Read Kayanerenko:wa The Great Law of Peace. It’s political theory from the Indigenous people that gave Engels the idea for communism.

Get your communism straight from the source, don’t settle for the cheap European knockoff.

I thought the 1848 manuscripts were pretty rocking when I first read them.

I always felt Marx’s finished products had a kind of dull exposition, at least for large parts. I think he felt he had to lay out a system like that. But the unfinished stuff, even the Grundrisse have a lively dialectical feel that is pretty captivating.

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Also just get into anarchism instead. Anarchists are always sexy.

I mean you can look for cartoon guide to marx or something like that. Maybe youtube has some videos about it that are not so dry?

Things seeming boring and dry is your mind telling you that you’re trying to learn something that isn’t interesting to you. Fancy tricks to hide that core truth won’t undo it.

Why do you think you want to learn Marxist theory? To have status among leftists? Go punch a Nazi. To understand modern or historical leftists? Their actions aren’t guided by Marxist theory. To have status among political theorists, economists, and liberals? Lol. Lmao even.

To gleam a better way to have a succesful revolution that results in a better society? Okay, cool, do you have a community of people that won’t starve to death within days of trade being cut off? If no, congratulations, now you know all Marxist theory that you need to know until you do have such a community.

There is no reason to study Marx other than you find it interesting or because it relates to something your interested in. There is very little utility in knowing the theory.

Marx was a genius similar to Freud. They changed the way we think and gave us new tools to examine the world. Beyond that, their particular ideals are often as wrong as two left shoes.

There is plenty of room on the left for people who reject, or are ignorant of Marx.

I would start with Duck Soup.

Which Marx Brother is your favorite?

there’s a chick whose videos get posted on videos@lemmy.ml hexbear, I don’t remember her name but it should be something super obvious. She seems to know not just the theory but also a lot Russia in the period of time it was written in.

Also there’s this guy on youtube called Andrewism. He interprets a lot of theory for adaptation in the future and for building community now where he lives. He’s pretty cool.

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You can… read Marx? Or find a podcast about him?

It’s economics, “boring” or “dry” kinda comes with the package

If you want sexy you can try Che Guevara or Max Stirner (lol good luck)

Do you mean Marxism-Leninism? Thats what most people mean when they say Marxism, but there are lots of us who appreciate Marx and disagree with the trajectory his namesake took.