Books

I just finished Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds. Really great for anyone starting to get into political theory and marxist lit (as I am!). Also am halfway through Daniel N. Paul's We Were Not The Savages, which is a history of the relations between the Mi'kmaq people of Eastern Canada and New England from the first arrival of European ships to modern day. I live in this area and was shamefully unaware of the history beyond the very basics and its been enlightening.

Just started Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America

Reading brain dead fantasy is a guilty pleasure of mine, so i have been reading this series called sun eater for the last week, but omg had to put it down because the author (fuck me for being into shit predominantly populated by white men) legit wrote about this society of socialists who dont have names and only use state approved phrases and where the communist government's evil plan to replace the entire population with hermophrodite clones to remove gender inequality from society is discovered and spoiled by the hero. pretty fucking shite.

Just started Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth. I'm only twenty pages in because it had like 4 different people who wanted to give their opinions in the form of an introduction. Idk why I read them, they were a real mixed bag

For non-fiction, I've just finished reading Consciousness Explained by Dennett. I thought it was enjoyable overall, but my biggest criticism would be that it attacks a lot of idealist points I already consider to be absurd, so it's preaching to the choir in that sense. That aside, it does do some interesting analysis of how consciousness might plausibly work, and provides good thought experiments. Can definitely recommend to anyone interested in the subject.

On the fiction side, I'm just reading The Fisherman by John Langan, and it's an enjoyable Lovecraftian style horror if you're into that sort of thing.

This week i am still reading sherlock holmes for fun, have read maos on contradiction and stalins dialectical marerialism (i hope it wasnt last week) and a bit of engels' socialism utopian and scientific but that i might have forgotten to continue. I am still reading through the works of stalin. I have started reading junge welt (which has some marxist writers) and unsere zeit (which is the party organ of the german marxist leninist dkp party.

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