worst thing I have ever read, I had literally constant anxiety throughout the entire book
Also just finished reading earlier this week. The most haunting part was learning that a decent portion of the killing was done by non-military, non-police locals. Neighbors killing neighbors because of anticommunist propaganda and state terror. I hate how much I can see a similar campaign happening in America, so many bloodthirsty conservatives ready for murdering communists to be legal.
If you want an absolutely terrifying movie, based on a true story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoa:_A_Shameful_Memory
Good read, but yeah. Really solidified my understanding of all the world's conflicts as class struggle.
I took a biiig long break once it got to the 80s, but finally soldiered through it.
Death to America, fr.
I want to read Kill Anything That Moves before this one, but those two (along with Wasington Bullets) is on my list of books to read that are to remind me that every horrific and evil thing “israel” and the IDF have done, the US has done over its history on much larger scale.
I talk shit about socdems but I don’t know. The people featured in the book seem to regret not listening to the communists. Makes me think a lot of them are just optimists who can’t see reality until it hits them. The ones in the west get to enjoy the exploitation of the global south, but the socdems in the global south have mostly dreams to cling onto. And many times those dreams end up in disaster
It’s good, and trueanon has an episode interviewing the author for after you read it (or before if you want to go in with a general outline).
And for his other book, If We Burn.
Enjoy the two side by side: Why social democracy won't work and why spontaneity won't work
I am yet to read that one but it’s on my list! Is it move close to the top good?
I really enjoyed it. I wasn't politically aware at all for the early to mid 2010's, especially internationally, so learning about EU Maidan, the so called Arab Spring, Brazil's uprising, and other movements during the era was helpful.
Even though it discusses how people with good intentions lose control of large movements to forces of reaction in many cases I still came away feeling more hopeful than JM. You discover how these movements can inspire people and with the right organization and planning it's possible to create a better society through them
Yes, but also because it's a fairly quick read compared to, like, theory. The read-versus-return ratio is really good.
I don't think I finished it. I was way too bummed out. It's hard to make it through without wanting to constantly scream death to america
