I was a far-right lunatic until about 2009, when I started turning left. I have read many (center-)leftist articles from Jacobin, Common Dreams, The Guardian, and, from Brazil, Carta Capital and IHU (Catholic liberation theology).

Lemmy (despite my suboptimal instance) and communist friends got me interested in actual Marxism, but I have not yet really studied it. So please recommend:

  • The best Marxist Lemmy instance for my background.
  • Marxist books or videos in approximate reading/watching order. For the next many months (I suspect six months) I will have very little time, though.

Bonus:

  • reasonable tolerance of Catholic faith and individual morality
  • contextualized on Brazil, Cuba, broader Latin America or China

Background: Brazilian Catholic male autistic ADHD IT analyst with an electronic engineering degree and MsC in computer science. I have a son with my wife. I highly value privacy and software freedom. I read English well, but Spanish quite poorly. Native Portuguese speaker.

EDIT: I got a lemmygrad account. I am still processing the other recommendations.

    • davel [he/him]English
      7•20 days ago

      I find 99% of why the left fails is self policing on bullshit that doesn’t matter

      Mostly we fail because we live in the imperial core, and we have been suppressed, purged, and even assassinated by it for over a century.

      China is just ethnofascist at this point (cue the CCP downvoters and haters)

      Ask and you shall receive. You’ve been taken in by your own country’s Cold War II propaganda. Previously, previously, previously.

        • davel [he/him]English
          8•20 days ago

          where the one big family bed has an assigned state bureaucrat who sleeps with your family

          Do you have actual evidence, or are you accepting the testimonials of CIA-backed radical fundamentalist Islamist Uyghurs? Previously.

            • davel [he/him]English
              10•20 days ago

              So your claim is no Chinese bureaucrats ever slept in Uighur beds, embedded with them?

              No, my claim is: what are you even talking about, and where is your evidence? Is “Chinese bureaucrats sleeping in beds” a metaphor for something, or are you talking about literal beds? What a bizarre thing to say.

              Edit to add: This is what you take at face value? https://www.vice.com/en/article/male-chinese-officials-monitoring-uighur-women-sleeping-same-bed/

              A cadre from the ruling Communist Party in Kashgar, Xinjiang, who wished to stay anonymous, told RFA that between 70 and 80 families in his township were put through the program.

              You know what Radio Free Asia is, right?

              Please consider developing some real media literacy. Previously.

        • davel [he/him]English
          7•20 days ago

          Yes, as a lower class Uighur, my lived experience is CCP good

          Do you often pretend to be someone you’re not online? Is that why do you delete all of your posts & comments that are more than a week old? Curiouser and curiouser…

        • @[email protected]
          6•20 days ago

          Ethnofascist? JFC.

          Don’t listen to this person. You can trust me, I’m actually a commune of 13 Uyghurs that writes like a Redditor and parrots US propaganda right down to its terminology. Ask me about lived experience.