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[Anonymous No.7920968]

Where should I start?

[Anonymous No.7920970]

With the Greeks

[Anonymous No.7920982]

>>7920970
and continue with the romans

[Anonymous No.7921002]

>>7920982
>>7920970
guys pls

where do I start with Karl Marx?

[Anonymous No.7921008]

>>7921002
Capital I

[Anonymous No.7921012]

>>7920970
/thread

[Anonymous No.7921015]

>>7921002
Read mein kampf

[Anonymous No.7921017]

>>7921002
Honestly? Descartes.

-Have a decent grasp of Descartes' project, it's not difficult.

-From there, you do a quick skim on what Locke and Berkeley were doing and jump straight into Hume's Enquiry.

-Then learn about Kant's project (not sure of what to recommend here).

-Here's where we get relevant. Learn how German Idealism bridged from Kant to Hegel and start digging deeper with Hegel. I would recommend Pinkard's Sociality of Reason for Hegel but I hear that analytics like Brandom and Pippin have been trying to reinvent a more analytic-friendly and very reductionist Hegel, so I may be skeptical. I hear Jameson's Hegel Variations is solid, but I haven't read it myself so I don't know how dense a text it is.

-Skim around on the Young Hegelians (not just Marx, but Stirner and Bauer and Feuerbach).

You are probably ready for Marx then.

[Anonymous No.7921118]

>>7921002
Don't

[Anonymous No.7921150]

>>7921002
Epicurus & Aristotle are the major Greek influences. Classical British economics are very important to understanding Marx, Smith and Ricardo are pretty much necessary. As far as philosophers, Hume->Kant->Fichte->Hegel in order to understand the formulation of the Hegelian dialectic, which is in many ways the core of Marx. Finally, the young Hegelians, particularly Stirner, Bauer, & Feurbach, followed by the German Ideology by Marx & Engels. From there, Das Kapital, and then anything else by Marx will be easily accessible.

[Anonymous No.7921210]

>>7920968
You don't need to know the whole history of philosophy to study Marx. It helps, but to say that it's necessary is autistic as fuck. Start with German Ideology, then read selections of Capital from a reader.

[Anonymous No.7921220]

>>7920982
1/1, Best New Meme

[Anonymous No.7921234]

1. Communist Manifesto (but prepare to be underwhelmed, it's mostly written by Engels and not that great)
2. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
3. On the Jewish Question
4. The German Ideology
5. Capital

[Anonymous No.7921288]

>>7920968
>>7920970

Start with Sumerians.
Then Persians
Then Greeks
Then Romans

Then stop. Everything else is the same rehashed shit except it's all been refuted and none of it matters.

[Anonymous No.7921374]

>>7920970
>>7920982
>>7921288

nice memes XD

[Anonymous No.7921386]

>>7920968

Honestly OP I just bought this anthology and started reading it a week ago. Its a good cross section of his work.

It seems lots of people in this thread are recommending that you read 10 other philosophers before Marx which certainly would help but I don't think that's your aim and you won't be completely lost otherwise. It could be that I've been exposed to some of the stuff people are talking about (double majored in econ & phil at uni so I guess I'm already somewhat prepared for reading Marx), but I think you'll be fine starting with this book like me.

[Anonymous No.7921421]

>>7920968