Answer the question, bucko.
Decided to actually read Grapes of Wrath, it's my bed reading rn. For more "serious" reading I'm going through this article my brother sent me:
Liberation School: The U.S. state and the U.S. revolution
So far I'm a fan, it reads like a good crash course in why the US has sucked since even before the revolution. Good for sharing with libs.
Grapes of Wrath was a good read, some really powerful moments in there about the amazing fucked-upedness of systems.
The Dawn of Everything. I've been on a big David Graeber kick lately.
That fugger Matt needs to release another Cushvlog already. I’m dying for the slop
The Divide by Jason Hickel. It's good, but I'm halfway through and it's just getting into the meat of the thesis. He spends a good while setting up the history of colonialism and imperialist coups, which if you read enough lefty books you've read a lot of these summaries.
I love rereading the opening chunk where he lays waste to the Pinker perspective, cathartic
I'm finding it pretty tough reading on the subject matter front because every time I see something on how much fuckery the World Bank and the IMF have gotten away with I go all :meow-tableflip:
I thought it was interesting that he argues that the structural adjustments weren't originally part of the WTO/IMF program, but were adopted after a coup of the leadership that left the psycho Robert McNamara in charge.
i haven't read the divide, but i started into less is more by hickel a while ago. it definitely feels more lib-friendly but without holding back critiques of capitalism and imperialism. he takes a while to build to his thesis in that too, but i love the grounding in material reality that he sets up to get to his thesis.
i'll have to check out the divide!
Always a handful of books.
At the moment I’m getting back into “The End of Policing” by Alex Vitale. Bedside is a small college publishing house bio on Jack London.
Also taking my time reading George Jackson’s “Blood In My Eye,” which to me is so heavy that it can only be read in small doses. Upon a friend sending a text with Steven Donzinger posting a video of William Kunstler I pulled out the book on him “The Most Hated Lawyer in America.”
Speaking of Jackson he of course came up in a documentary I allowed myself the luxury of watching last night called “The Betrayal of Attica.” Brutally vivid account, made through the amazing archives of radical Communist lawyer Elizabeth Fink.
Blood in My Eye is a very good thing to read. It really opened up my understanding of Fascism
After going through Perdido Street Station followed by The Scar (both were great), I'm now reading the third tome of China Mieville's Bas-Lag trilogy: The Iron Council.
Enjoy it. The Iron council is the most involved in questions of revolution. Though there is a lot debate of the depiction of sex workers.
Thanks ! It does seem that way thus far, yeah (I mean about revolution).
https://rashidmod.com/
Just discovered Rashid's site with some fuckin bangers of articles (on armed struggle and on petty bourgeois revolutionary leadership)
Going through Anti-Duhring, Engels is destroying this poor guy, finished a chapter on dialectics yesterday
“This Stirner guy is a fucking moron”
I just got the audiobook of History of White People, bout a third of the way through. It’s good folks
I just acquired Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, should I read it or will I suffer from psychic damage?
The amazing thing about the Chicago boys is that their economics are totally made up and detached from reality, by design, it's all fake from the ground up lol.
well I read the intro and in there he says that the great inventors and explorers of the past did their discoveries without the meddling of state authority. People like Columbus, Newton, Leibniz, Einstein, Bohr, Shakespeare, Milton, Pasternak, Whitney, McCormick, Edison, Ford, Jane Addams, Florence Nightingale and Albert Schweitzer.
:zizek:
You will suffer psychic damage since you don’t have brainworms
Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, the same guy who wrote The open veins of latin america
So far I like it, dont like so much how bit sized the chapters are I guess I expected something more in depth, but its great to read someone nerding out about football
I almost want to get into cricket to read CLR James nerding out over it.
Extra-accurate, in that the authors were libertarians whereas Pynchon's an anarchist.
If I remember correctly, anyway. There's plenty of making fun of Ayn Rand in the Illuminatus! trilogy (Telemachus Sneezed and all that), at least. I haven't read it in many years but it was hilarious and I remember it fondly, for all its flaws.
I am reading (or trying to anyways) Savage Detectives - translated into English - by a Chilean author. The book is really funny and has hilarious bits.
