I want to be like (some of) you Holla Forums. Well read, educated in leftism. And I can't get myself to read...

Watch Richard Wolfe's lectures. The youtube channel is democracy at work

Also look up Wolfe's Socialism for Dummies lecture.

All of his lectures are enlightening and entertaining. He has this incredulous tone when talking about capitalism that make is sound super stupid.

It will relax and entertain you after you long days at work.

Also Culture in Decline is another good entertaining video series.

I hardly work at all and I'm out of school and I still mostly just read in small increments. Plus I read fiction and political stuff both. Don't mind tbh as long as I can grasp the required concepts.

And have nothing to do with Marxism.

This bit always tends to be forgotten.

Start with memes, we got a lot of them at lefty.booru.org/. I personally recommend the spurdo ones. Audiobooks and conferences are also good if you prefer listening over reading. Maybe there is a CD shelf at your library, and you can find a lot on youtube.

He's a marxist economist. All of his lectures are from this perspective. How is that having NOTHING to do with Marxism.

He is Marxian economist - this means he uses only bits of Marxist economy.

If one could accept Lenin as an authority, Marxism is founded on three core ideas - Socialism (revised French Utopian Socialism), Economy (revised English economy), DiaMat (revised Germany philosophy).

Marxians use only one Marx's idea - his Economy. They are post-Marxist.

From the perspective of his own class theory, the one he invented himself. His terms are simply named similarly to Marxist terms.

But when he says Capitalism - he means his own Capitalism.
And when he says Communism - he means his own Communism.

He literally dubbed kolkhozs - co-ops - as private Capitalist enterprises. Because it makes sense within his theory. And don't get me started on his claims that Stalin somehow didn't do what Lenin wanted.

You can say that he is the only one who truly understood Marx, but this still doesn't change the fact that the he doesn't talk about the same things the Marxists do. His definition of "State Capitalism" is different from Lenin's and is a continuation of post-Trotskyist (Trotsky himself was rabidly against it) ideas in the West. Except, instead of inventing new class of exploiters as Djilas did - to be abel to call Soviet Union State Capitalist - he re-defined what Capitalism means, apparently digging out Duhring's corpse (unfortunately, I still can't get my hands on his works to clarify it) from some forgotten graveyard to do so.

And then he throws the whole idea of Basis/Superstructure under the bus.

Very easy. By ignoring core concepts of Marxism

Do you really think USA did not try to get "correct" form of Marxism, to be used as propaganda against USSR during Cold War?

Someone should invent some educational porn.

Next time just write that he's not a Leninist economist.

Protip: nobody likes Bolshevik scum.

There are some surprisingly educative memes here. At least in helping to grasp to core concepts

Pick one.

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That's what one of your buddies thinks.

Look at the bright dark side: now you can't claim it was me writing it.

So, basically, your criticism is that RDW isn't an M-L.

Thanks a lot, fam, there's no way we could have figured that out on our own.

Take off your icon.

Where the fuck did I say that?

That just validates him/it. Just filter him.

But that's the only way you can pretend that Wolff is Marxist.

You have to have some special definition of Marxism, that does not include basic concepts of Marxism.

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Whatever. Go build Venezuela 2.0

You are without a doubt the worst poster on this board by far, and I want you to know that.

You only need to prove that concepts of Marxism Wolff had declared obsolete are not Marxist, but Leninist.

And yet you can only engage in ad hominem attacks.

Where did I say that retard?

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Do you have anything to say about Wolff's "Marxism"?

Nobody can read piles of books from cover to cover on a computer screen. Print it out one chapter at a time.

Or watch youtube video's, this video on the philosophy of kierkegaard is a brilliant example.
youtube.com/watch?v=dl-eBz1_MG8

That's sound. It will motivate you after you're done.

Look, I exercise regularly, and the self-esteem boost is enormous, but you will feel MORE tired. I know people like to be witty and counter-intuitive by saying 'you'll have more energy' but that's bullshit. You'll also need more sleep.

How will this give OP more energy? Don't waste your life doing shit that won't get you anywhere. That's Holla Forums advice.

Ok this one's good.

I used to be able to do that when I was younger. It's not healthy.

If you have money for weed you have money for an e-reader. You need to make reading into a daily routine. Take notes. If you are tempted at home to waste your life, read in a cafè or library.

That's it.

Hey, I told him that too before.

This, there is no turning back !!XijnrwOqQI from what you are. Embrace it and kill yourself.

Not really, I was just replying to a meme-tier meme.