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Marx's Communist Manifesto, short and accessible! Highly recommended if you haven't read it

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Selected works of Marx

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I'm so glad the campists are here to explain international politics (infosec.pub)

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I think the point is that politican ideologies are used to divide and enrage the lower classes, so that whichever oppressor is currently in power can stay in power. It doesn't matter if you are a communist, capitalist, socialist, anarchist, zionist, islamist, atheist, or avaritionist, there's somebody above you telling you to hate people around you. They want to distract you from their abuses within by inventing threats from without.