A philosophy YouTuber I really liked at the time (that I now consider worse than trash, read below) made a video and then a stream about Marx, he taught me about the falling rate of profit, inevitability of socialism etc, unfortunately he is very flawed, he is some flavor of leftcom and refutes completely Stalin, considering brezhnev better than him (💀)

Then I discovered hakim and genzedong (on reddit, back then) and leninism made a lot of sense to me, the necessity of a strong state during siege socialism, the necessity for radical measures ettc, in the end, all is good what ends good.

That YouTuber is really bad, like he praises the EU and the Euro (that subjugated and empoverished Italy) and he is pro Ukraine, glad I distanced myself about 2 years ago.

I still need to read my theory, so far I've read:

ABC of communism (💀)

Chunks of the manifesto

Wage labor and capital

Some of Lenin's works

Some Mao

And a plethora of articles and essays

Edit: per i miei compagni Italiani, provate a indovinare di chi sto parlando nel primo paragrafo