/lit/ - Literature

>>20949016
This except with even more assburgers and rejection of abstracts.

>>19397442

>>19281125
>well thought out argument about the accumulation of capital and its consequences
>pic not related
It's interesting that the only Marxists that were able to get rich off their "theories" are brutal dictators and entertainers.

Have you ever seen so much obscure Marxist literature in one place before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de-xDqo0ih0

>While ol’ Karl was born to Jewish parents, he wrote excessively about his dislike for his own people. “What was the profane basis of Judaism?” he wrote. “Practical need. Self-interest. What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.”

>Marx also commented on the US annexation of then-Mexican California during the Mexico-America war, saying “Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it?”


>Marx had horrid personal hygiene, barely ever bathing or cleaning his home. A Prussian policeman investigating Marx in London in 1850 reported on his room: “Everything dirty and covered with dust, so that to sit down becomes a hazardous business.”

>Karl Marx suffered from abscesses all over his body, but particularly badly affected were his backside, his groin and under his armpits, which he himself described as 'a mess'. Painful lumps on his inner thigh would grind against his trousers, making even a short walk very difficult. Sitting was often impossible because of the carbuncles on his bottom. A large boil beneath the shoulder blade would make lying down quite an ordeal. In particularly black moods, Marx would hack at them with a cut-throat razor.

>Though Marx was “middle class” and even “Victorian” in many of his everyday cultural attitudes, this did not stop him from breaking his marriage vows and committing adultery. He had sex enough times with the family maid that she bore him an illegitimate son – and this under the same roof with his wife and his legitimate children (of which he had seven, with only three living to full adulthood).

>But he would not allow his illegitimate child to visit their mother in his London house whenever he was at home, and the boy could only enter the house through the kitchen door in the back of the house. In addition, he had his friend, longtime financial benefactor, and intellectual collaborator, Fredrick Engels, claim parentage of the child so to avoid any social embarrassment falling upon himself due to his infidelity.

money? bad

Carlos Marques

>>18740634
I see what you did there

>Slavery
>Feudalism
>Capitalism
You cannot find a single region that didn't follow this pattern.

Somebody called?

>Marx isn't bad people just misinterpret him!
Then maybe he should learn how to fucking write ahahahahaha

The German Ideology never took place
https://marxismocritico.com/2013/05/06/the-german-ideology-never-took-place/

Thoughts?

How do I go about researching obscure political figures or history?

Like say I wanted to understand marxism, the philosophy of Karl Marx, where would I start looking (taking into account that Wikipedia is shit)?

>everyone should be equal and have the same amount of money, no one should work and everyone should have their basic necessities met
>what do you mean only 20% of males have sex while virgins get ostracised from society and are denied a basic human neccesity? lmao who cares just have sex
Why do Marxists ignore the sexual proletariat?

>>17696803
>>it's not real rebellion unless you kill people
Emphatically 'yes'.

To everyone who actually read him: Was he just misunderstood?

Here's why complaints about the LTV and the declining rate of profit aren't sufficient: https://mronline.org/2017/11/17/150-years-of-capital-with-no-end-in-sight/

AHEM
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>Simps of the world unite you have nothing to lose but your chains

Marx reading list:

Brumaire
Manuscripts
Value, Price, and Profit
Gotha
Grundrisse
Capital 1, 2, and 3 (yes you need to read all of them. 1 is not self-contained.)

Further Reading:
Michael Heinrich's Introduction (note: not an introduction)
Heinrich's 3-4(?) volume biography of Marx that he is still writing (vol 1 is out)
Love and Capital (another biography)
Isaak Illich Rubin's Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
Time, Labor, and Social Domination by Postone
Value by Diane Elson
Law and Marxism by Pashukanis
Notebooks by Gramsci
The Principle of Hope by Bloch
Arcades Project by Benjamin
Negative Dialectics by Theodor Adorno
The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute by Susan Buck-Morss
The Production of Space by Lefebvre
The Making of the English Working Class by Thompson (also read his essay on time.)
Poverty of Theory by Thompson
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Hobsbawm tetralogy
Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson
The Essential Lenin
The Essential Stalin
On Contradiction and On Practice by Mao
Dialectical Logic, Intelligent Materialism, and The Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx's Capital by Ilyenkov
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, I and IS Apparatuses, and Philosophy of the Encounter by Althusser
H and CS by Lukacs
Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility by Karatani
Eclipse by Gilles Dauve
What Was the USSR? Towards a Theory of the Deformation of Value Under State Capitalism by Aufheben
Reading Marx Politically by Cleaver
Marx's Inferno by William Clare Roberts
Moneybags Must Be So Lucky: On the Literary Structure of Capital by Robert Paul Wolff
In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution by Geoff Mann
Crack Capitalism by John Holloway
The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System: The Prevalence of an Aleatory Encounter by John Milios
Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason by Bonefeld
The 4 volumes of Open Marxism
There's No Such Thing as "The Economy": Essays on Capitalist Value by Samuel A. Chambers
Marx at the Millennium by Cyril Smith
Marx, Marginalism, and Modern Sociology by Simon Clarke
Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx by Frederick Harry Pitts
The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay
Money and Totality by Moseley
Marx's Capital and Hegel's Logic: A Reexamination by Moseley
The Constitution of Capital: Essays on Volume 1 of Marx's Capital by Bellofiore
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Reminder that you aren't allowed to criticize Marx unless you've read Hegel.

2 things:

1) Why should plebs even deserve 100% of the value of their labour?

2) If everyone is being paid way more, won´t that just make inflation fly through the roof?

>>17326559
*ESL detected*
And yes, pic rel.