I feel like anti-intelectualism has won. People can be given free audiobooks, the physical book, etc but they refuse to read because they view reading theory as bad or some bullshit. I have a friend and she thinks “its posh” to read theory. It seems like everyone has fallen for the propaganda that the only people who read theory are rich white college students. It fucking pisses me off.
A lot of Marxist writing is the boys beefing too.
So much of Lenin’s writing on communism is just him slagging off other communists, yeah.
And a lot of philosophical writing from Marx’s era does that thing where it assumes you’ve read all his contemporaries and goes about insulting many of them, but since Marx and Engels are often the only ones modern leftists encounter, we tend to chalk it up to “early communists” rather than that era of philosophy and social sciences in general.