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  • Jul 28, 2021
    NEONICON

    I’ll prolly read his book on guerilla warfare next

    they be reading that in the usa military its crazy havent read it myself yet

  • Jul 28, 2021
    BEE 2000


    The Scout Mindset is only tangentially political.

    please dont read yglesias lol

  • Aug 15, 2021
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    "After all, the whole purpose of establishing colonial governments in Africa was to provide protection to national monopoly economic interests."

    "Thus, the Beligan government legislated to insure that freight to and from the Congo would be mainly carried by Belgian shipping lines; and the French government placed high taxes on groundnuts brought into France by foreign ships, which was another way of insuring that groundnuts from French Africa would be exported in French ships."

    "Another example is when Japanese cloth experts imported 63 million yards to British East Africa. This lead to Walter Runciman to impose heavy tariffs on Japanese goods entering British colonies in Africa. This meant that Africans had to pay higher prices for a staple import, since British cloth was more expensive."

    Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

  • Aug 16, 2021
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    i haven’t read a physical book for my own interest and enjoyment in like 5 years

    gotta cop some stuff, because generally i prefer physical books because i can get immersed in them better than scrolling endlessly (probably placebo)

  • Aug 16, 2021
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    Saint Aquinas

    All this leftism

    Where the right wingers at

    right-wing “theory” is just mein kampf and ghostwritten garbage artifically made to get on the NYT best selling list

  • Aug 17, 2021
    necromancer

    i haven’t read a physical book for my own interest and enjoyment in like 5 years

    gotta cop some stuff, because generally i prefer physical books because i can get immersed in them better than scrolling endlessly (probably placebo)

    Yea just try and read 10-15 mins a day in the morning or something

  • Aug 20, 2021
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    finished Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad. it was a brief but engaging look at US foreign policy during and after the Cold War

    mainly serves as a general overview instead of going into depth, but I'd definitely recommend it as a starting point for somebody trying to learn the truth about US meddling and geopolitics

  • Aug 21, 2021
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    kogoyos

    finished Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad. it was a brief but engaging look at US foreign policy during and after the Cold War

    mainly serves as a general overview instead of going into depth, but I'd definitely recommend it as a starting point for somebody trying to learn the truth about US meddling and geopolitics

    Any highlights?

  • Aug 21, 2021
    space0cadet

    Any highlights?

    nothing really revelatory or shocking for people who've been paying attention, but Prashad does a good job explaining the political and economic interests (as well as racism and the idea of American exceptionalism) that guide US actions

    the biggest takeaway for me was how nowadays coups are rarely done with assassinations but rather economic sanctions, the IMF setting policies, NGOs operating on foreign interests, and lawfare such as what happened in Brazil. Prashad also touched on how complicit the western media is in all of this

  • Aug 23, 2021
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    Reading this in my free time at home

    Started reading wealth of nations on my lunch break during work since it was on my phone on the books app lol and I had no data or internet, its basically a prequel to Das Capital right? will finish before I just suck it up and read all 3 volumes of Das Capital. The first chapter on division of labour was actually really interesting even if its something I already knew about

  • Aug 23, 2021

    need the OG ♥️Politics♥️ title back

  • Aug 23, 2021
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    Womanpuncher69

    Reading this in my free time at home

    Started reading wealth of nations on my lunch break during work since it was on my phone on the books app lol and I had no data or internet, its basically a prequel to Das Capital right? will finish before I just suck it up and read all 3 volumes of Das Capital. The first chapter on division of labour was actually really interesting even if its something I already knew about

    Losurdo is really good

  • Aug 23, 2021
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    cldtrlsslfls56

    Losurdo is really good

    just found out about him, he has a book about Stalin too right have ur read how is it? im 4 chapters in for counter history and he god the way he exposes liberal hypocrisy I know it ends somewhere before WW1 wish it went further the time period but if I take in what I learn from the book it, a little critical thinking would do the job for current day events.

  • Womanpuncher69

    just found out about him, he has a book about Stalin too right have ur read how is it? im 4 chapters in for counter history and he god the way he exposes liberal hypocrisy I know it ends somewhere before WW1 wish it went further the time period but if I take in what I learn from the book it, a little critical thinking would do the job for current day events.

    I've only read liberalism so far, but I think I got his book on stalin and war and revolution downloaded here somewhere. He's really good, him and Parenti are incredibly insightful while also being an incredible light read (especially Parenti), I know that at this point they get namedropped so much that people might feel that somehow their work loses power but I still feel like they're an important reading.

  • Aug 23, 2021
    Womanpuncher69

    just found out about him, he has a book about Stalin too right have ur read how is it? im 4 chapters in for counter history and he god the way he exposes liberal hypocrisy I know it ends somewhere before WW1 wish it went further the time period but if I take in what I learn from the book it, a little critical thinking would do the job for current day events.

    His book on Nietzsche is pretty good too

  • Aug 24, 2021

    Just finished Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa"

    Great book, a f***ing must read. I have 3 gripes.

    It is somewhat disorganized, he jumps from topic to topic

    Unnecessary length - 350 pages, could've been cut down a lot - especially in the sections where he speaks about Africa before colonialism, just a lot of super detailed stuff that isn't very memorable or relevant

    He tends to oversimplify a***ysis - the entirety of the American Civil War was wrapped up in a single sentence

    Nevertheless, here's my favorite quotes

    "Africa in the 15th century was not just a jumble of different 'tribes.' There was a pattern and there was historical movement. Societies such as feudal Ethiopia and Egypt were at the furthest point of the process of evolutionary development."

    For my socdems -- "The rewards spread through the capitalist system in such a way that even those capitalist nations who were not colonial powers were also beneficiaries of the spoils."

    "By establishing a stranglehold on the distribution of cloth around the shores of Africa, and partly by swamping African products by importing cloth in bulk, European traders eventually succeeded in putting an end to the expansion of African cloth manufacture. The craft producers either abandoned their tasks in the face of cheap available European cloth, or they continued on the same small hand-worked instruments to create styles and pieces for localized markets. Therefore, there was what can be called "technological arrest" or stagnation, and in some instances actual regression, since people forget even the simple techniques of their forefathers."

  • Aug 24, 2021
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    Currently reading The Shining Path of Peru by David Scott Palmer. It's about the violent Maoist group in Peru who almost overthrew the government there in the 1980s, it's basically a collection of academic papers.

    Doesn't seem like it has the greatest reviews, so not looking to read every word, but looking to hopefully extract some important info from it.

  • Aug 24, 2021

    Really need to get a bookshelf of some kind, my books are just f***ing stacked on a skyshelf i drilled into the wall of my apartment

  • Sep 1, 2021

    Just finished blood in my eye my George Jackson, anyone else read it?

  • Sep 1, 2021
    BEE 2000


    The Scout Mindset is only tangentially political.

    One Billion Americans 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • Sep 2, 2021
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    space0cadet

    Currently reading The Shining Path of Peru by David Scott Palmer. It's about the violent Maoist group in Peru who almost overthrew the government there in the 1980s, it's basically a collection of academic papers.

    Doesn't seem like it has the greatest reviews, so not looking to read every word, but looking to hopefully extract some important info from it.

    u tried reading the general political line by the communist party of Peru? or u trying to read more on the actual events that occurred ?

  • Sep 2, 2021
    Womanpuncher69

    u tried reading the general political line by the communist party of Peru? or u trying to read more on the actual events that occurred ?

    I was trying to read more on events that happened; critiques of the movement but also it's successes

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    kogoyos

    added these two books on the CIA and US interventions to my reading list. hopefully i'll get around to them soon and there's not too much overlap. anybody read these?

    also gonna make it a priority to finally read Open Veins of Latin America this year

    Killing Hope should be required reading for pretty much every American

    First chapter is an iconoclastic look at the US’ Cold War actions generally, then each subsequent chapter chronicles the US intervention in each separate country. Book is full of footnotes too.

    It’s a great resource I look back at constantly to get the 411 on what exactly the US interventions in other nations looked like. It’s easy to forget or conflate… bc there’s a hell of a lot of them

  • Sep 9, 2021

    Is there any good books out right now on the impact of Qanon since it’s inception towards the tail end of the 2020 election cycle

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