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That's where it goes full Marx. I think if you were able to still follow along for most of it, you probably have a decent idea of what he was trying to convey. If you don't understand the harder parts now, that's fine. Don't beat yourself up over not understanding it all, all at once. I plan on going back over it later on just because I didn't really get the later parts either. I think the big take away is understanding what value, labor, and the other compartments are because a lot will build on that. Das Kapital gets into some formulas and abstract vs concrete labor but even these concepts, you can just look up for little refreshers.

I think the main thing is that you are trying to better understand it from a scholarly perspective. Take your time and maybe pick a few easier reads here and there so you don't feel like you are always trying to force through the rough stuff.

If you are Stateside, they really don't prep you for reading this kind of stuff. But I guess expecting to take a class in high school on Marxist thought is just silly since they only want to produce wage slaves.

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Principles of Communism is great for an intro. It's really easy to read too. I recommend it first over the Manifesto because I feel like it does a better job paying out the framework.

Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds is a great historical text about the history of Communism/The USSR with contrasts to Capitalism/Fascism.

State and Revolution is probably a good entry point into I guess real theory. It's gonna read a bit like it was written 100 years ago and Marx, Lenin, Luxemburg, and others that I've read so far all read in this almost ramble-y dense way that isn't comment nowadays. Rev doesn't do it so hard.

Wage Labor and Capital is as another said, a good precursor to Das Kapital. I like it because it starts to get you to think about everything in a lens of labor and value of labor, and what really is surplus and a bit more. It starts out easy but like 3 chapters in it goes full bore Marx.

For Das Kapital, there is a podcast on Spotify called Reading with Comrades I think. It's done with a professor that has done 6 reading groups on the book and he does a great job of explaining the tough bits. But after a while it feels very same-y so maybe listen in chunks.

I remember about 2 years ago on the horror subreddit, there was a discussion about how the new Candyman was gonna be all political unlike the original and people were so sick of horror movies injecting social commentary all the time. I stopped taking that sub seriously after that.

This is Wizards of the Sword Coast OGL bullshit all over again lol. Godot is basically Pathfinder this time around.

Say what??? Like do the shift codes work?

Is this praxis?

Disclaimer: I daily drive, including write code, on a Ferris Sweep.

Each of my 4 thumb keys are tap for space, tab, enter, and backspace. But I hold one of those keys and I enter a dedicated layer for navigation, a 10-key number pad, a custom symbol layer, and my media and F-keys.

It does take a bit of getting used to but the trade off is holding an extra key compared to having to lift my hand off of home row and moving to arrows, number row, number pad, etc. I basically never have to look at where my hands are and still retain 100% functionality of a full size board.

Same lol.

I hope they do a Switch port so I can play this.

They should just rebuild the whole site using Unity so they can charge le redditors per updoot.