Ordered a hard copy bc I feel like I'm gonna wanna write in it
This reminds me to talk to my therapist about how miserable this ideology makes me, even if I believe it to my core, lol
Communism actually made me less sad, because it shows that there is a way to make shit less fucked, instead of complete doomer brain.
Now you’re sad for a valid reason, instead of being a conservative or liberal sad because the ideology is failing and you can’t understand why. Having valid actions you can take to be less miserable is an upgrade.
LMFAO yeah I brought up the particular flavor of left misery to my therapist and she uhhhhh. Well she didn't know what to do with it at first but I think she is starting to understand.
My hope is that this book will at least give some historical context to this flavor of misery you know? I did the free preview thing from Kindle and it made think a lot about the Kraz Mazov quote from disco Elysium, about how learning theory makes you correct and sad
write in it
The non-binary urge to read theory in the park and write on the margins with a pencil
Non-binary Stalin?!? :stalin-garrison:
“Typically, he used brightly coloured crayons – blue, green and red – to annotate his books but also made fainter markings with light pencils and fine-nibbed pens. While Stalin’s cursive script was a scrawl, he reserved his neatest longhand for his books.
Stalin valued books and respected their authors, even those with whom he vehemently disagreed. His habit was to mark texts that interested him and his annotations are riddled with expletives: “waffle”, “gibberish”, “nonsense”, “rubbish”, “fool”, “scumbag” and “ha ha”. But mostly Stalin read to learn and the notes he wrote were aides-memoir rather than epithets. Indeed, Stalin found much that he agreed with in the books of Trotsky and other arch enemies.
Stalin’s annotations also reveal his schematic mode of thinking. He marked the text of the pages, paragraphs and phrases that interested him by underlining or by vertical side-lines in the margin. To add structure he would number points 1, 2, 3 etc. To add emphasis he would double the lines or insert an NB in the margin. His phenomenal memory was aided by the structured character of his reading.”
Yeah, I quit vaping recently and used the money I saved this month. Otherwise it would've been a pirates life for me lmao
I saw it mentioned in the most recent ep of We're in Hell, it looked interesting in concept, but I've not read it.
I've had this on my to-read list since I read Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal by Nunes who had a chapter on left melancholia. There's an online version available on Libgen if anybody wants one. https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=138178996
