Not when someone is still learning about what capitalism is and how it works, how it relates to class society as a whole, what its contradictions, roots actually are and so on. One has to first learn about what they’re fighting against before delving into deeper things like tactics or exactly how society would be transformed, otherwise you’re just going to be making the same mistakes as utopian socialists of 19th century, or online socialists who haven’t read anything and just going by vibes.

Marxism is as much revolutionary as it is explanatory, without all the ideology and ‘oughts’.

Pretty much. It’s always better to read the original work and see what’s actually being said within the context and forming a coherent materialist view, rather than making yourself open to manipulation via being told what to believe, leaving out information (which is unavoidable for abridged marxism) that might be inconvenient for subsequent narrativization and so on.

Watching youtube vids/podcasts isn’t a replacement for reading tbh, most who do this turn into retarded pseud MLoids who just parrot shit without actually understanding what they’re saying, and most of the youtube scene is dominated by those types.

That being said, I’d recommend these 2 channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@RoseMediaYT makes bangers on topical marxist positions and going in depth on them

https://www.youtube.com/@Ultradogmattick/featured goes into history, but it’s a bit boring

ITT: mfs who have read 0 Marx boldly making comments about what Marx’s predictions were and how they were wrong

Tbh I feel like you’re making this harder on yourself than it needs to be - the best way to start reading is to start reading rather than fussing about every single “what if” scenario which is how your questions sound like.

You don’t need to perfectly understand every single sentence there is (that’s to be expected), what’s most important is the general gist and for the concept that’s being talked about to sink in. If there are events mentioned or words you don’t understand, don’t be afraid to look them up to know what’s being talked about.

There’s also nothing stopping you from re-reading texts later on in case you grow forgetful or want to fully understand it with the added context from other works you’ve read. In fact, it’s common practice.

All in all, there isn’t really any kind of a secret sauce - just start reading and read and read and read, with the goal of reading to learn rather than reading to just get through it as you would with fiction.

Come on prole, go die in trenches for national bourgeois to protect our great volksgemeinschaft (and capital expansion ofc)

Idk, what I wrote is pretty much how i read - reread sections and rephrase them to make sure I understand what I’ve just read, take notes on stuff that sticks out.

What I had a bigger problem with was making myself to read, but what helped me was setting a reading time each day of 1 hour and sticking to it.

As for redsails, idk never heard of the site before but I assume it just hosts left-leaning texts and stuff. https://imgur.com/s70UUPQ is a decent reading list I personally used, most of it is probably going to be on there.

If it’s understanding theory that is the issue, then yeah that’s pretty much the way to go. Read a section (can be longer than a paragraph), maybe do it multiple times until you understand it, try to rephrase it in your own words. Also, taking notes is a good idea since writing it down and having future reference can be very helpful but it will slow down reading.

Also, newer translations of books are generally easier to read, but sometimes are heavily influenced by academia who have no real connection to communist movement so keep that in mind and do a bit of research for longer books.

Also if you haven’t read books as of late and want to either start/get back into reading, then it’ll only be somewhat difficult in the beginning. The more you read, the easier it will be.

Absolute coal

It doesn’t matter if a country is authoritarian or democratic, every bourgeois nation state currently in the existence partakes in brutalization of proles and furthering the interests of capital.

Put all of the countries in there, workers have no nation.

That’s modern anarchism for you

Well, good luck in your endeavors!

Anarchist’s favorite nation state (which wasn’t even much of a state but a foreign organized prison) has fallen, it’s so over

Look, I get that you’re quite young and probably still trying to understand how the world works, but your revolutionary idea is what these companies have more or less been pushing themselves. I could make a few walls of text for sure on why this is dumb, but just look up what greenwashing is, fossil fuel industry campaigns of advertising solar power and their solutions, and how the concept of individual action to bring about change is just garbage that has been actively spouted and weaponized by corporations (e.g. the anti-pollution craze where to solve climate change and widespread pollution crisis was to just “recycle more” and “drive cars less” while they kept polluting at industrial scale).

Damn, critical support to Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Tesla, Google and Apple then for promoting and sometimes manufacturing home solar solutions. Truly the most revolutionary of companies!

Buying commodities is revolutionary

Social medias hate this kind of answer, but if the goal is change then pretty much yeah. There’s just nothing to be done by regular people in this kind of situation and conditions, it’s all up to bourgeois infighting and the next election cycle.

Now get in the armchair

Think you misread my comment, I’m talking shit on both

Yeah, “fascism” will be fought via same means breast cancer was fought - by spreading awareness.

Also you do realize that literally every nation state is partaking in brutalization of proles in one way or another, right? Some do it with a fountain pen, some do it with assault rifles, others aren’t stingy and utilize both. The only time they’ll come is when it’s in the material interests of that nation state’s bourgeois, then they’ll be sure to crown themselves as liberators and moral heroes like so many times in the past.

Two things can be true at once you know.

Going to protests holding up “if Kamala was elected we’d be at a brunch” signs or wearing a frog costume and hitting fortnite dances and calling it resistance is beyond insulting to proles being brutalized by the regime aka actual victims and probably the most out of touch with reality thing ever.

Conversely, calling for crime and activism and violence purely for the sake of it (because it’s epic rebellion), a liberal armed uprising that literally nobody is going to join (including the initiator) is also up there in retardation, but this is mostly being advocated for by kids or students so this is to be expected.