I love books that detail how great thinkers changed their minds, or more precisely, have had discovered new insights that made them go 180° on their previous takes. (I love progress in thinking…)
For me, when it comes to "big commie theorists," it is an enjoyable case of dialectics within dialectics. Can anyone relate? Do you understand?
So far I've read 3 books on the aforementioned gentlemen, detailing their "change of hearts:"
1) Engels & Marx changing their opinions gradually on the colonialism/imperialism question, recognizing the reality of the labour aristocracy, and so on. (.pdf related #1)
2) Marx & Engels becoming anti-humanists, divorcing their humanist (Hegelian) backgrounds. (.pdf related #2)
3) Lenin changing from socdem to bolshevik (.pdf related #3)
If you have other examples of these big brained retards maturing and 'dialecting' the shit out of the world, please post them. Combined, M-E-L wrote like 120k pages texts and like 0.001% of Actually Existing Communists (AEC) read it all.
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>>2552208Didnt lenin's bro got sudoku'd for his anarchism?
>>2552338Don't think it was anarchism but yeah the tsarists hanged him for taking part in 1905.
>>2552354He was executed much earlier and it was for assassination attempt on the tsar
Althusser was full pf shit
3rd book is crypto trotskyist recuperation of lenin for western leftists
>>2552384this
>>2552338Not anarchism, but Narodism, which is a unique form of Russian peasant populism that was prevalent in the 1880s and was a synthesis of Marxist, Anarchist, and Liberal ideas. It was this millieu that Lenin embedded in, in his teenage years, and it was after his brother's execution that he distanced himself from Narodism and really began to study Marxism in earnest. But he never completely lost his Narodnik influences. This is what the video posted above in
>>2552208 is about; Despite its clickbait thumbnail, it's very well-researched and interesting.
I just watched that movie the young Karl Marx like two days ago. It was well made, interesting look at the time and the characters of Marx n Engels in their journey up to the founding of the communist league. I highly recommend watching it for anyone here interested in Marx' early life