Reading Marx
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A useful guide to the works of Marx
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/05/reading-marx-engels-communist-manifesto-capital-jewish-question
At present there are many websites and blogs dedicated to the study of the works of Marx and Engels, and there are a lot of website in Latin America from universities ( UNAM, UBA ) and political parties who are analyzing the works of Marx and the pre capitalists societies including the societies of the Mayas, Aztecs and Inkas
The biography of Marx written by Marcelo Musto is an excellent book and it confirms many aspects of the life of Karl Marx that were mentioned by one of his biographer known as Franz Mehring, he also indicated that when Marx was older he was involved in many researches and he was very intellectually active, and he was doing a large research on the pre capitalist and non western ( The Anthropological notebooks of Karl Marx ) societies. The volumes of works as so enormous that even Engels was surprised after Marx died. It was too much works for one man. I hope the young peoples come back like the old days when the youth used to read a lot of books about Marx, Engels and socialist ideas
https://www.marxists.org/archive/mehring/1918/marx/index.htm
This is another good biography of Karl Marx written by Franz Mehring
The new MEGA edition of the works of Marx and Engels ( 114 volumes ) are going to bring more lights and a broad understanding of their works on socialism
I’m not sure why you chose to highlight this Jacobin piece, giving how many guides to Marx are already out there. The piece isn’t entirely bad but it does spread the misconception that The Critique of the Gotha Programme makes a distinction between “socialism” and “communism”
>>>I’m not sure why you chose to highlight this Jacobin piece<<< I posted to add a bit of diversity to the forum, DJP. You may have noticed that other than my own topic posts and MS's replies, more or less only two threads have recently dominated the forum exchanges. Of the article itself, the suggestion that the Jewish Question should be studied was one I thought was helpful, because of the fact that it is regularly subject to accusations of Marx's anti-semitism rather than being part of a broader philosophical discussion within the Young Hegelians wing. I know a few members are already engaged in a Marx study group (Capital Vol 3) and it may have spurred their interest.
I remember when reading Karl Marx or Engels was a death sentence. Many young peoples carried their pamphlets ( or loose pages ) inside of a Playboy magazine, or a comic book. The instructions were given by the same peoples that nowadays speak about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the first amendment of the US constitution
It is much better to read and study Marx and Engels than to waste time with peoples that are always looking for a piece of hair in the soup of Marxism
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Jacobin ( DSA ) wants Bernie Sanders for run for president again. If he wins any election the Democrats and Republicans leaders will join forces to block his reformist agenda. At present there are two Democrats blocking Joe Biden agenda
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