What a good coincidence that I’m opening this thread randomly to see what came out of it and see your comment made only 16 hours ago.
I would suggest this order
- Dash the red (I’m keeping it first because I haven’t read it)
- On Contradiction
- On Practice
- Elementary Principles
- and then the last two in any order
I say that because On Contradiction is a great primer before getting into Politzer’s course as I find Mao’s explanation stronger. Politzer’s book is a whole course so it will get you up to speed on idealism, materialism, metaphysics and dialectics. He also references Lenin’s Materialism etc. a lot so you’ll be able to get into that one later with some starting material.
I am very, very glad that Putin is a reasonable person. He’s the only one who has some sense in this entire thing.