• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      Honestly Das Kapital isn’t NEARLY as hard to read as you’d assume a 19th century economics book by some German guy is.

      He repeats concepts a lot… too much sometimes lol. Like fuck me Karl yeah I understood the Labor Theory of Value ten chapters ago.

      Definitely should be somewhere earlyish on your list - so much else references it.

    • Juice [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      The best beginner theory book is Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. Its short and lays the foundation for basically everything else you’ll ever read. Its the history lesson the world needs. State and Rev was the first theory I ever read but I didn’t get as much out of it as I could have.