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I think a lot of popular communist books that see best-seller lists are really works that pertain to economists. Seeing them recommended to new leftists all the time seems silly. What if you aren't an economist, government figure, or industry leader? In what ways are the lessons of the reading material actually actionable to the average reader?

Of course those works have an intended audience that can act on them, but maybe suggesting them to everybody is more depressing than mobilizing. Suggesting stuff on economic theory just doesn't seem that practicable to the average proletarian.

I'd like to see works that buck this trend so that readers interested in fomenting dissent get immediately practical advice instead of policy to be implemented top-down "after the revolution".

Anyways, nobody working a dead end job wants to read Mark Fischer or Das Kapital.

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Post above inspired by all the "communist reading lists" I've seen online over the years.

@thufie this is what put me off the local commie groups i went to once or twice. The first thing they do is asked "kow much have you read" and then suggest these dense tomes written using words that only make sense if you read another dense tome. Locking the revolution behind reading lots of boring and difficult books seems very stupid, no matter what some dude 100 years ago says.

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