They not have to be marxist specifically, but all of mine are. My favorites are: Walter Rodney, Lenin, Anuradha Ghandy and Vijay Prishad. I have been thinking of Red Star Over the Third World again recently, and I may decide to reread it soon.
They not have to be marxist specifically, but all of mine are. My favorites are: Walter Rodney, Lenin, Anuradha Ghandy and Vijay Prishad. I have been thinking of Red Star Over the Third World again recently, and I may decide to reread it soon.
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bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml · 14 pts · 2y
Stalin writing style is one of my favorites, i started reading theory with the reading comprehension off a baby and out of all the marxist writers he was the only one i could understand.
showmustyugo@lemmygrad.ml · 8 pts · 2y
Kollontai, who I think should literally be this subs icon. Comradely Love and proletarian feminism 🥰
Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml · 7 pts · 2y
I actually really like Marx. I got a thing for 19th century prose.
American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y
the translator has arrived
please we fear the prose
Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml · 4 pts · 2y
FRANK HERBERT
lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml · 4 pts · 2y
Yeah I love him. He was kind of a victim of the 50s communist scare propaganda though and was very against the idea.
American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Lenin is funny and I like him
William Blum is as jaded as me so he good
The Author of Eagle Among Lions
I like Rick Riordan, author of the percy jackson series too. Childish I know, but he's the one author who didn't turn out to be a transphobic or homophobic bastard. They were my comfort reads for a long while.
proletarian_girlboss@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Lenin is very entertaining. Like in The Right of Nations to Self Determination when he basically calls Trotsky a worm.
I searched William Blum's name to check if he is the author of Killing Hope, and made a very crinkly discovery: William Blum, US Policy Critic Cited by Bin Laden, Dies at 87 | New York Times The New York Times never fails to cause me immense anguish.
redtea@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Might have to look into some Blum. What would you recommend starting with?
American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Killing Hope, it is my bible
azanra4@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a banger
Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 2y
I don't have a favourite author
lav@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 2y
I have read very few books. I used to go about thinking I was deep for reading Animal Farm. I gained actual class consciousness this year, and mostly read theory. My fav. book used to be Agatha Christie's 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', it was a good one. What are the works of the former and latter two? I've heard about Anuradha Ghandy but not in detail.
proletarian_girlboss@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y
For Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is perhaps his most well known work. I have read that, and Decolonial Marxism. Both are very wonderful and comprehensive.
Anuradha Ghandy's book on feminist trends has been immensely useful for me in navigating a lot of idealistic tendencies which exist. Her statements regarding anarchist organizing particularly is something I think of often. It is a very short book, so it may be easier to go through as well.
And Vijay Prishad writes constantly. He is in a lot of leftist outlets being interviewed, or writing articles The books I can think of from him are Washington's Bullets, and Red Star Over the Third World.
LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Sounds interesting. I searched but I couldn't find any quotes. Could you provide some pointers to where I could read these? Thanks.
proletarian_girlboss@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y
In her book, 'Philosophical Trends in the Feminist Movement', she has a chapter dedicated to anarchism, if I remember correctly.
LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml · 0 pts · 2y
Thanks!
Link for anyone else interested.
redtea@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Ficton-wise, Bernard Cornwell remains my favourite author. Some other authors deserve a mention: John Williams, Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Heller, Sally Rooney, David Lodge, Phillip Pullman, Conn Iggulden, David Gemmel, Wilbur Smith, and Robert Jordan. I might not necessarily enjoy all these authors' works in the same way as I once did if I re-read them today and I know little about their personal lives or politics but I loved them all when I first read them.
Non-fiction-wise, Lenin, Engels, and Parenti are as easy to read and enjoyable as good fiction. Maybe David Harvey, too, but I get a bit annoyed with some of his anti-China sentiment.
Anatolianin@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Bebel I suppose. (Not the August Bebel!)
Also Alexander Dumas.