Arrange them by size order with zero regard to content or title

Id highly recommend keeping a digital list of the books you have physical copies of. I used to be a physical copy only person until my house burned down and I couldn’t remember the titles for the insurance claim :(

I only have theory on my shelves (:no-copyright: no fun) and I’ve got it in chronological order, which works well and shows the development of Marxism over the years.

Starts with Principles of communism and ends with the third edition of super imperialism by Michael Hudson. If there were important additions in specific editions, like in Hudson’s, I moved them forward. Doesn’t make sense to put that in the 80’s section when there’s important added information on de-dollarisation from 2021.

Also have a handbook of Marxism by Emile Burns in between Das Kapital and what is to be done even though it includes later work because it’s a collection of works from Marx through to Stalin. Only one that doesn’t fit my system :angery: selected works of Mao Zedong volume 1 and 2 does work, I think because it’s just one author

:blob-no-thoughts: can you tell I’m autistic

1. Make sure you have a full list of your bookshelves; you can’t organize if you don’t know what you’re organizing.

2. Consult each of your bookshelves individually to find their opinion on organizing. Keep track (a spreadsheet is wise) of which are pro-organization and which are anti. If you find any strongly pro-organizing bookshelves, you can get them to help with the rest of this step.

3. Ignore the anti-organizing bookshelves and work on any borderline cases. Continue until you’re sure you have a majority of pro-organizing bookshelves.

4. You’re now ready to get all your bookshelves to sign a library card.

I love these little apocryphal Lenin tales. Lenin is both too recent and too well-documented to be some kind of mythical hero, but I like all these little modern folktales about him that still find ways to imbue him with a kind of supernatural cleverness. It’s fun