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Reading socially is just so much better than reading alone.


There was no appetite for bread when I asked, so I welcome other suggestions. Highly-upvoted comments in the thread will be bookclubbed. Some suggestions that're on my radar:

  • David Graeber – Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (100 pages)

  • Cockshott – Towards A New Socialism (199 pages)

  • Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism

  • Amílcar Cabral, Resistance and Decolonisation (205 pages)

  • Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth (251 pages)

  • Bread Is the Devil: Win the Weight Loss Battle by Taking Control of Your Diet Demons by Heather Bauer and Kathy Matthews

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bread Is the Devil: Win the Weight Loss Battle by Taking Control of Your Diet Demons by Heather Bauer and Kathy Matthews

So this is the "bread book" anarchists keep telling me to read

I would love to re-read fanon, and I think it's very relevant to the situation in west Africa being what it is right now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No, this is the Marxist-Leninst response to it (as far as I understand)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism

huey-wut

My recs are:

Walter Rodney - Decolonial Marxism
Domenico Losurdo - Liberalism: A Counter-History
The new double issue of Monthly Review on degrowth
Andreas Malm - Corona, Climate and Constant Emergency: War Communism in the 21st Century
David Hilliard - The Black Panther Party Service to the People Programs
George Jackson - Blood in my Eye

I would also be interested in rereading Wretched of the Earth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Vote this comment for Wretched of The Earth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (300 pages)

(vote this comment to pick it)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

dont waste your time with hannah arendt. she never justifies how Stalin and Hitler are similar in her eyes she just says it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm enjoying The Gentrification of the Mind but I'm a bit biased 😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

some suggestions Kohei Saito - Marx in the Anthropocene (292 pages)

Kayanesenh Paul Williams - Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace (472 pages)

Leigh Brownhill - Land, Food, Freedom: Struggles For the Gendered Commons in Kenya, 1870-2007 (350 pages)

James Ferguson - The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticisation, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (336 pages)

Ira Katznelson - When Affirmative Action was White; an Untold History of Racial Inequality in America (272 pages)

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

Will this book club be using the Perusall? And I also suggest that Graeber book