If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (352 pages) - Vincent Bevins
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It's good.
I've been curious about this one.
TrueAnon and Chapo both had the author on the show to discuss the book, the 
ep was especially good
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A few recommendations based on what seemed to make the earlier book clubs really cook:
After an initial post like this, choose 5 titles or so and make a poll, then give people enough time to find a copy of the text and start reading.
Sticky each post to the front page for the entire week until the next one.
@ every single user who commented on any previous book club discussion or meta-discussion like this in every post starting with the poll (or honestly this current thread). These are the users who are interested in reading and discussing, you don't want them to not know there's a new book club because they were touching grass on the wrong day.
Clearly state the reading goal a week ahead of time
Upload the text to perusal.com - I didn't use it but it seemed like other comrades really liked the interactive nature that everyone was leaving comments on the text itself? Honestly I don't exactly know how it works but that's what I gathered.
I'll try to join, I've read a few of the big texts suggested and am reading one of the others so I should be able to find some time to review my old notes
This is useful
please include me in the ping list
Yeah perusal was sooooo nice a couple years back. I read everything as a back catalogue when we were reading bookchin
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I was going to do an Unmasking Autism (Dr. Devon Price) book club in the neurodivergent comm if anyone is interested
EDIT: Thinking of getting it going early next month. I'll need to do some prep work, re-read the book (currently finishing his prior book Laziness Does Not Exist and finding unexpected insights there too) and think up some discussion questions for each chapter. This one hit me hard and I've been trying to present it to other people in a way that does it justice. I feel like this will be a good avenue to pursue that.
This would be amazing.
I am currently trying to get my hands on the new Empire of Normality-book myself, read it was about capitalism and neurodivergence especially. Currently writing my bachelors about neurodiversity in the context of welfare states (control, normativity etc.) and the commodification part of it all is a worrying question that I am working on forming an understanding in.
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How do I get in on this.
Library Genesis 😎🧩📖
Please tag me when this happens?
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
I'm the teacher and you're the class clown
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney (312 pages)
Ooh yeah this is on my list
Cockshott – Towards A New Socialism (199 pages)
I found this book to be very helpful to me to understanding socially necessary labor time (abstract labor) and how central planning in a social state can work.
However, Paul Cockshott is a massive, unrepentant transphobe. Felt like that should be pointed out.
im so glad to hear you are in good health vampire!
Thanks comrade
The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South 320 pages
Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century (700 pages)
Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism (205 pages)
Where's the list of past book clubs?
There isn't one afaik but that's a good idea. To my memory we've done Debt: The First 5000 Years and Bullshit Jobs by 
, How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm and there was an attempt to do The Wretched of the Earth by 
but it didn't really seem like people knew that one was happening.
there was an attempt to do The Wretched of the Earth by but it didn't really seem like people knew that one was happening.
Ok we've got overlap there cool. How about The Dialectics of Dependency by Ruy Mauro Marini? The English translation is only a few years old.
This sounds cool
Also a lot of Samir Amin's later stuff if you all like it
Yeah I've got him on my list but haven't made it to him yet
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There's only been two since I started modding this forum:
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https://hexbear.net/post/278793?scrollToComments=false – How to be a good communist by Liu Shaoqi
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https://hexbear.net/post/336116?scrollToComments=false – The Wretched of the earth
more of an idea, if someone has some good reads on Palestine that feels relevant and you should drop a rec.
[None: Vampire should only post about football]
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason.pdf
38 pages, for varoufakis vaccination
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There's a number of good books by Ilan Pappé on Palestine/Occupied Palestine but it's hard to pick between them and I'm not really in a place to commit to a reading club atm so I think I'll just float the idea if anyone wants to take up the charge.
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I got a hold of books like Red Road to Freedom by Tom Lodge - It's about the history of the South African Communist Party. Pretty great so far. I could perhaps read it to the class.
I also have Armed and Dangerous and International Brigade against Apartheid, both by Ronnie Kasrils, though a mate at work is borrowing the latter.
There's also Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela; Why Israel? Anatomy of the Zionist Apartheid and Shattering Zionist Myths, both by Iqbal Jassat/Surya Dadoo.
Some forewarnings: The books do reference primary sources from "that time" in South African history, so there will definetely be the occasional hard-R and hard-K present. Also for the books regarding Isisrael, there is going to be quite several descriptions of death and gore.
Death to America
Red Road to Freedom is a great one and I really wish people would read up on the Communist Parties besides the AES ones.
Ouch, I knew I was behind on my bell hooks, but 
Anyway, that's what I thought the reading group was.
I would read Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology by Nikolai Bukharin
or
Monopoly Capital by the people that founded Monthly Review (Sweezy and the other guy).
Edit: If anyone wants to do a "separate" book club, then let's try it.
I haven't read Monopoly Capital yet and I wouldn't mind reading Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology again.
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