Hello everyone,

The /c/Literature community is launching a book club. You will be able to access the reading in Perusall, which allows for community annotations and discussions within the text. We will also be hosting book discussion posts at /c/Literature every other Saturday, along with our weekly "What are you reading?" threads.

VOTE here, and the winner will be assigned for the period of March/April.

• Kropotkin – ‘Mutual Aid’. The anarchist Peter Kropotkin explores the role of mutually beneficial cooperation and reciprocity in both the animal kingdom and human societies. Kropotkin argues against theories of social Darwinism that emphasize competition and ‘the survival of the fittest’, and instead argues that mutual aid has advantages for the survival of human and animal communities and has been promoted through natural selection. Mutual Aid is widely considered a fundamental text in anarchist communism, presenting a scientific basis for communism, whilst many biologists also consider this text an important work in the development of the biological theory of altruism.

• Luxemburg – ‘Reform or Revolution?’ This pamphlet by Marxist theorist Rosa Luxemburg has been influential in revolutionary socialist circles. In this work, Luxemburg seeks to demonstrate the inadequacy of the Reformism preached by the likes of Eduard Bernstein. Whilst still acknowledging the beneficial uses of trade unions, reformist politics, and social democracy, she argues that these methods alone cannot bring about a socialist society and that revolutionary methods are necessary. Though written at the end of the 19th century, the questions this text addresses remain important as the basic argument about how we can challenge capitalism persists.

• Taylor – ‘How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective’. A group of radical black feminists, known as The Combahee River Collective, was an organization that developed out of the anti-racist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, founding members of the organization and contemporary activists reflect on the legacy of its contributions to black feminism and its impact on today's struggles. How We Get Free gets to the roots of Black feminism and shows that a truly liberatory movement must be anti-racist, anti-heteropatriarchy, anti-imperialist, and socialist.

• Various Authors – ‘Class Struggle and Mental Health: Live to Fight Another Day’. This pamphlet brings together accounts from several anarchists from around the globe about what it means to suffer from mental illness and what we, both as individuals and a movement, can do about it. Unfortunately, many of us will find the experiences detailed in the pamphlet all too familiar, but that is precisely why this selection is so relevant. (I should stress, however, that this text should not be seen nor treated as an alternative or replacement for professional help).

• Kelley – ‘Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression’. In this account of the labour, racial, and social history of Alabama, Robin Kelley details how black workers in Alabama made communism their own, blending the teachings of Marx and Lenin with those of the black church and the lessons of decades of resistance to slavery, segregation, and racist terrorism. This book offers us important lessons that activists have been drawing on since it was published three decades ago, and it remains an important piece for young organizers struggling with the questions of race, gender, class, and solidarity.

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