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· Oct 3
@soilent.bsky.social recently asked me to put together an introductory list of introductory socialist/communist readings, and I thought it might be helpful.
The goal of this is not to be definitive, or to say these are the only important texts, but rather to give a starting point.
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The goal of this is not to be definitive, or to say these are the only important texts, but rather to give a starting point.
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#ImageDuJour Malcolm X, photographié par Eddie Adams le 5 mars 1964 📷.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
#ImageDuJour Malcolm X, photographié par Eddie Adams le 5 mars 1964 📷.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
i think i've been very dissociated today
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
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If billionaires controlling ‘democracies’ with pedophilic extortion schemes pisses you off, read The Communist Manifesto.
Get your foot in the door. Your system is rotted to its very core and needs to be torn down.
Get your foot in the door. Your system is rotted to its very core and needs to be torn down.
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If billionaires controlling ‘democracies’ with pedophilic extortion schemes pisses you off, read The Communist Manifesto.
Get your foot in the door. Your system is rotted to its very core and needs to be torn down.
Get your foot in the door. Your system is rotted to its very core and needs to be torn down.
i lost my glasses and smudged my makeup... do you still love me?
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
i lost my glasses and smudged my makeup... do you still love me?
people think you can't, but it's always so obvious when someone hasn't read the book. if i had a dollar for every time someone criticizing Marx or Lenin claimed to have read the works (while simultaneously demonstrating that they obviously have not), i'd be a multimillionaire at this point.
November 14, 2025 at 4:21 AM
people think you can't, but it's always so obvious when someone hasn't read the book. if i had a dollar for every time someone criticizing Marx or Lenin claimed to have read the works (while simultaneously demonstrating that they obviously have not), i'd be a multimillionaire at this point.
i think i've been very dissociated today
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
i think i've been very dissociated today
"Lenin, leader of the revolution!"
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
"Lenin, leader of the revolution!"
The caption at the bottom reads: “I’m not yours anymore — now I’m with Senya. He took me to the local Soviet to listen to Lenin’s speech.”
based
based
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The caption at the bottom reads: “I’m not yours anymore — now I’m with Senya. He took me to the local Soviet to listen to Lenin’s speech.”
based
based
sometimes i let the intrusive thoughts win
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
sometimes i let the intrusive thoughts win
NW: "The Swordsman" (1990, dir. every Tom, Dick, Harry, and his monkey)
Mainly watching this to get to the much-lauded "Swordsman II" (1992, dir. Ching), but hoping that it's not a total mess even though King Hu backed out halfway through.
Mainly watching this to get to the much-lauded "Swordsman II" (1992, dir. Ching), but hoping that it's not a total mess even though King Hu backed out halfway through.
November 14, 2025 at 1:25 AM
NW: "The Swordsman" (1990, dir. every Tom, Dick, Harry, and his monkey)
Mainly watching this to get to the much-lauded "Swordsman II" (1992, dir. Ching), but hoping that it's not a total mess even though King Hu backed out halfway through.
Mainly watching this to get to the much-lauded "Swordsman II" (1992, dir. Ching), but hoping that it's not a total mess even though King Hu backed out halfway through.
i'm about to be SO fucking cancelled,
I'm talking about age gap stuff independent of the Epstein stuff because I saw this earlier today and had a four minute laugh. I'm trying to imagine who made this and specifically if they have had sex
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM
i'm about to be SO fucking cancelled,
sometimes people say that socialist nations are THE SAME as capitalist ones, which just goes to show the importance of properly engaging with history.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
sometimes people say that socialist nations are THE SAME as capitalist ones, which just goes to show the importance of properly engaging with history.
Here's an excerpt from a paper titled "The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism" by J. Pateman
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Here's an excerpt from a paper titled "The centrality of Africa in Lenin’s theory of imperialism" by J. Pateman
The USSR systematically provided thousands of fully funded scholarships to students from Africa and other colonized regions, something no other major power had done before. This display of global solidarity left a lasting impact on development in partnered African nations.
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The USSR systematically provided thousands of fully funded scholarships to students from Africa and other colonized regions, something no other major power had done before. This display of global solidarity left a lasting impact on development in partnered African nations.
"The dictatorship of the proletariat is not an end in itself. The dictatorship is a means, a way of achieving socialism. But what is socialism? Socialism is the transition from a society with the dictatorship of the proletariat to a stateless society."
- Joseph Stalin
- Joseph Stalin
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"The dictatorship of the proletariat is not an end in itself. The dictatorship is a means, a way of achieving socialism. But what is socialism? Socialism is the transition from a society with the dictatorship of the proletariat to a stateless society."
- Joseph Stalin
- Joseph Stalin
the Eyes Wide Shut criterion restoration has the whole Epstein files in the booklet
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
the Eyes Wide Shut criterion restoration has the whole Epstein files in the booklet
while not a strictly realist filmmaker himself, Kurosawa Kiyoshi is strongly influenced by realist cinema. most obviously is in "To the Ends of the Earth" (2019) which revolves around the same kind of profound alienation that centers in much of Jia Zhangke's work. #filmsky 📽
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
while not a strictly realist filmmaker himself, Kurosawa Kiyoshi is strongly influenced by realist cinema. most obviously is in "To the Ends of the Earth" (2019) which revolves around the same kind of profound alienation that centers in much of Jia Zhangke's work. #filmsky 📽
realized at last what i have been feeling all day (a profound sense of interpersonal alienation)
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
realized at last what i have been feeling all day (a profound sense of interpersonal alienation)
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feminism without marxism is literally just sparkling racism
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
feminism without marxism is literally just sparkling racism
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rip Andrea Dworkin you woulda loved the “Hamas Rapes” hoax
mainstream feminists tend to struggle to explain any reason they should not sympathize with emmett till's accuser over emmett till. this is an unanswered and largely not even asked question in their world
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
rip Andrea Dworkin you woulda loved the “Hamas Rapes” hoax
Charlie Kirk has had the most disrespected death in all of human history
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Charlie Kirk has had the most disrespected death in all of human history
the right's constant attempts at deflecting with "there's a difference between 5 and 15" as if that isn't so obvious it doesn't need stating is so annoying.
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
the right's constant attempts at deflecting with "there's a difference between 5 and 15" as if that isn't so obvious it doesn't need stating is so annoying.