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Hello, I'm currently looking for some audiobooks of some of Karl Marx's works.

Is there any place I can find like a single file download of Das Kapital, or any other books you would recommend.

I was able to find a copy that's read by: Malk Williams But I wasn't sure if it was any good or legit.

I tried getting it from marxist.org but all his books are broken into like a bunch of different small files.

Thank you for your help.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Basically he believes China is revisionist and capitalist, and the failures of socialism thus far have been through revisionism (the failure to adhere to core marxist principles). He also doesn't cover many liberation movements that don't fully fit the communist/marxist ideal he supports.

IMO this view obfuscates some of the more material sources for why movements fail, most notably in his viewing the failure of the CPUSA not through its history of settler communism/labor zionism but its failure to adhere to marxist tenets leading up to the open revisionism of CPUSA's Eric Browder, without seeing why his revisionism was so accepted and popular. This leaves praxis to adhering to a closer marxist orthodoxy that's quite dogmatist instead of using the dialectical materialist analysis to see that the material basis for a revolution in the USA would be the superexploited native and black peoples that aren't represented in the CPUSA or even most other communist groups.

I remember him receiving a question on a stream once about covering the black panthers and he said he preferred not to because he didn't like the kind of work they did or something to that effect, so he's kinda got a big blindspot there and I would suggest you try and find some audiobooks of Gerald Horne and Frantz Fanon's works, would also suggest Assata's autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide, Kwame Ture's Black Power, Red Nation Rising just to name a few. Also educating yourself on China through a seperate source I'd recommends Roland Boer's "Socialism With Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners" if you can find an audiobook "The East is Still Red" is also good, or even just reading the works of Deng/Xi Jinping for yourself, unfortunately a lot of the history and study here is in Chinese lol but I'd avoid S4A's content on the topic personally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you, I will look into those. I see some of what the Chinese people have done, and sometimes I wish we had our own revolution like theirs, but clearly My country people are not as based as them.( I'm Canadian.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

We all wish we were as based as the Chinese, alas 😔. One more rec for the road for a perspective on Canada, Prison of Grass: Canada from the Native Point of View. Okay I'm done lol best of luck! Hope you enjoy and are able to spread this consciousness around as if you were karl ilyich zedong himself 🫡