E.’s Comments (group member since Dec 08, 2021)

E.’s comments from the Reading with Comrades group.

Every history book I listed except the Dirlewanger book (which is a goddamn masterpiece btw) is about colonialism/imperialism/wars of liberation tho.

I saw you listed Open Veins and Late Victorian Holocausts so I didn't mention them but they're great books so kudos for that.

I would add Orientalism and some more Marx (Capital, 18th Brumaire and the Value, Price and Profit/Wage Labor and Capital immediately come to mind). Engels (Socialism, Utopian and Scientific and Principles of Communism would be a start).

Savage War of Peace, A Peace to End All Peace, King Leopold's Ghost, The SS Dirlewanger Brigade, The Kaiser's Holocaust and Anatomy of Fascism aren't directly Leftist books but I think they're relevant reading for any Leftist

I didn't see any Graeber or Chomsky which is fine if you didn't add them for ideological reasons but I'd consider them relevant for sure.

(I have a LOT more to recommend on Fascism, WW2 and the Holocaust but tbh if you add all my favorite stuff we'd end up with a list of great history books with some leftist political thought instead of the opposite)

I'm recording "Wage Labor and Capital"

I'll probably do "God and the State" next, just to balance things out

Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts

My reading for the month: I've already recorded Engels' *Socialism, Utopian and Scientific* and will publish it over the course of the month and I think I might record either John Reed or Mariano Azuela next.

For my own stuff outside of the channel, I wanna finally get around to Mark Davis' *Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory* and Huey Newton's *Revolutionary Suicide.* I've had those lined up for a long time but just never got around to them.

Brionna wrote: "Can anyone recommend something that gives a overview? Is The Communist Manifesto a good starting point?"

Communist Manifesto is short and accessible. If you wanna hear a recording of it you can go to my YouTube channel, Dakki Reads.

I think it's a great starting point but remember it was written as a pamphlet for working people 174 years ago. It's pretty simplified and and while it's still very relevant, Marxist theory has developed a lot since then.

Hi, I'm E, from Mexico, my pronouns are he/him but they/them is fine. Most of my theory is Marxist but I'm fine if the anarchists get rid of capitalism. Whoever does if first wins, yeah?

Aside from Left stuff I enjoy the great classics of literary canon and the trashiest Japanese light novels. I don't post about those on Goodreads because I don't want my real-life friends to know I'm reading "I went to another world and beat the demon king with my cheat skill volume 34."

I have a YT channel under the name Dakki Reads where I post my recordings of anticapitalist/anti-imperialist texts in the public domain.