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What do you mean State and Revolution is only 100ish pages!? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by RedWizard@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Imperialism too? Left Wing Communism as well?? What is to be done???

That's it, I'm powering through these books.

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Muscling through Imperialism rn and was saddened to see how it wasn't easy to read like State and Revolution

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[–] OnceUponATimeInWeHo@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

Once he whips out the charts you know you're in a different realm

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[–] fart@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

haha im in the exact same boat

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I polished off a good chunk today - honestly it gets a lot simpler after the first three chapters if I knew that earlier I would have pushed through them sooner

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[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

We tried to read it for a Marxist book club, and I felt really bad because many people who hadn't had the instruction or the propensity to see why the numbers where important were struggling very hard.

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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago*

should listen to the Marx Madness reading series on it. They are great. Also their discord is where I met Sungmanitu.

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