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Genuine question.

Marx wrote in the 19th century. Lenin was writing against Tsarist autocracy in the 1910s-20s. Mao was writing against a feudal, war-torn China. None of them were writing for a 21st century Western liberal democracy. They were analyzing the society actually in front of them, and then adapting the theory they inherited rather than just repeating it. Lenin didn't leave Marx untouched. Mao didn't leave Lenin untouched.

So why do we act like the process stops with them?

Capitalism today isn't 19th century capitalism. The West isn't Tsarist Russia. Multinational corporations, financialization, digital platforms, mass higher education, the internet — none of that is the world Lenin or Mao were analyzing.

I'm not saying scrap Marx, Lenin, Mao, whoever. I'm saying if historical materialism means anything, theory should keep developing alongside material conditions, so why is socialist theory treated by some like the one exception to its own rule?

Shouldn't the movement be producing real new theory for the 21st century instead of just reciting texts written for societies that don't exist anymore in the form they were written about?

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Good day to all!

I have already studied Macbeth (this year), Romeo and Juliet (last year), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (2 years ago) in high school. I do wish to revisit AMND because I was absent for most of the time we read it in class, and it was not assessed. And we also did The Merchant of Venice about 4 years ago, but we didn't do the actual content of the play, it was a novelisation (sort of) of it.

I've also studied a couple sonnets throughout high school, although I can't really remember which. As well as someone's soliloquy from a play we haven't studied, but again I can't remember which one.

I want to ask: which plays do you recommend I read/watch/listen to next? As well as sonnets and other poems to read. I've really enjoyed Macbeth, R&J, and TMoV.

Edit: Sonnet 18 is a sonnet I remember, and one I like!

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Hi. I often see people talk about symbols and shit and how they call connect with each other, but the thing is, why would the people running the world leave us clues and reveal themselves??? Wouldnt it much rather be distractions instead ?

For me it's Honey Honey and I think Meryl Streep's version of The Winner Takes It All is on par with the OG. I prefer the originals to the rest.