Hammer and Hoe book discussion will be posted tomorrow, April 11th.
Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth. His prose can be beautiful but I’m finding the lack of a clear thread carrying you from paragraph-to-paragraph means I’m reading pretty slowly.
I recently read King Leopold’s Ghost. Now, I don’t mean to be rude, but personally, I think this Leopold II guy was a bit of a jerk.
On a beach trip so I’ve been going through it again in audiobook form. Its quickly jumped to one of my favorite books
Finished Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith In Beijing yesterday, highly recommend it to anyone who wants a better understanding of China’s current path
About halfway through Capital, Vol III, absolutely a huge improvement over Vol II
Next to alternate with Marx is Christopher Clark’s The Roots of Rural Capitalism, a US history book. Clark is always great.
Finished Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith In Beijing yesterday, highly recommend it to anyone who wants a better understanding of China’s current path
About halfway through Capital, Vol III, absolutely a huge improvement over Vol II
Can I just say I’m jelly? I started Long Twentieth Century but had to put it off, and I have definitely set my eyes on Vol II and III when this semester ends. Sound like great reads!
I’ve said before that Vol II is…difficult, to say the least
I read Vol I in like 2017 stand Marx’s longer works gathered dust in my backlog for years. I finally stopped giving a fuck about bringing explicitly communist literature to work and firced myself to read the later volumes while alternating with other history books.
Arrighi’s subject coverage is so all-encompassing that reading his main trilogy works actually sets me into a frenzy of frantic activity.
