If I wanted to learn about a leftist school of thought, but due to having a working class lifestyle I could only read 50 pages a week at a high school reading level, what should I read to be able to make an informed opinion about the school and be able to hold my own in debates about it after a couple of months?
For example: Situationism?
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You can probably figure out what school you should follow in a few hours on wikipedia. Then read about that one.
Anarchism tends to be what most actual self-educated people believe, Marxism is much more academic. Read anarchist books!
To be honest you should first learn to think for yourself by self theory.
First read Revolutionary Self-Theory by Larry Law. (Situationalist)
theanarchistlibrary.org
The Minimum Definition of Intelligence by For Ourselves: A Council for Generalized Self-management. (Post-Situationalist)
lust-for-life.org
An Outline: Critical Self-Theory and
the Non-ideological Critique of Ideology
by Jason McQuin (Written a year ago)
sfbay-anarchists.org
Also here is an Interview with Jason Mcquin on critical self theory.
youtube.com
Alright. I'll page you if there's anything I don't understand. you seem to be here 24/7.
I know how it feels to have all your energy depleted after a long work day and not being in the mood to read hard theory. I would recommend exploring the internet for some podcast or educational material to listing to while working. (Incase if you can wear your headphones/earplugs at work)
Also there isnt any leftist school of thought cause its far more complicated and diverse than that. But you will discover after learning the basics from vids and podcasts, when you get into reading you begin to get in the advanched stuff.
Hey, it could be worse, I don't have any energy to do anything and I don't even have a job…
read stalin
he wrote for the workers and peasants to raise their level of education
lazyness is punishment for non activity, go do something before you get a depression fam.
got one already comrade
the first two links are the same thing, aren't they?
Actually they are yeah.
This particular text has been diluted into many titles, many with recycled views camouflaging contact with the authors as well as psycho-malpractice.
The first one is published in a The Spectacle, USA and is the revised version and the second one is the direct published version.
Excuse my mistake.
1. Start with Spectacular Times, easy and fun reading:
libcom.org
2. Go through this, you don't have to understand it, just note the concepts and jargon that's alien to you:
libcom.org
3. Try looking up those.
4. Start reading this (you can get it in epub from libgen), up to #12 (1969):
bopsecrets.org
5. Read Society of the Spectacle and The Revolution of Everyday Life (both available on the anarchist library)
6. Finish the rest of the anthology.
7. Read Comments on the Society the of Spectacle:
libcom.org
8. Impress girls with your knowledge
Also don't forget to check out >>>/freedu/1156 if you need help or anything
Endnotes, libcom and Marxist-Humanist Initiative has a lot of articles that get to the point fairly quickly. Will revisit this thread tomorrow with some proper recommendations.
just watch this video and you will know everything you need to know
As much as Holla Forums likes to shit on people that ask stupid questions, the best way to learn about things is asking questions about things you're curious about. If there is something you'd like to know more about in general ask people about it.
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tbh OP I think the only school you need is your direct experience. Much of us are guilty of fetishizing theory, myself probably included. But I mean not to fetishize your working class life either, it sounds pretty bad.
Capital is a force, you don't argue against it you compete against it with force. The people who argue for capitalism are always doing it on part of the force of capitalism.
Here is a place to begin
marxists.org
don't worry about schools for now, worry about understanding the society you live in. It is determined by material (social) relations of production upon which ideology, political forms, legal forms, family forms, and social forms are built
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Shit yeah, almost forgot, here's a short list on top of my head, bear also in mind that some are highly polemical (especially that windbag Gilles Dauvé) - but the general thesis might still be worth having in mind.
Texts by/upon Marx to dispel most of the common misconceptions (what is a state etc):
marxists.org
marxists.org
(long read on what Marxist communism exactly means) endnotes.org.uk
(First 40 min) youtu.be
libcom.org
(A typical example of what TC call Programmatism) marxists.org
libcom.org
(presents all classic leftcom critique of the USSR, including Bordiga) libcom.org
(Should here mention that while this is a good test, OJTR went absolute Holla Forumstard on other topics) libcom.org
libcom.org
endnotes.org.uk
(a mandatory critique) communistleaguetampa.org
This is a great intro, but critique and self-criticism as they say: libcom.org
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bump for potential.