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What are you reading? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Currently I'm reading Nina Burton's 'Livets tunna väggar' which translate to something like Walls of Life. It's a book by a Swedish writer who inherits her mother's summer house. When she wants to renovate it, she finds all sort of life around and in the house. She uses said life to teach you something about the intellect of various insects and animals, which goes deeper than humans normally think.

It's a very interesting book that makes me think about non-human life even more. Creatures that are thousands of times smaller than we are have such complex societal structures. Humans have overcommodified animal life for centuries now, seeing them as property and commodities instead of complex and intelligent life forms.

What are you reading?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really really like the first three chapters which explain practically that the purpose of society should be for the benefit of all. After that point, he gets like hyper-fixated on minutaea like greenhouses and how much a shirt should cost.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did someone say “how much a shirt should cost?”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Whereas Marx used the shirt as a REPRESENTATIVE SYMBOL of where value is in the labor process, Kropotkin was an idealist navel gazer. IM NOT OWNED IM NOT OWNED!!! /j