Slop.

I mean, yes. I agree. This is very much true. When I understand what they're trying to say, it feels amazing to know that someone 100 years ago or more thought exactly what I think about what's wrong with society, put it into far more academic and polished language, and suggested concrete solutions and steps to fixing it, not just "we need a revolution", but "we need a revolutionary political party and here's how we can build one", which... the precise ideas are always outdated and usually very regional, but the general methodologies are solid! And knowing other commies around the world are reading the same thing? That feels even better. Knowing I don't have the social skills or community connections to build a party or the organisations and loose groups that become one, but other commies do, and they have access to these blueprints too? That gives me hope.

But all that said, a lot of theory is full of academic jargon and terminology that was archaic even at the time, and reading it can be frustrating in equal measure to that clicking feeling when you Get It. It's often a good way to get a headache, and listening to it on audio format is something I'm more likely to do when I need to fall asleep than intending to actually attentively process it. (Though Stalin's stuff does have a tendency to keep me awake. Another reason for revisionists to hate him, lol!)