The Communist Manifesto? Is that a video game?

Leon Trotsky? What's his Twitter handle?

Antonio Gramsci? Did he invent Instagram?

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Instagramsci kelly

    Jokes aside, we might have better success with Parenti or asking them to watch Klein's "Shock Doctrine" for a quick primer

    • commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]
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      1 year ago

      Agreed, maybe add in David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' and 'Debt: The First 5,000 Years' as a starting point towards leftist ideas. It might be a good idea to create a 'leftist 101' reading list to ease them into it. Theory is great, but it tends to scare newcomers.

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        1 year ago

        Bullshit Jobs has a lot to say about the immediate experiences of most first world workers. Debt is very readable and important, but it's also abstract and a fuckin doorstopper. Like based on the title alone I don't know that most normies would have an interest in what presents itself as an economics textbook.

        • Lerios [hy/hym]
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          1 year ago

          bullshit jobs also comes as a much shorter article that introduces the book, which is incredibly useful. in fact reading that article when i was 15 is what really started my radicalisation and lead me to reading theory. the key to cracking libs is just letting them know that yes, that vague feeling they have is right, something is wrong, and people (graeber or perenti at first, then marx/lenin/etc) know why. bullshit jobs is fucking great for that.