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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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[serious post, pls leave your icepicks unsheathed] Why is trots insistence on the fact that the workers have to drive the revolution constantly dismissed? (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by DivineChaos100@hexbear.net to c/marxism@hexbear.net

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I regularly see trots being memed about because "they do nothing apart from writing newspapers", but to me from their viewpoint (and as an anarchist) it totally makes sense and is a sympathetic view how it should be the workers leading the fight towards a revolution and the vanguard should stand aside and take the role of advisors (hence the newspapers) rather than leaders.

I feel like i'm missing something but i don't know what.

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

is this difference between leading and advising

A leader is directing things, setting priorities, assigning resources, maintaining focus on a goal and bearing a chunk of the responsibility for the results.

An advisor gets to make suggestions but doesn't have to suffer consequences if they're wrong, telling somebody what I think they should be doing doesn't mean I have to bear any responsibility for being wrong. Advisors don't have as much "skin in the game" as a leader would. Feels a bit like this qualifies as tailism.