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  • You’re unwilling to engage with a foundational communist text that has infinity translations into every language in common parlance, readily available audiobooks, prerecorded reading groups in every format imaginable and actual real time reading groups on the instance you’re posting this thread in.

    What resource can I possibly offer you when you describe yourself as unwilling to avail yourself of those around you?

    I get it, reading a bunch of old stuff sucks but you’re talking about getting into groups that are trying their god damnedest to not hand the gospel down to you from a pulpit but to help you learn it for yourself. At some point if you wanna be a deacon you gotta crack the good book, right?


  • From your perspective it’s an arbitrary and meaningless roadblock, but from the perspective of groups you’re trying to get involved with it’s a fundamental cornerstone to developing an understanding you share with the group.

    That is necessary for the group because of a bunch of reasons, they might be interested in making sure you grasp the idea of not wasting energy on the lumpen or upholding the mass line for example. They might need to make sure their members can stand up to the most basic scrutiny possible before turning them loose on the public. They might gain critical understanding about you as a person that helps them trust you or at least not view you as an infiltrator. Heck, they might just see you as a comrade worth developing.

    That’s why I suggested multiple times that you stop trying to join communist groups. Anarchists and electoralists will gladly put you to work to accomplish their ends regardless of your understanding.




  • Actual existing socialist movements that became actual existing socialist states successfully taught people to read using the book capital.

    None of the roles involved in operating the socialist state or tearing down the bourgeois state preclude literacy.

    Experts in their fields need to understand history and theory in order to be able to figure out new forms of organization.

    We are not storming the battlements. There are not ditches to be dug. All serious communist movements in the imperial core strive to understand the conditions of the moment and determine how they should respond to them. That requires history and theory.

    Again, if you just feel like you’re gonna fly to pieces if you don’t do something, there are anarchist and electoralist groups that will put you to work.

    It sucks to have a fire lit under your ass and have the people who did it say “now sit on your burning ass and read this long boring book and have a talk with us about it afterwards.” It’s not something you can make an effective end run around.


  • People’s movements that included the illiterate made teaching literacy a priority with capital often used as a pedagogical text.

    Learning the history and theory is how you understand the revolutionary potential of any given moment.

    Bringing everyone who wants to be a part of the movement to a shared level of understanding as equals is how we choose to work with all types of people.

    If you just feel like there’s no time to read a book and can’t be convinced otherwise by literally every successful movement in all of history then there are anarchist groups that will put you to work or liberal electoralist organizations that will do the same.





  • Stop.

    What youre saying would make a lot of sense if we were in the middle of a domestic war or complete social breakdown. That’s when you can successfully revolt. We are not in either of those situations so you can’t just jump to the group that’s gonna do the revolution and be a part of it.

    Since you can’t storm the bastille, the next best thing would be to prepare for it, but that requires having some conception of what “it” is and that requires doing the work of reading and theorizing, which you said you won’t do.

    So stop.

    If you feel crazy and just want to be doing something, there’s a ton of anarchist groups out there that you can put infinite personal energy into for questionable gain.

    You might also be a fed or an unknowing asset. This is a public website and what you are saying is public.



  • Hold on, I’m over here routing my traffic through more computers owned by other people using a protocol developed and deployed by the intelligence community.

    Huh, why? Duh… privacy.

    That’s very fun but I seriously believe you’re not thinking about what you’re saying.