Understand Spinoza's philosophy.
Absolutely crucial, you can't even start to think till then.
Understand Marx, Kant.
Read about history. French history as a marxist is fascinating, especially around Louis the 14th and the 19th century in general with the commune but feel free to also read marxist analysis of your country's history
Make sure to read more.
Philosophical and historical recommendations to improve your dialectics
Jonathan Jones
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Chase Powell
Or use the shortcut: take LSD
Oliver Morgan
that's cheating
Brandon Reyes
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Joshua Ramirez
I was planning to read Barry Spin anyway. Any materials I should be familiar with before diving into Spinoza?
Caleb Clark
If you're serious about DiaMat, read Althusser. He was a real principled Marxist unlike the café intellectuals who just did this shit for kicks.
Elijah Lopez
Ought to be mandatory reading to be allowed to post on the internet
Brandon Scott
didn't he admit he was just making shit up for academia cred and Lefebver called him out before but not one believed him back then?
Robert Gonzalez
I think so, yes. But by Marxist standards he was a very good theorist.
Henry Price
Check out Hobsbaum's "Age of" series, Thompson's "Making of the English Working Class", and Montgomery's "Fall of the House of Labor".