After a three-week hiatus, I am once again asking for your ML theory suggestions. Ideally short texts, but longer ones can be divided across several weeks if there’s enough interest. If you’re interested in reading longer works at a rapid pace, there’s at least one reading group on Hexbear.
Whether you’ve read the text or not, feel free to include a short description or reason for suggesting it.
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Previous texts:
- The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War
- How to Be a Good Communist
- The Wretched of the Earth (1, 2-3, 4, 5-)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Decolonization is not a metaphor
- Marxism and the National Question
- China Has Billionaires
- Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism
- Wage Labour and Capital
- Value, Price and Profit
- On the shortcomings of party work […]
A bit of a curveball, but I think reading Ian Wright’s Marx on Capital as a Real God is a good essay on thinking about capital as a control system.
Failing that, I think On Practice & On Contradiction would be a good way to explore dialectical materialism for any comrades that haven’t yet read them, or better yet Elementary Principles of Philosophy.
i read part 1 of wright and it was really illuminating for me as someone who could never focus on capital for more than 5 minutes. i really hope we read it at some point. thank you comrade
No problem! It’s no substitute for Capital, but it does a great job of explaining aspects of capitalism we may not directly see.