theory

The only book I've finished reading this year was the Vietnamese school book on Marxism-Leninism that Luna Oi translated: https://archive.org/details/intro-basic-princ-marx-lenin-part-1-final The book, despite being somewhat awkward in how it has so many annotations, is actually very good at breaking down how to analyze the world dialectically. It really shows the difference between living in a society that tries to educate its populace on scientific socialism and the bullshit most of us are stuck with. I've always felt that for intro text, a school book from the Soviet Union/China/Cuba/Vietnam/DPRK/Yugoslavia and so on would be vastly superior in teaching people about socialism than reading the Communist Manifesto or some writing by Stalin or Mao. Like, a school book by design is supposed to educate people who don't know anything about a subject.

I've also skimmed through my notes and highlights on Wretched of the Earth for our book club. And there's so much that's applicable to what is happening in Gaza right now. The one that sticks out in my mind right now is a clip that's circulating around resistance Twitter of an IOF goon who claimed that getting shot by RPGs has caused him to develop PTSD, which led him to beating his wife everyday, pissing on himself before going to sleep, and becoming an alcoholic. He has apparently drunk himself to bankruptcy. Fanon in the last chapter described an almost identical case of a French pig who, having tortured numerous Algerians, had become increasingly unhinged and started to visit Fanon because he kept on beating his wife and kid. There's so many cases like this where what I've read in that book is being played out in real life.

I was in the middle of reading a book about how the FBI was more or less behind Tupac's death called The FBI War on Tupac Shakur before Al-Aqsa Flood.

There's this section within a journal/anthology(?) by an East German author that documents the collaboration between Zionists and Nazis: https://archive.org/details/KlausPolkehnTheSecretContacts-ZionismAndNaziGermany1933-1941 This shit is extremely damning if accurate. We're talking about Nazis leaving Zionist orgs alone even after Hitler became Chancellor, going so far as to allow Zionist newspapers to circulate when almost every other non-Nazi newspapers have been banned. Zionists, in turn, not only refused to participate in a 1933 anti-Nazi boycott that was spearheaded by German Jewish orgs, but they went so far as to straight up oppose the boycott saying that "the boycott propaganda which they are making against [Nazi] Germany is in its very nature un-Zionist, since Zionism does not want to fight, but to persuade and to build." Zionism does not want to fight against Nazism but to persuade and to build alongside Nazism. By their words, they oppose the boycott, and by their deeds, they collaborated with the Nazis through the Haavara Agreement, which more or less broke the boycott. This shit's fucking wild, and I'm still processing what I've just read.