Cowbee

I like both Georges Politzer's Elementary Principles of Philosophy and Vladimir Adoratsky's Dialectical Materialism for beginners. On Contradiction (as well as On Practice) are essential.

For more depth, Anti-Dühring and Materialism and Empirio-Criticism are excellent.

Self and other.

You too comrade!

Sartre's intro is the only one I like.

Have a great week everyone! We're approaching the new year soon.

As always, communism will win.

That's really cool!

Thanks for recommending the list I made! OP, I designed the list to be pretty gentle up front and work up over time, but you can skip around if you feel like it!

Generally, it's a two-stage process. One must be sufficiently unsatisfied with the status quo or open to new ideas before new information is accepted that overturns your worldview. The working classes are generally going to already be closer to that, but even among workers there is significant striation. New information does work, but on people who are in the proper stage for it. It's driven internally.

What we do is focus on those that are radicalized and lead them to correct theory and practice over time. Agitating among those whom the system benefits (or those who believe the system benefits them) is far less effective than focusing on those left behind. Dialectical Materialism informs us that it is through the working classes actively engaging in social relations that they come to working class ideology, we meet them there and guide them to proper theory and practice.

Hoping things shake out well for you! Happy Christmas/Solstice as well, comrade!

I'm doing okay, thank you! It's been hectic lately with work and my personal life, but not in a bad way. How about you, Maeve? Doing well, I hope?

Incredibly inspiring, despite being so close to the empire it's humanity that prevails over capital.

Support for attacking Venezuela is very unpopular here in the States. Comrades here are doing great work trying to agitate against this.