Which one of Marx's book should someone new to the subject read?
And possibly the same for others in this image?
I think it'd make sense for me to understand this topic and not be ignorant on it at least, especially with a communist like Bernie Sanders running for office. Ha ha, just kissing, I know he's just a socialist.
Also any other books on this subject a beginner should check out? Also I don't know shit about Hitler and World War 1 and 2.
TL;DR: Help educate someone who is open-minded and open to advice and suggestions
>which one hahahahaha didn't he write a manifesto or something?
Cameron Barnes
you're american and you don't know "shit" about the world wars?
an user wrote a nice list you can use in an old thread
David Martinez
Like I think one was called Da Kapital. His books are totally old, though.
Jonathan Adams
Why are you surprised when it comes to the ignorance of the average American and the poor conditions of our schools? Education is shit because it is going about it all wrong.
Sorry but there's something fucked about people voting and affecting others with their decision if they can't even have a proper discussion about the candidate. It's become a celebrity contest.
for wwi, read the guns of august for wwii, i dunno, never been interested because knew way too much about it as a child: "the hitler channel", characters in movies being cryptonazis, etc. mad boring
Sebastian Clark
whats fuckd
Easton Mitchell
>History channel >characters in movies >etc
You probably don't know as much about WW2 as you think if you're citing these thing as your sources of knowledge. Normally "etc" would include movies and I would list books or classes I've taken instead. If that wasn't so in your case, I wonder..
Connor Gray
>whats fuckd
"What's fucked?"
Is that what you meant to have an accident attempting to type on your keyboard? I don't understand what on Earth you could've possibly meant by this post. I'm sorry, but I am really bothered by the fact you just typed "whats fuckd" in response to my post.
Grayson Torres
i know far more than the average person, just never cared about hitler i've read things on the pacific theatre come to think of it read "war without mercy"
Nathaniel Green
since this is Veeky Forums I'd recommend you read das Kapital with a companion to it although the topic is by far not as important for Americans. In Europe the second ruling party usually has Marxist roots which it hones now and then with a phrase or lofty talk about the ultimate ends of whatever they currently are doing. You might want instead look into the Communist and Socialist parties of the USA, along with the labour unions inside of that country on wikipedia. For their New Left, google the "Libertarian National Socialist Green Party", the "Manson Family" or the "New Students for a Democratic Society".
Gavin Reyes
have you read das kapital? do you actually think it's the best option for someone that has no idea what marxism is?
Owen White
I'm European so I have the opportunity to take part in a reading circle which will be discussing book 1 chapter 8 (Der Arbeitstag) next thursday. There are anglophone lectures online if you don't have an opportunity like this in the United States.
Elijah Campbell
or he could read one of the many easier introductory books to marxism instead of taking on a giant three volume mass.
i'm not really sure if the OP gives a shit about marxism though, this thread gives me a weird vibe.
Kevin Anderson
No, no, no. 1.It's no mess. 2.The first volume is important, not the second or the third that have been edited by Engels. Now: Skipping to the fun parts is terrible nonsense. You are on lit and marx is cherished (by archeologists, even by later social scientists, by everyone) for his theories not for the funny polemics that Engels later hurled at vulgar edgelord atheists et al. 3.if you have made it through primary school calculus this won't be hard. There are lectures online with an emphasis on the passages which I guess confuse the anglos in particular. There is no way to get introduced to what is commonly referred to as "Marxism" without reading Capital.
Dylan Wilson
>Skipping to the fun parts is terrible nonsense Marx dixit, by the way, in the introduction to the French edition.
Owen Myers
no one reads volumes two and three anyway to be honest family
Aaron Taylor
Lenin did. He does cite volume III in Imperialism.
Julian Davis
no one who isn't a communist for a living reads vols. 2+3 there are a few that try to trick you by citing but really they're stealing cites from those who are communists by profession
Easton King
Capital is tedious and difficult to read without context
Avoid the Manifesto
McLellan's collection of selected Marx readings and his biography of Marx are both a good starting point
The best starting point is KoĊakowski
Benjamin Davis
Good introductions to Marx are Why Marx Was Right by Eagleton and The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx by Callinicos
And if you want more
Marx: Wage Labour and Capital The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Communist Manifesto
Engels: The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Lenin: The State and Revolution Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism