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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

Still reading Nkrumah's work on Neocolonialism, taking a bit longer due to real life things.

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.

Finally reached chapter four on WITBD. Yay!

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.

Alright, On Contradiction is probably the best book that I've ever read in my life no joke. I've been thinking about how to apply it in a billion things in my life like making better questions, how How to Read a Book's methods are an application of dialectical analysis, management, how to write better etc.

I'm reading On Contradiction by Mao Zedong. The paragraphs 3 and 4 in "The Particularity of Contradiction" are the best.