Read, Expected, Got

kill yourself idpol

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You have no right to act this angry here until you make your stance clear.

Didn't Engels conclude in this that a successful revolution could only be led by the urban proletariat and that not a peasant army?

He did but it was still awesome while it lasted

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More specifically he blamed the provincialism of the peasants, the poor communication, and the fractured class society of medieval Germany for the failure of the revolt.

And also the rather unsurprising betrayal by the petite-bourgeois burghers

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that's pretty accurate

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bump

Most of these are awful.

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kek

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This.

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Revolution happens in stages.

Read fanon

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Someone post ones for Bookchin, Bordiga, and Settlers so I don't have to read any of them.

I keked

Why would you expect Cockshott to be against Stalin?

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Fuck you too, user

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this is great

Yup, utopianism - i, too, got that

Lukács was hella based.

This is the only good post in this thread

Nice.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Nice one mate

Worth redaing?

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It's fun as hell, because he focuses too much on adventures in the exotic Caucasus. If you want to get a Stalin boner, recommended.
Pic related has the better, dry, well researched and contextualized take.

i got meme'd lads

still worth a read tho

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Not leftist.

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so?

kekking hard

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Tip meme too gud

I don't get it. Young Marx was a genius revolutionary. Old Marx was a socdem. The only downside is his stupid idealist interpretation of religion.

Is that why Nicos Poulantzas became a fucking EuroComm after being a good Althusserian for a few years?

Good to know I'm not the only one.

I read this book (or atleast the first parts of it) for an essay i did earlier on in the year. it was fucking dope. there were some crazy crazy fucking stories in there. here i'll find my essay to quote some of it.

Stalin in his early years was a man uniquely skilled in intrigue and conspiracy. These skills, later, would form the core skillsets necessary for his rise to power. No episode was more famous than that of the Tiflis heist. Stalin, coordinating atleast 20 people, had them rain grenades on a couple carriages carrying atleast 250,000 roubles. The man had already in his youth become a prominent gangster. A meticulous planner, he pulled off this heist in service of Lenins Bolshevik party. It was acts like these that allowed Stalin to ingratiate himself within the Bolshevik party. Lenin himself decided that he was “exactly the kind of person I need.” Stalin was a man of magnetism. Not only was he able to bring together a core of hardened thugs and rebels but could also sway average folk to his cause. The bank clerk who initially tipped Stalin off to the arrival of the aforementioned rubles would later admit he only did so due to his being a great admirer of Stalins poetry.
Few men are born with such gifts. His brutality and magnetism within the Georgia he grew up in. A rough part of Russia and one with much repression and poverty. Stalin grew up in a town filled with regular street violence. With little to do in his sparse home Stalin roamed the street with many other kids. Gori, the town of his growing, was one of few town left that practiced the old Georgian custom of free-for-all town brawls. Kid would form gangs and roam the streets. Gori, once a proud town with a long history had turned into a riotous backwater in the decades preceding Stalins birth.
He enjoyed setting up boxing and wrestling matches and was ruthless to other children. He was, however, very protective of his vassals. A childhood friend, in one of his memoirs stated “all people who, through greater age or strength, dominated others seemed like his father: he developed a vengeful feeling against everyone positioned above himself.” Already, personality traits that would become notorious later in life took shape.

The fucker used poetry to woo a bank clerk into being a silent partner of his heist. the absolute mad man

who gives a shit you crotchety old fuck

Well fuck now I have to read young Stalin

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Everyone on this board needs to read these three books. Am not disappoint.

Keep making these.

Bump

Both of these are wrong.

Looking for septens.

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Walter Benjamin was a Marx-tier genius honestly.

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This entire book is a giant shitpost.

I wonder if the reason nobody reads all of Capital is because Volume 2 is the most boring book ever written. Fuck you Engels.

You keep posting this opinion and you keep making a fool out of yourself, tbh.

It's a shitty book. Marx and Engels go off on the Young Hegelians and also the French utopians mindlessly. Marx also wasn't nearly as well acquainted with Hegel to aptly apply his method.

It is a crucial book in Marx's oeuvre marking the ideological split with his former inherited ways, paving the way for the mature Marx's own economic project.

Are you an Althusserfag?

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Nice. Just missing the analogies using obscure geometry.

Lol. In more ways than one…

Anyone have a PDF of this book?

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Make moar

Make one yourself.

suck my dick

no

Some parts aren't no.
But those 10 planks?

That's a funny way to spell (any book) by cicero

Is it just me or does this thread have an unusually high number of "ur apinion is shite" derilers?

Come to think of it, Marx and Engels were the only due who wrote good books on Marxism.

Fucking Montefiore, man. As a historian, he makes for a great pulp novelist.

It was Notes from the Undergound, wasn't it?

kek, now that has meme potential

That's the spaghettiest, yes, but pretty much everything I've read from him has that element thrown in.
I liked almost everything btw.

it's not really fair to compare the whole marxism field to anything by laclau tbh

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accurate

Post-Marxism isn't Marxist.

kek

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Anarkiddies BTFO.