Yeah it is pretty active, not like spend all day browsing active (probably for the best because there should be at least a little bit of organising being done irl). Speed was probably just good timing between posting and me popping on before bed
if you would need to introduce someone new to ML, someone that read to much lib shit and to much CIA prop, what would you suggest them to read or watch?
Always recommend reading over watching, there is a lot of bias in just absorbing others’ takes via youtube or lectures if you want to get a true idea of someone’s philosophy. As for recommendations, wage labour and capital and engels’ synopsis of capital are great starting points before dipping into some left wing communism an infantile disorder
Definitely Marx and Lenin. They will give you a good overview of what marxism-leninism is about and why it’s doomed to failure. I don’t advise reading Trotsky on the other hand because that one claims to be a victim of tyranny fighting for freedom, when he is (was) the tyrant himself so the message a newcomer without historical facts would receive is “Trotsky is a hero”, whereas a person reading “Lenin” will sonner or later read through his socialist claims and find out he’s a complete power-hungry psychopath.
Yeah it is pretty active, not like spend all day browsing active (probably for the best because there should be at least a little bit of organising being done irl). Speed was probably just good timing between posting and me popping on before bed
if you would need to introduce someone new to ML, someone that read to much lib shit and to much CIA prop, what would you suggest them to read or watch?
Always recommend reading over watching, there is a lot of bias in just absorbing others’ takes via youtube or lectures if you want to get a true idea of someone’s philosophy. As for recommendations, wage labour and capital and engels’ synopsis of capital are great starting points before dipping into some left wing communism an infantile disorder
Definitely Marx and Lenin. They will give you a good overview of what marxism-leninism is about and why it’s doomed to failure. I don’t advise reading Trotsky on the other hand because that one claims to be a victim of tyranny fighting for freedom, when he is (was) the tyrant himself so the message a newcomer without historical facts would receive is “Trotsky is a hero”, whereas a person reading “Lenin” will sonner or later read through his socialist claims and find out he’s a complete power-hungry psychopath.