Goo Truther 
I'm very jaded by waxing poetic about literary flourishes and grand statements by communists who've mass murdered anarchists. How do you put aside the records of their actions long enough to take that political fluff text seriously? It helps to understand how easily people of the time thinking themselves blessed by literary wisdom were so easily put to institutions and tasks of murder. Do you need a critical reader edition that contrasts the written statements with the historical dictator's actual *material* (you weirdos like that word) actions on the adjacent reference page? And if so, to what end aside analyzing dimensions of propaganda?
It is honestly a bit worrying to me. It shows a vulnerability to sentiment tied to throwaway lines that were penned as a means to power and just as easily discarded. Which is the shape of now.
@thufie any communists in particular?
@shroomie no. Just heads of state/party in general.
@thufie ah that’s fair. tbh i’m not too caught up on communist history so the only state caused communist deaths i know about are some of the soviet ones (because i live in america)
@thufie do you have a tier list of communists you like. like if you had to name a few communists and rank them what would the ranking be like
@shroomie authors or as subjects in a history?
@shroomie I'll get back to you then
@shroomie I''ll reply as things come to mind. I think decolonial works are relevant right now, so I'd point to The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon, as a relevant communist today.
@shroomie Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance by Gary Edward Holcomb looks like a good reading choice too. Different focus, more centered on communism and anarchism.
@shroomie If what you are after is less biography, lived experience, and history, and just more theory. Then I'd recommend Herbert Marcuse's western marxist perspectives from One Dimensional Man. Suitably critical (arguably) communist text on soviet communism as social control, but more importantly American capitalism and society.
