I was a far-right lunatic until about 2009, when I started turning left. I have read many (center-)leftist articles from Jacobin, Common Dreams, The Guardian, and, from Brazil, Carta Capital and IHU (Catholic liberation theology).

Lemmy (despite my suboptimal instance) and communist friends got me interested in actual Marxism, but I have not yet really studied it. So please recommend:

  • The best Marxist Lemmy instance for my background.
  • Marxist books or videos in approximate reading/watching order. For the next many months (I suspect six months) I will have very little time, though.

Bonus:

  • reasonable tolerance of Catholic faith and individual morality
  • contextualized on Brazil, Cuba, broader Latin America or China

Background: Brazilian Catholic male autistic ADHD IT analyst with an electronic engineering degree and MsC in computer science. I have a son with my wife. I highly value privacy and software freedom. I read English well, but Spanish quite poorly. Native Portuguese speaker.

EDIT: I got a lemmygrad account. I am still processing the other recommendations.

  • bad_news
    73·
    4 days ago

    I know “real” Marxists shit on it because it’s not 7000 pages of letters to local parties in Munich, but Mao’s Little Red Book literally exists as an entry point for people of various cultural and education backgrounds who don’t want to PhD Marx…

      • bad_news
        412·
        4 days ago

        I find 99% of why the left fails is self policing on bullshit that doesn’t matter while we’re dead on a global political level as China is just ethnofascist at this point (cue the CCP downvoters and haters) and Cuba and Venezuela are about to collapse after decades of US sanctions and the DNC is now the Cheney conservative party. Meanwhile the right grows.

        • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
          81·
          4 days ago

          I find 99% of why the left fails is self policing on bullshit that doesn’t matter

          Mostly we fail because we live in the imperial core, and we have been suppressed, purged, and even assassinated by it for over a century.

          China is just ethnofascist at this point (cue the CCP downvoters and haters)

          Ask and you shall receive. You’ve been taken in by your own country’s Cold War II propaganda. Previously, previously, previously.

          • bad_news
            311·
            2 days ago

            Yes, as a lower class Uighur, my lived experience is CCP good… If you’re reskinning mosques as pagodas, you’re the oppressor as surely as the Jews in Israel, granted via the soft bigotry of low expectations, I will give the CCP credit for being less abjectly inhuman than the LOW bar Israel sets, but camps are camps and making the third amendment relevant is a thing that ONLY exists at scale in Uighur China, where the one big family bed has an assigned state bureaucrat who sleeps with your family

            [Edit: since the CCP can do no wrong set are VERY slow, let me clarify, I am NOT literally a lower class Uyghur in China – I have internet and apparently no CCP handler-- you fucking dumbasses. I am literally shocked that you people are this dumb. it’s honestly impressive.]

            • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
              11·
              4 days ago

              where the one big family bed has an assigned state bureaucrat who sleeps with your family

              Do you have actual evidence, or are you accepting the testimonials of CIA-backed radical fundamentalist Islamist Uyghurs? Previously.

              • bad_news
                19·
                4 days ago

                So your claim is no Chinese bureaucrats ever slept in Uighur beds, embedded with them?

                • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  13·
                  4 days ago

                  So your claim is no Chinese bureaucrats ever slept in Uighur beds, embedded with them?

                  No, my claim is: what are you even talking about, and where is your evidence? Is “Chinese bureaucrats sleeping in beds” a metaphor for something, or are you talking about literal beds? What a bizarre thing to say.

                  Edit to add: This is what you take at face value? https://www.vice.com/en/article/male-chinese-officials-monitoring-uighur-women-sleeping-same-bed/

                  A cadre from the ruling Communist Party in Kashgar, Xinjiang, who wished to stay anonymous, told RFA that between 70 and 80 families in his township were put through the program.

                  You know what Radio Free Asia is, right?

                  Please consider developing some real media literacy. Previously.

            • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
              101·
              4 days ago

              Ethnofascist? JFC.

              Don’t listen to this person. You can trust me, I’m actually a commune of 13 Uyghurs that writes like a Redditor and parrots US propaganda right down to its terminology. Ask me about lived experience.

            • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              5·
              2 days ago

              LOL, making the Third Amendment to the Constitution of the USA relevant?!? What the fuck are you on? You’re a lower class Uighur with lived experience of the CPC but you view the world through the lens of the American Constitution as it was ratified in the late 1700s?

              Get bent.

            • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
              8·
              4 days ago

              Yes, as a lower class Uighur, my lived experience is CCP good

              Do you often pretend to be someone you’re not online? Is that why do you delete all of your posts & comments that are more than a week old? Curiouser and curiouser…