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For the study of Marxism, and all the tendencies that fall beneath it.

Read Lenin.

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Study Guides

Basic Marxism-Leninism Study Plan
Debunking Anti-Communism Masterpost
Beginner's Guide to Marxism (marxists.org)
A Reading Guide (marx2mao.com) (mirror)
Topical Study Guide (marxistleninist.wordpress.com)

Explanations

Kapitalism 101 on political economy
Marxist Philosophy understanding DiaMat
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Libraries

Marxists.org largest Marxist library
Red Stars Publishers Library specialized on Marxist-Leninist literature. Book titles are links to free PDF copies
Marx2Mao.com another popular library (mirror)
BannedThought.net collection of revolutionary publications
The Collected Works of Marx and Engels torrentable file of all known writings of Marx and Engels
The Prolewiki library a collection of revolutionary publications
Comrades Library has a small but growing collection of rare sovietology books

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Can anyone explain the labor theory of value? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I read Capital, and the whole thing just went over my head. I really couldn't understand what he was getting at. Could any comrades help explain the LTV? Thanks! fidel-salute-big

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Others have already provided answers, but I strongly believe that anyone who wants to study Vol 1 will benefit so much more if you start with some primer of classical economics/political economy that covers Adam Smith and David Ricardo.

Marx’s Capital Vol 1 is simply the continuation of those works and he assumed most of his readers at the time were already familiar with Smith and Ricardo. Marx transcended those previous works by bringing class analysis and dialectical materialism into the mix and bringing the Smith and Ricardo’s theories of capitalism to its logical conclusion, but he doesn’t exactly hold your hand on topics he assumed you should already know!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reading Marx's Wage Labor and Capital is a great prep for those first few difficult chapters of Capital