Imperialism too? Left Wing Communism as well?? What is to be done???
That's it, I'm powering through these books.
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State and Revolution is SHOCKINGLY clear and accessible, and yes, not a million pages long.
Marx have me the false notion that all these revolutionaries were wordy as hell. Talk about false consciousness!
Honestly even Engels is way more readable than Marx. When I'm reading Engels and then he block quotes Marx I'm all of a sudden
I like when Marx says "in a word" and then it's a full sentence. Which maybe it is in German idk
I have to wonder if Capital would have been more accessible if Marx was anything other than German. There's a lot of "Germanisms" where he makes these huge ass compound words or almost tautologies with phrases like "The labor value is associated with the labor power of the labor voucher used by catgirl associates."
In a word, Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung
A somewhat surprising amount of it is also Lenin being very catty about political figures in his time lol
I was just about to say, it's like 30% throwing shade at Kautsky
It's great for people who love influencer drama because it basically is that
Muscling through Imperialism rn and was saddened to see how it wasn't easy to read like State and Revolution
Once he whips out the charts you know you're in a different realm
should listen to the Marx Madness reading series on it. They are great. Also their discord is where I met Sungmanitu.
haha im in the exact same boat
I polished off a good chunk today - honestly it gets a lot simpler after the first three chapters if I knew that earlier I would have pushed through them sooner
We tried to read it for a Marxist book club, and I felt really bad because many people who hadn't had the instruction or the propensity to see why the numbers where important were struggling very hard.