worst thing I have ever read, I had literally constant anxiety throughout the entire book
its a great book to read before working out lmao
I talk shit about socdems but I don’t know. The people featured in the book seem to regret not listening to the communists. Makes me think a lot of them are just optimists who can’t see reality until it hits them. The ones in the west get to enjoy the exploitation of the global south, but the socdems in the global south have mostly dreams to cling onto. And many times those dreams end up in disaster
I want to read Kill Anything That Moves before this one, but those two (along with Wasington Bullets) is on my list of books to read that are to remind me that every horrific and evil thing “israel” and the IDF have done, the US has done over its history on much larger scale.
Also just finished reading earlier this week. The most haunting part was learning that a decent portion of the killing was done by non-military, non-police locals. Neighbors killing neighbors because of anticommunist propaganda and state terror. I hate how much I can see a similar campaign happening in America, so many bloodthirsty conservatives ready for murdering communists to be legal.
If you want an absolutely terrifying movie, based on a true story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoa:_A_Shameful_Memory
I think I have to move this book up my list.
It’s good, and trueanon has an episode interviewing the author for after you read it (or before if you want to go in with a general outline).
And for his other book, If We Burn.
Enjoy the two side by side: Why social democracy won’t work and why spontaneity won’t work
I am yet to read that one but it’s on my list! Is it move close to the top good?
