I grew up in a conservative American family and was indoctrinated with chauvinistic beliefs from the beginning. It took me years of studying political science and economics just to warm up to leftist ideas, let alone embrace them.
Finally, I decided to read “Dialectical and Historical Materialism” by Stalin off a recommendation from one of my professors and it really changed my entire interpretation of the world. That started me down a path of reading any Marxist literature I could find.
I’m curious about the path that the rest of you took to get here!
Palo Alto is a great book, but its so long and grand in scope that all I remember is: California loves eugenics.
The Bionomist section is so revealing to the sheer scale eugenics is baked into the American system.
Personally I’m very interested in the continued throughline of joint-stock ventures.
Ironically though, I feel a good bit of optimism reading it as well here on California. The amount of relavent information is vast and I think quite helpful in radicalizing other Californians.