Bonus points if it's not just multiple books by people with basically the same ideology.
"Wow, you've read Marx and Engels? That must mean you have a thorough understanding on all things political!" /s
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Good sir or madam, you are mistaken, for I have also read Lenin.
Let us not speak of the time I read Chomsky, for I was quite confused by the open disdain for autocracy.
Ok, well I didn't actually read all of it, just the excerpts on Marxists.org.
You can hardly be taken serious if you haven't read Stalin, too, you know.
Which work of his would you recommend?
Nothing. I was sarcastic. Anything of value that Stalin wrote, you can find by better authors.
Which all ones would you recommend? (To a beginner)
Any that you like?
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You said that there were better authors & works. Any ones that you like or recommend?
To a beginner, the Graeber Books are great (e.g. Debt, or the dawn of everything).
The conquest of bread by Kropotkin is awesome, too.
And if it should be a little bit less traditionally anarchist: Murray Bookchin is great, too.
Thank you.
Start with the Kama Sutra.
It's great in audiobook form.
I'm reading all six Dune books at once and I'm hella confused
Choose your own adventure.
It might be helpful if you finished one book first before you start another.
Nonsense! Only the parallel experience will fully submerge you into the lore! /j
Edit: Also: woosh
Only the parallel experience will fully submerge you into the lore!
That's what David Lynch said
I do recommend audiobooks! If you haven't tried one yet, please do so.
Multiple fucking books? Like "Lady Chatterley" or "Joy of Sex"?
The noun doesn't matter after an adjective like 'multiple.' Nothing good ever follows 'multiple.'
-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Highly recommend:
Crucible of War
Einstein's Telescope.
1176 BC
The other side of history: daily life in the Ancient world
I've just remembered that like 10 years ago my go-to answer for people bothering me at work with my headphones on just to ask me what Im listening to (wtf??), was just that - "To the Communist Manifesto ofc!"
Sometimes I would spice it up with like a Communist Manifesto - Mein Campf remix or last Sundays black mass I missed, praised be Lucy, the bringer of light.
I've def trained people not to ask me stupid or personal questions unless they actually mean it.
I don't understand nor know how to do small talk, ok?
Audiobooks take away the imaginative ideas of the readers experience of the tales. I like to imagine for myself the feelings of the characters in their given situations.
Audiobooks are also passive listening which is not cognitively absorbed as thoroughly as active reading. IMO you have not "read" a book if you just listened to someone read it to you. Reading with your own eyes engages more thinking processes, forcing the reader to think more about what they've read.
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Does multiple research papers count? All of them related to the Relational Model, the foundation for relational database management systems. I'm also currently digging through the Postgres manual (only 3000 pages short).
Getting an EReader has increased the rate at which I read drastically. Reading becomes less of a task and more of a convenient way to spend time.
Reading Marx and Engels is also a great primer for anyone getting into Leftist theory.
Man seconding this. My reading goal was 20 books and I have smashed it before half of the year was over. Few years ago I couldn't even read got in a year
Yep, same! Not quite at that pace but it totally reversed my years-long spell of not being able to finish a single book in a year
Have you read any Domenico Losurdo? I want to, but am afraid it will be a dense read.
Not yet, getting an EReader has really accelerated my reading, but I really want to hammer in the basics before moving on to the likes of Parenti and Losurdo. Plus, I have queer theory like Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue as well as Fanon's works on colonialism I want to visit before then.
So, besides the Kama Sutra, what else would you recommend?
In spirit of the post, Wage Labor and Capital, Value, Price and Profit, and Critique of the Gotha Programme are the easiest to digest works by Marx, and the most applicable to general leftism. All are short reads too, each can be completed in around an hour.
Engels has some great works too, and his works are generally grouped in with Marx's because they worked together closely, but I kept it to strictly Marx.
More people need to read "1984" and understand that it's a warning, not a "how-to" guide.
Im 14 and this is depp
Orwell literally fought on the side of anarcho-communists in the Spanish civil war though. Doesn't that tell you a bit about what type of system he was criticising with the book?
1984 is still a work of fiction, and one that is not really making suggestions on how to combat dystopia. It's a warning, sure, but reading leftist theory that actually makes analysis and provides suggestions on what to practically do is more useful.
1984 doesn't have a happy ending, unless your idea of a happy ending is a man going insane. Oceania was always a lost cause. The point of warnings is that you're supposed to avoid the thing they're warning you against.
are the books fucking or are they about fucking? are pictures included?