What's your favorite "Marxist study guide for beginners" type list? (hexbear.net)

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I normally give people https://web.archive.org/web/20250129205319/https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram/wiki/index/education/study-guide/ if they seem open to it. It's fine, but I feel like we should have our own version with our favorite redsails essays no? I also don't love hitting people with 19th century primary sources as the first things they encounter lol. Is that revisionist? People don't like big words and they're gonna bounce after 10 minutes if they get confused...

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[-] roux@hexbear.net 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This is my short and sweet list:

Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein
Principles of Communism - Engels
Communist Manifesto - Engels & Marx
Elementary Principles of Philosophy by Georges Politzer
Wage Labour and Capital - Marx
Value Price and Profit - Marx
Reform or Revolution - Luxemborg
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism - Lenin
What Is To Be Done - Lenin
State and Rev - Lenin
Inventing Reality - Parenti
Blackshirts and Reds - Parenti

I also tend to send people Cowbee's list as well.

I have a friend that is working through this one and it seems very well rounded: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQbU3KmoemuCAPO_b4HMaB8uvY9JGPrhH5aMS3Mm8AL8hjr2kT2ewjcfnsNgqJpMEmEe8Jbr6g9uPf0/pub

[-] Edie@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You need to add a backslash \ or two spaces at the end of a line
To make a newline (without it becoming a new paragraph, like when you add an empty line inbetween)
Your current list is slightly hard to read because it's missing these.

Or you could make