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i'm trying to think up a method or a book that'd be helpful to work from, but i don't want to limit Marx to philosophy

maybe trying these strategies with something light, but theory-heavy enough, would be helpful. for that i would recommend reading Chapter 1 of Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Feel free to work through other portions as you please, or if you feel necessary, like the Introduction.

There's also Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Freire, and Development as Modernity by Lushaba

for the purposes of a book club, though, i'm sure The Communist Manifesto and Principles of Communism will be alright. When you discuss with other people, you'll learn a lot faster. They'll pick up on details that you won't, and vice versa.