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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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[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago (4 children)

marx2mao.com is another good one. Marxists.org still has the largest archive afaik but a while ago I noticed some questionable editing on some articles that some might find ... Controversial

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Lemme quote CriticalResist again

Marxists.org is ran by trots and they've been known to edit stuff to fit their bias -- notably in Mastering Bolshevism from Stalin, whole sections are missing and they give the work a completely different name. They've also removed portions and footnotes from Progress Publishers (Moscow) books.

As much as possible, we shouldn't use them. You simply cannot know if their edition of a book will be truthful or not. They also rely on old translations for many texts, while I've found that newer translations tend to flow better.

Here are libraries we can use other than marxists.org. Make sure their own copies don't come from the MIA though obviously.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago

How long have I been misguiding the working class

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Fuck me, I didn't know about this

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

I feel like a site that just took the list of worka from marxist.org, used their own translations/versions, and added some notably missing worka would do well so long as it had a catchy url.