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we need way less of everybody on this site (including me) and way more Bill "i haven't read marx's capital but i have the marks of capital all over my body" Haywood
I love this quote too, and I reference it often in these types of discussions. If your plan for revolution requires everyone to read a master's degree worth of leftist writing, it doesn't have any hope (or precedence). Propaganda is what works on the masses, not dusty tomes of theory. I think music is a great medium for spreading the message. I know it's very dated, but I've actually made headway raising class consciousness with the music of Woody Guthrie. YMMV.
I was introduced to communism by looking up the red army choir after i heard them on Stranger Things