Ernst Fischer's HOW TO READ KARL MARX (MR press 1996) is good. On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > In early February I received this email from a Marxmail subscriber: > > "If I am not imposing on you —could you recommend some items to read to > get some concise (assuming that is the right word to use) and basic > understandings of marxism in its pure form and then the debates that > either honed it or distorted it. I am new to this other than having some > info from high school and reading the communist manifesto. I can follow > some of the items sent to the list but the background to some of them is > way above my level. Thanks for any recommendation you can make." > > It has taken me a while to get around to responding to this but this > does not reflect a lack of interest on my part. To the contrary, this is > one of the main reasons I launched Marxmail—to help people new to > Marxism get a better handle on the main concepts without enduring the > sectarian nonsense I had to put up with as a recruit to the Trotskyist > movement in 1967. > > full: > http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/a-reading-guide-for-students-of-marxism/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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