I obviously study historical and dialectical materialism, but there are some others I’m interested in. I want to try to get into secular Buddhism, stoicism, existentialism, and maybe absurdism. Does anyone have suggestions on any of these subjects? (I’m already intending to read Simone De Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sarte, and the book ‘capitalism- it’s nature and replacement’ which is a synthesis of Marxism and Buddhism, but the author’s a bit of a leftcom)
Been looking vaguely in the direction of gnosticism. It’s a difficult ask to break the staunchly atheistic aversion within me to give it any actual credence, but I have to say that there is something very appealing to me about the idea of our mortal coils being more like punishments than blessings and the key to salvation lying in becoming more and more spiritually and intellectually enlightened.
If I had to guess, my interest stems from having a painful chronic disability and years of body dysmorphia. 😅