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Reading for the eager Marxist

creation

13:18 / 15.02.03

Hello.

I would like from you please, a reccomendation of Marxist arguments against modernity. Prefreably mewer authors. I would also like to ask you esteemed individuals, how an earth did you read all three volumes of the Capital? I cannot even get past first volume. Its so dense, Please suggest methods of reading it. I really want to get indepth with his theory, i have read summerized versions of the book. But never the three volumes. What strategies do you employ when getting through a complex work as such. Do you annotate make Mind Maps? Please suggest anything I will try.

Also any reccomendations on new thinking. I havent read any new theorists of late. Most of the modern theories of sociology, seem to be a symbiosis of previous incarnations.

Thank you in advance for any reccomendations you make. Please link me if possible. Or the author and title of book of choice

Thank you .CR

Nietzsch E. Coyote

19:14 / 15.02.03

From what I can tell empire is pretty good. there is even a link to a pdf copy in the thread.

Also what others of Marx's source texts have you read? Capital Vol. one is pretty much the best in my opinion. But reading the German Ideology would also be good. I too have never bothered to read vol 2 and 3 but I am presently re-reading Capital vol 1 in depth.

Nietzsch E. Coyote

19:16 / 15.02.03

Here is another thread where we talk about marxism I think up some more books later. Karl Marx With A Hard On

agapanthus

19:25 / 15.02.03

A large chunk of French writing in the 1960s is proppelled by a variety of attempts to reconcile Marxist politics with the anti-modernist ideas arising from structuralist (and post-structuralist) theories.
Louis Althusser attempts to maintain the dialectic between labour and capital, and the economic base as determining the state/cultural superstructure, while trying to thread Jaques Lacan's psychology through the whole damn thing. I think these ideas are in Lenin and Philosophy, Monthly Press Review, NY, 1971.

Roland Barthes also is worth reading for an attempt to marry the concepts of exchange and use value to structuralism in Mythologies. In particular the end essay: Myth today.

Creation, have you read any Gramsci?

creation

21:26 / 16.02.03

Thank you for your reccomendations. I am looking into them now. i didnt here of gramsci till now. I am looking into him too. Is schopenhaure worth reading?

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:05 / 17.02.03

Schopenhauser is very definitely worth reading, but I'm not sure you'll find much in the way of Marxist arguments against modernity in there, or that you will find him *that* much easier than Marx...

creation

12:18 / 17.02.03

I wasn't looking to read it as apart of marxism. I knew that he was apart of the pessemism movement, being the pot-Kant in nature. I am not sure if thats ture or not. I am thinking of reading World Will and representations Vol I & 2.

On note with Marx's capital, I have strated to 'depth' read volume one again. Concentration and worth of doing such reading seems pointless at times

But i know that in the long run it will aid me with reasoning etc.

beatorbebeat

13:59 / 24.02.03

Rules for Radicals by SAul Alinsky was pretty good.

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