Here is a Basic Marxism-Leninism study plan I copied off, if ye want to understand it
This is the Marxism-Leninism “basic study plan” of the Anti-Imperialism Movement (Movimiento Anti-Imperialista or MAI). I think this is a very decent set of texts to read, so I’ve translated the original list and added links to all English and free-to-read versions available online. Since people very often ask for this kind of thing I hope some of you will find it useful.
(Don’t procrastinate) Introduction Lenin. The three sources and three component parts of Marxism
Lenin. Karl Marx
Marx, Engels. Manifesto of the Communist Party
Historical Materialism
Marx, Engels. The German Ideology, chapter 1
Scientific Socialism Engels. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Lenin. What is to be done? https://socialistrevolution.org/what-is-to-be-done-a-reading-guide/
Lenin. State and Revolution (Ouais?)
Lenin. Texts against revisionism and opportunism:
The historical destiny of the doctrine of Karl Marx
Opportunism and the collapse of the Second International
The collapse of the Second International
Imperialism and the split in Socialism
Certain features of the historical development of Marxism
Marxism and Revisionism
Marxism and Reformism
Lenin. Left-wing Communism: and infantile disorder
Engels. Anti-Dühring, part III: Socialism
Stalin. The foundations of Leninism
Philosophy Mao. On contradiction
Engels. Anti-Dühring, part I: Philosophy
Engels. Ludwig Feuerbach and the end of classical German philosophy
Marx. Theses on Feuerbach
Political Economy
Marx. Wages, price and profit (Ouais) https://socialist.net/value-price-and-profit-a-reading-guide/
Engels. Anti-Dühring, part II: Political Economy
Marx. Capital Volume I
Lenin. Imperialism, the highest stage of Capitalism
Are the simple open ended questions being asked by this person/whatever really that bad even?
Maybe I’m not thinking this through, but it seems like a good way to get some fundamentals and then go on to read theory? For anyone reading the posts.
Structured reading isn’t for everyone and most people are educated by memes, pop culture, etc
At this point, it gets a bit annoying when all does it to an extreme extent
Questions are a means to understanding, but it shouldn’t be the only main recourse to doing so… otherwise, they’re just JAQing off with no purpose…
Agreed. They joined at roughly the same time I did a year ago. We each have about 300 comments, but I have 15 posts to their 337. And probably more than half of their posts are in the Ask Lemmygrad or Thoughts On comms.
Agreed as well. This person is asking questions that strike me more as “do the work for me” rather than actually learning themselves. It feels like they want others to put in the effort of understanding theory so they don’t have to form their own opinions.