See title, this builds up on the previous request for reading lists, but is a bit more open ended and is supposed to be a contemporary update that I would like to post twice a year.
The texts at best are accessible without too much previous knowledge. Open for videos, and other media, as well as group formats, and activities too. You have to participate in protest training and actually cook for others to see how both those things feel.
I would be more happy with fewer thick works or only excerpts from complicated stuff, than to suggest the complete collection of Marx's works. Some popular and recent books i.e. Jakarta Method, Klein, or recent organizing books would be welcome, too.
The next time I post this question (and feel free to paste your own suggested template) will be December/January 2023.
The goal of these texts is to sort of do for capitalism / work / colonialism / patriarchy what the trans movement has done for gender: take it apart in front of your eyes and build a universe of alternatives that are more joyful and possible to start enacting now. It tries to ground this in socialist, feminist, and decolonial and anti-racist theory and praxis.
As We Have Always Done -- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson --4th world nationalist / feminist manifesto
Undoing Work, Rethinking Community -- James A. Chamberlain gives the concept of "work" the same denaturalization that's been given to race and gender recently. Imo helps Marxists go deeper into the critique of wage labor.
Caliban and the Witch -- Sylvia Federici PDF Download argues that primitive accumulation is cyclical rather than a one time thing, and argues that reproductive and women's bodies are a key site of primitive accumulation.
Freedom Dreams -- Robin Kelley PDF Download explores different alternatives to capitalism and white supremacy dreamed up by black movements through history.
Secrets of a Successful Organizer -- Labor Notes how to organize your workplace in bullet point form.
No Shortcuts -- Jane Macalevey a treatise on what is and isn't good labor organizing. Charts a path for organizers to avoid the common pitfalls. I don't agree with her on everything but she's still essential reading imo.