Fiction or Non-Fiction, academic or casual, theory or non-theory, feel free to mention books of any genre and on any topic.
About to read this sick stuff https://archive.org/stream/propaganda_2504_librivox/propaganda_2504_djvu.txt
Corrected. Also can this be added to Books?
The Destruction Of Reason by Georg Lukacs. It is a historical work that peaked my interest due to the Frankfurt school hating it. Ended up learning about the Prussian/German burocrats who completely obeyed and upheld the law, just like how Libshits always obey and uphold the law. Law is also a “quiescent element”, which I find quite fascinating.
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I’ve been reading The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
This week, my comrades and I started and finished Wage, Labor, and Capital. It was a doozy. I think that the reading was hard but not too difficult. I learned some new things, and I know for sure I missed some things too. All in all, I’m glad my group is finally moving out of philosophy and starting economics, even if economics hurts my brain and it’s not my favorite.
I tried starting “The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, or Sympathy for the Monster (2024)”. I’ve seen a lot of praise heaped on this article, so I want to read it badly, but sometimes the language is too difficult for me to understand. I really want someone with a higher reading comprehension to sit down and read with me. Sadge.
Unfortunately, Frome’s prose does hold back her writings from a pedagogical perspective. As brilliant as they often are, they are written from a more academic perspective, which often makes them difficult to parse.
- The Furies Arno Mayer
- Arab Spring Libyan Winter Vijay Prashad
- The War Conspiracy Peter Dale Scott
- Exodus Leon Uris
Did the twentieth century end in 1973? Or do those unanswered questions fester?
Personally I’ve been reading a lot of despondent posts on LinkedIn and wanting to lose it on the C-Suite overlords bringing about the AI jobpocalypse, but that’s more of a personal doom-scroll daily event because they got me in October – and not actual literary works. I just ordered “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory” by David Graeber. I’ll keep you posted on if it’s a good read.
There are a lot of rebuttals to David Graeber’s work and the fact that anarchists kept telling me to read it sucks ngl
I’m not reading “Debt”. It’s more a criticism of specific jobs. Different focus.
Eh, okay
I do appreciate you ngl-ing though.
Thanks ngl
this was the substance I came here for…
Just finished Phenomenology of the Capitalist Eternisation by João Romeiro Hermeto. Overall really enjoyed it, some parts were slightly beyond my understanding but it was definetely the wakeup call i needed to get more involved than i already am in organising. Capitalism isnt this eternal monolith that many perceive it as, and it can be overcome!
Moving on to an easier read in Half Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass. I played the game based on it a while ago andordered the book before completely forgetting about it. Its very much a utopian book, so im mostly reading it for fun and less for studying but so far it has quite a lot of useful info about the perils of weather control systems. A good break from theory while i focus more on my last term of uni!
Wait, is Half Earth Socialism a novel?
Yep! I believe the developers made the game while the book was being written to give a simulation of the books concepts. So far very cool, and gives a LOT of info that kinda makes me wish i’d read it first tbh
Currently reading Khrushchev Lied on chapter five point 31
Finished Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend; started Gerald Horne’s Counter Revolution of 1776; and am in the middle of Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism.
I find that I can focus more if I’m reading multiple books at once, switching texts after a chapter or so.
Finished Losurdos Stalin book today too myself :)
Continuing Nkrumah’s work on Neocolonialism. Coming off of Fanon’s writing really helps contextualize Nkrumah’s writing here, identifying the struggle against Neocolonialism in nominally independent states.
Read Nkrumah’s biography by Yuri Smertin
Will add it to the backlog!
It’s great.
Really puts his life in perspective.
Got me interested in the Soviet Union post-1956 too.
Before I was very pro-Stalin and anti-Khruschev.
I mean, I still am.
But now I am interested in the scientific and theoretical developments and achievements after 1956.
Also, African Liberation, which the Soviets were keen on.
Thanks!
No problem!
Just finished Woman and Socialism by Bebel, took me a cool 5 months to get it done.
(The book was great and all, but goddamn did I hate reading it, it was possibly the driest theory book which I have read so far)
I stopped reading six months ago.
Due to burnout, anhedonia, and depression.
However, I say this all with hope.
I think I’m getting back into the swing of things.
I will read fiction soon (and if you have other recommendations, please give them, but I already have some “to-reads” set that aren’t exactly set in stone)
I will avoid The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
and the sequel to the Parable of the Sower
I’ll also avoid Dunk & Egg after my previous read-through of A Song of Ice and Fire (first ever readthrough was in 2007 to 2008; last most recent one was in 2024 to 2025)
I need more “uplifting” fictional books.
Not “Bluey” or “My Little Pony” stuff (I know that many adults legit do that stuff now, but I don’t know if the television / streaming stuff like that is for me; I do want to peruse whatever children’s and YA books there are since I’ve been day-dreaming about getting pregnant)
(I’m starting my HRT in September at this point, just gotta get the move to Spain underway.)
erm
Well, I suppose there’s that Digital Magical Circus thing (or Magical Digital Circus? whatever)
I need comedy since I haven’t really kept up with it in years.
Honestly, I’m glad that I may have really reached the point where I may actually dead-ass recover from the over 20 years of narcissistic abuse by my father (and I guess maybe my own narcissistic sibling).
So glad that I’m going to Spain too.
Uhh
eh, I may actually read Tolkien’s poetry since I actually really like The Lord of the Rings recently when I read it (surprisingly, mind you).
Same with The Hobbit.
and The Silmarillion.
Uhh
I guess there’s that new RPG Lit that struck it big recently but i’ll hold off for now; doesn’t seem that interesting to me.
Some BDSM group wants me to get into Baihe web novels but i’ll keep it on the side for now.
I plan to read
Whistler by Ann Patchett
The Iliad
The Odyssey (gee, I wonder why now lol)
that Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells
James S. A. Corey’s new series
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (I think? guy apparently turned out to be a dead-ass Zionist in the end but idk I’ll have to verify more of that and do more research on that)
more of James Islington’s stuff, ig
erm, I think that’s it
Otherwise, I want to read more stuff like Nikolai Bukharin’s Dialectical Materialism: A System of Sociology (honestly the best Marxist-Leninist book I’ve ever read ever and nothing really touches it for me)
Finally finished Fraud, Famine, and Fascism. Really informative in understanding where the Holodomr myth came from. It did lead me to wonder: are the Nazis in the current Ukrainian government are the continuation of the OUN the book mentions?
The OUN, UPA and the SS Galicia are practically worshipped by the Banderites in Ukraine and the Kiev regime has declared the OUN and other Nazi collaborationist fascist organizations as Ukraine’s national heroes, built monuments for them and renamed streets after them.
The British and Americans smuggled OUN/UPA and Ukrainian SS members to the US and Canada after WWII and those Nazi collaborationists and their descendants formed the Ukrainian diaspora organizations that pushed the Holodomor myth, spread anti-Soviet and anti-communist propaganda and were behind pushing revisionist history in the 90s in Ukraine, and especially after the 2004 color revolution.
Many members of these groups returned to Ukraine after the USSR dissolved and eventually wormed their way into power. Some of the current Kiev elites are direct descendants of OUN/UPA members, and many others at some point associated with those Nazi collaborationist Ukrainian diasporas in Canada and the US.
So yes, the current fascist regime in Kiev are the direct ideological and sometimes actual descendants of the WWII Nazi collaborationists. The rest of the Kiev elite who aren’t ideological Nazis are mostly former criminals who were part of various mafias and organized crime in 90s and 2000s who have useful criminal connections.
Some articles you can read:
Partnering with neo-Nazis in Ukraine: an inconvenient history
How Nazi Collaborators Are Celebrated in Wartime Ukraine
The roots of fascism in Ukraine: From Nazi collaboration to Maidan
Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
And it’s also worth reading from this longer piece explaining the background of the SMO, the chapter entitled “Ideology of Nationalism in the Service of the Kiev Regime in Modern Ukraine”
This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
