You faggots can't even recognize a joke, how are you even in an imageboard
Who NOT to read?
Hunter Roberts
Levi Long
le epic trole
Grayson King
His general model of praxis is still the best we have organizationally speaking. The use of a well organized vanguard party, combined with a multi tactic approach (agitation, direct action, electoralism, strikes, etc) is applicable to pretty much any situation. His analysis of imperialism is also pretty much still the best and most relevant, although it could do with an update.
Gabriel Gomez
Meant for
Austin Johnson
Reddit, not even once
Jeremiah Barnes
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Easton Brown
Nick Land
Dylan Barnes
In response to the OP question, I would say there is very little that is "useless" to read among the lists of what we normally call leftist thinkers, but that's in the case that you're actually reading them. In terms of skimming and reading excerpts, the worst effect I've seen has been from Bookchin and Stirner, as the former usually leads to "dude Marx forgot the secret ingrediants of nature and municipalities in his dialectical formula lmao" and skimming Stirner leads to people acting like they read a really edgy self help guide. But if either of those theorists are what genuinely strike up your interest in leftism, absolutely read them and take notes and form an opinion, because even if I disagree, if you have an articulable opinion based on the text we can have constructive theoretical discussion. But you actually need to fucking read them.
Charles Parker
Well, fair point. But I only asked it to understand the particular use of Lenin's ideas.
Blake Perry
I was hoping there would be somewhat more elaboration on your picks.
Bakunin is a writer I'd recommend to skip. His only lengthy book is rather useless as a work of theory and can serve only as supplement for studying 19th century German history because what he mostly talks about there is the ascendancy of the German state, also he is far too often inconsistent and vulgar in his materialist analysis, attributing some inner nature to peoples rather than the material conditions they live under. The value of the rest of his his work is pretty much the same; good only for historical context within the development of the socialist movement in the 19th century with little to no theory or realistic praxis (stemming from his vulgar materialism). If you're interested in his critique of Marx it's just a few pages and Marx quotes him anyway in his reply to him.
What I would recommend from Bakunin is his writing on religion (not God and the State), he has the best philosophical arguments I've seen against the existence of God and his materialist conception of the universe is pretty good too. Also his two early essays "On Philosophy" from his religious days because he carries a lot of his philosophical conceptions from them. The only issue is that these aren't explicitly leftist works.