Hello everynyan, we’re studying Marxism-Leninism. Here is a link to the list

This week we’re reading:

  1. Why Socialism? - A. Einstein (1949)
    Webpage | Audiobook [~10 min / 22 min]

  2. Why Marxism? - R. Day (2020)
    Webpage | Audiobook [~15 min / 21 min]

  3. Why do we Have to Study Theory? - Ho Chi Minh (1957)
    Webpage | Audio book [~10 min / 11 min]

  4. General Rules for Independent Study - N. Krupskaya (1934)
    Webpage [~5 min]

  5. “Tankies” - N. Frome (2020)
    Webpage | Audiobook [~5 min / 11 min]

Next week we will be watching 6. US Interventionism, the Third World, and the USSR - M. Parenti (1986)

Webpage Transcription of Speech | Original Speech [~1 hr / 1 hr 33 min]

  • Cowbee [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netMEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll give it a read! And yes, there is merit in protecting Marxism from vulgarization while simultaneously promoting it within broader context. I’ll summarize the target audience and goal of this list then:

    The target: radicalized workers around the world, but primarily those that speak English (due to my own monolingual experience).

    The goal: equip the reader with a basic Marxist-Leninist toolkit to use, and pipeline them into an organization to apply that toolkit.

    To those ends, length is fatal. It needs to grab the reader and not feel a chore to complete. It needs to not scare away liberals, while also providing a riposte to any liberal anti-communism. This list is not a template for an organization to use for training cadre, it’s a pre-cadre list designed to help plant seeds for cadre training.