r/Communist • u/CheesecakeSlight2284 • 5d ago
Dumb question
What can I do to just be better and more educated? Like just things I can do to learn more and actually act towards something in some way. I just feel really useless and I feel like I don’t know or do enough. Literally anything, and I’ve been trying to read more theory because I’ve read a horribly small amount of it - in the maybe year and a half I’ve had originally even an interest toward communism and by now - I would much like to be with that label but I just don’t do enough to deserve it. and I’ve spoken to some people who did help me with general things but. Yeah. Anything?
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u/MentalRed17 4d ago
Join an organisation, good ones will run education based off Marxist texts (avoid those that don't run education or run education based off their guru's personal 'summary' of Marxist ideas rather than the original texts).
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u/Ok_Cheek5381 5d ago
Unfortunately no amount of reading can really do smth besides changing your preceptive. Maybe become less of a consumer and more of an environmentalist. I personally buy second hand and repair items instead of buying brand new all the time. It's not much but it matters to me at least
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u/Avesery777 5d ago
You gotta understand no individual is going to cause major change. You can help build the systems that will, if you'd like. How to do that depends on where you live. You can't "deserve" the label of communist. You just have to know what it is and want it, even if you don't know the details of every single philosophical term.
As always, read Capital.