As the title says! I have uploaded a new study guide targeting ~20 hours of reading time. I understand that it cannot be comprehensive with such a limit, but at the same time I wish to include a diverse range of voices, convey the core fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism clearly, and to avoid common pitfalls.

Any feedback is appreciated, as long as it doesn’t add bloat.

  • Conselheiro@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 days ago

    Unfortunately, both of Losurdo’s works are several hours long each. I’m very curious about La Sinistra Assente, is this an article or a full book?

    It’s a full book, but the preface reads like its own short essay. Sadly I can only find it online in either Portuguese or Spanish (it’s probably out there in Italian too but my Italian is non-existent). Not sure if machine translation works well, but worth a try.

    https://www.marxists.org/portugues/losurdo/2015/05/28.htm

    https://www.elviejotopo.com/topoexpress/la-izquierda-ausente/

    As a sidenote, it’s really annoying how little of Losurdo’s work is freely available online or translated to English. His absence is too conveniently occupied by infrared folks and even Dugin.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      8 days ago

      Thanks, I’ll give it a read! Understanding the limitations, of course. And I totally agree, what little of Losurdo I’ve read in contrast to his whole canon makes me enormously frustrated, especially as his work is valuable in combatting western Marxist defeatism.