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breyan🍊 :

do you have any book recs?

little devil :

Marx is the holly text of those people who need a moral framework who where grown up in a Christian society and never unlorned that

sarah :

“i have not read marx’s capital, but i have the marks of capital all over my body” is one of the hardest quotes oat said by one of the founding leaders of the IWW.!!!

Nicholas :

. . . they're right, this sounds foolish

☭MeowUnist :

I want to preface with unironic friendly tone tag here, because you don’t seem malicious? Or something??? But this is the most unapologetic, incredibly, baffling statement I’ve heard in a while. I think you’ve misunderstood what communism is, and what it seeks to do. And so, it’s pretty evident you haven’t read Marx, and too, misinterpret what he means and how he’s related to it as a whole. Half the things you talked about here I could tell you Marx has talked on. You say he’s detached from modern society, yet you wouldn’t know? you haven’t seen what he had to say ? He Is not the end all be all, good job for knowing that. but he is our foundation in what we use to form our frameworks. Our basis of thought. You’re trying to apply your understanding of peoples continuation and interpretations off of Marx’s work, as the very foundation for the theory to interpreted in the first place. People don’t need to read “the 200 year old work” in math, but before they know advance calculus, they must learn algebra. To know math, you must know Newton and what he had said, which is to say, his formulas. Political science are a bit different from a mathematical one. You can talk about the contexts in, VERY namely, something like CAPTIAL, but it’s going to be incredibly hard to concisely, and most importantly, accurately condense **MULTIPLE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PAGES**. I mean, unless you want to just copy and paste what he has said, and then add something like fucking footnotes, there isn’t someone out there making -Capital(by David davidsmen)-

J :

give reading list

shovelheadjesse ☭ :

also reading lenin is a goldmine. it’s easy and it’s from a dude who was actually about the revolution

the_baneful_bum :

THANK YOU FOR THOS

yamz :

how do u know marx isnt relevant to todays society if uve never read it 💀

duhlan69420 :

It’s dogmatic to think you need to *read* Marx in order to understand Marx. It’s the same fallacy that Marx himself described; philosophers who seek to understand the world without intending to change it. As communists our goals are not to pass an exam on Marxist theory, it is to be able to theorise ourselves and work towards achieving communism.

Freaktopher’s dad :

The irony of them being classist while being elitists about Marxism is wild.

DAHMMY HILFIGGER :

Kwame ture used to say the exact same thing in speeches

Boring_Shawn :

I always say that I don't know the best system for everyone, but I do know the one we are currently under is not it.

hot sexy rich queen :

Hii what modern lenninst book do you read i want to read some aswell?

person :

love Paulo Freira!!! moved to Brazil recently and everyone is shocked that I know him, I highly recommend his works

Kata<3 :

This is beautifully nuanced, realistic, necessary take. They think we all needed Marx to understand capitalism is evil. Baby some of us are black and indigenous ppl. We know that already

Louis Jones313 :

I'm not saying Marx is trash or anything but like you said he's so far removed from modern American conditions. especially for us as black people living under these conditions I definitely feel it's more important we read the works of the panthers who wrote on these topics. the lords who wrote on these topics. Angela Davis especially is a really good example of people who have actually lived through these things whose perspective isn't centered on a reality that no longer exists.

Zero Distance :

Reading applied theory can teach you more than the original writings. We need to apply knowledge, to organize people. There's nothing better about older works. You can understand State and Revolution from a 20 page summary better than you can from the book itself. We aren't an archaic literature club.

Maladaptive Growth :

this sounds reasonable. Das Capital is a springboard, and like all other springboards you don't *have* to use it

Strugg Ling :

I also don't see the value in reading theory just to spout it at people. I read theory to inform an understanding I had of the world. no point in knowing the definition of Praxis if you never engage with it

Oltyx of Antikef :

WavesofAnts :

I was also unhoused multiple times and including during metro surge [Crying] if you can survive the streets you can survive anything. Being unhoused radicalized me, theory is important but experience is worth a thousand books.

Martin Whitley :

Marx is really helpful for the philosophical and sociological framework. Marxism is much more than just economics— you can get the economic theory from learned experience if you simply think about it lol

sivgreyson’s reading+reviewing :

and all those folks who were bullying you considered themselves to be doing activism while doing it btw

franciscorivort :

My thing is I feel like it’s not that far back to the point where it’s not applicable like other works of Engels and Marx like Marx and Engels started writing abt historical materialism and reading something like anti During it’s very like oh yeah this is obvious but with capital I don’t feel the same way I catch my self quite often reading his work and seeing how it directly still applies