My uncle asked me for a primer on socialism. I was thinking maybe Socialism Made Easy or Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Anything that might be better?
For context my whole family are through and through vote blue liberals. It's sad to say but most of them didn't even like/vote for Bernie during the primary cycles. They aren't really hardcore anticommunists though and have always been good on unions and labor generally, moreso the problem is really anti-Trump/pro-Dem brainworms. Maybe there's something more modern to share that I don't know of.
My suggestions for a good well rounded primer, imo:
Intro to theory:
For historical analysis:
For understanding media biases against socialism:
For philosophy:
For later if he wants more:
I would maybe wait on state and revolution. I was listening to an audiobook and without context it sounds like an unwrapped twitter beef full of people with weird names you've never heard before.
Honestly I thought the same. I was listening to S4A's audiobook of it and even with all his asides adding in context it was a lot to take in. It is still really great and I still need to finish it.
Yeah. And no "vote blue no matter who" lib is going to accept a critique of universal suffrage right off the bat.
I didn't even know this was in State and Rev, is it near the end? Is the critique regarding ex owners and all that?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch01.htm
From the first chapter
We know what he means, but a lib will look at this and immediately dismiss everything. is a catechism to them.
On a related note, I'd love a single anti-electoralism essay that I can spam my friends with, because I cannot keep having that conversation with them.
True. I was hesitating on even adding it but I think that it and Reform or Revolution works as a "continue reading..." section so I edited it.