Great recommendation

Depends where but I have no fundamental qualm about leaving the US

it's very doubtful we'll see revolution in the USA ever. I hope there is at some point, and there have been a handful of notable efforts decades ago, but ever since the 80s the country's been 100% cooked wrt socialism

I got scared of the book when I saw the page count and read the other two as a result

Go with @PhilipMorris recommendations as he's probably the sharpest person itt wrt Marxist theory

I don't regret starting with the Manifesto though. I had no idea what a good bulk of that book meant when I first read it but I liked the energy behind it and it inspired me to read more Marx/Engels after that. When I went back to read the Manifesto again that s*** hit even harder than it did the first time bc I knew what he was talking about

reading list tend to be useless imo just read whatever topic ur interested in and have people u can ask questions with and ur good

• the french bourgeois circa 1798

How do y'all feel about UFOs?

They are entirely inconsequential to our political and economic landscape

Magic city VIP I'm with my stripper hoe
So many hundreds in the air thought it was UFO

I feel like some communists approach Marx with the wrong mindset, what's important is Marx's framework, not necessarily any given conclusion he came to with it. There is no universe where this 19th century german man is gonna bat 100.
Yes the necessary international revolution did not occur, what now? Are the Soviets to throw their arms up and let White Terror envelop the country? Should they have let the holocaust happen 20 years earlier?

Oh the Chinese communists should just vibe and let Chiang develop a modern bourgeois state? Well you're gonna want to sit down for this, Chiang doesn't seem very interested in doing that! What now?

Any worthwhile political ideology is meant to inform political action in the present, otherwise its completely useless. This is not to say it doesn't matter that the Soviets were isolated or China was backwards, but their communists found themselves in power regardless and they played with the cards they were dealt. Their projects were "revisionist" from the very beginning. This is not to excuse their excesses/mistakes, but its important to acknowledge the circumstances.

Maybe that's the contradiction of 20th century socialism. The countries most materially conducive to socialist construction were the least socially receptive to it, while the countries most socially receptive to it were the least materially conducive for it. Or were they really? Did the Soviets/CPC simply fail to act accordingly? Is that because the circumstances which saw them take power turn them into incapable actors? Or again were external historical circumstances too hostile to their project anyways. I do think its true the most successful socialist movements disconnected themselves from the workers in the process of taking power. But that returns to the question of present action, what else could The Bolsheviks have done in the civil war? Who else could the CPC look to but the peasantry after 1927?

Like clockwork

A world primed for the reestablishment of socialist sphere is approaching

Marx didn’t say anything about any of that stuff

I would like to rejoin the discord server

I will apologize to Arcade Thug without snarkiness or irony

Please drop the link if I am still welcome to join

I will take my time to type long-form, nuanced messages instead of sporadically shooting out one-liners like a tool

Sorry for being a tool

And I apologize for calling East Germany a joke

Though I do still stand by the concept that socialist societies that are not brought forth through the mass-participation of a pro-socialist working class, or at least a strong segment of that class, can create vulnerabilities in the success of the socialist society at hand that may not present themselves as easily in revolutionary socialist societies

I will bring it before the Politburo.

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whats crazy is that i think this is meant as a compliment

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the world feels genuinely more and more like we’re going through the 20th century again which is interesting

The four year presidential cycle was ingenious

Being able to deflect all the blame on nothing but the last guy in the chair was something the Soviets should’ve thought of