Alaskaball [comrade/them]M to main • 2 months agoHe'll double down every time you ask him about Linen.imagemessage-square11 fedilinkarrow-up197
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minus-squarehypercracker [he/him]hexbear2·2 months agoyeah but I am more involved with leftist politics than 99% of people in the US and it still doesn't seem relevant link
minus-squarePM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]hexbear13·2 months agoI just finished Capital and you can skip the whole thing if you just want the conclusions: proletariat, bourgeoisie, revolution, yadda yadda yadda But if you want to understand how and why Marx came to these conclusions then it's all relevant link
minus-squarehypercracker [he/him]hexbear3·2 months agofair enough I can put myself in the mindset of someone who has never heard of this class analysis (although maybe it predated him? idk the history) link
minus-squarePM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]hexbear8·2 months agoThere's a lot of really interesting and engaging stuff in Vol I, and the more difficult, technical stuff is necessary for understanding the really mindbending stuff in the next couple of volumes link
yeah but I am more involved with leftist politics than 99% of people in the US and it still doesn't seem relevant
I just finished Capital and you can skip the whole thing if you just want the conclusions: proletariat, bourgeoisie, revolution, yadda yadda yadda
But if you want to understand how and why Marx came to these conclusions then it's all relevant
fair enough I can put myself in the mindset of someone who has never heard of this class analysis (although maybe it predated him? idk the history)
There's a lot of really interesting and engaging stuff in Vol I, and the more difficult, technical stuff is necessary for understanding the really mindbending stuff in the next couple of volumes