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Hi, I’m new here, and to introduce myself and contribute to the further development of the theory, I’m going to list the last two books I’ve read recently.
Truth and Knowledge - The Theory of Knowledge in Dialectical Materialism in the People’s Republic of China - Tchang En-tsé [Zhang Enci] (1976)
The book is written in Spanish, but it is one of those books that anyone interested in Marxism-Leninism and total liberation from capitalism should read. There are very few books that, even after you’ve grasped the essence of dialectical materialism, leave you speechless and allow you to delve even deeper into knowledge and objective truth. This book helped me fully understand the dialectical materialist theory of reflection, which, in my opinion, is the main cause of the mistakes made in various organizations around the world. How can we objectively grasp the objective reality of different countries? Through the central organ (objective truth) controlled by the party. In my opinion, this book helps us understand this issue better in philosophical terms.
https://archive.org/details/verdadyconocimento/mode/2up
Frederick Engels: Life and Work - Editorial Progreso, Moscow, (1987) spanish
This book helped me see Engels not as the bourgeois version that has survived to this day, the one who was merely an appendage to Marx, helping him finance his works, etc., but as a revolutionary with his own individuality who betrayed his class in the service of humanity’s complete emancipation. I learned that he spoke and wrote many languages, that he was an active participant in the 1848 revolution, fighting on the front lines and later fleeing the counterrevolution. There are many portraits, personal belongings, and drawings of him here that I had never seen before, and that surprised me greatly as well and the part of the book that recounts the struggle of the Paris Commune made me so sad that I almost shed tears over this quote from Marx, which seems particularly urgent to me in the times we live in:
“THE PRINCIPLES OF THE COMMUNE ARE ETERNAL AND CANNOT BE DESTROYED; THEY WILL REEMERGE TIME AND TIME AGAIN UNTIL THE WORKING CLASS ACHIEVES ITS EMANCIPATION.” C. MARX
https://archive.org/details/engels.-vida-y-actividad_202610/mode/2up
Lots of people really sleep on Engels. Its too bad Engelisim sounds like a medical condition.
Engel grinding?
How about “Engels Thought”? Like “Mao Zedong Thought” is an interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, Engels Thought is an interpretation of Marxism.
Engels was a published socialist theorist before he met Marx. In fact Engels work “Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy” is what pushed Marx over the tipping point from being a radlib democrat to becoming a socialist. It sent Marx down the rabbit hole of materialist economics and class analysis.
This is what I mean by people sleeping on the awesomeness of Engels.
In that case, I was sleeping on Engels then. I didn’t know this.
It’s kind of daunting and exciting to know I still have so much to learn and read lol.