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My New Year's Resolution for 2025 is to read more theory, thoughts on my reading list?
(lemmygrad.ml)
note: the section labeled other things I want to read is just things I find interesting and want to learn about, not necessarily an endorsement of the ideologies or authors on there (and also not necessarily not an endorsement)
Even tough I'm neither a zoomer or have ADHD I can relate with not being able to read Marx's "Capital", years ago I also jumped straight into it after only having read the manifesto and as consequence could not make past the 2º chapter.
But that is the "Capital"'s contradiction. It's such a complete and elaborated description of capitalist economy that you theoretically wouldn't need any other complementary text to understand capitalism, but as a consequence of that the book is extremely dense, complex and long, so much that if you never read a Marxist book prior you will be encountering new terms and logics in almost every paragraph, making it a very hard and slow read while also likely leading to misunderstandings.
The solution to that is to do exactly what your doing now, which is reading other simpler and shorter Marxists books and increasing your understanding of Marxism in general, before tackling the behemoth that is Marx's "Capital". So just remember that you can't do capital yet, but after finishing your list, if you give it another try maybe you will find out that you actually can do it.