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Are Trots basically the scholar-monks of communism? (hexbear.net)
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you know haha funny 5 person book club, selling papers, marxists.org

but if we are in the "dark age" of leftism currently are they the equivalent of Irish monks copying ancient Marxist texts for safekeeping?

maybe those 5 person book clubs are monastic circles with complex scholarly initiation rites

those papers, well somebody has got to retain the skills to publish physical media

and marxists.org is basically the marxism library of alexandria

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

I think @Edie@hexbear.net with her work on ComLib is a great example of someone fulfilling that role, digging into older important texts and keeping them accessible and available, in modern, epub format, only not a Trot. Shoutout! xi-clap

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I haven't added any new epubs in like..........

oh god it's been 8 months? kitty-birthday-sad

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They're still great epubs! Not sure how many downloads you get, but I check ComLib first when looking for an epub of a book I intend on reading (though I basically know what's on ComLib at this point). Take your time, comrade!

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I don't know either, I don't really have good logging setup (nginx is logging but I don't actually use it, maybe I should turn it off? Or actually try and use it)

I do have a few in progress. But also Denna's book has been taking quite some time. It's 19 chaps (13 done) and some 500 pages. And then as I joked about I just kinda keep starting new ones.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

The endless desire to start new projects before finishing the one you're on, I know it well lenin-rage

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