I have 2. The People's Republic of Walmart is one. Maybe I feel this way because I work in the industry and I'm a little familiar with central planning techniques... but I just thought it was all fluff with little substance. I felt like more than one chapter was just "Walmart and Amazon do central planning so it's possible" without getting into a lot of the details. Very little about the nuts and bolts of central planning. Throw in a good dose of anti-Stalinism when the man oversaw successful central planning... I just didn't get anything out of it. Might be OK if you want a real basic introduction behind the ideas of planning but honestly I bet like 95% of you already know more about it than you realize.
And I love Graeber but jeez, I couldn't even finish Bullshit Jobs. It felt like a good article that was blown out into a book. Maybe my expectations were too high but I felt like he spent way too many pages getting into minutiae about what is/isn't a bullshit job without actually making a broader point.
The Communist Manifesto is the big one. It's a half-assed statement of Marxism written in a hurry.
Also it was written 20 full years before Kapital. It's presented in culture as the sole text of communism, without context it only serves to obfuscate marxism for people who may be interested in it.
It's basically a leaflet. People have to keep that in mind.
imo Socialism: Utopian and Scientific should be the first text people read when they want to learn about Marxism.
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nah this is wack. it's an accessible pamphlet written for people who don't have the a background in fucking hegel and feuerbach. the prose sings.
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bruh
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As is Meiville's recent book on the topic.
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