Hello and welcome comrades!, this is a reading club thread, we will be reading and discussing Marxist theory books.We've already started and completed reading and discussing The Communist Manifesto and The Principles of Communism yesterday.Anyone can j

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:19 No.3649

do you guys use a Kindle, phone or computer to read?

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kaneanon 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:19 No.3650

>>3649
I use computer to read, some use phones and idk about Kindle.
Just use whatever you're comfortable with

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moo 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:19 No.3651

>>3649
I use a 7inch kobo ereader (for epubs). Highly recommend it.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:19 No.3652

>>3651
what about pdfs?

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moo 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:19 No.3653

>>3652
Most everything I read is available in epub (classic theory, modern books). For articles and rare pdfs I just read on my laptop

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:21 No.3668

>>3624
I have to click on the third link on Sunday right?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:22 No.3673

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>>3668
You can click on the link anytime but yes, Sunday is when we have the reading club meeting.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:24 No.3692

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>>3624
Critique of the Gotha Programme Completed!
We've made a summary that can be found at
https://leftyread.neocities.org/gotha.html

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:07 No.4129

bumping one of the better threads on the website

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:08 No.4138

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nominating Blood In My Eye by George Jackson for the reading list

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:23 No.4331

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Just making sure this thread is updated: our group is still very much active, and since the last update, we have completed many more readings. These past couple of weeks we did "Theses on Feuerbach" and "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific". Our discussions have been very productive and enjoyable. We are working our way up to Capital, which is already very close in our schedule.

Again, for anyone interested in more information about the group, you can check out the links in the OP, such as our website: https://leftyread.neocities.org/

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:25 No.4355

>>4331
How do you export it like that from org-mode?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:25 No.4356

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Announcing a complete overhaul of our site! This update, besides looking a lot fancier, also adds a little library section. There we'll be adding all the books we read, along with the study guides we use and our little summaries and commentaries.

The goal of our site is not just to represent our group. It is also supposed to stand for itself. The point would be to provide people with ebooks, reading lists, and commentary on books. Our hope is to allow others to come to our website and find new things they could study by themselves, whithout necessarily having to join our group. So we have added the library, and might be adding reading lists, charts and recommendations in the future.

Currently our group is studying classical marxist theory, meaning we're not into anything obscure at the moment. You can tell by the fact that most of our ebooks and study guides are lifted from marxists.org. Still, we think there is value in making this sort of activity public, as it might inspire others, and provide them with resources to study by themselves. As our group develops and moves into more "advanced" theory, so to speak, we are going to be adding more and more material, moving beyond the basic texts that everyone knows.

All that said, if you are interested in studying marxist theory, need a reading list, or maybe are just looking for ebooks, do check our site out! Our new update has made it look pretty fancy, but also easier to navigate, which will matter as more content is added. Our domain remains https://leftyread.neocities.org/

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:25 No.4357

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>>4355
Hello Emacs-fren, site admin here. The original site was generated by exporting from org into HTML, as I see you've figured out. The cool theme is applied simply by adding a custom CSS to the generated HTML pages. This is done very simply by changing the #+HTML_HEAD option in an org buffer (see pic). That option, as the name indicates, allows adding custom CSS and scripts to any generated org file by modifying the HTML head. Unfortunately, due to the significant changes to the site, mentioned above, I have moved away from generating the pages from org. Doing this I ended up getting rid of the old CSS, so I cannot provide it to you as I have deleted it. Though I still have the original version, upon which our version was based on: https://pastebin.com/4vdMnFPZ. This version uses a gruvbox color scheme, and was not made by me.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:25 No.4358

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Oh shit, we got stickied! That explains the influx of new members. Thank you mods! That helps us out a lot. I guess the fancy new update to our website drew some attention.

I'm here to announce two things: first is a change of schedule. This week we'll no longer be discussing Marx's 18th Brumaire. Due to the time constraints we have replaced it with a fairly short work: Lenin's Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism. The new schedule and ebooks are available on the /read/ website.

Second announcement is basic maintenance of the website. We're moving files and pages around, for better scalability as the site grows. Some links may be down temporarily, so if any issues occur, just try again some time later. I'll also be writing some index pages for different authors to expand our library. For now that's Marx, Engels and Lenin. Similar to what marxists.org has, but more organized and with better files/ebooks, since we're not afraid of committing piracy ;^)

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:26 No.4363

>>4356
Site looks amazing. Keep it up

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:26 No.4364

Awesome

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:28 No.4397

Discussion on Lenin's "Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism" finished. We'll be doing Engels' "Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" next week. Ebooks can be found at https://leftyread.neocities.org/library/engels/origin-family.html

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:29 No.4403

>>4397
Where do these discussions take place and are there any write-ups?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:29 No.4404

>>4403
>Where do these discussions take place
Discussions happen on Sundays in our Matrix chatroom, you are welcome to join us. Link to our Matrix community is https://matrix.to/#/+leftytrash:matrix.org , join the /read/ room for the reading group.

>are there any write-ups?
We occasionally prepare writeups after discussing, though these aren't very detailed or anything, just a few bullet points vaguely describing discussion. The most detailed document we wrote was a summary of Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program. You can find these on our website. Now that you mention it, I think it would be a good idea to come up with more detailed summaries of all discussions. Synthesizing knowledge in this way seems like an important step in learning. I'll bring it up with the group, try to make it into a formal practice. Thank you for the idea.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:29 No.4410

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Some tips on reading, taking notes and synthesizing knowledge.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:36 No.4484

>>3649
I got a kindle for libgen stuff, it's much more pleasant than a computer screen or phone screen.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:45 No.4600

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Discussion on Engels' "Origin of the Family…" is now done. Our "Introduction to Marxism" reading list is now almost complete. This means that our next reading is Capital Volume One. So if you're thinking about joining the group, this would be the right moment, as we'll be busy reading Capital for quite a few weeks. We'll be starting with just Chapter 1 for now, as it is longer and denser than subsequent chapters. We will be tackling more chapters per week after this one.

As per recommendation from the people over at the Capital Reading Group (>>3745), we will be reading the Penguin Classics edition, translated by Ben Fowkes, with a preface/introduction by Ernest Mandel.

To accompany our reading of Capital, we have provided a few related resources on our site. These sum up to quite a lot, so there's no need to read everything. These are "optional" readings, as we won't be discussing them directly, but they might come in handy or get brought up during discussion of Capital. These resources are:

>Ernest Mandel's "Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory"
This one gets recommended on this site pretty often. We have included it here for those who would like to brush up on their political economy before actually getting into Capital. We don't consider this to be necessary, though.

>Althusser's preface to Capital
Althusser's preface includes a series of tips and suggestions to readers of Capital. He bases these on what he considers to be the three approaches people might have to the book, and gives each according recommendations. NOTE: We will not be following his recommendation of skipping Chapter 1.

>Carlo Cafiero's "Summary of Capital"
An old summary of Capital by italian communist Carlo Cafiero. It's a fairly complete yet succint summmary, from what we know. Only about 50 pages long. This was recommended to us by our /GET/ comrades.

>Mita Sekisuke's "Method of Capital"
We found this on marxists.org and thought it was pretty neat. It's a japanese marxist explaining Capital as a work of logic, and its underlying methodology. Fairly short read, recommended.

All of these can be found on https://leftyread.neocities.org/library/marx/capital-vol-1.html

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:45 No.4601

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>>4600
Bonus resource for this week's reading: a diagram illustrating Chapter One: The Commodity, taken from the Capital Reading Group thread.

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kaneanon 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:46 No.4607

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>>4601
Here's another bonus
This one illustrates all of Capital vol. 1

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:46 No.4615

>>4600
When do we start?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:46 No.4619

>>4615
>>3673

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:47 No.4633

looks like i missed the start. do you think there could be a another group in the future to start from the beginning?

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kaneanon 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:47 No.4636

>>4633
We have many new members who joined relatively late, maybe you should join the matrix chat and convince them to start a new reading club, i have a feeling a lot of them want to start from the beginning since most of them are inactive during our discussions.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:48 No.4645

>>4636
Why don't we set up a matrix room specifically for reading?

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kaneanon 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:48 No.4646

>>4645
We already have a matrix room for our reading group, it's called /read/, if you want then please create a room and announce it in our room. i'd like to see a second reading club that'd be interesting.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:48 No.4648

>>4645
I'm seconding that you should join us in /read/ and figure out a new reading group from there. That's what we originally did, actually. Some of us joined the /GET/ reading group in the same day, and we ended up deciding to start our own thing, and that's /read/. We're still in close contact with our /GET/ frens, it's nice having contact with people who have read more theory than us. I'm sure some of our new/inactive members would be willing to start a new thing. Hit us up and we can figure it out. We could put the new room under the same Matrix community as /read/ and the /GET/ group, so the three can be 'interconnected' while still being their own independent things.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:54 No.4738

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL

[b]/read/ is looking to expand[/b]. More specifically, [b]we're looking to start a new reading group[/b], for the all people who joined us recently and havent been participating for various reasons. Since our thread got stickied we have received a significant influx of new members, but few of these have actually been able to participate in our meetings. We assume that's because of two reasons: a) their schedule doesn't match ours, and b) at this point we're too deep into our reading list for someone new to actually jump into our discussion.

And so we plan on starting a new group, for these new members, as well as anyone else who might be interested. The group hasn't been formalized yet, but is in the making. Right now we need to get people together and figure out a schedule and a general focus for the readings. So far we have a few people who are interested.

If you are interested, please join our chat, and help us come up with a schedule and reading list appropriate for this new group. It's holiday season right now, so the group will probably only begin in a few weeks, that is, early January, but we would still appreciate if those willing to join were to demonstrate their interest as soon as possible.

Our Matrix community remains: https://matrix.to/#/+leftytrash:matrix.org join the /read/ for discussion on reading groups.

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Anonymous 2020-12-23 (Wed) 21:33:26 No.4765

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MORE IMPORTANT NEWS

The new reading group is now partly assembled. Its chatroom has been established, and members have joined. What's missing now is settling on a schedule and coming up with a reading list. There's still some time before the group starts though.

Due to the establishment of the new group chatroom, we have made some changes to our Matrix community/room setup. We are currently operating under a new community, thus making all the links in the OP broken. I repeat:

OLD CHATROOM LINKS ARE NOW BROKEN

To access our Matrix community, please use this link: https://matrix.to/#/+leftyread:matrix.org
The community description contains all the necessary information on the individual rooms.

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Anonymous 2020-12-28 (Mon) 07:31:11 No.4776

bump

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Anonymous 2020-12-29 (Tue) 05:40:24 No.4777

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Book recommendation for youse

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Anonymous 2020-12-30 (Wed) 20:01:16 No.4782

>>4777
Thank you for your contribution, anon. Could you tell us more about why you would recommend this book? What it's about, why you like it, why you think it's important, and so on.

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Anonymous 2021-01-04 (Mon) 02:17:03 No.4798

>>4782
Sorry for the late responce
I found reading it against the grain fascinating the total lack of reference to the man's theoretical works

His demotion from gulag secretary after he was beaten by his inmates for not acquiring enough food

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Anonymous 2021-01-21 (Thu) 21:13:50 No.4899

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/read/ UPDATES 2021

We haven't updated our thread in a while, but we're still alive! Just dropping by to let everyone know this project is still very much active. We also have some news. Firstly:

>NEW READING GROUP

*The new reading group has started*. We apologize for forgetting to announce it here in time for the first meeting. However, *it is NOT too late for anyone to join*, since this group is still early in its list. This group is following a slightly altered version of the original /read/ list. This new list is still subject to changes. Check out our website for the list, and join our chatroom for more info.

>WEBSITE/CHATROOM CHANGES

Finally, our website and chatroom setup have changed a bit. *The old website, leftyread.neocities.org is now inactive*. We've moved to a different site deployment system over at a custom domain, link below. Besides this, our Matrix community is now composed of three rooms: a general /read/ discussion room, the old /read/ing group room (now named /sniff/) and the /tilmeeth/ room for the new group. Links below.

Our site, containing schedules and library: https://leftyread.ml
Our Matrix Community (chatrooms): https://matrix.to/#/+leftyread:matrix.org

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Anonymous 2021-02-14 (Sun) 16:18:51 No.4984

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= The tilmeeths have been purged for being revisionist bystanders =

The /tilmeeth/ central committee took needed action to help the deteriorating condition of the tilmeeth reading group. After two weeks of inactivity the committee decided to give this group a new life by rebooting it. All previous members were purged (kicked not banned, you can still rejoin) and new member will be evaluated.

If you wish to join the new reading group this is your chance to read with us. Join in the /read/ general matrix room ( https://matrix.to/#/#leftyread:matrix.org ) and show that you are indeed interested in holding discussion in the new tilmeeth reading group.

A meeting will be held in the next 5 days in which members will decide upon the schedule and reading list of the group. Not participating in the aforementioned meeting will more than likely end you being rejected from the reading group, thus make sure you are there when the meeting is held.

Our site, containing schedules and library: https://leftyread.ml
Our Matrix Community (chatrooms): https://matrix.to/#/+leftyread:matrix.org
/read/ general room: https://matrix.to/#/#leftyread:matrix.org

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Anonymous 2021-02-15 (Mon) 00:09:09 No.4987

>>4984
based

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Anonymous 2021-03-02 (Tue) 19:43:23 No.5082

Some burger anon recommend a euro a book to understand the doctrine of manifest destiny and settler colonialism in the US. Also, just books about imperialism and colonialism from a Marxist perspective appreciated

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Anonymous 2021-03-04 (Thu) 10:18:15 No.5095

Probably Settlers unironically, but read critically.

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Anonymous 2021-03-30 (Tue) 02:30:13 No.5341

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/read/ news update

First and foremost, we're happy to welcome yet another reading group into our community. This time it's the <currently unnamed> reading group, formerly known as the infrared reading group. They've been running their own operation for a while now. We've added them to our matrix community ( https://matrix.to/#/+leftyread:matrix.org ) and are in the process of adding their schedule and books to our website. They're currently working with philosophy and psychoanalysis. See the Heidegger and Freud threads on this board for their activity.

Second, but no less important: our web domain, leftyread.ml, was taken down. We're still looking into it, but it's probably for copyright infringement (a lot of our books were from libgen) . It seems unlikely we'll get that domain back for various reasons, so we'll be running on the old domain for now. That is: leftyread.neocities.org

That is all.

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Anonymous 2021-05-06 (Thu) 14:16:07 No.5599

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