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 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 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.