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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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[–] veganbtw@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ooo thanks, I'll give this a DL to my AudioBookShelf server.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ooh, that sounds like a very cool thing.

I need to download and sort some theory to read and put it on my devices... the family camping trip is coming up, there's pretty bad cell service in the campground, and I always get caught out with nothing good to read. As I spend the night before we leave scrambling to pack the final things.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

If you have this set up you can use their mobile app to sync books to your phone so you can listen to them offline.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

You should also take a look at this https://mega.nz/folder/cuMwjRyK#eDPayQSdYFwaCh9qr8zzPw

I got my ass out of bed just to post this.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ooh, looks good, can't wait to sink my teeth into some of this, thanks comrade!

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I highly highly recommend Palo Alto and Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere. They cover some big blind spots among the western left regarding indigenous stuff.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 3 points 8 hours ago

Thanks for the rec!

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Oooo what is this? Def yanking those audio books.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

It's the Rodney Yellow Thunder online library put together by Sungmanitu and some other comrades in CLN, I kinda helped. 8 gigabytes of decolonial theory.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago

MEGA very stingy with allowing downloads, it would seem. Even with an account, I hit their "transfer limit" of 5GB in a single six-hour period.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 2 points 12 hours ago

Ooh, neat. I might have an old device lying around that'd be possible to set something like that up on, using that specifically for theory is the most leftist thing ever. Will have to look into that.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Most theory isn't super long but does sometimes assume you've read other stuff which is.

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So Theory is like the Marvel Cinematic Universe ?

I... You're right and I hate it.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The marvel cinematic universe isn't short nor are the movies in it and i don't think any assume you can read in general

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah but many modern marvel movies assume you have watched other stuff before. Just like theory isaac-pog

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

All of history is the history of the Capeshit Struggle

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

lol the dense text of Capital assumes knowledge of Adam Smith and David Ricardo. You can really struggle without a foundation on liberal economics (also known as political economy) and got lost because you don’t know what Marx was referring to.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 1 points 3 hours ago

This is why I struggled reading it!

[–] trinicorn@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

State and Revolution is SHOCKINGLY clear and accessible, and yes, not a million pages long.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

It's great for people who love influencer drama because it basically is that

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Marx have me the false notion that all these revolutionaries were wordy as hell. Talk about false consciousness!

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 wtf-am-i-reading

[–] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I like when Marx says "in a word" and then it's a full sentence. Which maybe it is in German idk

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

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."

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

In a word, Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Muscling through Imperialism rn and was saddened to see how it wasn't easy to read like State and Revolution

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

should listen to the Marx Madness reading series on it. They are great. Also their discord is where I met Sungmanitu.

Once he whips out the charts you know you're in a different realm

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.

[–] fart@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

haha im in the exact same boat

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

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

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wait until you find out the communist manifesto is only 20 pages long

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

20 pages with 100 pages of forwards.

[–] quarrk@hexbear.net 3 points 19 hours ago

Very interesting forewords though

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

The Lenin library is good fucking shit

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear about Mao’s famous works!

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On Contradiction is like 30 pages! costanza-maoist

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

What a bargain!

[–] OnceUponATimeInWeHo@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh hell yeah dude, Mao is so (relatively) easy to read. I went Mao->Lenin->Marx and I think that's a solid trajectory.

Here's a compilation of work, but skip the Zizek intro https://aklatangbayan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/zizek-presents-mao-on-practice-and-contradiction.pdf

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

This is the way stalin-approval

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Red Wizard? More like Wed Rizzard amirite?

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