I'm reading Capital, Vol. I. I'm getting on OK, but it's a long book. I intend to take occasional breaks from it to read either Anti-Dühring or Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Yes, I know that the latter is mostly an extract of the former. Which one of the two would you recommend?
I'm reading Capital, Vol. I. I'm getting on OK, but it's a long book...
Jeremiah Wright
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Alexander Cox
Read Stalin.
Angel Bell
No.
Thomas Gomez
Stalin's good though, give him a try.
Lucas Jackson
Read towards a new socialism by Cockshott. It is really worth a read and focuses on the possibility of a centrally planned yet very efficient economy through computerized planning.
Kayden Scott
this OP, read economic problems of socialism in the soviet union and compare it to what Marx wrote. Don't be a dumb ultra and discard 82 years of socialist development because it is statist or some meme shit like that, instead learn from existing socialist economics, flawed or not.
Jayden Fisher
Wage-labour and Capital and Value Price and Profit are intros to Marxist political economy. Just know that these works imply a positive political economy rather than what Marx intended with his economic theory - a critical political economy, critical in a dual sense, a critique of the theoretical underpinnings of the predominant theories of political economy and a critique of the political economy, that is to say, capitalism.
If you're so entry-level that you haven't read Socialism: Scientific and Utopian, you should read that prior to the anti-Duhring. If you want to you can just jump into reading the anti-Duhring if you want. Just be warned, it's pretty long.
How much of Marxist literature have you read? Are you following the Zig Forums reading list?
Evan Martinez
Thanks for being the only user so far to provide an answer.
Not a lot. I'm a few hundred pages into Capital. I've also read The Communist Manifesto, The Civil War in France, and What Is Property?
Luke Roberts
Addendum:
No.
Polite sage for double-post.
Dylan Rivera
I forgot to mention, I've also read Critique of the Gotha Program.
Adam Baker
sooo have you understood abstract labour? if yes, then you're okay. be mindful of the ways marx mentions science at times.
Justin Collins
Lead Lenin pls
Connor Butler
OP, don't read Anti-Duhring - it's a long and useless book where Engels basically copied Hegel and the result is an unempirical mess. It would be better for you to read and understand Marx and Engel's the German Ideology.
Lincoln Walker
Here's some links explaining my point about Anti-Duhring being a waste of time.
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^These first two links deal with the history of dialectical materialism from Engels, and how dialectics has nothing to do with Marx.
anti-dialectics.co.uk
^ This link shows how Dialectics and Dialectical Materialism cannot account for change, is based on broken reasoning passed down from the Greek metaphysicians, and ultimately harms actual Marxist movements.
Hunter Young
What about trotsky
Nathaniel Flores
yes the point of reading marx is to skip him for lenin
this is how tanktards are born
John Adams
I recommend following the rudimentary introduction and introductory texts if you want to know the absolute basics.
Benjamin Stewart
It's a single page. It shouldn't really count as a text. Plus, I don't want to read notebooks, unfinished works, or letters, since they are almost always either fragmentary or missing vital context.
Also,
>The German Ideology
>Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Fam, I haven't read these, but why are you telling people to read books written as responses without first recommending the works to which they are responding? I would at least need to first read The Essence of Christianity, The Ego and Its Own, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences, Phenomenology of Spirit, and Science of Logic–yet none of those are listed.
Evan Johnson
Lol have fun.
Xavier Torres
come to >>>/marx/ we have a designated /kapital/thread for beginners
Nathan Russell
Yeah no, if I wan't to understand Marx I'll fucking read Marx and come to my own conclusions. He wrote enough stuff to develop a proper understanding without some jackass russians trying to color virgin minds with their own pet ideas.
although after someone is familiar with communism I'd encourage them to read Lenin, etc.