The amount of times I would read a paragraph and think "if this was written today, it would still be true" was to damn high. Especially the entire last chapter.
The amount of times I would read a paragraph and think "if this was written today, it would still be true" was to damn high. Especially the entire last chapter.
Blackshirts and Reds is a wonderful book. If you're looking for another one that's also accessible I'd recommend Towards a New Socialism by Paul Cockshott. Really short, and it explains the most relevant concepts from Marx while applying them to modern circumstances (well, early 2000s). It's more theoretical than Blackshirts and Reds, but it still brings some important facts from history as examples or case studies.
+1 for Paul Cockshott, his stuff is very interesting!
Mandatory mention that he's a transphobe pos, though. Carry on.
Edit: I vaguely knew about this, but decided to look more into it, it's pretty bad. :( This sucks because I thought his computerized planning ideas were neat. Apparently he also opposed the Irish liberation movement, the more I scroll the worse it gets...
Yeah. Hence the mandatory mention. I hear he's a genius about this planning stuff but we're gonna have to put him in the reeducation camps in the evenings.
Definitely will put that on the list, thanks for the suggestions.