The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

It’s sickeningly beautiful, confusing and linguistically dense. So far (30 pages in) it shows an astonishing lot of situations and behaviours one can analyse. For example the portrayal of the US police state, surveilling everyone and arresting people on arbitrary things, like owning vaseline, which encapsulates the essence of a police so well.

Highly recommended for anyone whose stomach doesn’t cramp from the graphic language (my copy has a card that reads “I hereby confirm that i am at least 18 years of age…”). It’s a classic for a reason.

I just started to read Women and Socialism by August Bebel.

read The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling the other week and really enjoyed it! I have primarily been blowing through my library network’s graphic novel collections otherwise, read one called Old Head that I LOVED about vampires and basketball, and Prokaryote Season by Leo Fox (one of my favorite cartoonists atm)! Really trying to boost my reading stamina so that I can dive into lengthier works of theory, but have been slowly digging at Luna Oi’s first textbook on dialectical materialism and ML for the last few weeks. My goal this year is to read, read, read!!

I’ve been reading Blackshirts and Reds over and over, and actually printing copies to hand out.

Not many people in my area have read it, so I’m glad to do this work.

Started skimming through these:

• Building The Commune: Radical Democracy In Venezuela
• Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, The Media, And Twenty Years Of Coup Attempts In Venezuela
• Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting

I had a print copy of Building The Commune a few years back but I passed it along to someone else before getting very far in it. Right now I am just flipping through these to get some historical details but I’ll probably just settle on one of them to fully read.

Also came across this recently, though I have no idea if/when I’ll get around to reading it, but it seemed interesting: The red earth: a Vietnamese memoir of life on a colonial rubber plantation.

Still reading Elementary principles of philosophy Georges Politzer

I’m reading Caliban and the Witch. It’s a really amazing overview of various processes that occurred during primitive accumulation.

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Just started Aberration in the Heartland of the Real. Im so hype

I finished The Principles of Communism, Wage Labour and Capital, and Value, Price and Profit. I found a collected works .pdf file in my mother tongue (it is very hard and expensive to find a printed copy because gommonisimo bad and we don’t have any paper left); they were easier to understand that way.

For continuing my theory study, I started Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by our favorite class traitor, Friedrich Engels.

I’ve got gifted Utopia by Thomas More, and I’m also reading that. The edition I’ve got is ass, but still intelligible.

Always studying 红宝书 alongside whatever catches my interest day to day week to week

November 1918 by Alfred Doblin,1:citizens and soldiers 1/2：a people betrayed 2/2:return of the frontline troops 3:Karl and Rossa

I’m reading the Heartstrikers series by Rachel Aaron, because I loved her other series, The Spirit Thief. I’m on the third book and so far, it isn’t bad at all!

I’m reading Capitalism in Crisis by Fidel Castro. It’s all speeches he gave in the late 90s. Interesting stuff.

for fiction before bed i’ve been reading “metal from heaven” by august clarke, recommended by someone on here, don’t remember who.

for non-fiction i just recently finished “make it stick,” a book about more effective study habits. there’s a lot of things i want to study and learn in the future, and i was never really forced or able to learn good study habits in school. the basic ideas seem very useful and widely applicable!