I was a far-right lunatic until about 2009, when I started turning left. I have read many (center-)leftist articles from Jacobin, Common Dreams, The Guardian, and, from Brazil, Carta Capital and IHU (Catholic liberation theology).
Lemmy (despite my suboptimal instance) and communist friends got me interested in actual Marxism, but I have not yet really studied it. So please recommend:
- The best Marxist Lemmy instance for my background.
- Marxist books or videos in approximate reading/watching order. For the next many months (I suspect six months) I will have very little time, though.
Bonus:
- reasonable tolerance of Catholic faith and individual morality
- contextualized on Brazil, Cuba, broader Latin America or China
Background: Brazilian Catholic male autistic ADHD IT analyst with an electronic engineering degree and MsC in computer science. I have a son with my wife. I highly value privacy and software freedom. I read English well, but Spanish quite poorly. Native Portuguese speaker.
EDIT: I got a lemmygrad account. I am still processing the other recommendations.
Don’t know what you mean by “auth,” it’s pretty standard Marxism, but thanks for linking it!
I was describing your ideology more so than your reading list, in case that wasn’t clear. Iirc though, you’ve said something along the lines of not feeling “authoritarian” is an appropriate political descriptor at all
My ideology is Marxist-Leninist, the list I made reflects that. I agree with Engels with respect to “authoritarianism” as a concept, elaborated on in On Authority. Generally, it isn’t a useful descriptor for many things, or rather it is so overused and under-examined that it ends up simplifying concepts to the point that they become more confusing.
Liberty is the iron fist of the invisible hand, and authoritarianism is the tyranny of the wage-slave majority.