theory

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (352 pages) - Vincent Bevins

I was going to do an Unmasking Autism (Dr. Devon Price) book club in the neurodivergent comm if anyone is interested

EDIT: Thinking of getting it going early next month. I'll need to do some prep work, re-read the book (currently finishing his prior book Laziness Does Not Exist and finding unexpected insights there too) and think up some discussion questions for each chapter. This one hit me hard and I've been trying to present it to other people in a way that does it justice. I feel like this will be a good avenue to pursue that.

A few recommendations based on what seemed to make the earlier book clubs really cook:

After an initial post like this, choose 5 titles or so and make a poll, then give people enough time to find a copy of the text and start reading.

Sticky each post to the front page for the entire week until the next one.

@ every single user who commented on any previous book club discussion or meta-discussion like this in every post starting with the poll (or honestly this current thread). These are the users who are interested in reading and discussing, you don't want them to not know there's a new book club because they were touching grass on the wrong day.

Clearly state the reading goal a week ahead of time

Upload the text to perusal.com - I didn't use it but it seemed like other comrades really liked the interactive nature that everyone was leaving comments on the text itself? Honestly I don't exactly know how it works but that's what I gathered.

I'll try to join, I've read a few of the big texts suggested and am reading one of the others so I should be able to find some time to review my old notes

Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a book by anthropologist David Graeber published in 2011. It explores the historical relationship of debt with social institutions such as barter, marriage, friendship, slavery, law, religion, war and government. (about 400 pages)

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney (312 pages)

Cockshott – Towards A New Socialism (199 pages)

Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris. 100% this should be the next one trust me.

There's a number of good books by Ilan Pappé on Palestine/Occupied Palestine but it's hard to pick between them and I'm not really in a place to commit to a reading club atm so I think I'll just float the idea if anyone wants to take up the charge.

Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century (700 pages)

Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (205 pages)

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason.pdf

38 pages, for varoufakis vaccination

[None: Vampire should only post about football]

I got a hold of books like Red Road to Freedom by Tom Lodge - It's about the history of the South African Communist Party. Pretty great so far. I could perhaps read it to the class.

I also have Armed and Dangerous and International Brigade against Apartheid, both by Ronnie Kasrils, though a mate at work is borrowing the latter.

There's also Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela; Why Israel? Anatomy of the Zionist Apartheid and Shattering Zionist Myths, both by Iqbal Jassat/Surya Dadoo.

Some forewarnings: The books do reference primary sources from "that time" in South African history, so there will definetely be the occasional hard-R and hard-K present. Also for the books regarding Isisrael, there is going to be quite several descriptions of death and gore.

Death to America

Where's the list of past book clubs?

Radhika Desai- Capitalism, Coronavirus and War (266 pages)