/lit/ - Literature

yeah i am a marxist and most of critical theory, i agree, is just walls of opaque masturbatory jargon. its not good, its not good at all. i think the critical theory of today is far from what marx wanted it to be in the first place; it is not confessional, it's all about being some unique piece of shit on the academia scene with your latest masturbatory jargon and nothing more. if i am wrong i am wrong though, could anyone rec some recent works that are not how I think they are?

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but people like this talk as if communism is some set in stone doctrine lol "Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things."

you have to realise that marx was not writing in isolation, he didnt wake up one day and think you know what? time to destroy western civilization! he was writing within the workers movement, a movement that was already in existence, that had a history, with plenty of other thinkers. he wrote his works specifically for these workers to UNDERSTAND what they themselves were talking about, to understand the nature of capitalism, to understand the antagonisms of this mode of production, to understand the material underpinnings of their suffering. lenin did not wake up one morning and think yes it is time to "attempt" communism, no, it was part of a way larger workers movement that was trying to overthrow the current state of things, and that is never going to be the same anywhere or any time, especially today 100 years forward. it is the exact same today, we don't read marx and call ourselves communists because we want a re-doing of the ussr, it's because we realise that much of his analysis still applies today, and we use that analysis to figure out how we move forward TODAY. in any case, i won't get into it now but people have a silly view of the history of communism anyways