Just got finished with A People’s History of the US. I was going to go over some of Mao’s works next. Are y’all reading anything right now? Got any plans to read anything soon? Have any suggestions?
I will praise this book to the sky and back: Killing hope by William Blum. You want a comprehensive book on all recorded action of the CIA? All US foreign intervention? You want to ruthlessly murder a vast majority of the liberals in your walls? This is your book.
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This thing can fit so many recordings of US war crimes.
Also “An Indigenous people’s history of the United States” is also very good. Reading through that right now.
Going through a book called “Another View of Stalin”, this one I love and am making through very easily. It gives me a great amount of rage against Krushchev’s idiocy. Stalin deserved to be respected for the rest of the world’s history.
Re-reading Lenin’s Imperialism: Highest stage of capitalism. Mostly to be able to read “Lenin’s imperialism in the 21st century” with a freshly alert mind.
Capital Vol I is being a little shit to my brain
Thats off the top of my head. I would rather spend more time on them, but I have problems with my focus and ability to plan literally anything.
I’ve got An Indigenous People’s History of the US on my list. Lenin’s Imperialism in the 21st Century, too. I do audiobooks on podcast cause it’s easier for me. I’m surprised nobody’s put killing hope out there.
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A few! A Revolutionary Reading List - Audiobooks, Book Club Commune, Book Clvb(with the v on purpose), Foreign Languages Press - Audiobooks, Leftist Reading, Red Book Club, Socialism For All S4A. The last one isn’t exclusively audiobooks, but it’s got a bunch. I think it’s a YouTube channel, maybe. I also just make sure to search anything I’m interested in any time I hear about it. It may be on a podcast that’s geared toward books in general that I wouldn’t have found without a specific search anyway. Other times, people will make a podcast just for one book. I go back and look again anytime I hear of something I haven’t found yet just in case someone’s put it up.
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No problem! There’s also one just called YellowParenti that has a bunch of Parenti talks.
Killing hope by William Blum
Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad is also great when it comes to that topic.
been interested in Mesoamerican/Mayan history lately so have been reading up on that. Makes you really hate the Spanish
Oh, I’ll bet.
Wang Huning’s America Against America. I was told by the Economist (lol) that Mr Wang is some kind of ideological chameleon and antimarxist and this book and his tenure among the inner circle of 3 different Chinese presidents are proof of this.
The book is pretty vanilla lmao. It’s the casual observations of a Chinese boomer during his time in America. I’m halfway through and I don’t see the antimarxism, it’s pretty materialist observations about assorted contradictions and their amelioration in American society…
Did he say anything nice about people in the US? Cause they like to make it out as if Marxism is just hating everyone in the west. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if that was the reasoning.
He has some positive things to say about Americans. For example they are less superstitious and more pragmatic.
There’s a bit about micromanaging and planning the whole of society is an enormous task and letting the market paint in broad strokes so that the government can firmly do the whole regulation part and not the resource allocation. I suspect this is what these commentators latched onto. The same ones who were overjoyed “Xi’s China” was “privatizing” state enterprises by exposing them to greater market pressures. This was offset by larger membership of party members among leadership of the “privatized” state enterprises and 2 weeks later said commentators all complained about “Xi’s Maoist China” so go figure.
Oh, hahaha! Of course it comes down to them feeling rejected more than anything else.
I’m about 60% though Socialism with Chinese Characteristics by Roland Boer. I put it down awhile ago due to getting sidetracked, but I do want to get around to finishing it soon
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Haven’t read it. I’ll have to look it up, though, cause I’ve heard the name before, but don’t know what it’s about.
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Ok, I found it, and it’s on the list! Thanks for the suggestion!
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