Have you ever read a book about Marxism?

[windjammer]

I'm curious to see the outcome.

There is a sage who constantly speaks about "marxist" concepts. I wonder if he has ever read a book about marxism or if he's just copying/pasting wikipedia.



Well, for me: Yes.

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy from Schumpeter (he explains well Marx)

[memphis]

We had to read The Communist Manifesto for a history class.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

We had to read The Communist Manifesto for a history class.

Twice, actually. I've read it once on my own though.

[windjammer]

We had to read The Communist Manifesto for a history class.

A history class? In High School?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Not an entire book, but I've read parts of the Communist Manifesto and the Capital.

[© tweed]

Not an entire book, but I've read parts of the Communist Manifesto and the Capital.

those aren't so much books about Marxism as they are original documents.  ie, are the Gospels books about Christianity?

[Miles]

Yes; one of my favorite cultural anthropologists, Stuart Hall, discusses Marxist concepts a lot in his works.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Who else thought this was BRTD?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Quite a few. The best, of course, is Main Currents of Marxism, which is loads more fun that the title suggests.

[© tweed]

Quite a few. The best, of course, is Main Currents of Marxism, which is loads more fun that the title suggests.

one of my favorites, I owe my discovery of it to you.  particularly parts 2 and 3.  hilarious in places, esp. the chapters on Adorno and Ernst Bloch

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Plenty, albeit most via online databases (and depending on how broad your interpretation of "about Marxism" is--for instance, one of my favorite writings by Trotsky is his analysis of fascism, but does that fit your scope?)

[Lief 🗽]

Well I was a history major and my focus was the 19th century, so yeah obviously.

[TNF]

More than I can recall.

[Cranberry]

I am toying with the idea of reading one of Marx's books... Good thing, I could read them in the original, and not would have to take translations... I guess I should be finding Das Kapital somewhere on the internet

[H. Ross Peron]

Read the Communist Manifesto so yes.

[memphis]

We had to read The Communist Manifesto for a history class.

A history class? In High School?

No. It was in college. French history 1815-Present.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I read about a third of Mao's Little Red Book at my Uncle's house. He has a large library and had a small, English translation copy hidden in the far corner of the shelf. I can't remember anything about it.

[DemPGH]

Not as much about him as by him. The Manifesto, The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, and also some BIG anthology of collected writings by him - I forget which one. I recognize and appreciate the power of what he was saying.

I've read of him what a person would be expected to read who studied a lot of history. My field is more 15th through 17th centuries, overall, with emphasis on western Europe, England, France.

Francis Bacon is to me what Marx is to a Marxist.  

[King]

I read the Manifesto for a sociology class in college and I read assorted Marx writings for a history of economics course in college.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Francis Bacon is to me what Marx is to a Marxist.  

A third rate Jesus substitute?

[Redalgo]

No, not really. I read some snippets from Kapital and consumed a lot of second-hand material in the form of other writers' analyses back in university but admit to lacking academic rigour when it comes to reading the original works of political philosophers. It is very time consuming and I've always been more of a big picture sort of person. Having to sift through all the minutia is exhausting, seldom seems rewarding, and usually leads to misinterpretations of author intent.

Marxism is only really interesting to me insofar as it can be scavenged for some useful ideas and phrases.

[checkers]

I've read The Communist Manifesto and a few extracts from Capital here and there. I've also read some Rosa Luxemburg and Eduard Bernstein (not sure if that counts, since he's a revisionist and all). I definitely wouldn't consider myself to be really well versed in it - though that's something I aim to change eventually.

[DemPGH]

Francis Bacon is to me what Marx is to a Marxist.  

A third rate Jesus substitute?

Mm, nah, not really. I don't have any bumperstickers and I don't go around quoting him or corner people with a copy of Novum Organum. It's actually just that method works. And actually, it doesn't require faith. He is, though, very important to the history of thought, education, etc., as you know.

[Mordecai]

Not an entire book, but I've read excerpts for my freshman politics classes. Interesting, but hasn't really persuaded me.

[Vosem]

I've read the Manifesto, the Little Red Book, loads of excerpts from Lenin, and some modern stuff. Yet I remain stubbornly right-wing