I was recommended Open Veins by a lib history professor, so I've been skeptical of picking it up. AITA?
Just recently read Blackshirts and Wretched. 🔥 Fanon's decolonization talk about uprisings often missing the people out in the country really parallels the US republican's capture of non-metro areas, imo. And the chapters on mental issues in the face of colonization were fascinating in the face of all of this. :gestures wildly around:
galeano is one of the greatest socialist writers to have been. you’re the lib
In my defense, the history professor regularly parrots The Economist verbatim, so I'm always weary. Good to know though, thank you.
I was gifted Blackshirts and Red as well! Cheers, comrade!
Let me know if Gravity's Rainbow is any good. I'm always skeptical of the books /lit/ circlejerks over.
It's good. Pynchon is conspiracy brained enough to write a book about how US weapons and chemical companies benefited tremendously from WWII and will happily use Nazi war crimes to make money, and how the Ango-American intelligence apparatus will hunt down and destroy anybody that threatens that. Plus the writing is balls to the walls crazy in the best way. A tremendous book.
I'll probably check it out sometime next year then. I'm busy dragging my heals on the book club right now.
I love Gravity's Rainbow, but I suspect many posters here will find it a touch... "problematic" in it's treatment of race.
It's 50/50 stuff I've read stuff I've been meaning to read. Looking forward to seeing what all the hype is about with pynchon
