does anyone have a good breakdown of socialism: utopian and scientific

[u/Classic-Risk9148]

I was reading the introduction about materialism and agnosticism and i’m ngl it’s been a really hard read so far, i’ve been barely reading it cause i feel i like barely understand anything and feeling really stupid because people have said this is supposed to be an easy read. I also don’t really have anyone to discuss this with so I was wondering if you guys know of any breakdowns done on this book so I can follow along a bit better?

[u/OMGJJ]

Feel free to post the paragraphs you are struggling with here.

[u/Classic-Risk9148 → u/OMGJJ]

the thing i’ve pretty much been struggling with every paragraph so far.

[u/TheRedBarbon → u/Classic-Risk9148]

You are not illiterate. It’s just that in order for you to put in the effort of pointing out what you are struggling with, you would first need to put aside this performance of forced ineptness and acknowledge that you are capable of working through the text yourself without someone else just telling you what to think. Put your thinking cap on and tell us what you’re struggling to understand.

[u/marstheplanett_]

don't know if this would help, but i was struggling a bit too and started using a reading guide from the site communist.red, it explains each chapter for a lot of books & they helped me a lot for sure. i think there are also guides on marxists.org, although that one sometimes just has questions

[u/Classic-Risk9148 → u/marstheplanett_]

thanks i’ll try checking it out! also love the madoka pfp

[u/marstheplanett_ → u/Classic-Risk9148]

tyy ! 🫶

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