ROFL
Dude you have a really fucking strange definition of "working class" if you believe this. The vast majority of people in our society (about 80-90%) are employed by a capitalist to earn a living. This is the working class we seek to liberate/abolish, not some petite bourgeois tradesmen who aren't proletarian at all.
Indoctrinate me
Ethan Baker
Christopher Mitchell
Should be: about 80-90% of working age people
Owen Rodriguez
That's a good way to ruin Marxism for people tbh. The only take that's correct is that WLC and VPP should be discarded and Capital should be read instead, the rest of your "reading list" is all over the place.
Jaxon Brooks
Ok first of all, what the fuck is that "Science of Logic" International Publishers lookin ass weak pamphlet shit? Real armchairs get the real shit, on that $60 Cambridge publishing shit, see pic related. I have no clue what that book even is, because it sure as hell isn't the Greater Logic and it's even too small to be the Lesser Logic. Gonna have to ask you to self-crit before I get the Great Helmsman on the line to neck you honestly.
Second of all, not really sure how Hegel himself is "supplementary" compared to German Ideology. Don't get me wrong German Ideology is great, but to call the Greater Logic (even if the real one isn't pictured in smoking leftcom's post) and the Philosophy of Right "supplementary" just shows how much of a brainlet you are. Speaking of brainlets who don't know shit about Hegel, that brings me to my second point about bitching about not reading Spinoza or Althusser. Althusser was a pseud my man, the only good thing that came out of him was the entire field of Marxist and post-Marxist philosophy that followed him (a la Badiou, Zizek, Negri and Hardt, etc.) Hell even his theory of ideology is obsolete compared to others' such as Zizek's. How you gonna suggest a man's writing who, in his most important and respected contributions to philosophy, makes claims that he asks you only to believe "in the name of materialism"? (thinking here specifically of the essay On Ideology and ISA)
Furthermore, Engels is arguably supplementary at best when compared to Hegel or even compared to Marx, and Spinoza is arguably only important from a specifically philosophical grounding in study, unless of course you presuppose (like pseud-tier Althusser fanboys) that Hegelianism is a big bad idealist mysticism that's only good for the mythological "rational kernel." But of course it would make no fucking sense to claim that since you brought up Lukacs as essential too, one of the most famously influential Hegelian Marxists of the early to mid 20th century, whose works basically necessitate basic familiarity with Hegel himself and German Idealism as a whole. But how would you know that? :^)
Landon Martin
lol
Yes Smith after Capital. If OP is interested in Marx and he starts by reading Smith, he's just going to get bored.
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This is supposed to be an introductory reading list. There is no sense reading any twentieth century Marxist scholar (even if we grant you that Althusser wasn't a pseud) until after reading Lenin, since they are all more or less a reaction to Lenin in some way or another.
I almost included a secondary supplemental list that would be all on relevant epistemology.
I ordered it expecting the Greater Logic but got this:
inkwells.org
There is a free pdf of the complete Greater Logic online. The lesser logic would be fine in that spot too, as the Greater Logic can be a bit difficult. I just included this little guy for the title.
The rest of you post is pretty based btw. Gotta ask though, why all that Heidegger? He has always struck me as actually being what everyone says Hegel is (ie. willfully unintelligible).
Brandon Gomez
you'll just get bored. just shitpost here and start bait threads and arguments, eventually it will start to make sense.
that's at least how I learned, anyway
Jordan Bell
I've always been interested in Heidegger but I'm not really sure why, it's mostly just for the sake of building a strong continental philosophy library. On the shelf below it I have a little more on Heidegger as well as Deleuze's principle works, for instance. Most of my library though I haven't read yet, I'm just building up a good amount as I push slowly through my studies. I have poor reading discipline and attention problems so it's hard to get myself to read. Anyway, I don't think Heidegger or Hegel are willfully unintelligible, I try to give every serious and respected writer the benefit of the doubt.
Jack Barnes
huh, strange
Is that fucking Nick Land I see there?
Jose Butler
lmao