askchapo

Blackshirts and Reds is great for this purpose.

Not just because of the content, but because it is very short and written simply. An anti-Lenin group of anarchists will be mostly people that literally do not read books to challenge themselves. In addition to being a sick burn it is also generally true, even in reading groups.

I have been in anarchist-dominated reading groups where all they wanted to read were extended pamphlets from anarchists. Sometimes anonymous modern anarchists with no stated relevant experience in what they were writing about or cited sources, just a vaguely left lsnguage dump on, I shit you not, why anarchists should volunteer to fight Russia in Ukraine. The other type of reading they did that was actual books tended to be "lived experiences" explorations centered on liberal identity politics. Useful for picking up some context but politically incoherent and highly liberal.

Thirding. I identify as an anarchist. I recently read Black shirts and Red. It had a lot of criticisms of Soviet Russia that were based in history. The criticisms were done in a way that it was easy to see the faults, but you can also see ways to avoid. It was a great work that's valuable to all leftists

seconding Parenti, as an anarchist

Thank you, I would love that!