We had a book club of this book a while ago, but the short response is I like this book. The only thing you have to get used to is the massive amount of annotations. I remember some people in the book club complaining about them, but the annotations are genuinely good.
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Yeah it's a little comical how you'll get one sentence then 3 pages of annotation then another sentence with 2 more pages of annotation. The annotations are good though like you said!
Lots of good clarity on terms right in the introduction alone. The glimpses into Ho Chi Minh Thought is also really interesting. It's a good reminder that no socialist revolution will be the same, and that each will be shaped by it's existing material conditions.
As someone who has read about Marxism from a variety of mismatched places, mainly historical, I felt that the book kind of filled in the gaps of the things I was missing and made it a unified theory. In particular, I didn't really have any grasp on the philosophical aspects of Marxism before the book.
Yeah that's what I'm looking to get out of it as well.