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 […]
Unironically, read ‘The Russian Revolution’ by Rosa Luxemburg.
Acknowledging and understanding respectful critique of your own thought and practicing dialectics is key to achieving a full understanding of socialism.
I read Lenin and try to understand the vanguard as a Luxemburgist in order to build my own understanding of the material nature of socialism.
For example, it does not offend me that Lenin rejects the mass strike, because I actually understand why he rejected it, this understanding a result of practising dialectics in my reading habit.