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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is exactly what happened to me with the spanish version of "The State and Revolution". A turbo lib did the preface and it was full with anticommunism. I wonder why bother doing a preface then.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol I started listening to the audible version of the Spanish translation of capital and returned it within about half an hour. I thought the whole thing had been rewritten. Maybe it was only the editor's intro after all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This preface is seriously like almost a third of the total length of the text. I subjected myself to way too much of it hoping it would get better before just skipping it. I think all the explicitly Marxist texts have something like this going on; never once did I see stuff like this in Proudhon or Kropotkin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Simple. These are warnings for libs. In the unlikely event a lib picks up State and Revolution, they'll be armed in advance with all the usual thought terminating cliches.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

As my wife says, there’s a reason they put it in the beginning and not after everything else!