Weekly book recommendation tax is due. Hand it over, buddy.
Also, the book club vote for August will be up tomorrow, so look out for that.
Gifted that to a "history buff" I know, turned them from "You are pretty close to conspiracy theories!" to "Maybe some terror can be excused (against imperial powers)"
Hey me too, looking forward to finishing it so I can give it away so someone else can feel this level of despair.
I'm about a quarter of the way through the State and Revolution. I really enjoyed the critique of social Democrats because I feel like many of them have the right instincts but lack the understanding of capitalism and its irreconcilable contradictions.
Working my way through Capital. I've made it farther than my previous attempts and I'm actually annotating this time so if I run out of steam, I can hopefully have an easier time picking it back up
1/3 of the way through Howl's Moving Castle, reading out loud to my newborn
Re reading Capitlaist realism, I really like the book and Mark Fishers writing style. Absolutely amazing for understanding modern society to me.
Fossil Capital by Andreas Malm. I've read How to Blow Up a Pipeline and White Skin, Black Fuel, but after reading some less academic texts recently (:parenti:, Jason Hickel, Byung Chul-Han) it's so refreshing to return to him.
Yes. It's really good, one of the best books I've read in the past few years and honestly I think it's required reading for the left.
Towards a New Socialism, about halfway through. Overall very dry, but it's nice to read a book that does criticism of the USSR and tries to find out where they're central planning was lacking and proposes a more general solution to the issue of planning and distribution.
Reading Ignition, a history of liquid rocket propellants. Pretty interesting so far, I like that rocketry began as dudes rocking :dudes-rock: in their basement and mixing explosive shit. Not looking forward to the involvement of the MIC tho
Audio book for the Greaber book is good. You can just ignore the more boring parts.
Rereading Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson. It's an alternate history novel set in a timeline where John Brown was the spark that set off a successful slave revolt and socialism ended up winning over the world.
