Theory Starts From Reality
Begin with wages, hours, rent, debt, platform rules, and workplace power before concepts.
Beginner Route
This is not a second start page; it is an eight-stage beginner route for readers who are ready to continue. It connects classic reading, investigation, study groups, translation, publishing, and labor research within lawful, public, and reviewable study and documentation work.
Principles
Each stage asks four questions: What did I understand? Who can I explain it to? What concrete reality did I investigate? What verifiable contribution can I make to a collective project?
Begin with wages, hours, rent, debt, platform rules, and workplace power before concepts.
Each session produces summaries, term cards, questions, case comparisons, or public notes.
Practice focuses on lawful investigation, translation, publishing, mutual aid, meetings, and labor documentation.
Eight Stages
Use 16-24 weeks as a guide. Each stage shows a basic reading list by default; expand for the full reading list, questions, lawful public task, and completion standard.
Maturity Standard
The measure is not how many books you finish, but whether you can serve collective work steadily.
Reads sources, checks editions, summarizes concepts, and admits uncertainty.
Collects facts lawfully, protects privacy, and distinguishes evidence from rumor.
Can meet, document, divide work, deliver, review, and put collective work above ego.
Translates theory into language and tools workers can use.