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I've got a few!
- https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/complexity/people/students/dtc/students2011/maitland/philosophy/sartre-eih.pdf (Existentialism is a Humanism, J.P. Sartre)
- https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm (On Contradiction, Mao, maybe on the longer side of texts we are willing to consider for this?)
- http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/la-la-land-a-leninist-reading/ (cultural analysis by Žižek, haven't read this one)
I only restricted myself to philosophical texts, but can we include texts that are less directly philosophical but have philosophical value? E.g. The Stranger is a novel, but has lots of philosophical value (I know it's too long, just giving a example)
If we do On Contradiction, we should also do On Practice (https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm). Probably the best description of dialectics I've ever read
Edit: dialectics and their relation to revolutionary action
Agreed, good point, I didn't think of including On Practice because it felt so "obvious" when I read it and mind opening, but on the contrary it makes it even more worth reading
I took many notes when reading On Contradiction and I would like to participate to that discussion :p.
Now, if we take also philosophical stories, I think I can find others but I need to think more about it, I can't remember any short one just now.
By the way, I would like to add to the list
- https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm Theses On Feuerbach, Marx, because I think there is a lot to unpack there and it is extremely short.
I’d be interested in something like this! Only really dipping my toe into philosophy, coming from more of a history background. It’s only since I’ve really gotten into leftist theory in the last two years or so that I’ve started to discover how much crossover there is with the study of philosophy.
Here's a real short one I'm fond of that Ectrayn advised me to post here: Marx Beyond the Mystics
Understanding its central thrust put me in a better position to understand spirituality/magical thinking in myself and those around me. Grasping Marx's erroneous assumptions about the road to communism lead me to reflect on the old assumptions I've discarded, and the ways those assumptions were invisible to me before someone else came along and pointed them out.
Can confirm that I absolutely loved reading it and I have very concrete and applicable takeaways from it (which is not obvious given the mystic side of the article)!
As a complimentary "free reading program" Noname is posting weekly essays on their website. Today's was Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free: Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective and The Combahee River Collective Statement.
May I also throw out there: https://www.peacelandbread.com/print as a possible source?