Fiction or Non-Fiction, academic or casual, theory or non-theory, feel free to mention books of any genre and on any topic.
My copy of Blackshirts and Reds finally arrived!
Almost finished Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings. Incredibly based and very much worth reading for his clear and concise positions and to learn more about the PFLP.
I began reading the Quran. Not because I’m religious but because it’s an important book so it’s necessary for understanding the world.
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just recently finished the biography on lenin i mentioned in a previous thread. was a little unserious but still a very powerful read, would recommend it to anyone; also a pretty easy read to get through. sad in the end haha.
Liberalism, A counter History by Domenico Losurdo
How the Worker’s Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution by Pedro Ross
Recently finished:
Socialism, Utopian and Scientific by Engels
I will have to read the second & also I love Liberalism have you read Samir Amin’s Eurocentrism?
Samir Amin — The Law of Worldwide Value: Second Edition [2010-12-01]
Monthly Review Press | 2nd expanded edition | ISBN: 9781583672334 (paper) / 9781583672341 (cloth) | 192 pages
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Here Samir Amin advances Marxian analysis for the era of globalized, financialized oligopolies following the 2008 collapse. Amin extends Marx’s reproduction schema by proposing a “Third Department of Production devoted to surplus absorption” to account for capital’s chronic overaccumulation. He introduces “imperialist rent”—the systematic wage differential between Global North & South—“whose effect has been to provide Northern capital with sufficient profits to permit it to pacify for a long period its conflict with the Northern proletariat.” To theorize this, Amin reformulates Marx’s law of value as a “law of globalized value” operating across polarized world structures. Situating the present within capitalism’s second long crisis (dating from the early 1970s), he concludes “no exit from repeated crises under capitalism except the descent into barbarism. The challenge is not to escape from the crisis of capitalism—a hopeless project—but to escape from capitalism in crisis.”
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Kees van der Pijl — Flight MH17, Ukraine & the New Cold War: Prism of Disaster [2018-07-24]
Manchester University Press | 9781526131096 | 208
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The 2014 downing of MH17 as a “prism” refracting deeper structural shifts: the 2008 financial crisis, NATO expansion, & the West’s “global gamble” to contain a resurgent Russia & the BRICS bloc. Ukraine’s fracturing along historic fault lines, the Maidan revolt as “US-supported regime change,” & the civil war in Donbas. The official investigation, compromised by “veto power” granted to Kyiv & “the reluctance of US intelligence to provide evidence.” “The fate of the 298 people on Flight MH17 may become that of humanity at large.”
