Honestly even Engels is way more readable than Marx. When I'm reading Engels and then he block quotes Marx I'm all of a sudden

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

haha im in the exact same boat

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.

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

I was just about to say, it's like 30% throwing shade at Kautsky

It's great for people who love influencer drama because it basically is that

I... You're right and I hate it.

The marvel cinematic universe isn't short nor are the movies in it and i don't think any assume you can read in general

Very interesting forewords though

On Contradiction is like 30 pages!

Oh hell yeah dude, Mao is so (relatively) easy to read. I went Mao->Lenin->Marx and I think that's a solid trajectory.

Here's a compilation of work, but skip the Zizek intro https://aklatangbayan.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/zizek-presents-mao-on-practice-and-contradiction.pdf

Ooh, that sounds like a very cool thing.

I need to download and sort some theory to read and put it on my devices... the family camping trip is coming up, there's pretty bad cell service in the campground, and I always get caught out with nothing good to read. As I spend the night before we leave scrambling to pack the final things.