Please help I am dumdum
Chapter 1: Cribbing Marx and Engels to make some sick react videos on YouTube on what The State is and its importance
Chapter 2: Figuring out what in the heck happened during the years 1848-1851
Chapter 3: Remember Paris Commune? That was great, wasn't it?
Chapter 4: Bring back some OGEngels to dunk on Anarchists (as is tradition)
Chapter 5: Communism - How do we get there?
Chapter 6: (My favorite Chapter) Lenin explaining what will happen to U.S. Civil Rights leaders like 100 years in advance
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A wholesome boi like him? Of course. :soviet-bashful: :stalin: :soviet-bashful:
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Yeah I wouldn't recommend this for theoretical texts, unless the other task you're doing is washing dishes, driving, or something. Also, if it's your first text you probably won't get 100% of it anyways.
Yeah and I also don't think it's a great book for listening or at least it will work better in text. He does a lot of quoting and then commenting on the quote and it's just that much more clear what's going on when you can see it.
I listened to this version, the guy just sounds really angry all of the time.
Red Menace, the podcast cohosted by Brett the guy from RevLeft Radio, has a good episode on it sort of breaking it down and giving context if you're interested https://redmenace.libsyn.com/state-and-revolution-marx-lenin-the-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat
Marx Madness has like 10 episodes about State & Rev going into the background detail and does a good job of putting the text into it's historical context too. https://podtail.com/en/podcast/marx-madness/s2e1-state-and-revolution-introduction-background/ They also have a series on Imperialism which nicely segues from that.
Every state is a dictatorship of one class over the rest. For example, liberal democracies are dictatorships of the bourgeoisie. The proletariat must rule themselves over the bourgeoisie. Idk might be wrong read it a long time ago.
It really helps to have some previous knowledge of the Paris Commune and the German SDP. He's really good about providing complete quotations from previous theory, but doesn't do any hand-holding with on general history. I'd suggest listening to season 8 of the Revolutions podcast for some background on the Paris Commune. I don't have a really great suggestion for SDP history, but there is a light overview in Bhaskar Sunkara's 'The Socialist Manifesto', which is available in a very listenable audio edition. If anybody has an English audio book suggestion in for SDP history I'd be very interested to hear it.
Maybe you're more of a visual learner? My sister has the same thing when it comes to audio books what helps her concentrate is if she has something to occupy her hands when she is listening to something. Maybe forming a study group with others and discussing it as you go along might help.
Is there anything in particular you didn't understand? I listened to it the first time around and it didn't really click for me either. I read/skimmed through it afterwards and it made a lot more sense.
Also, as long as you get the general idea that for a revolution to survive it must seize the state, alter it for its needs, and utilize it against it class enemies then you know enough.
