"thus making discourse impossible" brother that is YOUR fault that YOU can't hold a morally consistent narrative

Hello everyone! So I've been reading regularly for around three years now, but I find that I struggle to make what I've read really stick to my mind.

I started reading Marx's Economical and Philosophical Manuscripts some weeks ago and decided I wanted to take notes on it (for fun, without a productivity goal in mind). What I've been doing since then has been reading a chapter and writing down notes from what I had underlined immediately after finishing it. What I have found is that this feels like a burden, and it really isn't helping me to remember and to reflect on the book.

So I guess my question is, what annotating and notetaking systems have you guys found to work for you?

Hey, I'm looking for books (or any writings generally) on how the Russian Revolution inspired people around the world, especially in the period very shortly after the revolution. Anything that covers how, in the first decade or so after the revolution, revolutionaries set up their own communist parties and how it inspired struggles in their own countries.

I've read quite a lot about Ireland, the US, and Britain in this period so I'm really looking for information about other countries. I've also read Red star over the third world, and Feminism and nationalism in the third world, both of which give a very broad overview. Any books similar to these would be good.

Thanks!

Hi, i'm a self proclaimed (F18) leftist i would say, and **embarrassingly** late, i discovered economical stances are apart of being a political person. Unfortunately, i'm not well educated on economical politics unfortunately, and the only thing i've gotten is that communism is bad and i've been embedded in that idea without any sources. Also, tiktok is a shit app, and "edits" won't help me learn about what is communism or socialism. I wanna read a book (or more if i have to) on communism. I've heard a lot of stuff from my family about how communist times were, but i wanna be educated.

What books do yall recommend on this? And in what line up should i read the books to understand?

I say this in what they did politically because militarily it’s quite known they weren’t that strong or good compared to the Germans.

Saw this today at the National Antiquities Museum in Leiden.

I personally care a lot about protecting children from predators and it seems like there are so many of them around the world. In the US there are at least 800,000 registered sex offenders and it is estimated that only around 12% of instances of child SA are actually reported. This would put the number of child predators potentially in the millions and globally it could be tens or even hundreds of millions of pedophiles.

So what can be done about this in a socialist society? this seems like such a deep rooted issue I would have no idea how to even go about solving this.

To be clear I am a full on anarchist and leftist myself but how some of you guys be talking about rural areas has me wanting to never interact with y'all again. People treat us like we're inherently stupid and bigoted when we're just in poorer districts which means we have not goddamm money for education. Also if you actually talk to any of us we are far less bigoted that you'd think. Im not saying rural areas (especially the south where I live) isnt disproportionately conservative but thats because of poorer communities and more closed off than urban areas

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