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.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      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)"

    • Fartster [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Hey me too, looking forward to finishing it so I can give it away so someone else can feel this level of despair.

  • Bnova [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • BGDelirium [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    1/3 of the way through Howl's Moving Castle, reading out loud to my newborn

  • DerEwigeAtheist [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Re reading Capitlaist realism, I really like the book and Mark Fishers writing style. Absolutely amazing for understanding modern society to me.

  • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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.

      • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        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.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Audio book for the Greaber book is good. You can just ignore the more boring parts.

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • AtomPunk [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    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.