/lit/ - Literature

>>16765769
You ask and you shall receive

There is an abridged version I think from Oxford Classics if you want the full thing go with Penguin, that way you can follow along with the reading capital course by David Harvey (it's on youtube)

If you're new with Marxism I wouldn't suggest starting with Capital. Try some of Marx his shorter works first. See pic related for example. I strongly recommend socialism utopian and scientific also wage-labour and capital / value price and profit can be bought together as a single paperback.

>>16638413
Depending what direction you go, Marx is pretty much fundamental, there are multiple charts/reading guides out there like this one. I think you should start with Socialism Utopian & Scientific to see what made Marx different then other socialist thinkers before and during his lifetime.

>>16515402
Derrida's Spectres of Marx is the main work, I don't know if you read any marxist texts before. Pic related gives you a good beginning. There are more comprehensive guides out there but I assume you don't want to be overwhelmed. Also read Francis Fukuyama's The End Of History, then dive right into Derrida.

>>16269716
The left, seduced by the culture wars and identity politics, largely ignores the primacy of capitalism and the class struggle. As long as unregulated capitalism reigns supreme, all social, economic, cultural and political change will be cosmetic. Capitalism, at its core, is about the commodification of human beings and the natural world for exploitation and profit. To increase profit, it constantly seeks to reduce the cost of labor and demolish the regulations and laws that protect the common good. But as capitalism ravages the social fabric, it damages, like any parasite, the host that allows it to exist. It unleashes dark, uncontrollable yearnings among an enraged population that threaten capitalism itself.

Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, she did a third-wave feminism thing. She said ‘lean in.’ It captures this identity politics that has become toxic on the left. What does ‘lean in’ mean? It means women should lean in and go as far as they can in the corporation. They should become, as she has, a major, wealthy executive of a leading corporation. When feminism was turned into that kind of leaning in, it created an identity politics that legitimizes the very system that needs to be critiqued. The early feminists were overtly socialists. As was Martin Luther King. But all that got erased.

Read marx

>>16232917
Marx

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