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For the study of Marxism, and all the tendencies that fall beneath it.

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Study Guides

Basic Marxism-Leninism Study Plan
Debunking Anti-Communism Masterpost
Beginner's Guide to Marxism (marxists.org)
A Reading Guide (marx2mao.com) (mirror)
Topical Study Guide (marxistleninist.wordpress.com)

Explanations

Kapitalism 101 on political economy
Marxist Philosophy understanding DiaMat
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Libraries

Marxists.org largest Marxist library
Red Stars Publishers Library specialized on Marxist-Leninist literature. Book titles are links to free PDF copies
Marx2Mao.com another popular library (mirror)
BannedThought.net collection of revolutionary publications
The Collected Works of Marx and Engels torrentable file of all known writings of Marx and Engels
The Prolewiki library a collection of revolutionary publications
Comrades Library has a small but growing collection of rare sovietology books

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As someone majoring in Communications studies, I'm trying to find a book that blends Communications and Marxism or Marxism-Leninism together. Does anyone have any recommendations on what to read? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Makan@lemmygrad.ml to c/marxism@hexbear.net

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4028381

The only thing I can think of is Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord and Marshall McLuhan's work on media.

Oh, and this work by Christian Fuchs.

Problem being:

I think Fuchs is a Marxist-Humanist and I'm not sure what to think of Marxist humanism.

But I could be wrong.

Maybe I should ignore that aspect of their work.

Thoughts?

Got any book recommendations at all?

I'm looking for:

Media studies

Cultural theory

Communications

Internet

Social media

Management and organization

Community-building

Trends

Technology

etc.

^ These are the topics I'm looking into.

And, hopefully, from a Marxist-Leninist or Marxist standpoint (or at least leftist).

Got anything? Maybe advice?

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol, yep. awesome. You can find all these on libgen. Btw, for media analysis there's also the Citations Needed Podcast. Their episodes they did on Bill Gates a while ago are quality and just the tip of the iceberg.

https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-45-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-bill-gates-and-western-media-b1f8e0fe092f

https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-46-the-not-so-benevolent-billionaire-part-ii-bill-gates-in-africa-4329389dd4a3

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

Oh, so they're doing a series on it right now.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, no, they're older episodes, but looking at the material conditions behind news media coverage is the sort of thing they do.

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded

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

Yeah, I like stuff that's "recent" but I think I may listen to these.