Mine is in tatters because I’ve actually had to struggle for it. You have no idea what it’s like to not be able to openly carry communist literature out the front door in the morning. The only reason I managed to keep my hands on my copy, under threat of armed guards tackling me to the ground and wrestling it from my hands, was that I was dressed as a priest and had replaced the cover with that of a Bible. I may never know why the security was so aggressive in that Barnes and Noble.
If your copy isn't a cum encrusted abomination from hell, you're doing it wrong.
Mine is an original print of the first american edition from I want to say like 1890-1910 somewhere in there. Found it in a used bookstore in shockingly good condition. It’s a treasured possession now
I hope you heavily annotated it with podcast references. For posterity’s sake.
I’m doing to it what Jefferson did to the bible but with Matt Christman notes. Can’t believe how little Marx talks about the orgone energies
I have a pretty good collection of philosophy books on my laptop and i really struggle to read them on a screen. I don't want to be wasteful, but i really feel the need to scribble on my books, and the tactile feedback is really good. Any tips?
I just find it funny people are out here buying a brand new copy lol. There are millions of them at the library. And if not, you can get it for like a few dollars on eBay in good quality. There’s really no reason to buy some 2023 edition off anazon, with the only updated thing is a preface written by a literally who academic
I’ve looked through the library systems here and this conservative shithole I live in has been very effective at preventing any gommunism from being in libraries or in any way available. The only thing by Marx I saw before finding Marxists.org was the manifesto.
I bought a sixty year old copy at a used bookstore in Portland on a work trip.
Legitimately want to say that the only time I met someone who described himself as a philosopher, his bookshelf was packed with pristine new editions of all the classic philosophical texts. (I was only there for a moment and the only book I picked up was Nietzsche.) It looked suspiciously like none of the books had been touched. He was also the only college republican on campus. In short, if your books aren’t fucked up, I will judge you. This was also in the glorious long gone days when Jordan Peterson was just an unknown miserable professor at the University of Toronto.
I cheat and carry my books around with me in my backpack so they all look like dogeared shit whether I've actually read them or not
:comfy-cool:
mine is a little fucked but i haven't actually read it. so that's kind of down the middle i guess.
My copy of Foundations of Leninism is in such tatters that I literally cannot continue reading it without it fully falling apart... Should have been more careful with antiques :deeper-sadness:
All of my leftist texts are all fucked except for capital, I ain't reading that shit
All I can tell you is that if you lived in the 19th century and you looked at the tag inside of your jacket, it would probably say linen.
I have a 1945 copy of Trotsky's "The Revolution Betrayed." I still haven't read it. (I tried once but my man just keeps spitting production statistics).
