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What is the easiest piece of theory you've read? You can post multiple in the order of easiest first to hardest last. (hexbear.net)

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In terms of theory, I don't consider myself well read. Theory is often really tough for me to read. Even with very easy-to-read writers like Michael Parenti, it's dense with mindblowing info. And things like the book Will to Change by Bell Hooks hits me in really raw feelings so I stopped at the first chapter. I need the easiest authors and their easiest-to-read works, or else I'm just not reading.

-Micahel Parenti: What’s a Slum? Urban Poverty and Marginality in America

-"I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision" by Michael Parenti"

-Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth

No idea how I got through "Friendly Feudalism." I read these all about 3.5 years ago before I lost the bandwidth to go further.

Edit: I tend to watch things more so I guess you can add video links after everything else too.

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[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon is one i found quite easy to read.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

wait am i just stupid

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

No. It wasn't horribly difficult, but I found it slow and required a lot of reflection.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

I dunno, i barely graduated high school, dropped out of college, and work as a tradesman. Maybe I found it easy just because it made a million different thoughts and contradictions in my head click, and i just tore through it. Time for a reread, i guess.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's very emotionally charged, especially if you're at the intersection of different oppressions.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I agree, but i think that's what made it easier to read for me. Validating all of these thoughts and feelings i've had for years.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Oh definitely. It's just that it can be retraumatizing sometimes. Or just make you so angry you put the book down and need to take a walk to calm yourself down.