Moved to a new community since the rules are different from /c/genzedong’s.
Here you can suggest texts for the reading group. They should ideally be reasonably short, but larger ones (not Capital, there’s already a reading group for that on Hexbear) can be divided across several weeks.
Comments that suggest texts that fit these criteria will be selected based on upvotes. You can participate from any instance that’s federated with Lemmygrad.
Some suggestions from the previous thread will be used for future sessions.
I have to recommend both:
Anti-Dühring by F. Engels and Materialism and Empirio-criticism by V.I. Lenin
They are both considerably long but can be easily divided considering they are structured of multiple short chapters.
I personally believe that those are the best books to learn about Dialectics and Materialism, the two aspects of Marx’s Philosophy which became the basis of all Marxist theory, and therefore, are crucial reads to anyone who wants to learn Marxism without falling for ultras or revisionists’ traps.
I know it’s a bit clumsy in one comment, but I have a few suggestions:
Marx, 18th Brumaire - a classical work that I think is still under appreciated and apart from the theory, it contains some excellent prose as well.
Gramsci, The Modern Prince (starting on page 127 in this version) - Gramsci’s views on the (communist) political party which I just started reading myself.
I would also like to suggest Class Struggle by Losurdo, but I’m worried that it might be a bit too long for this format of discussion group. Still, I think it’s an extremely valuable book that everyone should read.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back and Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution by Lenin.
I’d also like to suggest tagging people each new thread (especially when it has multiple parts like the recent Fanon one), and advertising this comm on the main one more, as I myself didn’t even notice it existed.
The Foundations of Leninism by Stalin
Unity of the Working Class against Fascism by Dimitrov
How long is too long? I will always recommend Fascism and Social Revolution by Rajani Dutt.
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Since Marx’s works are the core of Marxist theory, and reading “The Capital” would definitely be to long, we should still have a thread at least for both: Wage labour and capital and Value, price and profit
Jeremy Rockcliff: The CIA reads French Theory. Its probably too short to deserve a whole week but its a really good read.
