Books

Started reading "Origins of family and private property" by comrade Friedrich Engels. It's a harder read than Lenin's "State and revolution", but I suppose it is expected from a scientific work. Interesting stuff, however. I like the unhurried, scientific approach to history and general matters. Goes to show that communism isn't just "some people are angry at rich folk", as it is often understood in popular culture.

In terms of fiction... I'm kinda stuck there. Pretty much nothing I've tried starting these past weeks makes me want to continue reading. It's all so tiresome

I've not read any fiction book lately (like, in the last 6 years or so). Only non-fiction and specially stuff related to Marxism and biology. Recently started "The Great Class War", by Jacques Pawels and "Red Theology", by Roland Boer.

I want to read some books that have been on my list for a while like "Liberalism: A counter history" by Losurdo, "The Liberal Virus" by Samir Amin, "This is Biology" and "What Evolution is" by Ernst Mayr and "American Exception. Empire and the Deep State", by Aaron Good.

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The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. In the first volume, Beauvoir tackles the alerity that Man imposed on women, from a historical and literary viewpoint. She goes over the male assumptions of women's inferiority or otherness in the fields of biology and psychoanalysis, and she has a few comments to say on historical materialism, specifically responding to what Engels' The Origin of the Family. It's an interesting read until now, and I'm wondering how this work relates to Beauvoir and Sartre's polygamous relationship.

I'm looking forward to read some of al-Kawakibi's works next.

Non-fiction theory - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels

Non-fiction history - Beyond by Stephen Walker, a book about Yuri Gagarin

I am currently reading Gwyn Alf Williams’ Proletarian Order: Antonio Gramsci, Factory Councils and the Origins of Communism in Italy 1911-1921. I am visiting France next month so I will probably pack Jean Jaurès A Socialist History of the French Revolution.

I tend to read non-fiction. I'd like to read more fiction but never seem to get around to it.

I'm currently reading Grace Can Lead Us Home by Kevin Nye. It's is about a housing-first approach to helping the unhoused(as opposed to the current mainstream systems). It's written by a Christian based on his experiences with working for the unhoused but I still think it's good literature regardless of your faith. It's been running fairly parallel with my experiences with helping the unhoused as well. I've since added it to my lefty lit I will recommend.

Up next I am gonna read either Killing Hope, Inventing Reality, or just read both. Then I want to get back to theory, which I am always taking suggestions on.

I've started reading Subversive Lives: A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years by Susan and Nathan Quimpo. I found it after reading The Jakarta Method and wanting to read more leftist history of SEA. (Also strongly recommend for anyone interested in anti-imeprialism)

I've only read about 1/6 of it so far, but I've found it very informative of the atrocities committed by the Marcos family. I'm genuinely brought to tears several times in the book reading the first hand accounts of the terrors brought upon them. What's been very interesting so far is how much infighting and splintering that occured between the several revolutionary groups of the Philippines of the era. One brother of the author was actually killed by his comrades early on in the book.

If anyone here has read it, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it as well.

Afterwards I'd like to read State & Revolution (yeah yeah, baby leftist, I know)

On my new ereader :) I’m reading The Dialectical Biologist (decent, recommend to biology interested people), On Practice by Mao (as part of FLPress’s five essays on philosophy, everyone should read), What is to be done (important read), and I’m finding it difficult to get back into Karl Marx’s ecosocialism (it’s dense and I’m a third through).

I probably prefer fiction, but nonfiction seems more important so I mostly read it.

There are a lot of books that I really want to read, but have not started. Some such books include What the Buddha taught, Decolonial Marxism, Socialist States and the Environment, and socialism with Chinese characteristics. I also does anyone know if the PSL book on future socialist construction in the US was any good, I’ve considered buying it and also don’t remember it’s title too.