I'm extremely thankful that someone recommended Blackshirts and Reds to me a while back; specifically because reading it did a lot to strengthen my beliefs in Communism by grounding them in a more solid foundation then memes or infotainment videos could possibly offer.
I think it's similar to how, for a lot of people on this site, reading "Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue" expanded and clarified their understanding of trans liberation in a manner that no amount of memes are able to.
Plenty of people read books; this community often worries that r/WSB types are reading a lot of the wrong ones (ie: 12 rules for life). Last summer I was able to get a lot of success by recommending books of Black communists, to well-meaning libs in the midst of the BLM uprising.
Any recommendations? I remember back then that someone called me out on the whiteness of the literature I was recommending, which was valid but I never really got to the point of addressing it.
Don't recommend people books, it's lazy and no one reads books, especially on WSB.
Recommending a book or a communist economist's works is a shortcut that does nothing but makes us feel like we've done something.
I'm extremely thankful that someone recommended Blackshirts and Reds to me a while back; specifically because reading it did a lot to strengthen my beliefs in Communism by grounding them in a more solid foundation then memes or infotainment videos could possibly offer.
I think it's similar to how, for a lot of people on this site, reading "Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue" expanded and clarified their understanding of trans liberation in a manner that no amount of memes are able to.
Plenty of people read books; this community often worries that r/WSB types are reading a lot of the wrong ones (ie: 12 rules for life). Last summer I was able to get a lot of success by recommending books of Black communists, to well-meaning libs in the midst of the BLM uprising.
Any recommendations? I remember back then that someone called me out on the whiteness of the literature I was recommending, which was valid but I never really got to the point of addressing it.
Gifted Hands by Ben Carson