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Y'all are the only instance making a honest effort to support Palestine. This is something i deeply appreciate. If y'all wanted to recommend reading to teach me about communism. I would appreciate that as well.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as capitalism has existed, it has had issues, often quite brutally so. There was and will always be resistance against these issues. Communists just have a coherent theory about these issues which recognizes that they are not resolvable within or by capitalism itself. In a sense, communism was always bound to arise as an anti-capitalist movement.

Principles of Communism is a quick FAQ-like piece by Engels himself. It might be a little dated in language but hits on a lot of the main and secondary topics.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This idea is what finally pushed me into learning about communism. I spent several years learning liberal sociology in college, getting invested in things like medicare for all, free housing, socdem stuff. But when the black lives matter movement started, I realized that only communism provided a connection between these different issues in a coherent way. It was wild to learn how much I didn't know, and how much history I was unaware of, so many people who dedicated their lives to a systematic understanding and revolt against the current state of things.