marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_14.htm

what mao is saying is that people need to experience life and that being an "academic" doesn't necessarily make you smart.

actually a weird read but kinda interesting

The classic street smart vs book smart dichotomy

1. The fundamentals of capitalism haven't changed at all since Marx's times. There are a few technical differences, like the gold standard not existing anymore, but the core dynamics of employer versus employee haven't changed.

2. Also Marx predicted a lot of stuff like saying automation would slowly ruin capitalism's profits and the environment. You'd be surprised reading these old texts how relevant they still are.

3. Furthermore socialism didn't start with Marx nor did it end with Marx, it is always being updated by many others. Socialists existed before him, and after him. We could alternatively just call Marxism "scientific socialism". And there were primitively communist societies thousands of years ago.

4. Automation is actually a very important argument for socialism, not against it. Marx's entire idea is that the more advanced technology under capitalism is, ironically the harder it is to make a profit. Remember that even a farmer using an animal to plow his fields is a form of automation - anything that can multiply human labor power is.

5. Automation would be a blessing under socialism, since the common people would own all the robots together and share the fruits together, whereas it would be a curse under capitalism, since the robots are privately owned, meaning that their fruits belong only to their owners, not their workers - mass unemployment would be the result. This shows you how just having different systems can have different results on our society

It is important for people to read to a certain extent imo. But that's mostly for ppl who are trying to win ppl to the cause. Reading also helps to avoid pitfalls and rehashing of subjects + helps contextualize.

For example, was talking with a friend about anti imperialism and socialism + changes at community level and now hes trying to get me caught up in some pyramid scheme based on "building assets" and "changing community mindsets " cuz he thinks I'd be down for it. No theory = unable to grasp what revolutionary change is = gets caught up in the wrong things

there could be no revolution without revolutionary theory - Lenin

but at the same point don’t just read till the point ur discussing the internal contradictions of a coffee cup

also
“The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

• Marx

Crine

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I’ve become a neo-con.

I've had the luxury of time lately so I've been able to read a lot.
in the past 2 weeks I've read: How Europe Undeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Here I Stand by Paul Robeson, Assata Shakur's autobiography, Prison Writings My Life is my Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier, Blood in my Eye by George Jackson, Soledad Brother by George Jackson and I'm currently reading Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow

Average Maoist progression

Don't burn out

sorry i have to be more socialist than u

I'm a neo-con

thought this was the real aesop rock for a second and was like what the f***

DOTP LARPING PIPE DREAM

Not so fun fact, several countries lost their UN voting rights because they couldn't pay the fees - including Venezuela

yeah I saw that didnt Iran as well? who else

was debating to put this into the cursed thread or here but i thought people here would find it funnier

smartest dengoid

this is what they took away from us