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 going very slowly lol, im just bad at setting aside time to read. Now that it is summer for me I hope to read more. I already have read the manifesto, Value Price and Profit, Wage Labour and Capital, Principles of Communism, Socialism Utopian and Scientific, Orgins of the family, and State and Revolution. I am currently reading Imperialism by Lenin and have mao to read and luxemburg.
Great! Not a weak one in the bunch, those are all very informative and kinda long. When you get to Mao, I suggest On Contradiction/ On the Correct Handling of Contradiction(not sure if they are different works, I have the lil Red Book)