lindsi’s Comments (group member since Jan 13, 2021)

lindsi’s comments from the Reading with Comrades group.

No way, I just bought that lol! what’d you think?

i’m planning on reading it over thanksgiving break! 💓 i already love lenin though lol

I’m so excited about this one!

Jon would you mind setting up the poll and messaging out the link?

i love that idea! yeah we usually just take suggestions then have a poll :)

I know it’s a bit early, but I wanted to go ahead and start asking folks for their nonfiction recs so we can vote on a work to read together in November!

thank you so much y’all! i ended buying “the politics of heroin” but did not realize its 700pgs long, so i’m definitely looking for something a little quicker 😅

Sounds good to me 😅 right now I’m reading the sequel to Three Body Problem, Dark Forest!

apologies for the delay, I’ve been swamped with Atlanta DSA steering committee election stuff. But it’s time to decide what we’re going to read for October! Please drop your fiction recommendations and we will vote at the end of the week.

Alex we gotta talk! I do polied for Atlanta DSA!

Can’t recommend “Liberalism: A Counter History” by Domenico Losurdo enough!!

this ebook library has a free trial! https://www.perlego.com/book/1436887/... if you wanna purchase it, it’s on sale at haymarket rn: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/...

Yeah I would love to see a treatment of the same premise by like, an author of color from the Global South, bc LeGuin is a capital W White feminist for sure. Also idk how anyone thinks Anarres is utopian when it’s literally a resource colony lol goes to show that without an anti-imperialist lens, people’s brains break really fast 😬

we were discussing this at an education workshop last week - did american imperialism really “fail” in afghanistan? and the answer we came to is no, because they got exactly what they wanted out of the invasion & occupation, & the CIA most definitely still has its tendrils in the taliban & any other relevant power in the region.

I cannot recommend The Management of Savagery by Max Blumenthal enough https://www.versobooks.com/books/3154...

i actually wanna nominate a book i just finished, because it was SO GOOD and i need people to talk about it with! it’s “border & rule” by harsha walia

Hey comrades! I saw this graph today and it got me thinking about the numerous times the US has used the illicit drug trade as an imperialistic strategy. Do y’all know of any books about this subject? Thank you so much for your time!

Truthfully, I couldn’t finish it 🥴 it prompted so many good discussions between me and my partner who was also reading it at the time, but as a work of fiction, it wasn’t for me lol. I also felt some serious capital W White nonsense at various points that made the characters and the story too alienating for me to get invested in - the way that imperialism wasn’t fleshed out, for instance, either on Anarres or Urras itself. The reflexive need to cast the racialized Thuvians as the scary orientals really reveals some white chauvinism and more importantly obfuscates the reality of how imperialism impacts the choices a society has to make to survive. Don’t want to knock it too much, it’s still a fascinating read for the most part. I just thought for something so grounded in theory and removed from literature, it didn’t really work for me personally.

Alright folks, our August fiction pick is The Dispossessed! This is a super thought-provoking piece of sci-fi that explores the contradictions of anarchism through Shevek, a physicist from the anarchist moon colony of Anarres who visits the neoliberal, capitalist planet Urras to the horror of his comrades.

I actually read it for a different reading group last month and really enjoyed how many different aspects of colonialism, capitalism, and community that LeGuin poses questions about in such a short work. Looking forward to discussing with y’all!

Poll is up! https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...