03-07-2025, 06:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-07-2025, 06:43 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Greetings Eppie, it’s been a long time indeed.
In light of the world plunging into ever greater darkness (pun intended), and teetering on a cliff of self destruction, I’ve decided to take it upon myself to reacquaint myself with revolutionary theory. Still a Marxist of course, but much more well read and with a far higher intellectual threshold of my understanding of both the theory itself and the state of the world, since being active here. Since the turn of the year, I’ve read all of the following (some are re-reads, naturally):
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels (5th or so read)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Engels (2nd read)
Critique of the Gotha Programme - Marx (2nd read)
Wage Labor and Capital - Marx
Darwinism and Marxism - Anton Pannekoek
Workers Councils - Anton Pannekoek
The State and Revolution - Lenin
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Lenin
Value, Price and Profit - Marx
Black Shirts and Reds - Parenti
Anti-Bolshevik Communism - Paul Mattick
I intend to re-read Rosa Luxemburg’s “Reform vs Revolution” and Engels “The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State. And I’m finally gonna tackle the Das Kapital volumes hopefully by the end of the year.
Capitalisms contradictions are reaching the boiling point - which is why the world is in such utter chaos and we are seeing the rise of fascism again. I don’t think there has been a more important time to read revolutionary theory now than in the last 60 years or so. Democracy cannot defeat fascism - only revolutionary socialism can.
I don’t believe either the ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ of capital cares one bit about climate change. But it should be no surprise, alternative energy sources are not conducive to capitalisms internal logic of “production for profit”.
In light of the world plunging into ever greater darkness (pun intended), and teetering on a cliff of self destruction, I’ve decided to take it upon myself to reacquaint myself with revolutionary theory. Still a Marxist of course, but much more well read and with a far higher intellectual threshold of my understanding of both the theory itself and the state of the world, since being active here. Since the turn of the year, I’ve read all of the following (some are re-reads, naturally):
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels (5th or so read)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Engels (2nd read)
Critique of the Gotha Programme - Marx (2nd read)
Wage Labor and Capital - Marx
Darwinism and Marxism - Anton Pannekoek
Workers Councils - Anton Pannekoek
The State and Revolution - Lenin
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Lenin
Value, Price and Profit - Marx
Black Shirts and Reds - Parenti
Anti-Bolshevik Communism - Paul Mattick
I intend to re-read Rosa Luxemburg’s “Reform vs Revolution” and Engels “The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State. And I’m finally gonna tackle the Das Kapital volumes hopefully by the end of the year.
Capitalisms contradictions are reaching the boiling point - which is why the world is in such utter chaos and we are seeing the rise of fascism again. I don’t think there has been a more important time to read revolutionary theory now than in the last 60 years or so. Democracy cannot defeat fascism - only revolutionary socialism can.
I don’t believe either the ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ of capital cares one bit about climate change. But it should be no surprise, alternative energy sources are not conducive to capitalisms internal logic of “production for profit”.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)