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!

  • gammison [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I'm sorry, but I just don't understand how one can recommend all these without also making clear/articulating which ones disagree with which. Like multiple books in that list take oppositional positions on politics, oppositional conceptions of history compared to each other. This isn't a dig at you at all, but like I don't understand. When I recommend books I try to point that out in whatever I'm recommending the contradictions.

    I mean to be concrete, Federici's view of history is very different from Lenin's for example.