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How do you study theory? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I've read my fair share of theory but it has been a while since I list reas a piece. I think the last actual theory I read was The Jakarta Method somewhere in may. Since I've been giving some more important tasks by the party now, I figured I might start reading the theory list again.

I wondered if the grad had any tips for reading theory. Do you write things down? Take notes? Save important paragraphs? Etc.

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[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the tips I will keep them in mind.

I am re-reading theory because I am going to be a writer on the new party programme we will use for the upcoming elections. To be able to do this, I want to have a fresher understanding of Marxism again and I figured I will read (some) of the reading list that is posted here. In the past I never made notes of marxist literature and I will probably do it now. I finished reading Lenin's The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism just now and, despite it being a pretty easy work, I'm pleased with what I wrote down. I wanted to start with Marx' and Engels': Critique Of The German Ideology, Chapter I but as soon as I saw Hegel and Feuerbach mentioned, my brain made the windows shutdown noise and I figured it was time for bed lol.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You're welcome. Hopefully some of the tips are helpful.

I remember you saying that, actually. That's a cool task to be working on. Depending on what you end up writing, you might also want to look at:

And it's a bit longer, but:

Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

The German Ideology is good but it's a tough one! Someone kept recommending it to me so I kept trying and the first three or four times, it just went over my head and I only got a few pages in.

If you fast forward past the first section it gets significantly easier. If you try again, start at 'First premises of materialist method' and come back to 'The illusions of German ideology' when you've read the rest of Part One.