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.

  • Cowbee [he/they]
    3·
    1 day ago

    The best candidate last time was Claudia De La Crúz, but as we all know she lost and Trump won. Electoralism can’t be allowed to actually change anything, the mover and shaker is working class organization. Without an organized working class, elections can’t change anything, and theory helps us understand why that is and how to best go about that.

    The reason theory is important is because it highlights that nothing can change without working class organization, and therefore putting electoralism in the primary you won’t succeed at all, as has been proven over the centuries. Revolution on the other hand does work, and continues to do so.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 day ago

      The best candidate was Bernie, but the Socialists failed to outorganize the DNC.

      It’s hilarious that the same people who couldn’t get Bernie past the DNC think they can win a revolution.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
        3·
        1 day ago

        Bernie wasn’t running, and Bernie is a Social Democrat, not a Socialist. If you had read theory, you can understand why electoralism isn’t a valid path, but revolution is, and that largely stems from the fact that the Electoral system only allows those that uphold the system to participate to any real degree.

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 day ago

          It’s hilarious that the same people who couldn’t get Bernie past the DNC think they can win a revolution.

          Claudia De La Crúz, got even fewer votes then Bernie, even when he wasn’t running.

          Please, keep telling me about your powerful revolution.

          • Cowbee [he/they]
            3·
            1 day ago

            Indeed, the 2 party system forces people to make concessions beyond what they actually support. If you read theory, you would understand that candidates who garner votes are not the same as the ones with mass public support.

            • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
              1·
              1 day ago

              Funny how your theory keeps telling you how powerful you are when you can’t get 0.01% of the voters to support you.

              But yes, I’m sure all the people who didn’t vote for Bernie or de la Cruz will rush into the streets any day now…

              Any day now…