ideology is a hell of a drug

  • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    As a matter of fact it wasn’t clear that was supposed to be a book! Sounded more like a slogan but you know, let’s all rush to judgement yeah?

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Just to be clear, are you saying that you thought "State and Revolution" was a slogan like "Blood and Soil" or "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"? That would be a very unusual reaction but I'm not asking as a point of judgement.

      Anyway, it's Lenin's most famous work and you can find it for free very easily online including as text here and as an audiobook here.

      Personally, I think the best introductory work for someone who doesn't have the patience for The Principles of Communism (and I don't have that patience myself) is Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, here as text and here as an excellent audiobook.

      Let me know if there's anything that I can do to help.

      • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Yes, that’s what I thought lol. In my defense, posting in here led to my inbox blowing up so I didn’t spend much time thinking about it.

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          No worries. It's no coincidence that your education system, like mine, probably didn't inform you about those sorts of things.

        • silent_water [she/her]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          it's generally a good idea to Google something you suspect is a slogan as it's frequently some fascist BS. that would have pulled up the work for free from a number of places. I assumed you had done that and were calling Lenin a nationalist.

        • puff [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          I respect you admitting as much but I also whole-heartedly recommend that you give the book a read, or even Stalin's book 'Dialectical and Historical Materialism' if you're looking for something shorter... I was very much like you once and reading books like these helped me understand a lot of things.

    • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Here on Hexbear we assume everyone knows who Vladimir Lenin is. He is very famous. He was in the Beatles!

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      you literally rushed to judgement without knowing what it was

      it's unbelievable how incredibly dumb reddit libs are