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I myself do not really view "What is to be Done?" as a great beginner work for Marxists, since it mentions a lot of obscure philosophers or groups that a modern audience (with their cursory knowledge of Russian history being from the lips of liberals, or worse, conservatives) would hardly know the context of, and I am reading a version that has notes on these people!

That is not to say that it is not an influential or essential work of Lenin (I think it might be up there with "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" and "The State and Revolution" in terms of either factor), but one has to be willing to trudge through Russian names that you will likely never hear again.

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[-] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago

I can definitely see some Marxists being quite critical of works when the situation does not call for it, considering the very scientific (yet political) substance of Marxism in combination with the fact that it has not become widely accepted (the lack of widespread acceptance despite the scientific substance means that some Marxists have a tendency to be very critical in the situation you mentioned above).

People can be receptive to Marxism when it is applied outside of politics? I never really thought of it like that, and I assumed that people would not be receptive to Marxism under any circumstance.

Are there specific events during the 2010's that show what you are talking about? I never knew of the fascist counterreaction against social democrats during that time (I just knew about anti-feminism being a toxic thing back then).

[-] Malkhodr@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 month ago

The fascist counter reaction is happening right now. We are seeing that the reactionary online personalities are shedding their "classical liberal" facade in favor of outright fascism. I forgot to mentioned that the socdem surge occurred in 2020 until today.

[-] LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago

I have noticed a larger amount of fascist sympathizers lately (though maybe I just have not been paying attention to comments much before that).

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