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For the study of Marxism, and all the tendencies that fall beneath it.

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Study Guides

Basic Marxism-Leninism Study Plan
Debunking Anti-Communism Masterpost
Beginner's Guide to Marxism (marxists.org)
A Reading Guide (marx2mao.com) (mirror)
Topical Study Guide (marxistleninist.wordpress.com)

Explanations

Kapitalism 101 on political economy
Marxist Philosophy understanding DiaMat
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Libraries

Marxists.org largest Marxist library
Red Stars Publishers Library specialized on Marxist-Leninist literature. Book titles are links to free PDF copies
Marx2Mao.com another popular library (mirror)
BannedThought.net collection of revolutionary publications
The Collected Works of Marx and Engels torrentable file of all known writings of Marx and Engels
The Prolewiki library a collection of revolutionary publications
Comrades Library has a small but growing collection of rare sovietology books

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Could someone explain this to me in laymen terms? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I get the general notion of what it's saying but I also feel entirely confused. Could someone explain it to me please?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This makes me think I should stop being a fucking weepy lib and read the theory already, it seems clear enough to me

Maybe I'm wrong but the quick gist I get from it is that the commodification of labor (the result of laborers no longer being as strictly defined as "the tiny blob of people who live in the area") has uprooted it, to be passed around like fuel, or accumulated in surplus or scarcity like a speculative item. And this is made possible by the same set of incentives that make owners want a dense population of labor around their factories, so that labor can just trickle in instead of having to be coerced and bribed into coming to live around the business.

If someone smart wants to tell me how I'm wrong I'm all for it