They not have to be marxist specifically, but all of mine are. My favorites are: Walter Rodney, Lenin, Anuradha Ghandy and Vijay Prishad. I have been thinking of Red Star Over the Third World again recently, and I may decide to reread it soon.
They not have to be marxist specifically, but all of mine are. My favorites are: Walter Rodney, Lenin, Anuradha Ghandy and Vijay Prishad. I have been thinking of Red Star Over the Third World again recently, and I may decide to reread it soon.
Ficton-wise, Bernard Cornwell remains my favourite author. Some other authors deserve a mention: John Williams, Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Heller, Sally Rooney, David Lodge, Phillip Pullman, Conn Iggulden, David Gemmel, Wilbur Smith, and Robert Jordan. I might not necessarily enjoy all these authors' works in the same way as I once did if I re-read them today and I know little about their personal lives or politics but I loved them all when I first read them.
Non-fiction-wise, Lenin, Engels, and Parenti are as easy to read and enjoyable as good fiction. Maybe David Harvey, too, but I get a bit annoyed with some of his anti-China sentiment.
After reading Catch-22, I was kinda disappointed to learn that it doesn't portray Heller's experiences in WW2. Obviously I didn't expect the wacky satirical stuff to be true, but I believed that the portrayal of the soldiers as jaded, looking to dodge as many missions as possible to get home alive was. But he stated that it was not at all like this, and that it was an enthusiastic, patriotic war (or something along these lines).
I suppose fighting Nazis does come with a certain motivational factor.