After more than 2 years of being a supposed communist I've finally started reading theory. Before I only learned from videos/video essays, discussion threads and all your posts and memes but now I've finally started reading the source material. I tried two sperate times last year but I just couldn't focus and my mind would just wander off or I literally couldn't focus (my vision would just get blurry and I had to force my eyes to focus on the text continuously) so I got discouraged and stopped trying. But this time I'm listening to audiobooks and they have really helped me. My reading has improved too and I can even focus better (It's not perfect but I've improved from last time).

Thanks for all the links, resources and guides you've posted on this site, thank you my comrades.

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If you find yourself unable to read the source material, instead of giving up try engaging with more modern versions of the source material. There was a post on here by Feed_el_Castro who said

An unfortunate problem with Marxism is that for some reason we expect people to read the original works of the 1800s. We don’t expect this for any other science.

The way we learn physics is not by reading Dirac’s and Newtons and Einstiens theories as they wrote them, but through a systemized breakdown of the cirriculum developed over a century of increasing knowledge in the topic, in which you start with simplified building blocks which you can use to learn the more difficult parts. We also make an effort in designing physics problems which require a certain level of repitition to master and understand.

He then lists comrade Luna Oi's English translations of the Marxist cirriculum in Vietnam. Which I would also recommend

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