Not a judgment or indictment on anyone, I understand some people don’t have time, others have trouble focusing and those are valid reasons to take your time with theory, but that being said, I was wondering how well we as a community are doing with reading the core tenants of Marxism. I’m just getting into it and I’ve not finished many works, but I’ve read many of them if that makes sense lol, I can’t seem to make decisions and stand by them, I always pick a book and switch to another one when I’m interested in that but the result is a series of unfinished books with more and more mounting up. What is the leftist reading experience like for you? And that’s not even to mention apolitical reading that seems lightyears away by now. Edit: just as a suggestion, I highly suggest Critique of the Gotha Programme. Also Mao’s Little Red Book 📕
I’m pretty similar. I’ve made it through the big ones; The Manifesto, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, On Authority, Principles of Communism, etc. But have yet to finish any of the volumes of Capital. State and Revolution I’m dabbling in, it seems like a really good work.
Overall I’d give myself a 6/10. I definitely understand the core points and do learn as much as I can even if it isnt directly through theory itself but am not too far beyond that.
Edit: typo and I only got into Marxism about 9 months ago, so I would say I’m doing well but comparatively to some of our geniuses, definitely behind