Fiction or Non-Fiction, academic or casual, theory or non-theory, feel free to mention books of any genre and on any topic.
I just went ahead and read The Poverty of Philosophy by Marx (an answer to Proudhon’s The Philosophy of Poverty) today and oh boy that Proudhon guy is such a clown. His work is pure, unadulterated petty bourgeois idealism and circular thinking (and somehow his grasp of basic mathematics is even worse). And Marx doesn’t spare his tongue; no wonder “their friendship finally ended” after the release of Marx’s response (to quote marxists.org article on Proudhon).
Certified banger, Lenin level of dunk. Would read again.
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Recently I’ve been going over some saved but never read Red Sails articles, those being “On Identitarianism: A Defence of a Strawman,” “The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz,” and a smaller article titled “Tankies.” I just got a copy of a collection of some of Lenin’s works that I am going to read soon. https://redsails.org/on-identitarianism-a-defense-of-a-strawman/ https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/ https://redsails.org/tankies/
I just finished Fanon’s Black Skin, White Mask. One of the closing lines was “Man’s misfortune is that he was once a child” and it hit really hard.
Anyone who wants to expand their knowledge of labor aristocracy in settler-colonies and imperial peripheries but doesn’t have the time to study rigorous Marxist theory should read this book.
Read There is no antimemetics division, wondering why I slept on it for so long. Would like recs on similar SF books.
Currently reading Axiomatic by Greg Egan.
Fellow Hard Sci-fi fan?
Yes, definitely. Since this is lemmygrad.ml I wonder what communist-themed SF people here would recommend?
I don’t know if I would call it ‘Hard Science Fiction’ but Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star is an interesting read. It has a sequel titled ‘Engineer Menni.’ There’s also the works of Aleksey Tolstoy.
Thanks! Heard good things about Red Star so I’ll bump it to the top of my to-read pile
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