Read theory, it's literally online for free. Join a reading group. You spend hours doom scrolling on Twitter to no end. All that's gotten you is deep knowledge of every twitter beef between 400 follower nazbols.
Edit: It’s not an issue with the site but online discourse about the left in general. Why are y'all upset about shoeonhead or black hammer or whatever new group of dumbasses is saying some new dumb shit. I'm talking about how every few days lots of leftists are surprised and upset that their fav twitter personality said something really stupid.
Yes but what about if you listen to every podcast? Doesn't matter about anything being filtered through someone else then, and you still never have to read any theory. 🧠
i mean getting various perspectives on something definitely can help you get closer to the truth and is a decent facsimile of dialectics if it's all that is available though it's still not going to be as informing as going direct to the source there's still filtering happening your just trying to sus out a cohesion through various 2nd hand sources. Also I think the amount of effort and time invested listening to a multitude of podcasts is way higher than just reading the book tho lol. But again if that's more enjoyable at least you're getting something which is better than nothing
Yeah, agree with that. One of the overlooked benefits of pods is the insight into conversations around the reading. Conversations that would have been had in reading groups or union halls or meetings back in the day, that we're not having because of the atomised lives we lead now. People hearing these conversations, even parasocially, from the outside, has value imo.