Welcome Comrades to this, our weekly tradition! All I ask is that no one touch the Giant Spoon, we just got that back and I do not want to explain how it got lost again.
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Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory, try marxists.org, Anna’s Archive, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.
Does anyone know any good intro YouTube videos off the top of their head that they would show their friend who is just starting to question capitalism? They’ve seen clips of the recent strikes in the US and they’ve been very much agitated against “CEOs.” They don’t read much and that’s how I started my journey so I’m fairly clueless on the video side of theory.
Maybe people like Second Thought, JT has this modern consumable format that makes it really easy to get a basic introduction into socialism and revolutionary ideas. Adjacent but a bit more dense on that stuff is Hakim. Both of them and their show The Deprogram with Yugopnik I think are truly an amazing introduction to socialism and revolutionary anti capitalism theories. They are very basic stuff, but it is intentional so that they communicate easily the point without getting bogged down in the more nuanced parts of the theory. As a starter I would pick that.
BadEmpenada and Knowing Better while not being full ML’s are decently good at at slowly prying away capitalist conditioning and introducing people to the truth of the world without scaring them away with to many big scary communist words.
Good starting block but make sure they do not get stuck there.