Important reads that caused you to switch your tendency.

[Zanters]

For example, currently I self identify as a ML, but the more I read about Left-Communism, the more I sympathize with it. What are some works that caused you to go from ML to LC, or ML to MLM, Marxist to Council Communist, or vice versa for all.

Maybe I'll find myself becoming a Left Communist here soon? Idk yet.

[Sasha]

as from a (council-)communist background with family fighing in the international brigades and the CPN resistance i always, even after getting involved in the anarchist dominated autonomous scene, identified as a bolshevist of sorts but especially reading "living my live" by emma goldman and books about the Makhnovista and Durriti made me identifying more as an anarchist/autonomist of sorts. Only later i found out that those family members that made me identify as an Bolshevist (for so far they survived the wars obviously) actually made also a hard move away from Bolshevism (for so far they ever adhered to it in the first place) after the crackdown on the hungarian uprising even going so far as resigning from the CPN. Since then i have been drifting more towards communisation theory and as such got back into reading non-Bolshevik marxist stuff as Pannekoek and Adorno..

[Skyhilist]

Discussions on forums like this with people who actually know their stuff has actually been more responsible for my political evolution than reading specific books - mostly because once I read overviews of political ideas, I had specific questions - books didn't always answer those questions, but people on here and other places often did. I now identify as libertarian socialist. Of all the types of libertarian socialist, I'd generally consider myself an anarchist, but I think most libertarian socialists have put forward good ideas, and it'd be very unlikely for any revolution in accordance with libertarian socialist principles to be something that I wouldn't support, even if "anarchists" weren't responsible for it - so for that reason I just stick to the label libertarian socialist. Libertarian Marxists and anarchists are both cool in my book.

[motion denied]

Unsatisfied slave in a Leninist org reads Rosa Luxemburg. Ban!

I don't think I changed tendency, however. I'm still a Marxist of sorts.

[RedMaterialist]

The State and Revolution

[consuming negativity]

Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis - Bakunin
The Conquest of Bread - Kropotkin
Also, seconding The State and Revolution.

[Sinister Intents]

Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis - Bakunin
The Conquest of Bread - Kropotkin
Also, seconding The State and Revolution.

Seconded, but also add mutual aid, and Emma Goldman's My Dissilusionment In Russia.

Not so much a tendency switch, but more a solidifying of my tendency and elimination of the Lenin influenced ideas from State and Revolution and other literature of Lenin, basically I'm a more consistent anarchist now and have no leanings towards marxism

[exeexe]

jack london iron heel, really shows how wrong society is - maybe i should read it again one day :)

What is property

Homage to Catalonia

ABC of Anarchism, it shows what anarcho communism is, i didnt really became an anarcho communist, but i became aware of what is possible if you just wants it to happen

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Always been anavoxx but what really started it was the Bakunin work in my sig. Then I just sucked up everything by hims.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

As I've said before, I was an AnCap for a couple of years before I lost my first job.

It was then that I read Kropotkin's "An Appeal To the Young".

Maybe it was just a matter of perfect timing, but that piece basically yanked me out of my AnCap stupor and right back into socialist politics.

[G4b3n]

As I've said before, I was an AnCap for a couple of years before I lost my first job.

It was then that I read Kropotkin's "An Appeal To the Young".

Maybe it was just a matter of perfect timing, but that piece basically yanked me out of my AnCap stupor and right back into socialist politics.

My favorite history teacher from my high school recommended me "An appeal to the Young". It is a very powerful read indeed.

[machinic]

I feel like my tendency might be in transition at the moment. From what to what is hard to say, but out of the necessity to identify as something, and out of a need to find comrades to organize with, I've been calling myself an anarchist. No one text has made me begin to switch but some of the stuff surrounding accelerationism has made me reflect. Very academic, lots of problems, but enough in it to make me stop and rethink.

[Zoroaster]

I became a left communist after listening to the audiobook of "Worker's Councils" by Anton Pannekoek. His work is still an excellent read for revolutionary strategy and democratic management.

[Gramthusser]

In 1977 I read, with considerable skepticism, "What is to be Done?" and was utterly floored by its prescience, its vision, its accomplishments. That's not where I am today, but it's not something I can dismiss either.


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[The Modern Prometheus]

I would say that the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 and The State and Revolution both played a part in me moving more away from Anarchist Communism to Marxism.

Though i still don't like restricting myself to one tendency such as Marxism-Leninism as a example. I still like many aspects of other tendencies such as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and various forms of Anarchism.