I’ve been slowly chipping away at theory. Is it just me or some of the old works are just really hard to understand, I feel really slow having to listen to the audiobook, then read it, then reread it sometimes even read it for a third time to understand. I feel really stupid, I have to translate so many words and search phrases and read threads in the middle of the book just to understand something and it ruins the pace too.
Honestly, I had a hard time feeling like I understood theory until I picked up and read The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism and eventually Historical Materialism. They are translations of Vietnamese text books on the topic of Marxism. They’re translated by Luna Oi!. They are dense but highly readable distillations of the philosophical worldview of Marxism-Leninism as well as Historical Materialism (the application of Dialectical Materialism to the study of history). I can’t recommend them enough. They have great glossaries in the back if you’re ever unsure about a term and what it means in these contexts.
They were written more than a hundred years ago, so a lot of it is very context heavy. Marx’s economic works in general are quite difficult to understand.
I’ve been slowly chipping away at theory. Is it just me or some of the old works are just really hard to understand, I feel really slow having to listen to the audiobook, then read it, then reread it sometimes even read it for a third time to understand. I feel really stupid, I have to translate so many words and search phrases and read threads in the middle of the book just to understand something and it ruins the pace too.
Honestly, I had a hard time feeling like I understood theory until I picked up and read The Worldview and Philosophical Methodology of Marxism-Leninism and eventually Historical Materialism. They are translations of Vietnamese text books on the topic of Marxism. They’re translated by Luna Oi!. They are dense but highly readable distillations of the philosophical worldview of Marxism-Leninism as well as Historical Materialism (the application of Dialectical Materialism to the study of history). I can’t recommend them enough. They have great glossaries in the back if you’re ever unsure about a term and what it means in these contexts.
Downloaded both of them, thank you for the recommendations comrade.
They were written more than a hundred years ago, so a lot of it is very context heavy. Marx’s economic works in general are quite difficult to understand.
Theory can be difficult! Sometimes it helps to set up a reading group with comrades to help bounce understanding off each other.