To be fair, imagine every text you sent your best buddy being read 150 years later

physiognomy validated by marxism

Very rough machine translation, third worldist Marx and Engels:

In several letters in this volume, Marx and Engels express their views on the colonial question. Both pursue with great sympathy the situation of the colonial and dependent peoples in South and East Asia and in Africa. In his letters from Algiers, where Marx stopped for a cure in early 1882, he branded the system and the practice of colonial oppression against the residents of this French colony. Full of indignation he pointed out that in the legal practice of the French officials in Algeria used torture and even gang executions against actions of innocents were common. The European colonists, so wrote Marx, usually keep themselves among the "lower races" as absolutely untouchable, encounter the indigenous people of the country with insolent presumption, arrogance and cruelty.

Marx spoke of the Algerian people with great respect who, despite centuries of oppression and themselves under the French colonial yoke, a strong sense of able to maintain dignity and the pursuit of freedom. He however, predicted that the enslaved peoples of this country will achieve nothing "without a revolutionary movement".

Marx and Engels also followed the struggles of other peoples against colonial servitude. So pointed out Marx in his letter to N.F. Danielson dated February 19, 1881 his dissatisfaction to India, whose people was ruthlessly robbed by British colonizers.

Marx and Engels strongly condemned that armed invasion of Egypt by English troops. "Is there a more shameless hypocritical-Christian 'Conquest' than that of Egypt - conquest in deep peace!"

The publication published in this volume contains important statements from Engels to Kautsky dated September 12, 1882. Engels wrote: "You ask me what the English workers think of the colonial policy? Well, exactly the same thing they think of politics in general: the same as what the bourgeois think of it. There is no workers' party here, only conservatives and Liberal Radicals, and the workers nibble on them England's world market and colonial monopoly."

In addition, Engels answers the question of how that victorious proletariat of Europe would hold against the colonial countries, if it bequeathed to them as the inheritance of the bourgeois world that should fall. Above all, Engels presented the proletariat with the task of letting these countries become independent as soon as possible and let them decide their own destiny.

He remarked emphatically that "the liberating proletariat cannot wage colonial wars". It "cannot force any happiness upon any foreign people, without thereby undermining his own victory". In this letter Engels presented the important theoretical guiding principle that the socialist transformations of the Proletariat after the seizure of power in European countries must carry out, which will inevitably have a strong revolutionizing effect on the colonial and dependent countries.

Okay but Marx was white, so he was a colonizer and my postcolonial a***ysis says being a Marxist isn't decolonized enough

He was probably more progressive than 99% of white people at the time

Marx on his theories spreading in Russia: "Nowhere my success is to me more delightful; it gives me the satisfaction that I damage a power, which, besides England, is the true bulwark of the old society."

Marx, one year before his death, was urging his goons to pay attention to Russia more and said it would be the next big revolution happening and that they should form contacts to St. Petersburg

A lot of the Marx Engels archive stuff isn't online sadly, some copyright bullshit. I found a german version that has a lot (which was started in East Germany) but I don't know if a very expansive English version exists. I think a lot of the letters haven't been translated yet to English or are hard to find online

there some Georgian(?) commie twitter guy who posts about some random marxist books he found for like a dollar that haven’t been translated anywhere else and i’m so jealous of him

There's a leftypol legend who posts a lot of stuff online, rare books from the USSR in English and so on. Let me find the link

@Womanpuncher69

archive.org/details/@​ismail_badiou

There's a North Korean history school book in English there somewhere that was really interesting

cannot find account 😔

i’ve been studying philosophy and Communist china for so long i should focus on political economy and the ussr once i’m done

KTT messes the link up

type in Ismail Badiou Archive in google

He's got a lot of Chinese books too and Albanian stuff, he is fond of Hoxha AFAIK. I wonder what kind of guy he is, he is insanely knowledgable

Wow this is super dope

He got the entire collected works of Plekhanov holy s***

Pol pot was right about academics

Mautism strikes again

Why so

They're annoying nerds

DOGMATO-REVISIONISTS

@Scratchin_Bandit He got some Ethiopia books too
archive.org/details/ethiopiagalperin/page/n1/mode/2up
archive.org/details/GyengeEthiopia
archive.org/details/blindfoldethiopialiteracy
archive.org/details/tenyearsethiopianrevolution
archive.org/details/eritreadynamicsnationalquestion
archive.org/details/challengesdroughtethiopia
archive.org/details/ethiopiagalperin