Hello everyone, welcome to Theory Thursday! This is a community led project, the point of these posts is to read about 30 minutes of theory every Thursday. Then we discuss with fellow comrades the contents of the reading. This week’s topic we are covering Fredrick Engels’ The Principles of Communism, parts 1-13.
The reading: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm
Discussion
- What was bad about the text?
- What was good about the text?
- Overall, how can we apply this reading to our current conditions?
Next week we will be discussing parts 14-25 of the text. Have a good week comrades, until next time!
Excellent! This is a really great breakdown. Definitely the high effort analysis I was hoping to find by starting this. I must admit I was kind of rushed making the post and the quality suffered a bit because of that, my apologies. Next week I’ll be more prepared. Posting it as close to 12am London time on Thursday, as you said to have a more detailed discussion through the day. I’ll refrain from my liberal framed questions, and leave it up to the user to post their analysis. I’ll also fix my formatting and crossposting. I’ll host the discussion on one page, and have the crossposts forward users to that single discussion.
I assume the vote on the next text will be on Monday from now on, is that correct?
We’ll have a week break between texts, during the week break we will conduct the voting.