I didn't join the revolution to read
2026-03-03 16:10 UTC
Replies (38)
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@dessalines@lemmy.ml 2026-03-03 16:33
The US military is always asking for recruits. If you don’t read, you won’t know that “helping them” means killing civilians.
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@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2026-03-03 16:47
I’m in this meme and I like it.
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@orc_princess@lemmy.ml 2026-03-03 16:51
We need good analysis to guide good praxis, but you can literally learn a lot of more advanced stuff from just listening to comrades, even if reading with comrades is even better.
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@ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2026-03-03 16:56
Knowledge is important, but values and character are more so, IMO. Many complex ideas are founded on the belief of/are distilled from basic humanity.
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@Windex007@lemmy.world 2026-03-03 16:57
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@nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-03 16:59
Anarchists wrote books too ya know, you can’t just escape reading by changing you’re allegiance. The only real problem with the people who don’t want to read theory is they just love talking over the people who did. The Dunning Kruger effect exists in revolutionary spaces.
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@SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-03 17:03
Remember kids, you can’t be a good communist if you don’t have any skills. We already have people well practised at arguing on the internet.
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@thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2026-03-03 17:04
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-03-03 17:10
You can’t read a revolution into existence, but you can’t have a successful revolution without properly preparing for it and studying revolution. You wouldn’t want someone to perform surgery just because they want to help, they will almost certainly end up doing more harm than good. Revolution is the same way, we stand against the most brutal global system of imperialism, we must be prepared for it! If anyone wants a place to start with theory, I wrote a new basic Marxist-Leninist study guide. Give it a look!
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@UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-03 17:53
This is me. Not into all the political theory, just want my fellow human beings to be treated with dignity and for everyone to have a comfortable existence.
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@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-03-03 18:19
I mean I’m an anarchist and I got to my position by reading 🤷
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@peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-03 18:30
To be fair, big shoots has a very broad definition of friend, which is what they replaced “someone” with
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@reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 2026-03-03 18:41
I like the anarchist tendency to encourage thinking for yourself because I think outsourcing political opinions and generally the narrative that politics is too complicated for the layman to fully grasp goes a long way in enabling a world where everything is treated as sophistry leaving gaps for people to blindly follow ideologues. Something similar happened with science and now we have folks ‘debating’ things that are clear as day if you just look. Encouraging each person to think for themselves isn’t to say everyone should live in a private conspiracy. I think everyone should take a course in propositional logic or higher because it truly helps your brain sort through information more clearly and quicker, and makes you much sharper at catching sophistry. In ourselves we should try to note when we hit that point in an argument when we are arguing just to win. At that point we should (potentially apologize) and bow out. Arguing just to win is unhelpful. Theory is much more helpful once you have your feet under you. You are committed to dignity for all. That is a strong position to assess the world from. The categories are quite clear. Once you are here reading theory, especially examples of successful revolutionary projects, helps you understand the types of tools and approaches you might use (or avoid) to bring about change. It also saves lives to avoid strategies that commonly fail.
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@king_comrade@lemmy.world 2026-03-03 19:00
Stop avoiding your homework OP, read the damn theory!
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@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-03 19:36
Anarchists usually don’t need the kind of deprogramming of capitalist, monarchist, colonial, or imperial systems that socialist and Marxist theories typically focus on.
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@HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2026-03-03 19:54
Are there no anarchist books? I’m pretty sure there are.
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@bennieandthez__dup_8172@lemmygrad.ml 2026-03-03 20:04
This is how you end up supporting every US terrorist intervention abroad.
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@Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 2026-03-03 20:37
would you also try to cure cancer while ignoring all the research published on it?
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@CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-03 20:45
More hands make less work. Pitter patter.
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@theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-03-03 22:12
I mean yes but also don’t be anti-intellectual if people have time they are plenty of books we should recommend.
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@AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2026-03-03 22:58
Can’t we just watch that one Zeitgeist indie documentary to find out the Venus Project is a thing, and then make open-source Star Trek real?
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@svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-03 23:14
I joined the anarchist revolution to lead, not to read. Wait, hang on…
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@untorquer@quokk.au 2026-03-03 23:30
Being on the receiving end of crowd control munitions is certainly a better education then any book. If you’re curious about theory there’s tons of alternatives to books: podcasts, film, public speeches, community training/workshops, etc. My suggestion is Women’s War by Robert Evans on Behind the Bastards. I also suggest pretty much anything on https://channelzeronetwork.com/ If someone just shows up and participates with an open mind they’re doing more than most. Anyone who would gatekeep because you didn’t read such and such text should be promptly told to fuck right off because that’s a caustic hierarchical bullshit appeal to false authority and kills engagement. If you need a (text)book try The Ecology of Freedom - Bookchin. You could probably find other books here too https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-the-ecology-of-freedom
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@RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2026-03-04 00:18
And we need both, glad to have ya ⚒️🫱🫲🏴
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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-03-04 01:51
^andy^ ^how’s^ ^your^ ^sperms^
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@Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 2026-03-04 05:59
I see letterkenny, I upvote letterkenny. I am a simple man.
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@manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 2026-03-04 06:23
Anti interlectualism is for losers
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@Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 2026-03-04 11:24
Lenin, Trotsky, and later Mao, pulled off revolutions in countries with 90% illiteracy. The magic word is “vanguard.”
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@QinShiHuangsShlong__dup_67153@lemmy.ml 2026-03-04 11:26
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution. It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems. Chairman Mao’s 红宝书 Chapter 33 on Study
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@sirico@feddit.uk 2026-03-04 12:17
This is audible
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@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2026-03-04 12:26
Reality:
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@F_State@midwest.social 2026-03-04 19:07
Weirdly, none of the 80 books on the reading list will actually be by Marx himself
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@HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 2026-03-04 23:00
My motto is similar: Be kind. Cocks gun I’m done asking.
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@TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 2026-03-04 23:08
Anarchists have their resources too, don’t you think? Even being a anarchist takes some skill, after all.
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@pirate2377@lemmy.zip 2026-03-06 07:54
What did you say? I can’t read
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@ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2026-03-04 17:46
Where's the reading list?
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@thezerobit@anticapitalist.party 2026-03-03 16:52
[@andrewrgross](https://slrpnk.net/u/andrewrgross) ML: It's important to educate yourself. Maybe read a book or two? A: That's ableist. ML: Comrades have read these books out loud and posted the recordings on YouTube for folks to listen while doing the dishes or driving to work. A: I would never use YouTube, or drive a car. In my collective we only do things we enjoy, I don't enjoy doing dishes. ML: So, you're girlfriend does the dishes because she enjoys it? Look, I could dub a cassette. Knowledge is power. A: [#AbolishPower](https://anticapitalist.party/tags/AbolishPower)!
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@sevennorth@masto.es 2026-03-03 16:45
[@andrewrgross](https://slrpnk.net/u/andrewrgross) [@isaactly\_s](https://mas.to/@isaactly_s) Mencanta. :)