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[DS930]

Hi I am young and curious. I am interested in boardening my understanding of Marxism and this looks like a good place :) I consider myself socialist but i need to learn more.

Hope my questions are welcome (there will be a lot), sometimes I'll play the devil's advocate because it is just how I learn.

I have been lurking here for awhile, and people seem really cool, so I look forward to posting more often.

[RedStarOverChina]

Hi! how young are u? I'm 18. And I came for the same reason. U know, I'm loving it, and I hope u will too!

[Zingu]

The Word Socialist has a broad useage, hopefully you will be able to narrow that down as you learn.

I'm personally a "Non-Leninist Marxist".

You have alot to learn, trust me. If you feel lost when us Marxists talk, you might want start reading some Marxist theory, good books to start would be "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital: A Critique of the Political Economy".

[DS930]

Hi! how young are u? I'm 18.
16 1/2 :)


The Word Socialist has a broad useage, hopefully you will be able to narrow that down as you learn.
That's what I am hoping I can do here, learn enough to narrow it down more. However I know enough to realize that capitalism doesn't help humanity and that a planned economy would greatly improve many people's lives.


You have alot to learn, trust me. If you feel lost when us Marxists talk, you might want start reading some Marxist theory, good books to start would be "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital: A Critique of the Political Economy".
Definitely! I don't have some illusion of knowing everything
I have read some of each, though I have been unable to really read through them because of school and other things. But i found Marxists.org to be really helpful in understanding terms and other theories.


Thinking about it more, I might take more of a "sponge" approach instead of just bombarding you all with questions. Try to absorb what I can, and only ask questions if I am having trouble with a concept.

[RedStarOverChina]

Zinqu did u read Das Capital? Im really struggling with it i gotta admit tho the ideas are easy to grasp, Marx wrote them as if they are extremly complicated ideas.... geez when i have questions, i will ask u then

[Zingu]

Originally posted by [email protected] 1 2005, 04:55 AM
Zinqu did u read Das Capital? Im really struggling with it i gotta admit tho the ideas are easy to grasp, Marx wrote them as if they are extremly complicated ideas.... geez when i have questions, i will ask u then

I'm not as strong on the economics part as in other spheres of Marxism, but I know my fair share. Yes, Das Kaptal is very hard to get through, so is alot of Marx's other writings, after awhile, you will get used to reading it.

[ZeroPain]

16 1/2 smile.gif

:lol: Welcome im 15, good to see socialism growing.

[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

Hullo comrade! One piece of advice - unless you've got a lot of time on yr hands, don't dive into Das Kapital . . . I recomend the much shorter (I read it while waiting for a bus, actually) "Wage Labour And Capital" which explains Labour Theory of Value in a much more straightforward manner . . . then when you read Capital, you can skip a few hundred pages, haha.

If you dig reading online, I recomend poking around www.bopsecrets.org - a lot of it will make you think "Hey, what if Marx's corpse hadn't rotted well before the advent of mass post-industrial culture?"

[RedStarOverChina]

I think Virgin Molotov Cocktail is right...lol I'd been hearing about Marxism all my life still Das Kapital is hard for me to read.

[bunk]

I'm 14, joined this place when i was 13 and started das kapital. I find it hard to read although iv'e finished volume 1 i haven't read anymore.

[seraphim]

welcome you'll find answers to all kinds of questions here