I’ve read a lot online and listened to a lot of videos/podcasts in the last 3 or so years, but I’m genuinely interested in reading solid theory (instead of hearing them quoted in YouTube videos, podcasts and articles). I am not smart enough to understand das kapital and I don’t read books that often at all (I have read the manifesto)
What should be the first three books I buy to warm myself up into understanding the theory more in depth compared to quotes, memes, YouTube videos/podcasts etc. (I was thinking maybe a Marx book, Lenin book and a Foucault book? But I have no idea!)
What would your suggestion for your first 3 books
PS I’m also new to the chapo.chat community! I haven’t been a part of a cth community since the original was banned so sorry if it’s in the wrong community!
blackshirts and reds edit: fuck you asked for theory specifically. whatever it's still great and good and dispels essentially every anti-communist argument
I’ve heard blackshirts and reds is a phenomenal read regardless so I appreciate your input! I’ve heard it really pictures fascism in a realist light, rather than “protecting the future of our white children”
It's a doozy. I was averaging two to three infuriated "WHAT THE FUCK?"s per page.
Not really "theory," but if you're interested in Great Depression-era US leftist movements, Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is a barely-fictionalized version of some shit that he saw while working for the TVA, and I've heard good things about Robin D. G. Kelley's Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. Probably relevant since we're veering headlong into Mad Max-world.