before i reread the article this morning i was thinking that the article wasn’t appropriate for this reading group. but after having read it again, i have to say, i hope you keep it as the first article of the list. besides that there would be something missing if the intro had why marxism but not why socialism, i think the parts about the relation of the individual to society are really important for a readership almost certainly starting from a position of rabid individualism. a lot of people who could benefit from this list are starting from the impression that production is somehow separate from politics, that the state is a neutral institution separate from and above class struggle. why socialism lays the appropriate groundwork to dismantle that notion. in my opinion, this whole section would have to be reworked to account for its absence.

also, the name recognition might make people more open to reading the article who otherwise would have ignored the list entirely.