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So, what have you been reading recently? | ๐ Weekly book discussion, review, and recommendations thread, June 28th, 2026
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Fiction or Non-Fiction, academic or casual, theory or non-theory, feel free to mention books of any genre and on any topic.
Fred Hampton Speaks.
Blood in my eye by George Jackson.
Poems: 'Lenin' and 'Ballads of Lenin' by Langston Hughes.
Langston Hughes?? I love him and had no idea he was a Marxist. Thank you so much, friend!
The most I know that he was a communist sympathizer who went to USSR and was surprised by the internationalist environment there in contrast to the Jim Crow America.
He had to distance himself from his pro-communist writings during the red scare era when artists and intellectuals were getting arrested without warrants and locked up by the feds.
https://www.cpusa.org/article/langston-hughes-progressive-poet-and-wanderer/