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.
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.
I mean, Christian teachings are largely Greek Philosophy grafted onto Abrahamic religion. I’m not terribly convinced early church fathers really cared what Jesus thought.
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.
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.
Weirdly, none of the 80 books on the reading list will actually be by Marx himself
https://lemmy.ml/post/43309494
Why is that weird? Marx wrote in the 1800s, quite a few things have happened since then.
Because he’s the M in ML
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.
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.
I mean, Christian teachings are largely Greek Philosophy grafted onto Abrahamic religion. I’m not terribly convinced early church fathers really cared what Jesus thought.
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.
That’s more or less what every Marxist and Marxist-Leninist really needs to hear.
Sure, I agree, thats’s why Mao wrote Oppose Book Worship. Marxism is a guide to action, and a science that evolves.
Wait til you find out how many books in the Bible were actually written by supernatural beings 😅
That would be Zero but Christians sure are convinced it’s all of them.
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.