I figure this is a common ask but I haven't seen a post anywhere in the recent past, so....What is the VERY first book on theory that I need to read?

I haven't read any theory yet, besides a short excerpt from the Communist Manifesto a long time ago. I have read some Parenti and Blackshirts & Reds is definitely on my list. I'm also interested in history books, biographies, autobiographies, anything socialist/marxist really.

I am also very interested in recommendations from non-white folks, as well as any literature about non-white socialist movements/people/history/theory etc.

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    • ratboy [they/them]
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      haha, well as long as we're all in it together I'm for it! Thanks for the explanation about the other read though, that sounds right up my alley tbh. One day I'll grow the attention span to read through and annotate Kapital. When that day comes I know I will have transformed myself as a person

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        • ratboy [they/them]
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          I don't know whether it was the sheer amount of college itself or the mass amount of internet access and drinking that completely ruined my motivation to read dense texts, but it happened. Maybe the combination of them all because after college I called it quits HARD. Being an academic is overrated, praxis is the move (when ya got the spoonz)

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            • ratboy [they/them]
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              I feel it, friend, there's a heap of mental factors here too. We do the best we can with the cards we've been dealt! Honestly reading it out loud is probably really effective though

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