Is there a proposed "curriculum" or can someone recommend something like that? Basically I'm looking to see if there's a recommended list of theory books ordered in a way that would be intended to go from one to the next? I downloaded the Mega file of theory and I'm familiar with some archive sites of books/essays. But I find I'm at kind of a loss on where to start. Sometimes the author is responding to a previously written work, and sometimes I start something where it feels like I missed a prerequisite book.
It doesn't help that I don't have great reading comprehension and definitely struggle with 1800s English language terms. I'm aware that there's a lot of variety in theory and thought within "the left" but I'm having a really tough time navigating it.
Sorry for the lib framework of this question, any help is greatly appreciated!
Awesome this is great. Thank you. My background growing up was pretty apolitical. I mean I cared about the environment and didn't think that gay people or racial minorities were subhuman so I guess I was somewhat left. Then in college I got sucked into libertarianism for some time because I liked guns and smoking weed and "the two party system didn't work for me". I kind of bordered eco fascism for a minute when I was big into peak oil and just kind of figured we'd all die a horrible fiery death if we didn't take drastic measures to reduce global population. Then after 2016 election I decided I should get more involved with politics and had probably a 3 month peak lib moment where I religiously listened to Pod Save America and their other shows. Then I started to shift left more through actual left podcasts to where I'm at now.
Which is basically to say I took a long and windy road and am still just a lib
Lmao you just described my path almost exactly. As such, I think you'll really enjoy the list, let me know if you'd like any more recommendations. Welcome to the site!
Haha that's great. I figured I couldn't be alone in that regard. Sounds good though I'll definitely let you know, just gotta start reading. Thanks!