Hello everynyan, we’re finishing This Soviet World.
Week 16 we are reading the last chapter, 16: “New Men Emerge.” And discussing the book as a whole
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That’s the idea, haha. I might make a future microlist, probably composed of tiny Red Sails articles and Liberation School entries, Prolewiki entries, etc. The future advanced list is meant to deepen understanding set up in the basic list, while also introducing the reader more to educational praxis, history, and concepts like SWCCfaNE and juche socialism, so as to understand contemporary existing socialism.
The Red Sails articles are excellent, a lot of theory doesn’t directly talk about Liberals in the modern day, so they are probably the best thing I’ve seen to directly call out common liberal behaviour and just getting people to think a bit like a Socialist. They’re more “personal” than a lot of theory and much harder to dismiss as “irrelevant” due to their age.
Having them in the general reading list is good of course, but they might work equally well on a quick micro list as well.
And I’m looking forward to the future advanced list as well, I imagine it’ll be quite good for covering blind spots in general Marxist knowledge and give much more of an “advanced” understanding of topics only briefly mentioned in the beginner list.
Thanks! It’s going to be a long while before those come out, though, certainly after the basic list reading group is completed and I have enough feedback to iterate on it. The advanced list is less necessary, because ideally if someone completes the basic list then they will already be a part of a political party, and therefore have access to that party’s pedagogical materials.
Oh I see, I was misunderstanding the point of the advanced list a bit then. Maybe an “intermediate” list could be good then, with articles and works on how to join a party and how to contribute to one? It can be a pretty daunting experience for someone who isn’t used to the idea or is a bit anxious or shy.
Might be a good idea! It’s no good to be sympathetic to socialism if you aren’t at least a periphery member of an org.