So, Zig Forums, what are you reading? What's on your to read list? Do you have stack of books to read?
Right now I'm reading The Capital, much easier and better than I expected, the first section is not as hard as people say.
Books and theory
Oliver Rogers
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David Cook
Currently reading John Smith's Imperialism (I've already read Lenin's), Cockshott's TANS, and Xi Jingping's Governance of China.
Recently finished Materialism and Empirio-Criticism by Lenin which was very illuminating on the difference between materialism and idealism, and Communist Horizon by Jodi Dean, which was a bunch of rubbish.
Landon Brown
Oh yeah and congrats on starting Capital! It is so important to read once you understand the basics of Marxism-Leninism. It's a real "red pill" because it constantly destroys your indoctrinated beliefs in bourgeois economics.
Hudson Taylor
Oh, and speaking of the first section of the Capital; Marx's book "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy" helps a lot to get the argument, as it is mostly the first section but a bit earlier with more jabs on Ricardo.
Whats the problem with her book? Saw a couple of lectures on youtube and it was pretty decent, she also made some nice argument's against IdPol.
Blake Torres
There's already a theory thread. It's just buried under a pile of anchored shit that certain mods don't want to delete for some reason.
Andrew Sullivan
Yeah I downloaded her book because some of her lectures seemed good too. But the book is mostly crap. It alleges that historical materialism is obsolete, and spends most of its pages on totally unverifiable, unscientific Freudian conjecture. It's also hilarious to read because it's wildly optimistic about Occupy Wallstreet. The greatest contribution the book gives is a criticism of "self representation" in politics– IE, since even an individual person has contradictions inside themselves, they are not actually better-suited to represent their interests in politics than a party is.
This thread is a bit different though.
Nathan Reed
I'm reading A People's history of the United States by Howard Zinn right now. It's interesting to read how racism was used as a tool to divide the poor in colonial America.
Ayden Nguyen
lmao. That's why I have a hard time taking these people seriously.
Julian Roberts
Ah, you are one of those guys. Laplanche(and so does Althusser) gives a nice rebuttal to this but I won't spend my time discussing it. It was already discussed and leads to a whole bunch of nothing.
Now this is a real problem. It's one thing to say that historical materialism has it's deficiencies but its another thing entirely to dismiss it as obsolete. A shame she went down on this route.
Jonathan Bennett
How and why should I take notes?
It's retarded