Reading List
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Capital - A Critique of Political Economy I - II - III -- Marx + Engels
Economic analysis
You're god damn right!! No way around it!
How does our world work? Why do even nice bosses always end up betraying me? Why does the economy collapse every 10 years??
Read it in a group! Especially volumes 2 and 3.
Do NOT stop after volume 1. Our current economy can't be explained without the insights of volume 3.
Economic analysis, colonialism
The XXth century update of Capital.
Why does the working class in the imperial core still Suck??
Anthropology, economy, gender
Scientific analysis of the Straight question.
I did not understand what it means to be a homosexual until reading it.
Recommended pairing: Scientific analysis of the gay question (see below).
Gay stuff
Maoist lesbian banger. Absolutely stellar.
Is homosexuality bourgeois?????
Focuses on homosexuality, but can be applied verbatim to contemporary trans political discourse.
Recommended pairing: Origin of the family etc. (see above).
Colonialism, ideology, race
Where does racism come from? When did "race" become a thing and why?
What is ideology?
Material analysis of racism's origins and mechanisms. Banger among bangers.
Technology & digital culture
Recommeded to everyone at the Intersection Of Arts And Technology.
Basically all i blog about #onhere comes back to this.
Fascism, internet reactionaries, neoliberalism, colonialism
Analysis of contemporary internet reactionaries and their government counterparts.
Jargon-y but you can glaze over those parts and still make sense of it.
Liberalism is colonialism, colonialism is liberalism.
You don't hate Macron enough.
Organizing
You think some people are wrong. What do you do about it?
If you're involved with organizing and/or online discourse you should probably keep this at hand.
Colonialism, history
Account of the US mingling that led to the mass slaughter of communist party members in Indonesia in the 1960s. Necessary and bone-chilling.
Just as important as the story of US involvement is the glimpse at the future Indonesia was building for itself prior to its murder.
Extremely accessible reading, good to share.
It's called a method because the playbook the CIA developped then has been used countless times since.
Organizing
Organizing advice backed up by stories from the 60s women's liberation movement.
Mandatory reading for anyone involved in a volunteer organization.
Maybe hierarchy is not the enemy!
Organizing, ideology
Singling out part 1 of this reading, a stellar crash course of the marxist fundamentals.
Defines basic frameworks and tools like ideology, materialism VS idealism, class society, criticism.
The rest of the reading is great too, a practical guide to providing and receiving criticism productively.
Sex work, policing, borders
Rigorous materialist analysis of the issues surrounding sex work and its policing.
Death to the nordic model and the violence it justifies.
Psychoanalysis
My job is fulfilling and my interests align with my employer's : ) nothing to see there!
Very useful reading for anyone in "creative industries". And middle class global north dwellers writ large.
(Tho it also overstates the extent of the phenomenon it analyses, which imo doesn't apply as broadly in proletarian labour especially in the third world.)