Hello em poc comrades!! How are we all doing? Are we doing anything interesting this week? Any fun reads lately? I’ve been working on writing a communist fantasy series based inspired by the Chinese Revolution and a lot of my reading lately has been research for that, which also doubles as theory and history reading haha
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This sounds incredible! I've been interested in doing something like this for a while. What does your reading list look like?
I've been reading some of the more popular Le Guin works. She's incredible, dunno why I waited till now. I've also been volunteering. It feels good to help and helps with my mental state (which is bad).
Thank you! I'm definitely having fun. Most of my reading has been piecemeal but there's a bunch of things I'm reading from and I'll get through everything eventually. In the reading list I have: Peasant Life in China by Fei Xiaotong, The Chinese Conquer China by Anna Louise Strong (and I'm probably going to read some of Strong's other works on China too, like The Rise of the Chinese People's Communes and One Fifth of Mankind), Fanshen by William Hinton, Guerrilla Warfare by Guevara, and a whole lot of Mao. My other big reading plan this year is to finally read Capital.
I listened to an audiobook of Red Star Over China last year and that really influenced the direction I decided to take the story. The basic idea of an anticapitalist fantasy seires was already in my head before then but I got really inspired by Snow's descriptions of the Chinese revolution in Yan'an. CGTN documentaries also helped (and my mom has been trying to get me to watch a TV series about the Long March for a while, which I haven't gotten around to yet, lol.)
Le Guin is awesome, I keep starting her books and not finishing them though (which is my worst reading habit, I have a tendency to forget to pick a book back up if I get distracted from it.) Glad you're volunteering too!