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[–] RevolutionsPerMinute@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just started Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? by Gabriel Rockhill.

Also am working through the reading list for Critical Theory Workshop's online course on Imperialism and Underdevelopment that's starting January 21. So far I've read Samir Amin's essay Contemporary Imperialism, and still need to finish Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

Just started Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? by Gabriel Rockhill.

The book just became highly relevant again because of the Current events.

[–] PumpkinMug@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Vegetarian, by Han Kang. Its the story of a Korean women told from the perspective of her abusers. One of those thats hard to say you "like" because the material is pretty rough

[–] Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Human Acts is also brutal.

[–] Moidialectica@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been researching medieval life & economics

The Structure of Everyday Life; The Limits of the Possible (Fernand Braudel)

The State and the Tributary Mode of Production (John F. Haldon)

Be careful with Braudel. He’s very deterministic and anti-Marxist

[–] Sil67@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

I am currently reading Black Against Empire by Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin. Im enjoying it a lot so far about 100 pages in

[–] Shakartah@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been reading What is to be Done and I'm around 35% done. It's really hard for me to have the time to actually sit down and read and have the energy to do so, so I know I'm way behind my goals. I plan on doing my homework before I go to any party meetings

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for the hard work, comrade. Organizing starts at reading.

[–] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

I finally started a book I had been excitedly awaiting the release of, This Brutal Moon. It's starting strong although I feel like recent a reread of the previous two books would have been good for my brain.

[–] YeltsinHitByABus@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been reading some pieces of critique and criticism on my party, and am now having the political equivalent of a crisis in faith with the party.

That aside, I read Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism, however didn't take notes, so I need to go back and re-read it to better understand the material.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is your party one of those "broad-perspective" parties?

[–] YeltsinHitByABus@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, mine has had some

SAsexual harassment and assault in many occasions over two decades
of which I never heard about due to cover up from leadership, and my ignorance. Leadership still has these people as members of varying positions.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Man, this thing has become so common! Especially in Trot and PatSoc orgs.

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