That’s it! I am putting it on the record. I know some things, but not enough, and my crappy doomscrolling habits combined with my much less crappy posting habits get in the way of due diligence. So I’ll make a belated resolution to read at least one piece of captivating communist or communist-adjacent literature a month; more if I am feeling it.
I plan to start by capping off March with Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell- this has been a sorely missing piece to my analysis that I am very thankful for discovering has a well-regarded fit. I am living my disabled truth more and more in the years following 2020 despite having this affliction for more than half of my life at this point, and I have never felt a good foundation for a synthesis of my life and my principles through Marxist thought, nor have I found satisfactory answers through community, not really. I hope following this helps me become a pillar for others like me, our disabled comrades and comrades-to-be. After this, my wife found a very loved copy of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States at a local bookstore being given away for free. I have been meaning to go through it for years, and thus a freebie lands in my lap; it is destiny.
That said, recommend me the good shit! The year is still young, and I am pretty much this IRL:
Making reading a daily habit was one of the best thing I've done. I used to avoid reading books like plague, but by reserving some of my time daily to just read helped me get used to it.
I recommend pretty much anything from Michael Parenti, but my favourite so far is Inventing Reality. I find his books also to be easy to read, which might help.
Btw if you'd like to change your doomscrolling habits into doomreading, The Divide by Jason Hickel goes into unequal development and ends talking about climate change, and how doomed we are.