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Ezra Klein's bookclub?
13: Rich Dad, Poor Dad
14: The End of History
15: The Fountainhead
16: Goodnight Moon
16: Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon? Like the hit song by Shivaree that was released in 1999?
No the Danzig song
needs more harry potter
Please consult the "Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism" reading list
How did you find my brunch club's reading list? 
Hannah Arendt, the white supremacist?
https://m.jpost.com/opinion/hannah-arendt-white-supremacist-456007
https://www.diggitmagazine.com/column/racism-and-how-read-hannah-arendt
Hannah “forced desegregation is totalitarianism” Arendt
That first article is about as terrible as one comes to expect from the Jerusalem post. I’m not saying there isn’t much to criticize in Arendt’s writings (particularly if your criticism comes from the left) but a Zionist spin article about a prominent anti-Zionist Jewish political scientist (who did admiral work pointing out the Zionist connections to the Nazi death machine) falls pretty flat. And it follows such a traditional Zionist pattern: have you considered that this anti-Zionist Jew is the real racist and this we should not pay attention when she reports on Eichmann’s warm and collaborative relationship with the Zionist partisans that formed the political core of the colony?
Noted. Any thoughts on the second article?
Much more nuanced. Doesn’t hit it square on the nose by saying “she was, at base, a liberal bourgeois academic who never fully opened her eyes to it even after nearly being ground in the gears of that system” but basically hints at that. The end of that one even says that you should read her despite her, shall we say, banal liberal racism/orientalism (including, famously, against poor, Eastern European Jews). But the context helps to understand when she is making valid observations and decent (and sometimes controversial) insights and when she misses the mark because of her prejudices.
Much like her book title, I refer to the hit 1934 song by Cole Porter "Anything goes" in this list.
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Everything belongs on main 
Beanis posts incomain 
you're gonna post main in your beanposts right?
Mainis. That's it. That's the post.
3 of these are good though
Are they:
- A Wrinkle in time
- V for Vendetta
?
Why do you guess those? Do you think they're good?
I've liked V for Vendetta forever but with my limited political bagage of a teen westerner
Another bear in this post mentioned the authors of these two books had nothing to do with people like Orwell. I'd like to get a second opinion
I was mostly just making a joke about starting a struggle session by being non-specific and criticising whatever someone brought up.
tbh I like a lot of these, I think that as long as you engage with media critically it's hard to come out worse for it. Particularly though I have a general soft-spot for Huxley's writing although reading BNW without also reading The Island is reading half a text. His ideas are overall extremely elitist and reflect bougie technocratic thought stewing since the enlightenment but they do so interestingly. If you were to read one author to see why these ideas have appeal to certain demographics he would be near the top of my list, and I think book-clubbing and critically examining them is well worth your time.
I'm really hoping one of them isn't Stephen King
Please comrade, if I want to read cocaine fueled slop I have only to look up from the sink to the lipstick on the mirror of a morning.
Yeah I read theory 
Wow fucking Tankies ignoring the classic revolutionary text of “The Notebook” by Nicholas sparks
Smh diary of a wimpy kid being left out by so-called Leninists
The call is coming from inside the house
Where's Tom Clancy?
The Trotsky reading lists
no clifford the big red dog
knew this was a fash instance
Sorry that's on the engels essential reads list
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