You should also read Imperialism, it's not too long and honestly pretty easy to grasp. Mainly because it's just really obvious in hindsight. All the things he described as inevitabilities of the imperialist projects of the 20th century have come to pass and he's essentially describing the world we live in today and how it came about.
Totally, I actually have it on my bookshelf. Bought that and what is to be done after I read state and revolution. More and more books just got in front of it over time lol but you’re right I do need to read it. Are you reading anything right now?
I'm about halfway through Jakarta Method. It's rough, I've had to take week long breaks here and there.
Read the canon when I was isolating last year and time of pamphlets. Also most of Parenti's stuff, but that's like a treat. I can finish a Parenti book in a day, he's just such an engaging writer.
Ah nice I just bought the Jakarta Method! Was thinking of jumping into that after Capitalist Realism and October. I’ve only read Blackshirts and Reds from Parenti though, could you reco anything specific?
Inventing Reality of course, To Kill a Nation is a good look at Yugoslavia and NATO's true face. He also has a short book called The Terrorism Trap released like 3 months after 9/11 basically predicting all the shit that went wrong later and pointing out all the shit that was going on behind the scenes that was basically immediately silenced after the attacks.
All of his work is good though. I like using Parenti as a pallete cleanser between more dense books.
Also, read Julian Borchardt's Capital Abridged of you can find a copy (released in the US as Capital and other writings and compiled with some other of Marx's smaller works and Lenin pamphlets by Max Eastman)
You should also read Imperialism, it's not too long and honestly pretty easy to grasp. Mainly because it's just really obvious in hindsight. All the things he described as inevitabilities of the imperialist projects of the 20th century have come to pass and he's essentially describing the world we live in today and how it came about.
Totally, I actually have it on my bookshelf. Bought that and what is to be done after I read state and revolution. More and more books just got in front of it over time lol but you’re right I do need to read it. Are you reading anything right now?
I'm about halfway through Jakarta Method. It's rough, I've had to take week long breaks here and there.
Read the canon when I was isolating last year and time of pamphlets. Also most of Parenti's stuff, but that's like a treat. I can finish a Parenti book in a day, he's just such an engaging writer.
Ah nice I just bought the Jakarta Method! Was thinking of jumping into that after Capitalist Realism and October. I’ve only read Blackshirts and Reds from Parenti though, could you reco anything specific?
Inventing Reality of course, To Kill a Nation is a good look at Yugoslavia and NATO's true face. He also has a short book called The Terrorism Trap released like 3 months after 9/11 basically predicting all the shit that went wrong later and pointing out all the shit that was going on behind the scenes that was basically immediately silenced after the attacks.
All of his work is good though. I like using Parenti as a pallete cleanser between more dense books.
Also, read Julian Borchardt's Capital Abridged of you can find a copy (released in the US as Capital and other writings and compiled with some other of Marx's smaller works and Lenin pamphlets by Max Eastman)
:sankara-salute: sounds like I’ve got some work to do, thanks comrade