Can we get a required reading thread?
I haven't read a shit ton of theory, because I find it hard to read sometimes, so I tend to stick to audiobooks, but are there any definitely required readings for communism and communist theory? I'd like to become as well-read as possible.
Bonus points for any fellow anarcho-gommies who can throw anything at me that isn't about bread.
Robert Tressell's Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and the Social Contract are literally you need to BTFO 60% of liberals and reactionaries. Another 25% with Elgar's companion to Post-Keynesian economics
Try >>>/anarcho/
Read some Bob Black if you want anargee :DDD stuff
I don't know because I'm still very newfag to leftism but I'd assume you have to get to Kapital pretty quick
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Is this satire?
Tom Clancy books are very impotent leftist read :DDDDDDDD
we have a left lit thread you colossus non Lacanian faggot
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I honestly can't think of a non-meme book.
I did read an essay though on the split between anarchism and libertarian socialism which I had for the longest time just assumed were synonyms.
contrun.libertarian-labyrinth.org
Also I've started reading Kierkergaard and basically, Rebel is a mess. Kierkergaard really didn't care for Hegel.
fuck off back to >>>/marx/
Under the Sign of the Scorpion by Juri Lina
You need to up your level first before you call me a mess, user.
Under the Sign of the Scorpion by Juri Lina
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I meant it in a good way, fam.
legit though I'm glad you're at least open minded enough to read Kaptain Kierk. Which are you reading?
don't worry about it my man it's cool
I wish i could say I picked him up for fun, but I'm taking a course on existentialism and we have to read "Fear and Trembling".
Sad. I'm not surprised you think he doesn't care about Hegel, Fear and Trembling is undoubtedly his least (overtly) Hegelian work. Hegel plays into it in the shadows, though you have to have read all the other stuff to really appreciate that, so I understand.
What do you think of it?
I like him a lot so far. He's kind of an intense guy. I definitely want to read more of him. What do you think i should read after fear and trembling?
why would it be
nothing until you've read Hegel, and better get moving, because the infinite waits for no man.
this B A N G ER
Well I appreciate it. I don't think I want to spend more time on Hegel though.
=( RIP authenticity
marxists.org
"In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure."
Marx in a nutshell
Two can play that game.
It's me from the other thread on dialectics!
Uhhmm. I've been conditioned to yell "Oh yeah, Spirit? Nice abstraction, NYERD!"
But I've never read Phil of Nature, and I just can't right now.
Let's just see if the proletariat can embody Spirit.
Stop being so fucking lazy.
You really can't.