I’m reading The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (Delphi edition) on my tablet.

Just finished Legendborn as well.

The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin is also what I’m reading (second book in the trilogy of The Three-Body Problem)

In terms of non-fiction:

Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism (2nd Edition) by Otto Wille Kuusinen (highly recommended!)

Class, Race and Black Liberation by Henry Winston (also highly recommmend! …Though not before reading the prequel to the book Strategy for a Black Agenda)

Discussion questions:

What new books are you reading?

Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?

Question of the week:

What books are you eager to read that you haven’t read yet?

Enjoy!

  • shroobinator@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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)

      • shroobinator@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been in the leftist camp for the last few years now, but just recently self identifying as an ML, but probably agreeing with the general idea without realising it.

        My mother who grew up in Soviet Crimea just recently gifted me a copy of the Manifesto, so I’ll be reading that soon. I’d really appreciate a list of some recommended works. Also if you have any suggestions for some books in the perspective of a historical account like The Jakarta Method, that really resonated with me.

        Thank you!

        • Makan ☭ CPUSA@lemmygrad.mlOPMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Materialism and Empirio-criticism by V.I. Lenin

          Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels

          “Democracy” and Dictatorship by V.I. Lenin

          On Authority by Friedrich Engels

          Anarchism or Sociailsm? by Joseph Stalin

          Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx

          On Practice by Mao Zedong

          On Contradiction by Mao Zedong

          Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels

          Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology by Nikolai Bukharin

          Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph Stalin

          “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin

          What is to be Done? by Vladimir Lenin

          @shroobinator@lemmygrad.ml

          I hand-picked these from a lot of choices.

          If you can read through all of these, you won’t be a “baby” leftist anymore.