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  • techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    Slightly unconventional, but On the Method of Theoretical Physics by Einstein could be interesting for a broader perspective on the scientific method. Also Feynman’s lectures on differences between mathematics and physics are interesting. Both the paper and videos are very short.

    For the same reason On the Structure of Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn could be good, though it’s a bit longer.

    IDK how useful/interesting that would be to the people in this group, but those helped my understanding of the world and epistemology a lot.

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      These are all good suggestions, and I’ll think you like mine as well, since it also deals with epistemology.

      • techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 day ago

        Yeah, good suggestion. Side note: I was confused for a minute cause I confused the author for Bakunin and thought ‘Wasn’t he an anarchist?’

        • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          lol I get confused by his name too.

          Oh yeah, and I genuinely would not mind reading Einstein’s work.

  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Nikolai Bukharin’s Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology.

    The best text I’ve ever read.

    Edit: I made this post yesterday, but I just want to say that this, I think, will be a longer work, though it’s about 200 to 300 pages long (the Cosmonaut Classics edition had citations on the bottom, if I recall correctly).

    So if you’re fine with doing this weekly or bi-weekly, then I do suggest this book, but it’s up to you.

    • darkernations@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Thank you for the recommendation. You sold me at Plekhanov. If I saw this comment before I probably would not have replied the way I did for your youtube query, which may look more patronising in hindsight (I will leave it there for others lurking though).

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Yes, the one published by International Publishers in the 1920s in America, I believe.

    • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      It’s honestly a banger.

      It may be the best up-to-date reading of Plekhanov’s thought and contribution to Marxism-Leninism, but also, central tenets of Marxism-Leninism.

      It was originally published by International Publishers, which is still around, but is out-of-print, and was unfortunately represented by Cosmonaut Classics (Trots and “ortho” Marxists, etc.) who are not Marxist-Leninist and think that Bukharin was some Trotsky stan or adjacent to him or “would’ve been good friends” or some such.

      The Foreword by the Trot at the beginning of the reprint by Cosmonaut Classics highlights this myth lol but it’s worth either skipping, skimming, or maybe just reading out of curiosity, but nothing more.

      If you liked the Chinese work I suggested a while back (How To Be a Good Communist) then you will like this one.