Reminder to read theory :knifecat:
Marx & Engels Selected Works :blushing-engels: :marx-ok:
-Capital Volume 1 :curious-marx:
-Wage Labor and Capital (kinda like a condensed version of Capital Volume 1 :animarx:
-How to Think Like a Vietnamese Communist by Luna Oi :uncle-ho-2:
-The Wikipedia page :michael-laugh:
Hola Camaradas :fidel-salute-big: , Our Comrades In Texas are currently passing Through some Hard times :amerikkka: so if you had some Leftover Change or are a bourgeoisie Class Traitor here are some Mutual Aid programs that you could donate to :left-unity-3:
:lenin-shining: :unity: :kropotkin-shining:
The Conquest of Bread :ancom:
Remember, sort by new you :LIB:
Yesterday’s megathread:sad-boi:
Follow the Hexbear twitter account :comrade-birdie:
THEORY; it’s good for what ails you (all kinds of tendencies inside!) :Richard-d-wolff:
COMMUNITY CALENDAR - AN EXPERIMENT IN PROMOTING USER ORGANIZING EFFORTS :af:
Join the fresh and beautiful batch of new comms:
Hell Yeah Motherfucker :deng-cowboy: what are you guys up to tonight (or morning :good-morning:)
@lydiaaaaaaa said shes making the megathread for tomorrow so uh yeah :among-drip:
:morshupls: Question of the Day:
What was the first Theory you read?
It really is hilarious when right wingers complain about “neo post modern cultural Marxism” or whatever the fuck. At its core Marxism is just a way of looking at the world, it’s a system of analysis. None of those morons could explain what “dialectical materialism” means to save their life.
If anyone is interested in dialectics, I can’t recommend The Principal Contradiction by Torkil Lauesen enough. It explains the concept really plainly and gives real world examples of how to use that analytical framework. Mao’s On Contradiction is great too, but a bit more abstract.
I listened to most of the Rev Left interview with the guy and kinda left with mixed feelings. I think I had just become disheartened with chapo, and wasn’t in the mood for what sorta seemed like naval gazing. That’s probably not the case, and I should listen again, and perhaps even pick up the book.
But to respond to your chud point, which initially made me reply, was that I’m very much fascinated by the idea that Marx was really concerned with how society reproduces itself; that Marxism is a descendent (and continuation) of a study of the mechanisms by which it does this. Not only is this a hugely “heady” sort of thing to think about, but, by its very nature, it’s intimately connected with each of our lives.
It's heady, sure, but it also changes how you think about things. If you see every action you take as creating and recreating the culture you live in, you start to see sites of struggle everywhere. It's liberatory, really.