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Propose your ideas for short-form reading clubs here (essays, speeches, letters etc.) (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I teased the idea here and got one suggestion (Theses on Feuerbach).

Criteria –

'Important' in communist history (think Lenin rather than a cool blogpost or Jacobin article)
'Short'; I'm reluctant to give a specific word-limit. It should be readable in one sitting. 'Short' doesn't have to mean 3 pages, but shouldn't mean 59 pages. Basically nothing you'd call a book: a speech✔, a pamphlet✔, a letter✔, an essay✔
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I would pin the discussion thread for one week, maybe 10 days.

This would be good for people who don't want to read long things to educate themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Faris Yahya's book on zionists ties to nazi germany.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Combat Liberalism is short

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The drafts of the response to Vera Zasulich's inquiry: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/

The correct order is 'second' -> 'first' -> third -> fourth, as the original editor got the actual first draft and the actual second draft backwards.

Has 1. repetition / rephrasings to build understanding of 2. one the key fundamentals of Marx's theories 3. as expressed by Old!Marx 4. in response to wrongheaded ideas of what his ideas are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Also some of Deng's works could be neat e.g.

On agit-prop: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/the-principles-tasks-and-orientation-for-cultural-work-in-the-129th-division/

On the organization of the people's revolutionary government: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/the-party-and-the-anti-japanese-democratic-government/

Foundation of Dengism (aka "the ideology of the modern Communist Party of China"): https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/emancipate-the-mind-seek-truth-from-facts-and-unite-as-one-in-looking-to-the-future/

On the dictatorship of the proletariat: https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/uphold-the-four-cardinal-principles/

Also the interview with Deng by Oriana Fallaci is neat: https://redsails.org/deng-and-fallaci/