I know every Marxist space has their reading list of essentials, and I’ve read some of those, but I started on a completely different path. The first theory book I read a Gaddafi’s Green Book because I was reading people on Quora praising his achievements. It was decent especially the second part, sort of “libertarian socialist” in a preferable way. I was definitely lacking some of the cultural context for the family and political structure, but overall not a bad book, but not the normalest intro book. The second I read of Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxembourg, on the Deprogram’s recommendation, which was valuable, but again not the most orthodox. I think the third theory book I read was Imperialism by Lenin (I got a paperback for christmas), which I seemed to lack some context for and it was very information dense, but I love his writing style and dunks on Kautsky. A good introduction for imperialism.

Anyone else have a similar experience?