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>>24480
1. Don't hang out on leftypol or watch Marxist youtubers like Hakim etc.

2. Ignore/avoid orthodox Marxists, Marxist-Leninists etc. and anyone adjacent to them. Marx's own work was distorted heavily by both his critics and his followers.

3. Start with Marcello Musto's Another Marx, which gives you a good overview of Marx's life, works, and how Marxists have distorted them.

4. For primary texts, begin with the 1844 manuscripts, Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy and Wage Labor and Capital. If you do read Capital, make sure its the new translation of Vol. 1 by Paul Reitter. Don't touch anything else. I would recommend digging into Capital. Avoid popular commentaries, like those of David Harvey and other orthodox Marxists. Many people struggle with it because they are illiterate and brain dead MLs, but the real difficulty is getting to grips with economic concepts. If you do brave the waters and really work through it, you'll find the experience intellectually very rewarding

>>24482
>want to learn about Marxism?
>ignore all orthodox Marxists
lol
shut the fuck up you ultra-leftist anarchoid plant

This site will help you get back to the alt-right as soon you see your first thread or reply hating white or blaming them for everything, this place is populated by third worlders and people of color hellbent on blaming the entire world beside themselve for their shiity lives.

other just reading Marx for yourself instead of having that shit get filtered through a bunch of dumbass party splits and sectarian shitflinging I would recommend reading the history of class struggles in your region. Us burgers got peoples history of the united states as a good start for example. This is moreso advice than a reading recommendation I suppose but I would read theory from all socialist camps and not just one. For example anarchism and marxsim-leninism both hold equal contributions to the movement while also being equally flawed and very much stuck in the past. So its best to just read from both groups and synthesize the good shit and leave the dumb shit in the past.

>>24488
>>24480

tbh most our so called "third worldist" posters are prolly white first worlders who think the rest of the world is as annoying and entitled as there suburbanite peers, think abt all the threads of people who actually live in the global south pissing these posters off by attempting to explain that being a resentful r9k poster with some vaguely marxist jargon added in is just annoying, counterproductive and really just an elaborate cope for there own inability to talk with members of the public abt socialism in a constructive manner. just tell them to post wall socket+hand+timestamp next time they go on a rant abt how there one of the good ones and the rest of us are just uncouth orcs.

>>24490
This. Most imageboards are just mainly post-adolescent males whining about how life sucks because they didn't get laid with hot virgin teenage girls.
They don't wanna do any serious work at all.
They just wanna have a hobby career.

>>24480
If you're serious about actually understanding Marxism—not the liberalized, toothless version that treats worker co-ops as the end goal—you need to ground yourself in foundational theory, not vague market-friendly nonsense.

Start with Engels for a solid orientation:

"Principles of Communism" lays out the basics in Q&A format: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

"Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" helps contrast real scientific socialism with moralistic daydreams: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Engels_Socialism_Utopian_and_Scientific.pdf

Before diving into Capital, it's worth getting a grip on Marx’s political economy:

"Value, Price and Profit" — dissects surplus value and wages under capitalism: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf

"Wage Labor and Capital" — earlier and simpler, good to pair with the above: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/wage-labour-capital.pdf

To understand the Paris Commune and the dictatorship of the proletariat with the criticisms that Marx made and that Lenin made a point of not repeating, being correct, which is why the Bolsheviks were successful in completing a communist revolution, try "The Civil War in France":
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/

To clarify the transition from capitalism to socialism and the current stages of communism (hint: socialism is not “co-ops in a free market in competition”), Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Programme” is essential: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/Marx_Critque_of_the_Gotha_Programme.pdf

If Engels' intro texts speak to you, level up with "Anti-Dühring" — it covers philosophy, political economy, and socialism in a comprehensive Marxist framework: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/anti_duhring.pdf

Then there’s Lenin — essential for anyone who doesn’t want to be co-opted by reformists afraid of revolution:

"The State and Revolution" — the real Marxist theory of the state and dictatorship of the proletariat: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

"Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" — explains monopoly capital and financial domination: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/

"What Is To Be Done?" — revolutionary organization and building a vanguard party: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/

"Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder" — a guide to dealing with pseudo-left idealists and opportunists: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

Read the short list for beginners here https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/sw/index.htm

>>24488 holy bait