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Are Trots basically the scholar-monks of communism? (hexbear.net)
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you know haha funny 5 person book club, selling papers, marxists.org

but if we are in the "dark age" of leftism currently are they the equivalent of Irish monks copying ancient Marxist texts for safekeeping?

maybe those 5 person book clubs are monastic circles with complex scholarly initiation rites

those papers, well somebody has got to retain the skills to publish physical media

and marxists.org is basically the marxism library of alexandria

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I think @[email protected] with her work on ComLib is a great example of someone fulfilling that role, digging into older important texts and keeping them accessible and available, in modern, epub format, only not a Trot. Shoutout! xi-clap

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the monastic orders diversify!! the Marxist renaissance draws ever closer

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