Marx is either gonna be number one, or the list is assuming you’ve already read the manifesto.
Capital should absolutely be in the top 80, and the only reason it isn’t usually top 10 is because anglos are too lazy/illiterate/overworked to attempt it.
But many lists will have Wage Labor and Capital as well as Value, Price, and Profit as easier alternatives to Capital.
Most of his stuff is essay-length and wouldn’t necessarily show up on a book list. But Essays on Feueurbach, the German Ideology, and Critique of the Gotha program are commonly recommended, for example.
Marx was a social scientist, not a prophet. Marxism is a science, not a dogma. Marx’s work should be studied, I feature his works in my basic Marxist-Leninist study guide, but that does not mean that Marx’s words are holy. Marxist concepts have been extended and explained in ways more applicable to contemporary times, retaining Marxism as the foundation and applying it to present, ever-changing conditions. It’s this flexibility and evolution of Marxism that turns it into a science, rather than a dogma.
Christian teachings weren’t written by Christ, people wrote about Darwinism that aren’t Darwin, a person can be the namesake and originator of a philosophy but other scholars will continue writing based on their viewpoint.
You argue like Charlie Kirk. You think you have a clever gotcha and you can probably convince children with this, but there’s no meaning. People don’t read Newton when they study Newtonian mechanics either. Unless they’re particularly interested; of course they can get something out of it, but you’d never start there. It’s not weird to name a field after the person whose ideas kicked it off.
Weirdly, none of the 80 books on the reading list will actually be by Marx himself
Lol what???
Marx is either gonna be number one, or the list is assuming you’ve already read the manifesto.
Capital should absolutely be in the top 80, and the only reason it isn’t usually top 10 is because anglos are too lazy/illiterate/overworked to attempt it.
But many lists will have Wage Labor and Capital as well as Value, Price, and Profit as easier alternatives to Capital.
Most of his stuff is essay-length and wouldn’t necessarily show up on a book list. But Essays on Feueurbach, the German Ideology, and Critique of the Gotha program are commonly recommended, for example.
Wait til you find out how many books in the Bible were actually written by supernatural beings 😅
Why is that weird? Marx wrote in the 1800s, quite a few things have happened since then.
Because he’s the M in ML
Marx was a social scientist, not a prophet. Marxism is a science, not a dogma. Marx’s work should be studied, I feature his works in my basic Marxist-Leninist study guide, but that does not mean that Marx’s words are holy. Marxist concepts have been extended and explained in ways more applicable to contemporary times, retaining Marxism as the foundation and applying it to present, ever-changing conditions. It’s this flexibility and evolution of Marxism that turns it into a science, rather than a dogma.
Christian teachings weren’t written by Christ, people wrote about Darwinism that aren’t Darwin, a person can be the namesake and originator of a philosophy but other scholars will continue writing based on their viewpoint.
You argue like Charlie Kirk. You think you have a clever gotcha and you can probably convince children with this, but there’s no meaning. People don’t read Newton when they study Newtonian mechanics either. Unless they’re particularly interested; of course they can get something out of it, but you’d never start there. It’s not weird to name a field after the person whose ideas kicked it off.
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