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i read Marx Dead And Alive: Reading Capital In Precarious Times much earlier than i meant to (i’m already reading through three other books (no none of the rest is Capital or about it)) and i liked it
you can tell the author actually reads, like, fiction; they write like a writer
you do not need to have read Capital to be able to follow or appreciate the book
i do not understand why the author thinks Marxism was “forced” on agrarian, pre-capitalist China, while at the same time he very approvingly cites and discusses Lenin, who, famously, took power in pre-capitalist Russia,, but ok, whatever
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@Lady this author manages to endorse the idea that the working class will not come to socialism on its own and will need it to be brought to them from the outside, by a vanguard party.................. and then just goes, yeah but in china marxism was forced on the agrarian peasants
catflame microblogging book reviews
@aescling this seems backwards to me. the communists won in china because they had the SUPPORT of agrarian people as opposed to the GMD which focused on the industrializing cities, this is like Maoism 101