ml: you have to read all these books
me, an anarchist: 
an image of Wayne from Letterkenny with the edited caption "If someone asks for help ya help them"
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[–] [S] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I posted the meme as a lighthearted joke, but if I can be serious for a moment, the joke isn't that reading isn't useful. It's ridiculing the practice of approaching Marxist texts in a way similar to religious or academic study. It's also (lovingly) ridiculing mutual aid radicals with an overly simplistic worldview.

Reading is good. Although I recommend people read the things that they're interested in and that they think would help them in their goals, and not fall into the practice of assigning other people reading or falling into a mentality of chasing after a complete understanding of subjects no one can ever understand to completion.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    Why wouldn't learning about politics in depth be like academic study, though? Learning about basically anything in depth is academic study. Sure, there are valid forms of investigation or knowledge which have been shut out from academia, but even if your preferred version of knowledge is more intuitive and experience based, eventually you've still got to share it with people and writing is much more efficient in reaching people than one-on-one.

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