Reading socially is just so much better than reading alone.


There was no appetite for bread when I asked, so I welcome other suggestions. Highly-upvoted comments in the thread will be bookclubbed. Some suggestions that’re on my radar:

  • David Graeber – Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (100 pages)

  • Cockshott – Towards A New Socialism (199 pages)

  • Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism

  • Amílcar Cabral, Resistance and Decolonisation (205 pages)

  • Fanon – The Wretched of the Earth (251 pages)

  • Bread Is the Devil: Win the Weight Loss Battle by Taking Control of Your Diet Demons by Heather Bauer and Kathy Matthews

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    Bread Is the Devil: Win the Weight Loss Battle by Taking Control of Your Diet Demons by Heather Bauer and Kathy Matthews

    So this is the “bread book” anarchists keep telling me to read

    I would love to re-read fanon, and I think it’s very relevant to the situation in west Africa being what it is right now

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    Hannah Arendt – The Origins of Totalitarianism

    huey-wut

    My recs are:

    Walter Rodney - Decolonial Marxism
    Domenico Losurdo - Liberalism: A Counter-History
    The new double issue of Monthly Review on degrowth
    Andreas Malm - Corona, Climate and Constant Emergency: War Communism in the 21st Century
    David Hilliard - The Black Panther Party Service to the People Programs
    George Jackson - Blood in my Eye

    I would also be interested in rereading Wretched of the Earth

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    Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (300 pages)

    (vote this comment to pick it)

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    some suggestions Kohei Saito - Marx in the Anthropocene (292 pages)

    Kayanesenh Paul Williams - Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace (472 pages)

    Leigh Brownhill - Land, Food, Freedom: Struggles For the Gendered Commons in Kenya, 1870-2007 (350 pages)

    James Ferguson - The Anti-Politics Machine: ‘Development’, Depoliticisation, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (336 pages)

    Ira Katznelson - When Affirmative Action was White; an Untold History of Racial Inequality in America (272 pages)

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