best book that explains marxism?

Das Kapital

>>9494126
the Bible

just scroll your twitter feed for a few hours until you feel ready to take on the degenerates

>>9494133
Danke schoen, mein Herr.

>>9494126
Just read a history book.

Capital, surely.

>>9494143
Alternatively, you can watch these great yale lectures about Marxism. They provide on in depth analysis of all of Marx's works, while also offering legitimate criticisms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD163Nr_tOk&index=9&list=PL2FD48CE33DFBEA7E

>>9494126
It depends what you mean by "marxism" since its a loaded term used so differently [marx didn't like the term]
if you want ground works just read
on methodology:
http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/markovic2.html
on economics:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1969/marx-keynes/index.htm

>>9494126
"Lenin" by Robert Service.

>>9494153
Thanks, cuz.

>>9494175
I mean the Grandaddy that spawned Momma Socialism, Papa Communism and Uncle Nazism.

>>9494153
I already hate Marx for stating that art (ideas, culture and belief/religion) is worthless.

>>9494244
>thinking there is a difference between socialism and communism
>thinking that nazism has anything to do with marxism
At best, nazism is reactionary capitalism with some leftist(not marxist) aesthetics.

>>9494133
fpbp

>>9494402
you just said there's no difference between communism and socialism, but nazism (national socialism) is completely seperate?

>leftist aeshtetics

Not the "right" marxism

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>>9494428
>falling for the nazis are socialist meme
>Not the "right" marxism
That has nothing to do with what I said. Learn to read.
kys

>>9494468
Yeah, i'm against Christianity so i'm gonna name myself a Christian and form a completely divergent movement KEK. An individual is free if his views are consistent with that of the community, classic Soviet Russia. Both charges were indeed correct.

What is this garbage, this is the same commie doctrine that stemmed from socialism. What kind of an autist would use this in defense of anything. Absolute gibberish. Shows how worthless you are, btw, for needing an inspirational hitler quote to argue your points.

>not the "right" marxism

>>9494546
>>>/int/

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>>9494468
samefag here

>argue your points

>that has nothing to do with my points

>?????

>>9494357
I like how you conveniently misinterpret Marx and creates a pants on retarded definition for art in such a small post.

>>9494582
It's a gift

>>9494126
'Identifying Mental Illness'

>>9494126
Main Currents of Marxism by Kolakowski is pretty much the best book to get a solid grounding in how marxism originated and developed.

>>9494135
seconding The Bible. read Ecclesiastes, marxist faggots.

>>9494357
Nice, anon. This is the dumbest post I've read all week.

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>>9494135
Yeah except Christianity is Capitalism the Religion.

>>9495163
This is a troll, right?

>>9495178
Oh no, don't tell me you have this one super elaborate interpretation on how it's all a super metaphor and he was really the first commie.

>>9495180
In each of the other gospels with this parable he literally clarifies it be a metaphor about the role of faith while awaiting his return.

>gay

since communism never works you might as well use your free time on something useful like lifting weights

Marxism and Totality by Martin Jay is a good place to start.

tfw I spend so much time researching marxism and finding out why it's all bullshit that I don't spend any time finding out what isn't bullshit

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>>9495180
Stories...taken literally.

>lel

>>9494402
Nazism is reactionary capitalism that uses collectivism to fight fire with fire.

>>9494357
Marx didn't hate art. In fact many marxists like Vladimir Lenin and Kurt Weill thought art was necessary to further the cause and revolution to the proletariat.

>>9496329
Show me this art.

>>9496374
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHkVDUV2dE

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill
>Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose.[

>http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1924-2/socialist-cinema/socialist-cinema-texts/lenin-on-the-most-important-of-the-arts/
>Lenin made his oft quoted statement “that of all the arts the most important for us is the cinema.”

HMMMMMM. I WONDER WHAT BOOK WILL TELL ME ABOUT MARXISM, THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF KARL """MARX""". HMMMM, HE DID WRITE A THREE VOLUME WORK CALED CAPITAL BUT I'M NOT SURE IF ITS RELEVANT.

>>9494402
>not thinking there is a difference between socialism and communism

They are distinct ideas.

You can't explain marxism. It's premise is obscurantism, so the ideology could morph conveniently as the situation sees fit. Don't believe me? Make a criticism - any criticism - of marxist thought to a marxist and he will invariably claim you don't know what you're talking about. This happens both in the lowest level of discourse (Facebook walls and 4chan) as the upper echeleons of academia (see Popper, Kolakowski, Böhm-Bawerk and others)

Maps of meming

>>9496568
>my inability to argue against marxism is proof of the invalidity of marxism

>>9495180
>jesus repeatedly and explicitly advises the literal abandonment of all material possessions and clearly bans the rich from the kingdom of heaven
>capitalists invent elaborate nonsense like the prosperity gospel and proceed to follow the precise inverse of the actual teachings of christ; insist on calling this perversion "christianity"

>>9496615
>argue against marxism
Not necessary, it was already destroyed to the point of irrelevance both in the theoretical and practical spheres

>>9496648
so one guy says marxism is an amorphous illusion beyond the capacity of rational thought and you say it has been rationally proven wrong. or are you two the same person? why is marxism accused simultaneously of being meaningless and factually wrong? i see both claims made in every thread like this but they obviously can't both be true. "goo goo ga ga" is not false and "p=!p" is not meaningless. which one is marxism like?

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>>9496724
stop challenging the status quo

>>9496392
Art serves no purpose other than art itself. Anything else is plain entertainment.