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And it basically says what John Smith said in his own work: that China, in some ways, neo-colonized (to a degree) by the West. The idea that China is another imperialist power or that China is at the same level as the West is bunk.

I think they can grow stronger and whether they decide to keep the socialist market economy is up to them, but one thing is for sure: taking a "both sides" approach to geopolitics and the New Cold War between the West and China doesn't work out; it just means that both sides, both the stronger and weaker side, are treated equally and the stronger side wins.

We need to help spread the truth but also work on the ground when we can and organize for the future.

But also: let's not spread CIA talking points (or talking points that David Harvey sometimes repeats or Vaush)

Love International Publishers (that's their name lol), Routledge, and Palgrave.

Anyone else? Anything with good leftist content?

I also like Iskra Books, but that's only 'cause they're the new imprint of the Center for Communist Studies!

This book costs $150 on amazon right now so help me seed.

Just wondering how many people have seen or known about his work, let alone actually read his work in the first place.

He's a great author; I read his book on 1776 rebellion (The Counter-Revolution of 1776) and his book on southern Africa (White Supremacy Confronted). He doesn't get enough attention despite working on, like, 10 history books at a time lmao.

Youtube link if that's your thing.

I think Stalin is underrated as a theorist, imho.

For me, it's been:

Iran: A Child’s Story, A Man’s Experience by Gholam-Reza Sabri-Tabrizi

Our History Is The Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes

On The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People (1957) by Mao Zedong

Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Volume 1

Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky

In addition, I'm in the process of going through other books (around 8 in all)

White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela by Gerald Horne

Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh

Das Kapital, Vol. 1 by Karl Marx

Cultural Psychology and Quantitative Methodology: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations by Carl Ratner

Settlers by J. Sakai

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict by Phil A. Neel

Grasp: The Science And Transformation Of How We Learn by Sanjay Sarma with Luke Yoquino

What you been reading this month?

Currently I'm trying to finish state and revolution (very slowly unfortunately, stagnated even), what should i read afterwards? i would like to move on to intersectional works more relevant towards modern capitalism and our post-industrial gig economy and such

This book is wonderful so far.

Made this so I could read it on my phone. Here's a Discord-hosted Direct Download for those who dislike using Mediafire.

I also made a MOBI (Direct Download) and PDF (Direct Download) because that's just the thing to do when you make these sorts of things...

An important work for a socialist at any stage of development. Sankara became president of Burkina Faso on this day (August 4th, 1983).

I want one that's fun to read, and one that is not horrible anti-communist propaganda. I tried to find a biography myself but it turned up a bunch of weird reactionary books as well as some that just look boring. Also idk if this is the right community for this question? But I hope so...

I read this book a while ago and generally appreciated it's insight: captialism isn't a natural consequence of human existence, its the result of very specific material conditions in 16th and 17th century England. I'll admit though, I didn't have a strong grasp of marxism (not that I do now) or leninism when I read the work.

Have other comrades read it? What were your thoughts about the work generally or in relation to other marxist ideas?

The recent protesting forced me to reconsider how I want to release this book, I had a lot written, but not all of it was practical. And the bits that were both practical and relevant were already written and ready. So, I've decided to cut the book into volumes.

Link in case the URL fails: http://www.mediafire.com/file/0jp03h8s7zpos8s/Winterfaerie_-_Guerilla_Warfare_and_the_Iron_Collective_Volume_I.pdf/file

Marxist economics professor at both University of Missouri Kansas City and Tsinghua University

One of the few books on the MPR I've been able to find, and man is this thing huge. Goes all the way from the beginning of civilization in Mongolia to the 1970s.

Just getting into it now

Posting for "know your enemy" purposes. I'm in the most of the way through this, just about to get to the actual 'tactics' bit (coercive and non-coercive). It show's how depraved these people are and were, not even that long ago (35 years). I'm actually surprised they release stuff like this under FoI requests!

EDIT: Actually this is a different, whitewashed version of the pdf I started reading. The original here literally had text that shows that they were using torture with strikethrough, then whitewashed notes above them. This looks like the dictation of the whitewashed version.