Decently_OK_Person [none/use name]

social isolation preventing real organizing work HOW DID YOU FIND ME

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That is...a lot of books. I'll probably have questions at some point

Me. Because I swear if you elect me president I won't be racist sarcasm i'd never be president, please don't ban for joke

Two Faces of American Freedom is good if you're focusing less on class and more on imperialism, then working with that towards a critique of capitalism and imperialism.

Of Mice and Men is also great. I read it when I was still mostly lib, it made me realize a lot around intersectionality and class.

I'm still trying to work through Two Faces of American Freedom, as well as Gramsci on Tahrir. School has been distracting me, though they're both good books, on imperialism and settler colonialism, and a comprehensive look at history, respectively.

That's still a quarter of Americans who think the numbers are exaggerated or didn't happen, or are unsure it happened. The title is accurate from the data you listed at least. i do agree though the survey seems inaccurate. Might be based on their definition of "young"? I've seen my fair share of classmates that think it's exaggerated.

I found the book "Using Gramsci: A New Approach" by Michelle Fillipini to be helpful in organizing the ideas. The downside is that it isn't written specifically for leftism, but in general; a lot of it can be applied though. I have a fair amount of annotations from my read through of that. (I have not read the original notebooks yet.) I'd be interested in a reading group.

I don't check the website that much, so dming me on the discord or mentioning me is probably easier to continue this discussion (same username).

I think as other commenters have said its pretty natural to try to make sense of things through narratives (otherwise fiction wouldn't exist). So not really a disorder in any way. However, due to the atomized nature of capitalism, and the constant use of large scale commercialized fiction, this makes some sense as just an outcome of capitalism. When everything is atomized, and you are told that everything is due to your own actions ("pull yourself up by your bootstraps") it might be more likely that you begin to insert yourself as a heroic character into mainstream plotlines.

I'm currently making my way through Trouble in Paradise by Zizek. The entire introduction is mostly just strange jokes, and references to popular culture without quite explaining the connection. 20 pages could be cut down to maybe 5, 2 most likely. Then he continues on with 3 different versions of what he calls a "dialectical joke" that don't explain his point, then he just states it. 4 pages to explain a point about a contradiction of unemployment.