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What is the easiest piece of theory you've read? You can post multiple in the order of easiest first to hardest last. (hexbear.net)
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In terms of theory, I don't consider myself well read. Theory is often really tough for me to read. Even with very easy-to-read writers like Michael Parenti, it's dense with mindblowing info. And things like the book Will to Change by Bell Hooks hits me in really raw feelings so I stopped at the first chapter. I need the easiest authors and their easiest-to-read works, or else I'm just not reading.

-Micahel Parenti: What’s a Slum? Urban Poverty and Marginality in America

-"I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision" by Michael Parenti"

-Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth

No idea how I got through "Friendly Feudalism." I read these all about 3.5 years ago before I lost the bandwidth to go further.

Edit: I tend to watch things more so I guess you can add video links after everything else too.

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[–] notthenameiwant@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Probably not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Other Essays is still a real treat to read. It's short and punchy in a way that I think a lot of Marxists really struggle with. Probably skip the last chapter unless you really want a critique of 19th century media.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The conquest of bread is pretty approachable, too, even if it has a bit of flowery, old timey language.

[–] ANarcoSnowPlow@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

The way Kropotkin talks about dishwashers...