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What did you read in 2023 and what will you be reading in 2024? (hexbear.net)
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What did you or are you planning on reading?

I was very bad at reading books this year, so I'm going to make a better habit of it this year. Here is my short list so far for 2024:

  • The Eye of the Master
  • Palo Alto
  • The Long 20th Century (and maybe Adam Smith in Beijing?)
  • Socialist States and the Environment
  • The Capital Order
  • Collapse of Antiquity
  • (maybe I'll finish) Vol 1 of Wallersteins The Modern World-System, but probably not
  • reread Capital vol 1
  • Intelligence and Spirit
  • XYZT

Also:

  • one of Ilyenkovs books?
  • something about or by Hegel. I've only read the introduction to the philosophy of history
  • one of Losurdos books
  • Maybe the Grundrisse instead of capital vol 1
  • Marx's Inferno
  • Bataille's book on prehistoric art

Pls share what you have or plan to read so I can get some recommendations! I posted in c/theory but fiction is welcome too.

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah I read that very carefully too. I think it has some weaknesses (mainly that it conflates capitalism and being on the receiving end of imperialism, but also that he's pretty hand-wavy with the effects of structural adjustments) but the China data is really where his argument shines.