In mid January i posted about started to read Crime and Punishment, fast forward to some days ago, i finished it and now im trying to read Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeno.

I feel a little down because i took to long to finish the book, considering that I’m basically a neet, brazilian developer market is wild rn, so i got lots of freetime, but mostly spend it on the computer watching youtube and playing games, i try to cope myself thinking that partly this isn’t completely my fault since i was a tv baby, and my education was lacking, teen years were spent playing video games basicaly (which is how i learned english), so i never read anything before making 23 (im 24 now), trying to pick up the habit now.

Now impressions so about Open Veins and divided, i like Galeano’s writing style, he uses kinda of a poetic language to make it more engaging and to make you feel the tragedy, but the time and space constant jumping makes hard to follow the point, when he doesn’t do it, damn it hits heavy, stuff i never heard about like brazilian military giving sugar poisoned with arsenic to natives.

Anyway, not gonna lie, even tho this book is crucial to understanding latin america, im procrastinating in reading marxist theory, so far after two years of discovering communist I’ve read only the manifesto and didn’t understood much of it, alls i know is capitalism is shit and socialist countries did amazing things and i want those amazing things.

so, what you people think?

  • supersolid_snake
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    8 months ago

    I learned more about real world economics from open veins than I did as an econ major. If you like open veins, I also recommend the memory of fire trilogy.