Fiction or Non-Fiction, academic or casual, theory or non-theory, feel free to mention books of any genre and on any topic.
Finishing Losurdo’s “Liberalism: A Counter-History”.
Biggest take-away: Fuck de Tocqueville. Losurdo highlights the most contradictory elements of early liberalism so well that it baffles me how cognitively dissonant the champions of this ideology could be. Like imagine being a slave-owner or a colonial administrator (I’m sorry) and still believing you’re for the cause of liberty and non-despotism. Now, racism and white (especially western) supremacy does a significant amount of heaving lifting for justifying this behavior, but still, dude.
It’s called being evil bruh. Anyways great book 10/10
100% but even evil people need to live in reality a little bit
Seeing other people as lesser corrodes the mind 👍 without our obligations we are only carrion 👍👍 communism will win & slavery will be unthinkable to children everywhere outside educational material 👍👍👍
addendum: 👍👍👍👍👍
I just finished reading Mort(e), a wild sci-fi book about animals that get uplifted by space ants, who almost annihilate humanity.
Is it dope? I am flush with music but starved for fiction
Finished Imperialism, On Contradiction last week, plus what is turning into my weekly reread of Combat Liberalism. Can you tell from my posts I also read an article on the Two Line Struggle? Back to Blackshirts and Reds and rereading On Practice. Started Blowback. Still struggling to start Wage-Labor and Capital 😭 I’ll get there eventually, doesn’t help my ML reading group keeps having more recommendations on any subject I ask about!
Damn, comrade’s been busy!
I’ve got 100 years of history to catch up on! I don’t feel like I am totally absorbing these books, but once I get what feels like a general foundation under me I’ll be doing more in depth rereads.
I forgot to put Perfect Victims and this Kites article on there too. That article is a whole pamphlet in itself!
Still on Blackshirts & Reds, but I might be finishing it this week, read like 50 pages over easter weekend which for me is a lot. Returning to Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism after that.
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Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. Its a mesoamerican fantasy horror with some awesome gore and its got a whole end of days thing going that feels familiar.
Still reading What Is To Be Done, slowly but atleast I feel like I am absorbing it rather than have a glance through it- which I feel like I do with everything in regards to text or reading. Taking notes and writing about it helps.
The text is very heavy on historical texts.
Idk how far in your journey you are, but I recommend this abridged version as either a stand in for new to theory peeps (encouraging a read it later once youre warmed up) or as a pre/postread review for when your eyes glaze over.
The other day I began reading Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa.
“Heart Lamp” by Banu Mushtaq. It’s one of those books where I have to emotionally prepare myself before beginning every story
