If you want to become an advanced socialist, then you can graduate onto these texts:

1. Capital — Karl Marx
2. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon — Karl Marx
3. The Civil War in France — Karl Marx
4. On the Jewish Question — Karl Marx
5. Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State — Friedrich Engels
6. Anti-Duhring — Friedrich Engels
7. The State and Revolution — Vladimir Lenin
8. The Democratic Principle — Amadeo Bordiga
9. Party and Class — Amadeo Bordiga
10. Doctrine of the Body Possessed by the Devil — Amadeo Bordiga
11. Characteristic Theses of the Party — Amadeo Bordiga
12. Doctrine of the Body Possessed by the Devil — Amadeo Bordiga
13. When Insurrections Die — Gilles Dauve

Just keep in mind that I don't recommend texts without reading them myself. I would not recommend anything that I didn't find interesting or informative. If I can understand them, I'm sure that you can too.

Thanks.

the_marx | /r/enoughdramaspam

The political emancipation of the Jew, the Christian, and, in general, of religious man, is the emancipation of the state from Judaism, from Christianity, from religion in general. In its own form, in the manner characteristic of its nature, the state as a state emancipates itself from religion by emancipating itself from the state religion – that is to say, by the state as a state not professing any religion, but, on the contrary, asserting itself as a state. The political emancipation from religion is not a religious emancipation that has been carried through to completion and is free from contradiction, because political emancipation is not a form of human emancipation which has been carried through to completion and is free from contradiction.

The limits of political emancipation are evident at once from the fact that the state can free itself from a restriction without man being really free from this restriction, that the state can be a free state without man being a free man.

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Political emancipation is, of course, a big step forward. True, it is not the final form of human emancipation in general, but it is the final form of human emancipation within the hitherto existing world order. It goes without saying that we are speaking here of real, practical emancipation.

Man emancipates himself politically from religion by banishing it from the sphere of public law to that of private law. Religion is no longer the spirit of the state, in which man behaves – although in a limited way, in a particular form, and in a particular sphere – as a species-being, in community with other men. Religion has become the spirit of civil society, of the sphere of egoism, of bellum omnium contra omnes. It is no longer the essence of community, but the essence of difference. It has become the expression of man’s separation from his community, from himself and from other men – as it was originally. It is only the abstract avowal of specific perversity, private whimsy, and arbitrariness. The endless fragmentation of religion in North America, for example, gives it even externally the form of a purely individual affair. It has been thrust among the multitude of private interests and ejected from the community as such. But one should be under no illusion about the limits of political emancipation. The division of the human being into a public man and a private man, the displacement of religion from the state into civil society, this is not a stage of political emancipation but its completion; this emancipation, therefore, neither abolished the real religiousness of man, nor strives to do so.

The decomposition of man into Jew and citizen, Protestant and citizen, religious man and citizen, is neither a deception directed against citizenhood, nor is it a circumvention of political emancipation, it is political emancipation itself, the political method of emancipating oneself from religion. Of course, in periods when the political state as such is born violently out of civil society, when political liberation is the form in which men strive to achieve their liberation, the state can and must go as far as the abolition of religion, the destruction of religion. But it can do so only in the same way that it proceeds to the abolition of private property, to the maximum, to confiscation, to progressive taxation, just as it goes as far as the abolition of life, the guillotine. At times of special self-confidence, political life seeks to suppress its prerequisite, civil society and the elements composing this society, and to constitute itself as the real species-life of man, devoid of contradictions. But, it can achieve this only by coming into violent contradiction with its own conditions of life, only by declaring the revolution to be permanent, and, therefore, the political drama necessarily ends with the re-establishment of religion, private property, and all elements of civil society, just as war ends with peace.

(On the Jewish Question — Karl Marx)

I am not.

Karl Marx was ethnically Jewish and faced anti-Semitic attacks throughout the course of his life. He was firmly against anti-Semitism. Do not spread — as Trump says — fake news.

I thought that it was. It makes very salient points. The most striking thing is how reading it and understanding the context of its most oft-quoted passages dispels the idea that its antisemitic.

the_marx | /r/enoughdramaspam

So do you just go around bullying people?

the_marx | /r/enoughdramaspam