I've been having some trouble reading some theory, Not because of the actual Ideas that are being discussed, those are the Easy Parts, it more-so has to do with the Way It's Written that I have a harder time comprehending it.

More-often than-not I just end up kinda glossing over the literature and it just makes me feel stupid. I don't know what the writing styles of Marx and Kropotkin can really narrowed-down to, this, paired with everything else I just Mentioned, just kinda leaves me feeling alienated from my own views and literature.

Does anyone have some potential advice to share? Thanks :comrades:

  • bananon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Luckily, leftist theory is probably the only theory that gets easier the farther you go down the rabbit hole. Not because the ideas become easier, but because the writers stop being terrible. After what everyone else said, read Mao afterwards. He’s probably the easiest writer to understand out of the big heads, because he was writing specifically for the largely illiterate peasantry.

    • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      read Mao afterwards. He’s probably the easiest writer to understand

      Man this can really vary by the text chosen. On Contradiction is very different than the Little Red Book lol