Who's the best communist author for a non-communist to start with?
I mean, if you would recommend a book to a person that dislikes capitalism but also dislikes trans, queers and all these things the left has focus on the last years, what would it be?
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher (or to get a taste, his shorter essay "Exiting the Vampire Castle", which you can find online).
Karl Marx. Skip the political writings and just read Capital. It's political economy, striaght up, no frills.
Zizek is usually the go to because he makes things simple and fun
Read Jordan Peterson instead
Mein Kampf...
Jesus Christ, this recs. Great.
Engels. Peasants war in Germany. Condition of the working class in England.
The Road to Wigan Pier desu. It has some god tier points about poverty and exploitation, but also the failings of your basic bitch "socialists" in public.
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Read Marx and Trotsky. They weren't interested in modern liberal faggotry and do not bring it up
look into the Frankfurt school
Christopher Lasch
Bakunin, Kropotkin and Tolstoy.
if you dislike capitalism and the far left you want the Third Way and not communism. if you like the idea of national socialism everything else is going to disappoint you. conversely, if you want to spend all of your days thinking about class struggle and the dialectic of capital and ideology, read Marx's early work.
no matter what you're going to have to read this at some point.
>I mean, if you would recommend a book to a person that dislikes capitalism but also dislikes trans, queers and all these things the left has focus on the last years, what would it be?
Zizek looks unexpectedly fearsome in this pic
The "third way" is just more capitalism
i agree
I think what he meant was the "Third Position", not the "Third Way" (which is something entirely different).
Third Positionism = rejecting both capitalism & communism entirely
Third Way = straight up boomer, bootlicking autism
No he is correct, both of this things are just more capitalism.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
based "anything other than my own political stance is just capitalism/fascism" retard
It's either capital is owned privately or publically. Go ahead and explain how there can be something else
Not what I said but whatever. Fascism is capitalism trying to save itself from revolution. Liberalism is capitalism with a human face. Neoliberalism is capitalism that just said "fuck it" and does not give a single shit anymore.
I think Third Position-based ideologies often have more to do with bringing left-wing economics into the picture, without adding in all of the cultural marxism & left-wing identity-politics into the mix.
I thought communism rejected a dichotomy and was scientific?
Stalin has some interesting bits. Lenin's selected correspondance too. The green book is also interesting even though written for large publication, but you might object to Libya being considered commie.
The more academic kind are horrendous 100% of the time though. Nothing of value whatsoever.
Engels; socialism: utopian and scientific.
Its on librivox as well. Read by a English man with a based voice that even sounds like it looks like engel's beard.
"Communism for dumb anglos" by Random Anglo Author
lmao @ anglos who are incapable of picking up a book and reading it, they're the only ones to ever tell you to start with the 'pocket reader' or some lame dumbed down material. germans are somewhat guilty as well
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>if you would recommend a book to a person that dislikes capitalism but also dislikes trans, queers and all these things the left has focus on the last years, what would it be?
individualism and economic order by f.a. hayek