A chapter a week of Lord of the Rings, following along with /r/TolkienFans.
Also Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis, and Reaganland by Rick Perlstein.
Nice, really want to read Late Victorian Holocausts, how is it?
I'm also reading this. It's great because I don't know anything economics and this gives me just enough info about a lot of the characters to start reading about them and their theories. Have you gotten to the chapter on Cybersyn yet?
Just finished On the Reproduction of Capitalism by Althusser. Pretty good read, found that Althusser tended to repeat a lot of basic Marxist concepts over and over throughout the book which was a bit tedious, but overall found him a pretty engaging and easy read.
Also not sure why people pit his theories against Gramsci, felt like he was very much building upon Gramsci’s theory of the State, albeit with different terms. But overall found his theories of Ideology and the ISAs definitely an important contribution to understanding how capitalism maintains its hegemony.
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Came off the recommendation of this Communist wrestler on Tiktok and it's fucking amazing.
The Age of Football. Exhaustive, exhaustive dive into world football. It's a social, economic, and political analysis by a leftish professor. Interesting leaning about league football in Africa, the Middle East, and South America. South Eastern Europe is wild.
I'm reading 'Nevada' by Imogen Binnie which is a really good queer breakup novel. Helping me reflect and process, and I highly recommend it. It sort of feels like the novel I wished I was reading when I read 'Detransition, Baby!' if that makes sense.
Too many things.
Nonfiction: The Devil's Chessboard and Bullshit Jobs
Fiction: Leviathan by Paul Auster The City & the city by China Miéville
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
