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A community for in-depth discussion of books, posts that are better suited for [email protected] will be removed.

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I teased the idea here and got one suggestion (Theses on Feuerbach).

Criteria –

  • 'Important' in communist history (think Lenin rather than a cool blogpost or Jacobin article)

  • 'Short'; I'm reluctant to give a specific word-limit. It should be readable in one sitting. 'Short' doesn't have to mean 3 pages, but shouldn't mean 59 pages. Basically nothing you'd call a book: a speech✔, a pamphlet✔, a letter✔, an essay✔

  • Available to us all online

I would pin the discussion thread for one week, maybe 10 days.

This would be good for people who don't want to read long things to educate themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Critique of the Gotha Programme

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The drafts of the response to Vera Zasulich's inquiry: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/

The correct order is 'second' -> 'first' -> third -> fourth, as the original editor got the actual first draft and the actual second draft backwards.

Has 1. repetition / rephrasings to build understanding of 2. one the key fundamentals of Marx's theories 3. as expressed by Old!Marx 4. in response to wrongheaded ideas of what his ideas are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Combat Liberalism is short

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Faris Yahya's book on zionists ties to nazi germany.