Hi. I just started schooling in community and an trying to make myself a more well-rounded person with knowledge. My preference is math and less so science when it comes to material I like. Though I love history, I don't care for writing papers so I don't want to study it and I also don't want to be a historian though I do like knowing tidbits. My favorite parts of history/politics is war because war is fucking real nigga shit.
Someone directed me here via some random thread they were making fun of and when I browsed the catalog I had no fucking idea what most of the threads were about and it made me feel stupid. 4chins Holla Forums is just a meme rollercoaster at this point and never makes me want to look into anything. I know a lot of terms but have know idea what they really mean, even after looking them up. I used to watch the alt-right and gamergate-centric tubers but had no idea what marxist, fascist, all that junk pertain to. I tried looking into it once or twice but its like diving into the deep end without floaties. Could someone help me find aa place to start? I have no idea what to look up to start being entry-level politically.
If you need more info to help me don't be afraid to ask.
Do you need help with understanding other schools too or just leftism? Do you need just materials? Do you know how to study?
Leo Davis
All schools. I am shit at studying I'll admit but I'm trying to get better.
Thank.
Jaxon Nguyen
Come to >>>/freedu/ - leftypol's sister education site. We've got loads of free learning resources linked there so you can learn about politics, philosophy, economics… and anything else too.
If you're looking for "entry-level" there's a few good threads on there for you, take a look through the Catalog
Start with the first text I've posted, it will help you understand how politics is supposed to be read. If you like wars, you can think of political texts as books describing strategies and tactics that you can apply in your life to get what you desire.
The other two will be helpful for understanding the basics of the far-left, but I'll try finding you material for the other views too, I just can't remember anything good right now.
Brayden Russell
Okay sir.
I really liked this. How can I internalize messages in texts and lectures? I can remember some things but I'd like to be able to recall more and recall it quickly. Stirner's idea of self value and denouncing the abstract that has no value are things that I think I could use or should use. Maybe thats something I should ask here .
Thanks by the way.
Isaiah Morgan
Okay so I finished reading the first one. I assumed you were directing me to read the revolutionary self-theory one, as it's first on my browser. It was an interesting read and thought provoking, but the problem with me being entry level is that I have to look up all of these "ism"s that he mentions and when I do, I just glance at Wiki page that isn't really relating and any text I find is usually too high level of a read for me.
Evan Myers
Check out this video OP, for a Socialist perspective designed for "entry-level"
Also come to >>>/freedu/ and ask more specific questions maybe about what you want to know?
Jason Bell
You can ask here
Parker Phillips
What do you mean?
If you think in therms of utilizing ideas and material you are progressing quickly with the philosophy of Stirner. Check these intro's of Anarcho-individualists and Illigalists.
It isnt a problem, its lucky that user gave you a pdf on self-theory cause with self-theory you avoid being bound up in orthodoxy of an idealogy where you lose yourself in thoughts. (become obbsessed with the idealogy and lose your own unique interpretations and ideas)
Jaxson Jones
OP are you still here?
Andrew Morgan
By internalizing I mean to keep it with me. To recall on the fact thought process or theme whenever it is critical for me to utilize.
I read the intro to max stirner and I'm saving the others for my next train ride.
Yessuh
Adrian Phillips
Write notes, break down the arguments, and try to apply them in situations.
Evan Nelson
The thing is, when I take notes, I don't feel like my emdeavor is fruitful. Ive been trying or at least whem I started I was taking notes while reading Don Quixote. All I ended up doing was writing summaries for the chapters with VERY base and surface level thoughts. I get that im just starting and such but it doesn't feel good that I cant extract meaningful things from what I read or listen to.
Jaxon Roberts
I don't really know any shortcuts. You have to find out what works for you.
Don't discredit yourself so much. Even skimming the lake of ideology we can gaze into its abyss. The only real advice I would have is to keep trying, be more precise, define the terms of the argument or, if reading fiction, the symbols through historiography/psychology parallels.
Landon Diaz
I guess I will just work at it and try my hardest. I need to take down definitions and stuff too I suppose.
I had seen that thread. It was the first that caught my eye. I didn't look at it too deeply because the word 'critical' scared me. I suppose I'll look at it sooner or later though.
Kayden Carter
No need to be afraid.
Gavin Evans
Comrades you need to stop. I came here to read on dialectics, not to play with my dick.
Brody Peterson
Here's a basic introduction to dialectics from a Leninist.
Jaxson Reyes
I'm reading 'What is Property?' as directed by someone in another thread on Stirner(for how to understand him better) and I'm on chapter 1. I really have no fucking idea of what's going on. I get that he's setting up what he's going to talk about, but jesus. Is this entry level or did I jump the gun?
The only thing I can take from this so far is that he's going into how accepted dogmas should not be so and that they usually crumble eventually in the light of new ideas and theories. Even then I don't feel comfortable in my examination of this. I'll keep reading but goddamn. Sorry for the whining, I know people don't like soonfeeding.
Christian King
I don't think philosophy can be entry level. It's going to be confusing at first and you won't understand much, but keep reading and soon understanding will become much easier.
I don't have the talent to replace any of them, user. ;_;
Ryder Cooper
There is no talent in seeing reality as it is. There is only knowledge!
Historical necesity will make more like them appear. And if it is you who has to appear, THEN APPEAR FOR HISTORY!
litteraly propaganda and the big other
Dylan Reyes
Dunno if this will be helpful, but remember that learning isn't a competition. It's for your own sake. In my case, I take some pleasure in writing notes and personal essays and such because it seems fun in its own way and I feel like I'm playing with new information. I retain less information when I'm bored with the subject, but I'll still take some notes and maybe even use flashcards on my phone just to try to remember some things for later when I'm less bored with the subject.
I don't know about how you operate, but I get bored with everything after about a week or two. I try to continue with anything I've committed to learning or working on long-term, but I have ups and downs in productivity for each thing because I'll get bored with, say, history for a while and start getting really interested in language learning. While my language learning activities take up a little more time and have more intensity, I still try to not shirk what history reading I wanted to do because I know I'll kick myself about it later and my retention of facts and concepts will diminish if I just drop it completely for a couple of weeks until I'm interested again.
So I'm not sure what advice you should take from this, but maybe pick up some other learning endeavours as well so you can kind of always be excited about at least one thing you are doing, rather than just drudging through something you've devoted yourself too without having any respite. But also, you should definitely keep looking into different study tactics. I think you may already be doing this, but try to explain what you read and what you think of it to a fictional person (if you have nobody around willing to listen to you ramble about stuff you probably don't know much about anyways). Maybe even bullshit some ideas you have about the whole thing. It doesn't matter if they are shit ideas or if you sound like an idiot talking about something they are ignorant of. It's just an exercise in seeing how you kind of work with information and process it to form new ideas.
David Long
Also, as far as those simple essays go that I'm talking about at the end where you explain your ideas about something to a fictional person, or make an argument about some stuff you read, you can always read it later and start to figure out flaws in the way you think about things, or just learn more about how you process information. You might notice weaknesses that you have and be able to work on them.
