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I would read Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology by Nikolai Bukharin

or

Monopoly Capital by the people that founded Monthly Review (Sweezy and the other guy).

Edit: If anyone wants to do a "separate" book club, then let's try it.

I haven't read Monopoly Capital yet and I wouldn't mind reading Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology again.

Ouch, I knew I was behind on my bell hooks, but

Anyway, that's what I thought the reading group was.

I'm reading "Privatizing Poland; Babyfood, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor". it's about a baby food factory in Poland and how it was "acquired" by a US baby food firm. It's about the workers in the factory, how the "Shock Doctrine" effected their lives, how they pushed back and adapted, and generally about the experience of transitioning from Socialism to Capitalism. The author is Elizabeth C. Dunn. She did participant observation, ie working in the factory and talking with folks, in 1995-1997. The book was published in 2004. There's definitely some brainworms but I haven't decided how brainwormy it is.

oh, I should specify - This is an ethnography by an anthropologist, so it uses the methods and lens of anthropological participant observation where you go live with the people you're studying and kind of let them tell the stories they think are important to their lives.

187 pages + the index

System of Economical Contradictions: or, The Philosophy of Poverty – Pierre Joseph Proudhon (200 to 210 pages)

What's the best book on the Russian Civil War?

I would read Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology by Nikolai Bukharin

or

Monopoly Capital by the people that founded Monthly Review (Sweezy and the other guy).