comrade_pibb [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agoWhat are some good sources of beginner theory for my vaguely anti-capitalist partner?message-squaremessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down10
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some good sources of beginner theory for my vaguely anti-capitalist partner?comrade_pibb [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square22linkfedilink
minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoStalin’s Dialectical and Historical Materialism is good for understanding the theory beneath it all. Engel’s Socialism: Utopian or Scientific is good for explaining the differences in socialisms and arguing for a Marxist understanding, of course. There are a lot of different things. I guess it just depends where they are with things and what you or they want to get out of it.
minus-squareXxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-23 days ago🙄 no one who’s still at the stage of being “vaguely anti capitalist” is gonna read a book by stalin and actually consider it seriously. they’ve been taught their whole life that he’s the devil incarnate
minus-squareiByteABit [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 days agoStalin’s gigantic spoon reaching out from the book to eat your noodles and make you starve
minus-squareXxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoits true, it happened to me
minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoMaybe, maybe not. It really just depends. This is why I was implying that we don’t really know enough to give an appropriate answer.
Stalin’s Dialectical and Historical Materialism is good for understanding the theory beneath it all.
Engel’s Socialism: Utopian or Scientific is good for explaining the differences in socialisms and arguing for a Marxist understanding, of course.
There are a lot of different things. I guess it just depends where they are with things and what you or they want to get out of it.
🙄 no one who’s still at the stage of being “vaguely anti capitalist” is gonna read a book by stalin and actually consider it seriously. they’ve been taught their whole life that he’s the devil incarnate
Stalin’s gigantic spoon reaching out from the book to eat your noodles and make you starve
its true, it happened to me
Maybe, maybe not. It really just depends. This is why I was implying that we don’t really know enough to give an appropriate answer.