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)
It’s an interesting thing to do even if you’re not religious. They are books that inspire billions of people throughout the world, and it gives a perspective on how they look at life.
Plus, I can now say that Christianity and Islam are not my thing. But I know that because I’ve read the books instead of some bigoted reason.