if someone asks you “what 5-10 books should I read” as a budding Marxist in the US, what’s your answer? I have mine but I’m curious about other people’s
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Replying to @alexnpress
Sidney Hook's Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx -- still the best primer. And Davis' Prisoners of the American Dream.
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The person you referenced as someone who people should read to understand Marx literally didn't think Marxists should be able to hold "offices involving the public trust"pic.twitter.com/wGQ09c8kXT
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Yes, Hook famously moved to the right in the 1940s and 1950s. When he wrote his first two books, he was a Marxist, and the book is explicitly written as such.
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