ersatz morality. It gestures towards change, it gestures towards liberalism, it gestures towards being kind to people. But ultimately, there’s not much we can do about it. And what you don’t want to do is you never want to ally yourself or align yourself with those pesky socialists who do want to do something about it, right? And that’s really their ethos, which is, you know, here’s the stock market, here’s how you personally can make money. Here’s a kind of vaguely objective analysis of political unrest in this obscure country you otherwise wouldn’t care about unless you had stocks in their copper mines, right? It would be really great if there wasn’t this awful thing, but ‘Oh, shucks, what are you going to do? Here’s how you make money.’

    The Wall Street Journal, for example, will also tells you how to make money, but I don't think they have this slimy sugar coating of the Economist.

    I think the Economist is primarily concerned with spinning coherent lines of propaganda. They will make the world fit into whatever narrative is necessary to pursue their current objectives. Contrast this with the Financial Times, which is at least partially staffed with finance analysis nerds who are performing legitimate analysis on markets, or as legitimate as bourgeois analysis permits before it becomes heterodox and scary like marxianism.

    The Economist is famous for being read by presidents and PM's, which makes sense. It's material for forming narratives, a primary craft of the politician. And maybe if it was 2019 it'd be good to read to see what the narrative is, but with the unalignment between the Liberal Establishment and Trump, I don't really know if I give a shit what they have to say, it's just rage bait. idk.

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  • Like I guess this is where I should just be like "that's really nice but no thank you" but the problem is I'm a coward who avoids talking politics with family.

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  • Every time I see an economist cover I get mad for at least 10 minutes.

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  • I have been gifted a print subscription to the economist. They're asking why I haven't redeemed it. What do :

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    Poor People's March (1968) - New General Megathread for the 12th-15th of May 2025

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  • I'm about 100 pages in at the moment. Should be done in about 3 years as long as I keep this pace up.

    But yeah an "oh shit" moment every couple pages. Palo Alto-ass world.

  • Type A vs Type B posters

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