Juice
joined 3 years ago
Read Value, Price and Profit
Definitely Nabiru because cosmic horror is awesome
Thanks for sharing, comrade. I'm sorry that you were made to doubt your own experiences. Ive felt like that before, for sure. Everything is complicated!
Thanks for the recommendations! I'll see if I can grab copies off libgen and add them to the stack!
I def get where you're coming from. I wish more orgs actively developed critical thought, and one of my critiques of left orgs/spaces is how many things considered "theory" serve as shibboleths and in-group signalling.
Like the Refused screamed in New Noise:
We enjoy all the wrong moves
We dance to all the wrong songs
We're not changing
If you have other suggestions I'd love to hear them. I'd like to read an updated version of a classic. I get where you're coming from, and I've definitely encountered and felt burned by dogmatism on the left. But I also feel like by that same logic someone could incorrectly say to not read Marx or Lenin, which is basically the underlying logic of the "new left" movement, which oversaw the rise of neo liberalism and disintegration of organized labor, and all but complete dismantling of anti imperialist and socialist movements. So, that might be worth considering as well.
Is there some reason why you would try to discourage me from reading either of these? Telling me not to read something is a sure fire way to make sure that I read it (that's dialectics, after all). I'm familiar with criticisms of Settlers, but I've also heard good things from other people who I trust. Its such a touch stone for so many leftists, I need to know where people are coming from. I'm more from the school of "ruthless criticism of all that exists," I have a reading group and a curriculum we are working off of, and Settlers isn't on it, so it's ironic that it's considered required reading. It's literally extracurricular for me.
Also why waive me off of Black Jacobins? I just want to read CLR James, I don't even know what its about.
"The last capitalist will sell us the rope we will use to hang him"
Good job, keep it going!
I'm finishing Ten Days that Shook the World by Jack Reed, and Moby Dick. Once I'm done with Ten Days I might pick up The German Ideology (since I've only read the first few chapters,) 18th Brumere of LB or E&P Manuscripts of 1844 if I feel like diving into some Marx. I'm more familiar with his economic stuff and want to get into his philosophical works since I finished Spinoza's Ethics.
I also need to read Settlers so I might take another whack at it. Or maybe Black Jacobins by CLR James.
Not sure what I'll read after Moby Dick in the way of fiction, maybe the last Joe Abercrombie book which I really need to read and have been procrastinating on. Or maybe one of the Philip K Dick books in my stack; I love PKD but he is pretty bleak so it's kinda dependent on where my MH is at when I get there.
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