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I'm reading Unequal Exchange, Past, Present and Future by Torkil Lauesen. It's eye opening to say the least, it's basically taking Marx' theory of value and applying it to the current globalised neoliberal world. Really hits home when you break it down to how many hours of labor are being imported from the periphery into the core. In some sectors 1 hour of labor in the global north gets exchanged for more than 100 hours of labor from the global south. It got published December last year so it is very relevant for communists today, I'd say it's an absolute must-read.
Still baffles me how the majority of the western left doesn't consider this a part of theory study, and trots even outright denounce the existence of the unequal exchange and labor aristocracy!
Finally reached chapter four on WITBD. Yay!
I'm reading On Contradiction by Mao Zedong. The paragraphs 3 and 4 in "The Particularity of Contradiction" are the best.
Oh hey I just finished reading that, wasn't the first time I read it but I needed to read it again. Now I'm going to read Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg, I heard it in audobook format but I'm not good at absorbing complex stuff by audio, I need text.
Same. Text is dense, but it's easier to absorb with the right meta-cognition tools. Have you tried both? Reading while you hear the audiobook?
I think that would be too distracting for me, part of why text is easier for me is I set my own pace, that and it requires deliberate focus that makes it easier for my mind not to wonder.
Not a book, but reading this article from the Monthly Review about Mao's Great Leap Forward. Some of the arguments against Mao are similar to those put forward in Fraud, Famine, and Fascism.
I'm still reading Neuromancer and started Boris Hessen's The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia.
Still reading Nkrumah's work on Neocolonialism, taking a bit longer due to real life things.
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ive started reading my 1966 copy of lust for life and the introduction glazes irving stone as being atleast tentatively socialist
