so trotsky was basically just a half stepper or reactionary (if i understand the term correctly), what i’m getting from the start of this book

where can i go after this? have avoided original texts like engels due to reading level for my broken brain, but these have all been fine

u ever peeped blackshirts and reds?

nope, i can grab that next thanks!

How much reading in a given span of time are you able to do?

I'd say its a shame not to read capital or other seminal marxists texts but they can be dense sometimes

You feel like even only doing a couple pages at a time i impossible?

i tried an engels one originally, but the language is just too steep for me so i’ve stuck w people the next step down building on those same ideals, not sure time wise where i’m at usually just go 30-45 at a time til i start feeling a little tired out, not that i couldn’t go more id be interested to see how far i’ve expanded my point of cognitive fatigue for my broken brain

Def think capital is worth cracking open at some point. it took me a while but felt good to complete. and i'm sure a lot of these texts you've read so far have mentioned stuff from it

Its nice to read other supplemental texts and then be like 'hey i read about this in XYZ' too

Here’s a more accessible summary of the three volumes of Capital, written in the late 90s

Don’t agree with all of their interpretations/conclusions but it’s a great introductory text

hightidebooks.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/marx-pol-econ-introcourse.pdf

bro's avy is nuts. literally

muh DSA maoism

Cursed take that flashed in my mind today: the Japanese empire was historically progressive

Invading Asia hastened the collapse of western colonialism, undermined traditional social structures across the region, and created space for the Chinese communists to grow

ok Dubois

the correct take is that inter-imperialist competition opens up new possibilities for communism as a movement

“Developmental” is a better word. They were not progressive in any sort of historical sense considering they intended on continuing cycles of imperialism and simply changed the owner of the colonized

Let us move forward in preparing for the Congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Colombia

revolucionobrera.com/construyendo/avancemos-en-la-preparacion-del-congreso-del-partido-comunista-revolucionario-en-colombia/?fbclid=Iwb21leARL3tljbGNrBEve0WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHtQKjglDjGBouHfJFF2U4YkNv8Zuk5SBil1V3EEvYEyyMBC_PcXnDhFgIEY4_aem_RV5GPSUHfzBjSzAI1d-Sjg

Progressive forces must unite to resist the effects of imperialist war, state repression & intensifying economic hardship

Karachi, April 20, 2026: The effects of imperialist war in Iran alongside intensifying state repression and economic hardship within Pakistan can only be resisted through the unity of progressive social and political forces that connect the wider anti-imperialist cause at the regional and world scale with class, national, patriarchal and other forms of oppression within the nation-state. The Awami Workers Party (AWP) stands in unconditional solidarity with all popular forces struggling for their basic freedoms, from the katchi abadi dwellers and villagers fighting against eviction in Islamabad to the brave people of Iran who have fought the world’s biggest military power to a stalemate.
This was the gist of the final communique issued at the conclusion of the AWP’s two-day Political Committee meeting in Karachi on April 18 and 19, which was attended by party leaders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh, Saraiki Waseb, Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan. Representatives of the Progressive Student Front and Women Democratic Front also participated in the meeting. The meeting was presided over by the party’s Secretary General Dr Bakhshal Thalho and Deputy Secretary Dr. Aasim Sajjad Akhtar.
The party condemns the violent aggression of US-Zionist imperialism in Iran and Lebanon to, as a result of which thousands of civilians, children, and women have been killed, and infrastructure is being destroyed. The economic impacts of this global crisis on ordinary people, working masses, and oppressed nations are visible in the form of an alarming rise in the prices of energy, food items, and transport fares, including the shutdown of trade at the Pak-Iran border which has paralysed everyday life in peripheral regions like Balochistan Meanwhile, the ruling regime and the propertied elite is not prepared to reduce its extravagance and is shifting the entire burden of this crisis onto the working people at the behest of the IMF.

The Awami Workers Party strongly condemns the anti-human policies of imperialist powers, their destruction of world peace, and their role in creating the energy crisis. The reactive violence spearheaded by Washington and Tel Aviv betrays the collapsing unipolar order, as has been witnessed in Palestine, Yemen, Sudan, Afghanistan, and many other brutalized parts of the global periphery, including our own war-ravaged peripheries, Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. The shrinking hegemony of the petrodollar is impelling imperialist to forcibly seize resources and trade routes. This is visible not only in west Asia but also Latin America as evidenced by the abduction of Venezuela’s president and the ongoing criminal blockade of Cuba.
The shift in the world order from unipolarity toward multipolarity will continue to be resisted by US imperialism and its lackeys, thus pushing the burden of capitalist crises increasingly onto the more exploited and oppressed peoples of the world. Within Pakistan, state repression against the working class, oppressed nations, and minorities is increasing. Restrictions on freedom of expression and democratic institutions, demolition of settlements, seizure of resources, and environmental destruction are on the rise. The regime's imposition of Section 144 in virtually all parts of the country under the guise of security is a barely disguised attempt to eliminate all forms of peaceful protest.
While claiming to champion peace and reconciliation between the US and Iran, Pakistan’s hybrid government and establishment is, in fact, intensifying war within. Beyond the direct attacks on working people’s livelihoods, homes, and life itself, the regime is continuing to accumulate more debt, the burden of which ultimately falls upon present and future generations of working people.
Only a closing of ranks of all progressive forces can force a retreat in the regime of violent dispossession. The AWP demands the release of all political prisonders, including Ali Wazir, Dr Mahrang Baloch, Gilgit-Baltistan Awami Action Committee leader Ehsan Ali Advocate, Imaan Mazari and Haadi Ali Chattha. The party also calls for an end to the incarceration of the Moro villagers jailed for protesting the six canal project as well as thousands of nameless working people who have been imprisoned for simply existing.

miserable

Trying to talk to "class first" communists who complain about "muh identity politics" at the first mention of racism, misogyny, settler-colonialism etc is like pulling teeth. Encountered some irl for the first time and wished I could send them to reeducation camps

I've never met these people in my life thankfully

Sneako getting closer to becoming a Dengoid in real time

lmao these dudes really think southeast asians live in island huts and then are shocked that it's like every other city

Gonna be fair tho I don’t think there’s one US city that looks as good as Chongqing or Guangzhou or London or Tokyo or Jakarta or Singapore

youd send class-first communist to reeducation camps over people getting confused over idpol ie bourgeois ideology?