• throwawaylemmy2 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    So in other words, comrades don't even need to "read theory," they just have to put the theory into practice.

    • feeeq [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      except not reading or understanding theory leads you to putting bad things into practice. What do you think happens when a bunch of "revolutionaries" who dont know what the value form is or anything relating to the content in all three volumes of Capital want to abolish capitalism? Do you think they understand the importance of abolishing commodity production? The proletarians understand their immediate condition without having to be told by a bunch of petit-bourgeois students who skimmed the pamphlet what its like to be a prole. So yes, people need to read theory and they need to understand it as well.

      • keki_ya [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Practice without understanding theory is literally Pol Pot and Democratic Kampuchea. Not even being ironic that’s actually what happened

        • richietozier4 [he/him]
          1·
          4 years ago

          and practice with incorrect interpretations gives you shit like the Shining Path

          • keki_ya [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            What was wrong with them? I skimmed the wiki page and it just looks like a Mao-inspired guerrilla group that got bopped by the Peruvian government

      • a_blanqui_slate [none/use name, any]
        4·
        4 years ago

        except not reading or understanding theory leads you to putting bad things into practice.

        "bad" as analyzed by the theory, which you might not care about anyway. The theory is an imperfect approximation to reality, not an exact reproduction of it.