☭ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗘𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 ☭

but have you considered that if I do choose to get exploited, I am able to keep a very small part of the value I create and use it to purchase any one of fifty-seven brands of corn flakes

you don’t necessarily have to read the original works to be exposed to their content, but for some introductory reading:

• Wage Labour and Capital (Marx), to understand the basics of capitalism
• The State and Revolution (Lenin), to understand what a state is and what statelessness is (e.g. it doesn’t necessarily mean there’s no central government)
• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (Lenin), to understand imperialism
• Something that explains dialectical materialism, e.g. Anarchism or Socialism? (Stalin)
• Something about colonialism and its connection to capitalism, e.g. The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon)

it’s practically impossible to read every work of Marxist/Marxist-adjacent theory, so your choices beyond the introductory stuff should be based on your own circumstances

Oppression of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat, absolutely; the point is to eventually eliminate the bourgeois class. When class distinctions no longer exist, the state will, by definition (a tool for oppression of one class by another), cease to exist. How would you go about abolishing the state while classes still exist, or abolishing classes within a bourgeois dictatorship?

hmm, I wonder who controls the socialist state