Marxism for idiots who like 4chan

>>8727909
Just watch lectures on youtube if your too adhd for reading. Hint: ten minutes on marx type videos aren't what you should be looking for

>>8727933
>too adhd for reading
More like too busy with work + grad program + gf + reading I enjoy
I can't waste months trying to even grasp what the arguments even are, let alone branch off to read up on the theories that influenced Marx. I understand that it's a hard book to summarize but there have to have been some efforts made in the last 150 yrs that hold academic water.

>>8727909
tysons text on critical theory today. the marx chapter makes it so fucking clear. it makes you wonder why you ever had a problem with it.

that being said, its a college book so it aint gonna be cheap even used. maybe like $30

but the whole book is a great intro for all fields of critical theory. its something i refer to often

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>>8727952
Thank you

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>>8727909
Gramsci is super comfy, though I would have jailed him myself for stirring up the plebs.

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>>8727909

theres an entire web database for you:
https://www.marxists.org/

>>8727909
If you're going to understand Marx you need understand the critic of political economy, everything wrong with the left today is due to the general illiteracy in the critique of political economy. Two good books I would recommend are:

Capital and community by Jacques Camatte
https://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/capcom/index.htm

Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory by Paul Mattick
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1974/crisis/index.htm

>>8727952
"Critical theory" is academic bullshit that will make you stupider and is responsible for everything wrong today

http://breaktheirhaughtypower.org/ontological-difference-and-the-neo-liberal-war-on-the-social-deconstruction-and-deindustrialization/

>>8727909
>Marx for idiots
Communist Manifesto
Das Kapital

>>8728306
Ebin, simply ebin

>>8727909
Thorstein Veblen is a better sociologist, economist, and critic of capitalism than Marx ever was. I guess as warmed over Hegel Marx is OK, but past that, meh.

unironic rec: Stalin. He writes like the priest he was training to be. You will learn the commie catechisms

>>8729098
This. Read Foundations of Leninism.

>>8727909
>dense philosophy that never reiterates itself

that isn't the case at all though unless you dive right into das kapital

>>8727909
Engels' Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith is Marxism for retards in a Q&A format:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/06/09.htm