You can't read a revolution into existence, but you can't have a successful revolution without properly preparing for it and studying revolution. You wouldn't want someone to perform surgery just because they want to help, they will almost certainly end up doing more harm than good. Revolution is the same way, we stand against the most brutal global system of imperialism, we must be prepared for it!

If anyone wants a place to start with theory, I wrote a new basic Marxist-Leninist study guide. Give it a look!

would you also try to cure cancer while ignoring all the research published on it?

The US military is always asking for recruits. If you don't read, you won't know that "helping them" means killing civilians.

Anarchists wrote books too ya know, you can't just escape reading by changing your allegiance.

The only real problem with the people who don't want to read theory is they just love talking over the people who did. The Dunning Kruger effect exists in revolutionary spaces.

Anti interlectualism is for losers

Are there no anarchist books? I'm pretty sure there are and anarchy doesn't mean willful ignorance.

Stop avoiding your homework OP, read the damn theory!

This is how you end up supporting every US terrorist intervention abroad.

Reality:

The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution. It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems.

Chairman Mao's 红宝书 Chapter 33 on Study

And we need both, glad to have ya ⚒️🫱🫲🏴

Lenin, Trotsky, and later Mao, pulled off revolutions in countries with 90% illiteracy. The magic word is "vanguard."

@andrewrgross peak anti intellectualism.

We need good analysis to guide good praxis, but you can literally learn a lot of more advanced stuff from just listening to comrades, even if reading with comrades is even better.

I mean yes but also don't be anti-intellectual if people have time they are plenty of books we should recommend.

I joined the anarchist revolution to lead, not to read. Wait, hang on...

Remember kids, you can't be a good communist if you don't have any skills. We already have people well practised at arguing on the internet.

I see letterkenny, I upvote letterkenny. I am a simple man.

Anarchists have their resources too, don't you think? Even being a anarchist takes some skill, after all.

Where's the reading list?