Anonymous 08-09-23 21:28:45 No. 20472
Can I start my theory by just cracking this open, or is there something else I should read first?
Anonymous 08-09-23 22:13:35 No. 20473
You ahve to read the collected works of Democritus, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Plotinus, Okcham, Aquinas, Leibniz, Spinoza, Rousseau, Descartes, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Quesnay, Thomas Mun, Serra, Petty, Boisguilbert, Law, North, Adam Smith, Ricardo, Sismondi, and Hegel.
Anonymous 08-09-23 22:27:55 No. 20474
>>20473 okay but I'm like actually retarded so if there is a good foundational piece I should read, that would be important
also
>no de Sade Anonymous 08-09-23 22:31:41 No. 20475
Depends what you're curious about. Don't be so doctrinaire. Read widely and take in everything. Make your own mind up about it.
Anonymous 08-09-23 22:36:02 No. 20476
If you don't read Hegel first you won't understand why Marx created trans people
Anonymous 08-09-23 22:58:34 No. 20477
You can.
Anonymous 08-09-23 23:03:35 No. 20479
>>20474 If you want a short primer on Marx by Engels, you can read
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy (attached) which gives an overview of the context Marx was working in and how his contributions fit into the history of philosophy.
Anonymous 09-09-23 16:53:34 No. 20480
>>20479 this + Theses on Feuerbach + Manifesto + Chapter 1 of Grundrisse + Value Price and Profit + Wage Labour and Capital
Anonymous 10-09-23 11:13:31 No. 20484
>>20472 Principles of Communism
The Communist Manifesto
Wage Labour and Capital
Value, Price and Profit
Critique of the Gotha Programme
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
Theses on Feuerbach
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Read all those and you should have a solid foundation, all of them are short pamphlets except the last one.
Anonymous 11-09-23 16:41:16 No. 20489
start with the Greeks
Anonymous 11-09-23 17:16:02 No. 20490
>>20480 Yeah reasonable entry reads, but Theses is actually included at the end of that (it's where it was originally published).
Anonymous 11-09-23 17:44:06 No. 20491
>>20489 start with the moderns
Anonymous 25-09-23 01:30:25 No. 20566
>>20489 Start with Hammurabi
Anonymous 25-09-23 06:27:27 No. 20569
>>20489 start with the sumerians