it’s because me and @ARCADE_GOON are the resident Dengists

Ur alright if u got Marx and Lenin basics

Be sure to read lenin if u havent

Real recognize real thats wassup

I’ve read a bit of The State and the Revolution but overall I understand the role of a vanguard party and a revolution surrounding it

I need to understand his viewpoint of a post revolutionary state tho

Lmao

To anyone reading im not a dengist

State and Revolution
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Left Communism: An Infantile Disorder

Those 3

All relatively short and precise
Lenin a goat writer from style and prose

The idea by Lenin & Rosa Luxemburg that imperialism is a result of certain market mechanisms is very powerful, it's written in Marx but those two really emphasize it

Specifically the rate of profit falling, war and "expanding into new markets" is a way of offsetting it

Thats why capitalists get so mad when they cant sell their s*** in another country. For example I live in Germany and the German automakers really need Chinese markets nowadays or they'd be finished

I’ll go through it

How short of a read are they?

~100 pages each with generous font

Also much easier to read than Marx

Marx has the german style of long sentences with thousand side clauses which gets weird in english

Luckily i can read german, kapital in english is hard kinda

Also he uses some words that are really hard to translate

That’s very true

My read of Capital was the Anglicized version with additional a***ysis and commentary that released quite recently because the original made no sense

Downloaded PDFs I’ll begin my reads tomorrow

This pamphlet was written in August and September 1917. I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, "The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917". Apart from the title, however, I had no time to write a single line of the chapter; I was "interrupted" by a political crisis--the eve of the October revolution of 1917. Such an "interruption" can only be welcomed; but the writing of the second part of this pamphlet ("The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917") will probably have to be put off for a long time. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it.

The Author

Petrograd
November 30, 1917

One of the hardest flexes OAT :pog:

That’s a FLEX

I don't read theory anymore but I read books which use socialist logic or books which are use a historical materialist perspective

Stuff like

The Jakarta Method

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Night Vision, Illuminating War And Class on the Neocolonial Terrain

From Victory To Defeat, Chinas Reversal

More palatable, more enjoyable, and I feel like I learn more than rereading theory

New black red guard and rev left collab🤞

fr Lenin was an amazing writer. really enjoyable to read. great sense of humor that comes thru in his writing too which I didn’t expect

Everyone should also read revolutionary suicide

Lenin era of constantly dunking on kautsky

Can u elaborate

I knew a dude irl who was a kautskyite

Dude was a weirdo tbqh

Had a big argument with him

basically at one point kautsky was one of the more well known proponents of orthodox marxism and lenin actually praised him in earlier writings but at a certain point lenin believed that he went the opportunist route, and from that point forward he spent a lot of time s***ting on him in his writings and they went back and forth beefing

its wild how kautsky in his era actually had a lot of influence but at this point he's only known from getting smoked by lenin he did go out sad though

Like 10% of Lenin's writing is s***ting on kautsky