You should be proud! And yea, I figured you wouldn’t be dissuaded, just wanted to point out my personal experience with that text in particular, to give you something to consider while reading it. In practice, Marxists and anarchists work alongside each other frequently! Also, side note, I’ve been reading Maurice Cornforth’s Materialism and the Dialectical Method recently, and it has been fantastic, and will probably replace Politzer’s work in my reading list once I finish it. If you feel like you aren’t fully solid in dialectical materialism, consider giving it a read after you finish Socialism: Utopian and Scientific!

And thanks again, comrade!