š£ļøš£ ATTENTION EVERYONE, 2 LIBERALS JUST INFILTRATED THIS THREAD, INSTINCTIVELY DOWNVOTING EVERYTHING THEY SEE RATHER THAN GOING THROUGH WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Vijay Prashad, Losurdo (recently passed away RIP), Zak Cope, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Parenti, John Smith, Roland Boer, Galeano, Paul Cockshott (on certain things), Jin Huiming, Assata shakur, Federici (weirdly not a marxist but does marxist analysis in all her works).
āIron Councilā has railworkers overthrow their bosses and turn a train into a socialist settlement. They travel slowly so they can just take apart the track behind it and lay it again in front of the train where they want to go.
A more serious work would be āOctoberā. Itās historical fiction not academic, but itās a worthwhile introduction if you really donāt want to read a history book.
Professor Roland Boer, he is afaik the only non-Chinese professor of Marxism in all of China and studies marxism, Chinese socialism, and religious belief and spirituality from a marxist perspective. These are my recommendations for books, with the first one being my all time suggestion for people:
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners
Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition
Criticism of Heaven
Most of his books are free on his website or around the internet
This neoliberal prankster is thus the epitome of a radical recuperator. He cultivates and markets the appearance of radicality in order to recuperate potentially radical elements in society, particularly young people and students, within the pro-imperialist anti-communist fold. This is precisely why he is the most famous āMarxistā in the capitalist world, festooned by the likes of a journal linked to the engine of U.S. imperialism. His mantra is nothing but an opportunistic perversion of the closing lines of The Communist Manifesto: āCultural consumers of the pro-Western world uniteāand buy my next book, or movie, or crossover product, or whatever, and so on, and so on!ā
23 Comments
Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml · 22 pts · 2y
š£ļøš£ ATTENTION EVERYONE, 2 LIBERALS JUST INFILTRATED THIS THREAD, INSTINCTIVELY DOWNVOTING EVERYTHING THEY SEE RATHER THAN GOING THROUGH WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
proletarian_girlboss@lemmygrad.ml · 15 pts · 2y
Absolute evildoers.
QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml · 16 pts · 2y
Of what Iāve read so far, gotta be Parenti.
muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml · 15 pts · 2y
Vijay Prashad, Losurdo (recently passed away RIP), Zak Cope, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Parenti, John Smith, Roland Boer, Galeano, Paul Cockshott (on certain things), Jin Huiming, Assata shakur, Federici (weirdly not a marxist but does marxist analysis in all her works).
proletarian_girlboss@lemmygrad.ml · 15 pts · 2y
Vijay Prashad perhaps, and his book Red Star Over the Third World.
Nimux@lemmygrad.ml · 14 pts · 2y
Parenti's still alive isn't he ?
funky_tomatoe@lemmygrad.ml · 16 pts · 2y
Yeah. I believe he suffers from dementia so he can't speak or write anymore. Really sad story.
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml · 14 pts · 2y
Sometimes I listen to Parenti lectures I've already heard too many times just because I like listening to him. He was a great and passionate speaker.
RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml · 6 pts · 2y
"If you want to get a photo from the press just gesture wildly" he has some great quips. Very funny guy when he wants to be. Love his lectures.
GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml · 5 pts · 2y
you can never listen to a Parenti lecture too many times
Vode_An@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y
China MiƩville is definitely some type of Marxist.
āIron Councilā has railworkers overthrow their bosses and turn a train into a socialist settlement. They travel slowly so they can just take apart the track behind it and lay it again in front of the train where they want to go.
A more serious work would be āOctoberā. Itās
historical fictionnot academic, but itās a worthwhile introduction if you really donāt want to read a history book.Edited for accuracy
yangchadui@lemmygrad.ml · 5 pts · 2y
I wouldn't call October historical fiction. Non academic non-fiction?
Vode_An@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Youāre right, I used the wrong word there.
dingus@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
For a serious answer I would say David Harvey, but being real I've seen way more of his lectures than I have read of his books.
QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml · 5 pts · 2y
Personally, heās kind of bland (his voice). Heās also anti-China. In his book on neoliberalism he put Deng and Reagan on the same level.
Leninismydad@lemmygrad.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Professor Roland Boer, he is afaik the only non-Chinese professor of Marxism in all of China and studies marxism, Chinese socialism, and religious belief and spirituality from a marxist perspective. These are my recommendations for books, with the first one being my all time suggestion for people:
Most of his books are free on his website or around the internet
https://roland-theodore-boer.net/selected-publications/
yangchadui@lemmygrad.ml · 2 pts · 2y
David Harvey
https://davidharvey.org/
BasedGeorgeJackson@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Do scripts for movies count? If so, Simon Pegg.
dingus@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Inb4 fifty iterations of "Zizek."
davel@lemmygrad.ml · 16 pts · 2y
Gabriel Rockhill: Capitalismās Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
dingus@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
A position further solidified by how often he plagiarizes himself. Literally if you've read one Zizek book, you've read parts of others already.
Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml · 8 pts · 2y
fifty shades of zizek
ReadFanon@lemmygrad.ml · 1 pts · 2y
People have already covered the major authors so I'm going to give a shout out to Torkil Lauesen.
He had a good interview on RevLeft Radio and an okay one on The Deprogram if you want to get a feel for what he's like.