(Part 2) Best products from r/LateStageCapitalism

To Serve God and Walmart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise does a great job of explaining just that. Basically, as /u/acomir stated earlier, they vote Republican to, first and foremost, "protect their Christian way of life" by banning abortion, gay marriage, etc.

Hey bit late on this one, but for some inspiration I found the guys over at /r/financialindependence/ have excellent ideas on reducing expenses and an anti-capitalist way of life. The Early Retirement Extreme book is an eye-opening read!

You mean Josephus and Tacitus? Not really factual, no, although Christian apologists are 100% sure the bible is literal fact. The Jesus that people think of is about as real as Robin Hood.

Interested in non-partisan research? This book is pretty good: https://www.amazon.com/Christ-Conspiracy-Greatest-Story-Ever/dp/0932813747

If bread is what you want to learn, I highly suggest buying

Crust and Crumb by Peter Reinhart

Or

Bread by Jeffrey Hamelman

And if you like rye breads I highly highly recommend

The Rye Baker by Stanley Ginsberg

Honestly I can't recommend The Rye Baker enough, it quickly became my favorite bread book.

I recently read a — slightly sensationalist — book called National Security Cinema: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1548084980/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It details the relationship between producers, directors, and writers, with military Entertainment Liaison Offices, and how military and government aspects of many movie plots were altered in exchange for either specialist military or governmental advice, or funding.

For example, the CIA have only allowed things like the use of their facilities or intelligence in movies if the producers modify aspects of stories or characters to accommodate the wishes of the agency.

Well, it's available on Google Books free preview, but the pages cut off right before this diagram. Also, I'm not going to pay $12 just to see if there's any additional information then what's already contained here.

But, to give you an example, one only needs to look at the Wikipedia page for Li-On batteries to see that that specific invention, while probably funded in part or whole by the DoE, was not an invention of the DoE. So many people, from around the world, contributed knowledge and expertise to create it. It's not a DoE invention.

The State, especially the US State, is one of the primary catalysts for scientific research, but to say that huge corporations and university systems contribute nothing to that landscape is false. They all take and iterate and innovate on each other, and they all fund each other. Looking at scientific articles and reading their funding sections and delving into their cited references points that out.

I'm not sure that the fergusen riots actually accomplished anything... Or the other two for that matter. Regardless, riots only work once non violent civil disobedience has been used. Also I had a typo, violence only works when you can win. If the numbers are too small you will lose and you will not gain momentum for the movement. I strongly recommend you read this book:


The Rhetoric of Agitation and Control, Third Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1577666143/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ADJXAbGME82QC

They specifically address the WTO


Don't misunderstand me, I didn't say if you think you can win. I said if you can win. Big difference and the only way to win a movement like this is to get the numbers up. The only way to do that is to follow the proper courses of action in order. The book I recommended does an excellent job of explaining all of this.

Kinda amazing that in 74 comments nobody has mentioned Henry George. I presume many here know about this so don't mention it, however in case:

http://www.henrygeorge.org/dodson_on_monopoly.htm

It's a game designed to show land value tax as the way forward, with two sets of rules. Then there is the history of the game being "stolen" which I guess you could argue shows a healthy Georgist view of intellectual property.

Oh and the link: https://www.amazon.com/Progress-Poverty-Industrial-Depressions-Increase/dp/0911312587

Some reading material you might want to consider: https://www.amazon.ca/Paying-Party-College-Maintains-Inequality/dp/0674088026

>In this bold book, Armstrong and Hamilton capture the strikingly different pathways women undergraduates can take through public universities--'party,' 'professional,' or 'mobility'--and show how the dominant campus culture indulges the upper-middle class and limits the prospect of the upwardly mobile. The authors show the complex connections between parental resources, sociability, educational outcome, post-graduation lives, and the importance of the right brand of shoes. This book illuminates the realities of the college experience today, when an adult life without crushing debt is fast becoming the privilege of the few.

Probably the foundational text of anarcho-transhumanism (at least how I approach it) is Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto (PDF link). Through this lens the concept of 'innate anti-body politics' becomes notably blurred. In my view, 'transhumanity' is a condition that already exists; I base my views on my personal research into biomedical issues, trans issues (Sandy Stone was a student of Haraway's) the body as a philosophical object in art and medicine and the politics and sociology of body modification (A good place to start on the latter subject). Anarcho-transhumanism seeks to push forward towards the idea of 'morphological freedom', which is where I have just remembered I have read some Dale Carrico before; the essential critique of the 'superlativity' of techno-libertarian transhumanism is that like all utopian ideals it's ultimate goal is a static society which by its very nature must exclude all competing concepts. Anarcho-transhumanism, on the other hand, is heterotopic, radically queer, post-gender and so on. In the sphere of anarchist discourse, anarcho-transhumanism embraces the possibility of positively using technology in radical ways, in contrast to the strong strains of 'primitivist' and 'anti-civ' discourse with their worrying strains of biological essentialism and concomitant ableism, sexism, transphobia and so on. In more direct and immediate terms, with regards to pro-choice politics, anarcho-transhumanism would seek to, for example, demystify and push for unfettered access to reproductive technologies and remove medical barriers towards people seeking gender/sex reassignment therapies, as it repudiates completely the fetishisation of the 'natural' (which is always of course, in line with the dominating ideology of society). And of course, anarcho-transhumanism, like all correct forms of anarchism, firmly embraces the elimination of capitalism and private property, the abolition of heirarchical systems of social organisation and fully embraces discourses which seek to recognise, critique and ultimately dismantle systems of power and domination, leading to the emancipation of all people.

Please read this book Transportation for Suburbia by Paul Mees. Such an eye opening interesting book. The solutions are right in front of our noses. Please share this book with whomever you think might read it and shove it down the throats of those who wont.

Go to your nearest Asian market and get you some Ito En Green Tea. It's completely unsweetened so it takes some time to get used to the earthy flavor, but it is real green tea from Japan. I have it in my house pretty regularly and have come to really like it.

For context:

> They're lockboxes. If you know the combination you can open it and get a key out for a unit. Realtors use them when they've got open units to let prospective renters in, and I guess AirBnB hosts are doing the same thing now. It's not uncommon to see one or two outside an apartment building, but this is just...unbelievable.

Thanks to /u/robertbieber for the explanation. Here's an Amazon link to better illustrate what those things are.

Ho Chi Minh on Revolution was a very good read. I managed to find a cheap, used copy at a local bookstore. It's a collection of writings, transcribed speeches and so on between 1920 and 1966 from Ho Chi Minh, and while not necessarily an autobiography or anything like that, it provides a very interesting insight into Vietnam during the 20th century.

Confessions of an Economic Hitman goes into great detail about the Bechtel Corporation. Very well written story about a guy who was unwarily caught up in instituting U.S. interests abroad.

Recently, I came across the book, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato, and I was struck by the incredible novelty of this book really.

As someone who has worked in both the public and private sectors and in organizations both large and small, I have seen firsthand just how inefficient large corporations can be, as well as how much power they can wield. I also know firsthand that every major corporation could not have risen to its current position without the support of a government, either in the form of direct or indirect investment.

For example, Apple's Siri was originally developed at the Stanford Research Institute. Although SRI now takes money from the private sector, it has always received the majority of its funding from the US government. In the USA, recipients of SNAP (aka food stamps) benefits are a significant source of revenue for the major food companies. Defense contractors rely exclusively on the federal government. Pharmaceutical companies would never invest in new drug targets without the NIH funding basic research first.

So many people believe that government is inefficient and only private, for-profit institutions can deliver goods and services efficiently. Why is this belief so prevalent in the USA?

Black Panthers used to have nonviolent protests in the form of pointing rifles at cops. The discomfort this caused led to passage of stricter gun laws throughout the south, and is ultimately why pool desegregation happened as quickly as it did.

I think about this every time I see a sign at a march that has a witty joke on it, or a reference to Harry Potter or whatever. I get that there’s an effort on the sign-holder to publicize their cause, and make others relate to it better, but something about it feels off.

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Don't really get the downvotes on this, but figured I'd add what I wrote below for context. Happy to talk about this at length - I love the Black Panthers and know a lot about the movement.

Read up on pool desegregation through the 50s, 60s, and 70s. One good book to start with is Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams.

Basically, pools were "officially" desegregated in the late 40s, and a response of the KKK and other white supremacy groups at the time was to essentially "guard" public pools and bar entry by any non-whites.

>Where did protests of BPs pointing guns at cops happen?

Early versions of the Black Panthers in towns throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic responded by essentially camping out at pools with firearms - usually government-issued rifles (remember, lots of Panthers were WWII, Korea, and Vietnam vets).

I've read several first-hand accounts of the Panthers' intimidation of the Klan and racist police in these areas using firearms (even pointing guns at cops).

>where in the south has stricter gun control laws?

As a result of the Panthers' and other groups use of firearms in their protests and pool-ins, anti-open carry laws got passed at breakneck pace throughout the South and Mid-Atlantic. Panthers at the time protested those as well, and this is also well-documented in several good books on the early Panthers.

I'm too lazy to link to the books, but check out the following if you're interested:

• Black Against Empire
  
• Comrades
  
• Revolutionary Suicide

Just citing an example for sake of discussion and I get it's just an internet meme, half serious. It actually reminds me of that famous line from Fight Club, if you recall what I'm referring to. If anyone is interested in learning about all the incredibly easy ways to make money as an artist (particularly a songwriter) for example, you can learn how to make money as a songwriter with this ebook (practically free) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EY35MV0

US Amazon

Canadian Amazon

In other words, F*CK YOU AMAZON!

You may want to read this:
https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-State-Debunking-Public-Private/dp/1610396138/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500788947&sr=8-1&keywords=Entrepreneurial+state

and we need for the state to fund that via a land value tax so that working isn't completely pointless in the first place. When I read this stuff I think "agree, but it's all fooked until they tax land". If you made people more productive you'd have more progress and more poverty.

https://www.amazon.com/Progress-Poverty-Industrial-Depressions-Increase/dp/0911312587

To some degree, yes. The book I cited (The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato, http://amzn.to/2oMBDsb) has further examples as well - it's actually the point of the book (I might add there are some things I disagree with in the book but it is very interesting). Hell, being public research is, well, public, one could argue that it's absurd not to use it.