Hey everyone.

7 of my comrades and I are collectively studying and educating ourselves on Marxism-Leninism. We’re following a modified version of @Cowbee’s advanced reading list and using it as a scaffold to build our own curriculum to become politically educated. Four of us have never read any theory before this, while the rest of us have read some, but no one is an expert. One of my comrades recently posted a question in our digital space and I’m wondering if anyone would be willing to give it a read and provide some feedback or an answer.

Their question is:

"I keep thinking about the point we touched on in class a few weeks ago about the qualitative change from capitalism not necessarily being one that moves us towards socialism and craving literature/discussion that offers something more concrete about why socialism is the next stage of social development. I can see why that claim is made by socialist countries and also struggle to see why that would naturally be the next phase of social development.

There was a feeling i got from the last reading/listening to the Rev Left podcast on how humans evolved to perform labor and labor created humans that finally cemented my understanding of why Labor is a core aspect in MLism. I want to better understand how socialism spawns from capitalism as a next step in social evolution."