Stolen:

Imperial core is where the citizens don't know empires exist beyond movies.

  • newmou [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    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?

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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)

      • newmou [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        :sankara-salute: sounds like I’ve got some work to do, thanks comrade