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Socialism & Marxism!

Here is some info available free online for people interested in finding out more about Socialism and Marxism. This isn't intended to start a fight but to provide a list of resources to interested parties.

Get yourself a copy of Marx's Capital and read along with David Harvey's lectures!

http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

Great website with many articles on Marxism etc

http://www.marxists.org/

Forum for discussing left wing ideas and events

http://www.revleft.com/vb/

Excellent up to the minute website on current left wing activity in the UK and much more!

http://www.counterfire.org/

Hope you enjoy comrades!

Reply 1

ripellino

OP

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Reply 2

Houdizzle

The TSR right wing should really take the OP's advice. I would say that perhaps only one or two of them have actually read about the ideology they love to slander and criticise. The rest base their complex analysis on Stalin or Mao (And even then they are (Which is why they often look so silly :mmm:

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Reply 3

Simplicity

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The thing I don't understand

Why the hell is there Marxism poster all over the uni area?

The term dustbin of history comes to mind.

Reply 4

nexttime

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Good effort OP

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Reply 5

Ocassus

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Houdizzle

The TSR right wing should really take the OP's advice. I would say that perhaps only one or two of them have actually read about the ideology they love to slander and criticise. The rest base their complex analysis on Stalin or Mao (And even then they are (Which is why they often look so silly :mmm:

)

I happen to know alot about Marxism, more so than Stalinism or other forms of Socialism.
So please, don't generalize. I respect the purpose of this thread, so I will keep my political nonce on a tight leash and leave it to the people who want to use it. :biggrin:

Reply 6

Democracy

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Simplicity

Why the hell is there Marxism poster all over the uni area?

Cause a minority of students are pretentious tossers.

As if any of the SWP apparatchiks give a damn about the proletariat or anti-imperialism...or reading Marx and Engels.

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Reply 7

Simplicity

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Marxism is dead. Long live free market capitalism.

Reply 8

Aj12

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Houdizzle

The TSR right wing should really take the OP's advice. I would say that perhaps only one or two of them have actually read about the ideology they love to slander and criticise. The rest base their complex analysis on Stalin or Mao (And even then they are (Which is why they often look so silly :mmm:

)

studied it and understand it. Anyone that knows anything about Marx knows that Stalinism has feck all to do with Marxism.

Although there is nothing funnyer than being given a lecture on Marxism from another student at college whilst they hold their blackberry in thier other hand wearing their designer clothes.

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Reply 9

fire2burn

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I object to marxism purely because if society was equal I wouldn't be able to laugh at those less fortunate than myself any more.

Does marxism provide alternative sources of humour for one to indulge in? I've heard that shooting those trying to escape for a better life by hopping the wall is the proposed alternative to fox hunting, this is something I am interested in if you could post more details about it.