• LeninsRage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Began Capital, Vol III and Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing this week. On Kindle I'm going through China Mieville's October and Paul Cockshott's Towards a New Socialism

      • LeninsRage [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That's because Vol II deals with largely technical rather than political aspects of capitalism, that being circulation, turnover, and flows of capital between departments of the economy. Engels explicitly acknowledged this when corresponding with Russian(?) Marxists. It's filled with a lot of tedious mathematical formulas and equations which will literally put you to sleep.

      • LeninsRage [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yes, as well as Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Just finished Dead Labor: Towards a Political Economy of Premature Death, and I was gonna move on to either Black Against Empire or Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat, but I just ordered Marx's Capital Illustrated so I'm probably gonna go through that first.

  • glk [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    "kill everything that moves" by Nick Turse. about war crimes in Vietnam It's deeply depressing and even more infuriating.

  • dom [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.

    On chapter 5 with the ...

    ritual fortune-telling scene. Lmao they get so horney that they can see the future.

  • chugjug [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I started reading Insurrection by Peter Rollins. As someone who grew up Christian but has very nearly fallen off, I've been interested lately in a more radical Christianity outside the institutional church. I'm not that far in but I'm curious about where it leads me