I’m reading Revolutionary Suicide right now and it’s also a really easy read. It’s basically Huey’s autobiography and around 250 pages. The Conquest of Bread is more difficult because you have to look up a bunch of shit about the French Revolution and Franco-Prussian War to understand what Kropotkin is talking about.
With Revolutionary Suicide, you just have to be somewhat familiar with Civil Rights and who/what the Black Panther Party were. Maybe if you’re not an American it’s a struggle? IDK.
They probably are categorizing it more by what order they think people should read them and less how complicated they are, per se. The beginner category seems to have more rhetorical value getting people interested in MLism I guess?
Edit: Would put Capitalist Realism in the intro though if that’s the case and the Stalin stuff after it. I don’t know. I can almost tell this is made by a 20-something marxist-leninist who’s probably excited to recommend what other people should read but aren’t particularly well-read themselves.
Jakarta Method is such an easy read (well, ignoring the unpleasantness of the history it covers, anyway), wtf is it doing in advanced?
I’m reading Revolutionary Suicide right now and it’s also a really easy read. It’s basically Huey’s autobiography and around 250 pages. The Conquest of Bread is more difficult because you have to look up a bunch of shit about the French Revolution and Franco-Prussian War to understand what Kropotkin is talking about.
With Revolutionary Suicide, you just have to be somewhat familiar with Civil Rights and who/what the Black Panther Party were. Maybe if you’re not an American it’s a struggle? IDK.
It being included at all makes me pretty sure whoever made this list has not read these books themselves.
They probably are categorizing it more by what order they think people should read them and less how complicated they are, per se. The beginner category seems to have more rhetorical value getting people interested in MLism I guess?
Edit: Would put Capitalist Realism in the intro though if that’s the case and the Stalin stuff after it. I don’t know. I can almost tell this is made by a 20-something marxist-leninist who’s probably excited to recommend what other people should read but aren’t particularly well-read themselves.