/lit/ - Literature

>>15614081
Both.

>>15614371
are you people who spam that quote even aware he was talking about the DoP and not under capitalism

>>15614081
It's pretty good, but exhaustingly long. Not just in the gross number of pages, but it feels long and tiresome when you get yourself to read it. Also, not my favourite work by Marx; I'd rather go with Eighteenth Brumaire.

Just keep in mind, while reading it, that Das Kapital must be interpreted within a 19th Century context. I don't think it aged as well as some might believe, and Marx's economic thought is entirely based on classical economics. Neoclassicals and Keynesians later developed far more sophisticated economic theories, so think of it like reading the Greeks on natural philosophy.

>>15614569
>even aware he was talking about the DoP
He was talking about the revolutions in the mid 19th century you retard

>2. To be able forcefully and threateningly to oppose this party, whose betrayal of the workers will begin with the very first hour of victory, the workers must be armed and organized. The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens’ militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed. Where the formation of this militia cannot be prevented, the workers must try to organize themselves independently as a proletarian guard, with elected leaders and with their own elected general staff; they must try to place themselves not under the orders of the state authority but of the revolutionary local councils set up by the workers. Where the workers are employed by the state, they must arm and organize themselves into special corps with elected leaders, or as a part of the proletarian guard. Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary. The destruction of the bourgeois democrats’ influence over the workers, and the enforcement of conditions which will compromise the rule of bourgeois democracy, which is for the moment inevitable, and make it as difficult as possible – these are the main points which the proletariat and therefore the League must keep in mind during and after the approaching uprising.

>>15614081
People are really running with that fake tweet huh