What are you currently reading? [Archive]

JazzRemington

23rd June 2005, 09:07

I've just finished reading "The Great Anarchists," I've published a short review within this section a few threads down.

On and off I'm reading Ulysses, but I've ordered Wildcat! anthology vol. 1, Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice, and Anarchist Economics from AK Press, all of which should be arriving either later today or tomorrow.

Roses in the Hospital

23rd June 2005, 10:34

Currently reading Albert Speer's 'Inside the Third Reich.'

Recently finished reading Orwell's 'Down and Out in London and Paris', Machiavelli's 'The Prince' and Thomas Harris' 'Hannibal.'

Recently picked up from charity shops are 'A Brief History of Time,' Kafka: the Complete Novels, Graham Chapman 'A Liars' Autobigography' and George Orwell: A Life...

Viva Fidel

23rd June 2005, 15:59

I'm reading "Memoria Del Fuego: Los Nacimientos (Memory of Fire: The Genesis)" by Eduardo Galeano anyone ever read it?

Batman

23rd June 2005, 16:09

'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' by Paulo Freire.

Heavy shit.

October Revolution

23rd June 2005, 16:45

I'm reading 1984 which ofcourse is rather fantastic :D
and i'm just about to start Beyond good and evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, so i suppose you can count that as currently reading almost.

Bannockburn

23rd June 2005, 17:05

My Short reads:
God and the State, and The Immorality of the State – Michael Bakunin
The State: Its Historic Role – P. Kropotkin

Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century
A report of the Project for the New American Century

My longer read:
“Society must be defended”– Michel Foucault.

Socialistpenguin

23rd June 2005, 17:49

I'm reading:

Reasons to be cheerful for,by Mark Steel (Exceptionally informative and hilarious).

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel(sp?) Lives by Alan Bullock (again, very informative)

The State and Revolution, by of course, Lenin (takes me hours to find the page I'm on)

Trotsky by Irving Howe

A Load of Blair by Jamie(I think) Whyte

1066 and All That (Hilarious spoof of British history)

So, not a lot really :D

*Hippie*

23rd June 2005, 18:09

Fidel Castro ~ Guerilla Prince
by Georgie Ann Geyer

FreeChechnya

24th June 2005, 00:16

The Road to Martyrs Square - a journey into the life of a suicide bomber.

I Saw Ramallah.

i do not read fiction

workersunity

24th June 2005, 03:58

im always in the middle of at least two or three books at a time, i just finished catcher in the rye, it took me a day, welp not 24 hours, but im also reading rise and fall of third reich, marx's capital, a good abridged version, and the fountainhead, which sucks so far

Samael

24th June 2005, 15:03

I'm reading a variety of books.

The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels

and

Imperialism: The Highest Form Of Capitalism by Lenin

rise_up

24th June 2005, 15:09

what uncle sam really wants. Noam Chomsky

wiebew

24th June 2005, 16:57

The plot against America, written by Philip Roth.

It's a very good book!

themaskedavenger

24th June 2005, 17:00

I was reading the Jon Lee Anderson Biography of CHe, but since the semester ended at my university, I put all my stuff into storage and it somehow got put somewhere in storage. So now i am just reading Life the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams.

codyvo

25th June 2005, 01:26

I'm reading The Murray Bookchin Reader, it has a variety of his works, they seem really neat, I suggest that you all read it, or one of his real non-compilation books. Also, I think that one of the Admins should pin this topic, it seems like a good thing to have as an ongoing thread.

Hopes_Guevara

25th June 2005, 02:13

I has been reading "Capital" by K.Marx and "Anti Duhring"by Engel. It's rather difficult to understand all Marx and Engel said but I can understand them about 70%.

burn_ladiesagainstfeminism

25th June 2005, 04:35

I am currently reading.....

Angela Davis, a autobiography

Sylvia plath's collected works

Winter tress, Sylvia Plath

Cry the beloved country, Alan Patton

Organic Revolution

25th June 2005, 05:20

im reading a book called night by elie wiesel (sp?)

kurt

25th June 2005, 06:06

Russia, Youth, and the present day world

Pawn Power

25th June 2005, 22:32

The True Believer (Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements) by: Eric Hoffer

Organic Revolution

25th June 2005, 23:00

just started the revolt of the masses

Anarcho-Communist

25th June 2005, 23:45

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2005, 02:27 PM
no bodey reads no buks no more
I'm sorry to say that most people do. Have you read the Manifesto of the Communist Party?

Anarcho-Communist

25th June 2005, 23:48

I'm currently reading nothing a book that has nothing to do with Communism/Marxism/Revolution/Che or anything like that. I'm reading "The Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime" it's a story told through the eyes of an autistic boy. I like the book as it makes you think. 8/10 is my rating

Major. Rudiger

26th June 2005, 04:16

Didnt you talk about that book or something like that... Or did i read osmething like that in my dream :unsure:... Damn realties...

Well right know at the moment I'm reading nothing... But i just finished a book that Timothy Leary wrote (Read all his books in the public libray), also i got bored with Brave New World... I just cant read Fiction books... There boring to me...

Any Suggestion of books about the mind and spirit? :unsure:

Anarchist Freedom

26th June 2005, 17:22

Chomsky On miseducation

And

Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement

Revolutionary_Anarchism

28th June 2005, 17:11

I'm reading some works of Marx (letters and articles on Anarchism), to see how he handled Proudhon and Bakunin's works.

The Z-Man

28th June 2005, 18:11

A few books.

Foundations Edge -> Asimov

I, Robot -> Asimov

Guerrilla Warefare -> Che (again)

The Discoverers -> Daniel Boorstien (again)

and

1984 (again)

Kitbag

28th June 2005, 18:39

I Am David, by Anne Holmes. Brilliant story of a smal boy's escape from a concentration camp, and how he learns to be free. Properly free, though. I recommend it highly.

Free Spirit

28th June 2005, 19:19

The Five Philosophical Questions –Folke Tersman

The Communist Manifesto –Marx and Engels

Vermeer (about his artwork) –unknown

And just about to start with Da Vinci Code –Dan Brown

hamperleft

29th June 2005, 04:19

And just about to start with Da Vinci Code –Dan Brown
yea, thats a great book, deffinatly worth reading

Omri Evron

30th June 2005, 10:44

I'm in the middle of Joseph Heller's "Catch 22", but I have to study for my course in the university which includes (among other things) Immanuels Kant's "Fundemental Principles of the Metaphisics of Ethics".

silentprotest

30th June 2005, 18:48

im reading The Military Maxims of Napoleon Bonaparte

Oldergod

30th June 2005, 19:27

My friend Che...by uhh...let me get back to you on that

and the communist manifesto

'Discourse Unlimited'

30th June 2005, 20:28

"The Telling" by Ursula K. LeGuin. An odd book. Slightly disappointing... :(

I'm also re-reading "The Idiot", by Dostoyevsky; and a biography of Jimi Hendrix.

Batman

7th July 2005, 22:25

'Introduction to Marx, Engels and Marxism' by V.I Lenin. Great book.

Just after finishing 'The Limerick Soviet' by D.R O'Connor Lysaght

Paradox

8th July 2005, 01:47

1. Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, by Rashid Khalidi

2. The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents, by John Dinges

3. All The Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, by Stephen Kinzer

I'm almost done with the 1st book. Numbers 2 and 3 I just started to read. I bought them last week. Both seem like very good books. Here's a quote from The Condor Years... a very interesting qoute:

It is a coincidence that September 11 would gain even greater infamy with the World Trade Center bombings in 2001. But the coincidence is not insignificant. The first September 11 was a day after which everything changed in Latin America. Pinochet's coup was not just another military takeover, of which there had been dozens in previous decades. It was the beginning of a total war justified as a "a war on terrorism," whose principal targets were the political forces perceived by Pinochet and his allies as infecting their countries with the alien cancer of Communist revolution... Victory inside Chile was only the first step... The larger goal quickly became the eradication of all traces of political movements akin to Allende's- in all of Latin America.

These are the three main books I'm focusing on right now, but a friend of mine gave me three other books a couple of weeks again which are also quite interesting. Plus, earlier last week, I bought 6 books I found at a thrift store and a Goodwill. I've scanned through those other books, read a couple of pages from each. But I'll focus on those after I get through with a couple of the three I'm on now.

SonofRage

8th July 2005, 02:09

Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution by Raya Dunayevskaya.

novemba

8th July 2005, 03:05

Steal this Book - Abbie Hoffman

Art of War - Sun Tzu

My regular shit that I like to look over, Guerrilla Warfare, the essential Marx, and Subway Art

Batman

8th July 2005, 13:28

the essential Marx

Who wrote that?

Floyd.

12th July 2005, 19:08

Last night I finally read Call of The Wild by Jack London.

I found it to be too short and probably more popular than White Fang for this reason along with that is more a bit more lightweight in terms of storytelling and thus probably makes it more accessable to the massses. Both books have happy endings of sorts but I found that where both stories relate to growth/evolution on some level that White Fang was more about adavancing where as Call... was about toughening and getting back to the primitive; because of this I found the growth less appealing as lessons were learnt but it smacked too heavy handedly of Eugenics and whatnot to me.

I basically just see it as a watered down White Fang.

comradesteele

12th July 2005, 19:30

Evaision-anon crimethinc
Recpes for disater-crimethinc
days of war nights of love-crimethinc
Steal this Book - Abbie Hoffman

Donnie

12th July 2005, 19:43

"ABC of Anarchism" by Alexander Berkman, I'm also reading "Aspects of Anarchism" by the Anarchist Federation

There both really good read and explain a good deal about Anarchist Communism. :D

YKTMX

12th July 2005, 20:21

'Big Deal', which details the experiences of a novelist who became a professional poker player for a year - high brow shit, eh?

coda

12th July 2005, 20:42

Hey Floyd.. did you ever read London's "Before Adam" If you haven't check it out. It's an ingenious little story of pre-historic primates. From their point of view.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/BeforeAdam/

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/

Mujer Libre

13th July 2005, 14:37

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

All his trying to explain physics in lay terms makes it pretty tortuous. That said, if it was in physics speak I wouldn't understand a word...

Non-Sectarian Bastard!

13th July 2005, 16:49

Just starting on "Guerilla Warfare" by you know who. BTW Mujer Libre, I love your name.

Urban Rubble

13th July 2005, 17:25

I'm reading "Between Two Worlds" By Upton Sinclair. It's #2 in an 11 book series about the first half of the century, it's amazing. If you ever want to learn about the events of the first 50 years of the 20th century, read the Lanny Budd series.

Donnie

13th July 2005, 22:10

Originally posted by 'Discourse Unlimited'@Jun 30 2005, 07:28 PM
"The Telling" by Ursula K. LeGuin. An odd book. Slightly disappointing... :(

I'm also re-reading "The Idiot", by Dostoyevsky; and a biography of Jimi Hendrix.
Have you read the book "The Dispossed" by Ursula LeGuin? I got the book out and started reading it and got fed up with it. But I thought I would mention it to you.

novemba

13th July 2005, 22:23

Originally posted by [email protected] 8 2005, 12:28 PM

the essential Marx

Who wrote that?
Marx.

Haha, no for real its called "selected writings" by Karl Marx....it has all the most important essays and selections from all his most influential writings...it's edited by Lawrence H. Simon, and its published by Hackett Publishing Company...pretty good thing to have...

Anarcho-Communist

14th July 2005, 09:41

The Che Handbook - Hilda Barrio and Gareth Jenkins

Anarcho-Communist

14th July 2005, 09:43

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2005, 06:30 AM
Steal this Book - Abbie Hoffman
Sounds a lot like, Steal this Album - SOAD

dietrite

14th July 2005, 09:44

Sounds a lot like, Steal this Album - SOAD

Oh really?

Anarcho-Communist

14th July 2005, 09:47

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2005, 08:44 PM

Sounds a lot like, Steal this Album - SOAD

Oh really?
No need to get smart :lol:

dietrite

14th July 2005, 09:48

Oh, I'll get smart.

I'll get smart wit' yo mamma!

rise_up

14th July 2005, 10:17

what uncle sam really wants- Noam Chomsky

Felicia

14th July 2005, 10:29

I'm about four-fifths through Ishmael, it's such a good book, I highly recommend it.

comradesteele

14th July 2005, 18:03

if any wants to read steal this book its on this website
http://www.tenant.net/Community/steal/steal.html

codyvo

14th July 2005, 18:32

I'm reading Secrets, Lies and Democracy by Noam Chomsky, it is pretty good, I would recomend it, even people that aren't Chomsky fans would probably like it.

phil

14th July 2005, 18:59

My Friend Che ... by Ricardo Rojo

dietrite

15th July 2005, 03:24

I'm re reading King Lear.

Livetrueordie

15th July 2005, 04:12

reading
9/11 by Chomsky
and Security Through DIplomacy in Central America by Morris J. Blachman
and i've been reading the bible some too

Red Sky Revolution

15th July 2005, 06:02

"Guerilla Warfare" by Che. But I just bought four books on how to speak Russian so I think Im going to be doing a lot more reading.

Taiga

15th July 2005, 06:50

I'm reading Kyo Ku Mitzu - Top Secret by Y.Korolkov - a book about Richard Zorge, famous Soviet spy.

But I just bought four books on how to speak Russian so I think Im going to be doing a lot more reading.
Really? If you have any questions, address me :)

Fascist-Hunter

15th July 2005, 08:22

michel houllebeque - everything

I think he wrote three books (don't know the english title) and they are all great.

timbaly

17th July 2005, 15:14

I've been reading a lot of psychology related books lately. An Unquiet Mind, which is an autobiography of a former manic depressive, and Listening to Prozac which is about Prozac's ability to change personality are the two I'm currently reading.

coda

17th July 2005, 17:01

hey Timbaly.. you might want to check out Erich Fromm also, if you haven't. A marxist psycho-analyst sociologist.

FriedFrog

17th July 2005, 19:23

Just finished "The Seige of Trenchers Farm", the book Straw Dogs was based on. It was great. Very brutal.

I'm now onto "Harts War".

Batman

17th July 2005, 19:58

'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell.

It has the best definition of Socialism and a great read.

Postteen

17th July 2005, 21:34

A couple of days ago I finished Nigel Warburton's Philosophy:the Basics.Now I'm reading E.M Cioran's Le mauvais Demiurge("the bad creator) and struggling to read Kant's Critique of Practical Reason. :unsure:

SittingBull47

19th July 2005, 07:46

The Edge of Sadness, by Edwin O'Connor.

Just finished re-reading The Great Gatsby today...and I'm still not that thrilled with Fitzgerald.

YoUnG192

28th July 2005, 15:01

I am currently reading.........

Che Guevara - Guerrilla Warfare

Malcolm X Speaks, Selected Speeches and Statements

Fever Pitch (sports book)

plug

31st July 2005, 09:25

How To Be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson. Very amusing.

Batman

31st July 2005, 09:30

'National Liberation, Socialism and Imperialism' by Lenin.

viva le revolution

31st July 2005, 22:55

Battle for god by karen armstrong.

just finished it. fascinating read by the way.

Clarksist

1st August 2005, 01:03

"State & Revolution" Lenin

Got done with it in two days. Very splendid read. Very splendid indeed. I really wish Lenin had "followed" through.

timbaly

2nd August 2005, 16:47

A Clockwork Orange and Gulliver's Travels

I will be reading the Murder of Helen Jewett shortly after.

Magraheed

8th August 2005, 11:11

Im in the middle of Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder :ph34r:

Clutch

8th August 2005, 11:56

I've just ordered a copy of The Communist Manifesto, how many pages should it have?

Also getting Das Kapital, El Che - Investigating a legend (DVD) and Fidel (DVD).

Good choices or not? :unsure:

Donnie

8th August 2005, 16:32

Peter Kropotkins "Mutual Aid: A factor of evolution".

Commie Girl

8th August 2005, 18:00

Originally posted by [email protected] 8 2005, 04:56 AM
I've just ordered a copy of The Communist Manifesto, how many pages should it have?

Also getting Das Kapital, El Che - Investigating a legend (DVD) and Fidel (DVD).

Good choices or not? :unsure:
I am also reading The Communist Manifesto, it is a tiny book! :)

Ollie

8th August 2005, 21:05

"No Logo" by Naomi Klein

then i shall be reading "State and revolution"-Lenin

Lamanov

8th August 2005, 22:39

[Besides histories for college]
Two days ago I finished Rosa Luxemburg's 'Mass Strike'. Last night I started this. (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=38699)

Also some clasics from my neck of the woods.

Bannockburn

8th August 2005, 22:50

Chomsky on Anarchism.

Che NJ

10th August 2005, 17:48

Resistance, Rebellion and Death by Albert Camus
and The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

Redvolution

10th August 2005, 19:06

State & Revolution
What is to be Done?
The Communist Manifesto
To Kill a Mockingbird
How To Read Literature Like a Professor

Qwerty Dvorak

11th August 2005, 12:25

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.

Sorry.

Socialisto

13th August 2005, 16:23

Just finished the Grapes of Wrath and am now reading the Marx Engels reader....

I am happy to see that some people on this site are actually consuming their lifes for the betterment of themselves currently and hopefully for the whole soon... it disgusts me to see posts that are not related at all to the struggle that lies before us. we need to focus......

BitchBrew

15th August 2005, 17:08

A small book with texts from Bakunin.

JazzRemington

15th August 2005, 17:23

I am now reading select chapters from "Understanding Power," a collection of speechs given by Noam Chomsky. Next, I plan to read "The Emperor Wears No Cloths," by Jack Herer.

Commandante_Ant

17th August 2005, 08:18

Just now i am reading "Socialism:Utopian and Scientific" by Engels. I'm catching the gist of it but its a very old text so the writing style is different from most books i have read....anyone got a dummy's guide to socialism they could give me? :D

comradesteele

17th August 2005, 10:13

this forum.....

and a bit of ches guerilla warfare.

El-Bortukali

17th August 2005, 13:57

I'm currently reading Che ernesto Guevara, a Legend of the century by Pierre Kalfon

Stokey

18th August 2005, 02:12

H.P. Lovecraft and The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin

Le People

18th August 2005, 03:46

State and Revolution

Pawn Power

24th August 2005, 04:25

Treblinka

by: Jean-Fancois Steiner

The inspiring story of the 600 Jews who revolted against their murders and burned a Nazi death camp to the ground.

READ IT!

Organic Revolution

24th August 2005, 04:28

one flew over the coo coos nest

Donnie

24th August 2005, 23:59

The Conquest of Bread and Other Writtings by Kropotkin

Oh and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire!!! ;)

Commandante_Ant

25th August 2005, 13:23

Just started reading "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance" by Noam Chomsky. Only a couple of chapters in but very interesting and thought provoking read so far.

Waiting on me after that is 9/11 Revealed by Rowland Morgan ; Ian Henshall, Against All Enemies, a book that also looks at American foreign policy and looks at the recent wars in detail. And also Shake Hands with the Devil, a book about a lieutenant in the UN army who returned from Rwanda a broken man, having been abandoned by the UN with no troops etc.

KatzMotel

25th August 2005, 18:36

Currently I'm reading the Iliad of Homer. I really haven't got very far... it's hard work! A whole chapter devoted to naming characters! ^_^

timbaly

26th August 2005, 04:09

I just finished reading The Murder of Helen Jewett. I didn't care for it as it was too long for a book about a single murder. I would like to hear opinions from other members who have read the book. Though I would be shocked if anyone has.

HornyNYCGurl

26th August 2005, 06:56

Das Kapital - Karl Marx
Mao A Life - Philip Short

TheReadMenace

26th August 2005, 22:11

The IRA - Tim Pat Coogan
A Marginal Jew - John Meier
The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller :lol:

Andrew

Carmen

27th August 2005, 23:40

Pride & Prejudice

Bannockburn

28th August 2005, 00:15

The marxism of John Paul Sartre

The Grey Blur

28th August 2005, 11:46

Eldest - Christopher Paolini

erebus

28th August 2005, 13:05

Currently reading:

The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver

I've read maybe half of Stalin's Selected Writings, but i'm going to finish them up in school (which is coming up rather soon).

Organic Revolution

28th August 2005, 17:53

into the wild at the moment

Postteen

1st September 2005, 14:33

I'm reading 4? books at the same time...I'll post later the titles.

silentprotest

1st September 2005, 20:55

just read 1984, very interesting

TheReadMenace

2nd September 2005, 07:14

Added to list:

Swamp Thing: The Curse

And I wonder why I'm single...

Andrew

rioters bloc

2nd September 2005, 12:49

the clash of fundamentalisms - tariq ali

Subpar

2nd September 2005, 12:53

I seem to always have 5 books I'm working on finishing, but here's the circle I've been toying with lately.

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

cubalibra

2nd September 2005, 19:16

Bitter Fruit - The story about the American led coup to topple Arbenz government in Quatemala at the behest of the United Fruit Company. It mentions Che on page 184.

dev/null

2nd September 2005, 22:59

I just finished the quick read that was Robert Camus’ The Stranger and have since begun on Del Rey’s Tales of the Cthulhu Myths. It has some sub par stories, but overall it has proven to be a great companion to the other Del Rey Lovecraft collections (The Best of H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft and The Transition of H.P. Lovecraft). I’m interested to see how well Cthulhu 2000 fairs. I still need to get Bloch and Derleth's published mythos. *shrugs*

patria grande

5th September 2005, 06:27

I think you´re talking about Albert Camus.

Now I´m re-reading one of my favorite Latin American writers, Ernesto Sábato.

"The Tunnel"
"On Heroes and Tombs"
"Abaddon the Exterminator"

great books!!!

Arsiema

5th September 2005, 07:51

I'm reading the Biography of "Martin Borman". It's so damn cool.

rioters bloc

5th September 2005, 09:24

Originally posted by dev/[email protected] 3 2005, 08:17 AM
I just finished the quick read that was Robert Camus’ The Stranger
yeah it is albert, good stories

here it's called the outsider though...wonder why that is

Reds

5th September 2005, 16:05

Capital and One World the ethics of globalization.

che's long lost daughter

6th September 2005, 12:50

Identity by Milan Kundera

Monty Cantsin

6th September 2005, 12:55

Originally posted by rioters bloc+Sep 5 2005, 08:42 AM--> (rioters bloc @ Sep 5 2005, 08:42 AM)
dev/[email protected] 3 2005, 08:17 AM
I just finished the quick read that was Robert Camus’ The Stranger
yeah it is albert, good stories

here it's called the outsider though...wonder why that is [/b]
I’ve got a version that’s “the stranger”…I wonder why that is? It’s really old though maybe that’s it.

Martin Blank

6th September 2005, 13:51

Re-reading Eric Foner's Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution -- 1863-1877.

Miles

viva le revolution

6th September 2005, 13:53

Three faces of fascism by ernst nolte. I particularly found the section describing how Mussolini turned from Marxist to Fascist particularly intersting.
Quite an intersting book.

Axel1917

6th September 2005, 17:04

I finished Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism several weeks ago. I am not sure what I will begin on next. I am thinking of a shorter work due to my busy schedule (work and college). Perhaps Ilyenkov's Dialectical Logic (this work is out-of-print and very hard to find) or some of Engels's shorter works in the 26th volume of the Marx-Engels Collected Works.

Otherwise, what I have been readnig is college-related.

Monty Cantsin

7th September 2005, 06:31

The second sex and a selections of Karl Marx's early writings.

today during my travels i picked up a copy of "the making of the english working class" by E.P Thompson a Marxist Humanist new left historian.. and Plato's "protagoras and memo"...so much to read so much to do so little time.

Lord Testicles

7th September 2005, 19:07

consider phlebas - Iain .M. Banks
Jeniffer Govement - Max Barry

Black Dagger

7th September 2005, 20:24

Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin.

Organic Revolution

8th September 2005, 05:34

revolution in everyday life.

YKTMX

8th September 2005, 17:21

A sympathetic bio of Mao by Stuart Schram.

MikeSchafer

8th September 2005, 23:09

"The Prophet Outcast", a biography of Trotsky and "Galapagos" by Kurt Vonnegut.

rioters bloc

9th September 2005, 11:32

the temporary autonomous zone, ontological anarchism, poetic terrorism by hakim bey

Taiga

9th September 2005, 16:16

"Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsh.
Nice reading :)

The Grey Blur

12th September 2005, 16:15

Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut

Quinlan Vos

14th September 2005, 21:25

Revolutionary Marxism-CLR James
Capital Volume 1-Karl Marx
The Prison Notebooks-Antonio Gramsci
Wildcat Spain Encounters Democracy 1976-78-Multiple Authors

Marx and Gramsci are heavy reads, so typically I only read 10-20 pages from each of them a day and the rest of my reading is in other stuff. LOL, I've been reading Capital for months, but in that time I've read an additional 20-30 books.

amos

15th September 2005, 18:21

Originally posted by [email protected] 7 2005, 06:38 PM
consider phlebas - Iain .M. Banks
Jeniffer Govement - Max Barry
If you like the Iain M. Banks, try his mate Ken MacLeod's books, especially - The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal, The Cassinni Division and The Sky Road.

Cheers
Amos

Pawn Power

3rd October 2005, 15:56

TIMEQUAKE-Vonnegut

Ã‘Ã³ẊÃ®Ã¶ŉ

3rd October 2005, 17:01

Originally posted by [email protected] 7 2005, 06:38 PM
consider phlebas - Iain .M. Banks
Jeniffer Govement - Max Barry
You have a great taste in quality science fiction.

May I suggest the books of Stephen Baxter, especially Vacuum Diagrams: Stories of the Xeelee Sequence.

Scots_Socialist

3rd October 2005, 19:11

Just finished reading Playboy and going to start reading "Razzle" :P ,Just joking.Currently re-reading Glue(Irvine Welsh),And also reading "War of the Flea"
(The classis study of Guerrilla warfare)by Robert Tabe and "Ho Chi Minh" by William J Duiker(Which is a tough read but well worth it so far.)

Regards Scots_Socialist :ph34r:

Gura

4th October 2005, 00:01

Right now I'm reading Spy Handler, by KGB agent Viktor Cherkashin, the man who ran Hanssen and Ames.

sapho

4th October 2005, 00:18

I went to a book sale in San Francisco and bought these books which I started reading last night:

Cuba: Talking about Revolution---Juan antonio blanco and Media benjamin.

The Wretched of the earth-----Frantz Fanon

Regis Debray and the Latin american Revolution--1968 :D

Donnie

4th October 2005, 14:07

Act For Youselves (Articles from Freedom) 1886-1907- Peter Kropotkin

God and the State- Micheal Bakunin.

Angry Young Man

17th October 2005, 09:40

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2005, 11:57 PM
The Road to Martyrs Square - a journey into the life of a suicide bomber.

I Saw Ramallah.

i do not read fiction
you really should. i dont read as much as i should, but im reading a book i picked up in a charity shop called ''republic of trees'' (shite) and just started re-reading the manifesto cos i cant understand capital! :huh:

Lex

17th October 2005, 10:36

I'm reading " The Da Vinci code" by Dan Brown.. <--- an intersting novel..but I don't understand all the things it's about...mentioning much about art and religion..

JKP

18th October 2005, 00:04

The last book I read was "a history of american labor", and some fan fiction off of the internet.

Le LibÃ©rer

18th October 2005, 07:54

The Stones of Summer byDow Mossman

I heard about this novel when I rented the documentary by Mark Moskowitz, The Stone Reader. Moskowitz was surprised to discover no trace of the author. This led him on a search where he found Mossman caring for his mother and delivering newspaper for a living.

The first 50 pages are brutal. But then it opens up into an amazing novel.

workersunity

18th October 2005, 17:12

Their Morals and Ours- Leon Trotsky

timbaly

18th October 2005, 18:26

Rereading both Brave New World and Fankenstein at the moment.

Quota 76 denial

19th October 2005, 16:29

I'm reading Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida, America by Jean Baudrillard, and Hero in History by Sydney Hook.

Monty Cantsin

27th October 2005, 07:01

Originally posted by Quota 76 [email protected] 19 2005, 04:13 PM
I'm reading Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida, America by Jean Baudrillard, and Hero in History by Sydney Hook.
What do you think about them?

I haven’t read much post-structuralist or post-modern stuff over then Foucault and Lyotard.

I’ve read a couple of smaller polemical essays by Baudrillard and I can’t say I agree with his end of history thesis...it seems terribly uncritical to discount the potential of radical subjectivity and discontent to become a practical force.

I haven’t read anything of Derrida’s but I’ve seen a documentary on him and all I can say is a lot of postmodern theorist seems like self-conscious charlatans. the theory that the post- modern world is a ‘horror of discourses’ as Deleuze put it seems to be a central point and they seem to be producing a horror of discourses. So maybe the charge of charlatans is a bit much but they write a lot of crap and that’ at least part of the point…beautiful crap though it may be. derrida in particular though seems to want his theory to be a web rather then a hieratical structure of values which i think exist.

anyways i'm reading Saul Bellow's 'herzog' and it's very interesting i reconmend it.

also Quota 76 denial, do you have any essay's that could be used in the e-zine? i'd think you'd able to write good philosophical pieces which are needed to expand the types of discourses past the che tributes and trot optimism over chasez. (again that was too negative there has been some good stuff written for the e-zine).

Black Dagger

27th October 2005, 09:02

'The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand history’ by Giselle Byrnes, good book, historiography or bust!

Commie Rat

27th October 2005, 12:18

McLibel; burger culture on trial

turned me of Mcdys

bcbm

27th October 2005, 16:40

I just finished:

Mexican Anarchism after the Revolution
Harvest of Empire
Lost Land: The Chicano Image of the Southwest

Next up:

Burmese Days
Re-reading Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA

black magick hustla

27th October 2005, 21:09

I just finished Society of the Spectacle.

Now I am reading Revolution of everyday life.

danny android

28th October 2005, 01:37

I'm reading miss lollipop and the doom machine. It's some 1960's satire on amerikan polotics as far as I can tell right now. I just picked it up in a used book store in moscow, Idaho for some quick reading.

MoscowFarewell

29th October 2005, 07:49

Freakonomics.

Monty Cantsin

7th November 2005, 07:32

“Crime and punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mano Dayak

9th November 2005, 20:23

Mark Winegardner's "The Godfather returns".

I've read "Crime and Punishment" more or less 5 times, by the way.

Le People

13th November 2005, 04:50

Revolution Betrayed Leon Trotsky

I not a Trotskist, but it is very interesting.

rioters bloc

13th November 2005, 05:03

man! an anthology of anarchist ideas, essays, poetry and commentaries by M. Graham

also

Originally posted by Monty Cantsin
“Crime and punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky

great read

Nothing Human Is Alien

13th November 2005, 05:12

"Nicaragua: What difference could a revolution make" Joseph Collins

Scars

13th November 2005, 23:49

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

A Foucault Primer (can't remember who by)

A Time for Revolution (a couple of essays) by Antonio Negri

My reading has been some what limited due to the joyous occation that every student goes through known as 'exams'.

I need to speed up my reading before my order from AK press comes through (living in New Zealand you make big orders to save on postage)

Red Flag

13th November 2005, 23:50

"The Assassination of Lumumba" Ludo De Witte

Pawn Power

14th November 2005, 02:34

just finished The Roots of Lesbian and Gay Oppression by: Bob McCubbin and just started Hegemony or Survivial by: Chomsky

YKTMX

14th November 2005, 13:04

I just finished Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrilliard. Found it very entertaining, fitfully insightful, but largely bogus.

I'm now reading a load of proscribed texts for my Political Philosophy class, most of which are dull in the extreme.

peru_anny

14th November 2005, 17:38

The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunnant - sooo amazing

Zeruzo

14th November 2005, 18:17

several books at the same time:

In the spirit of october - Karel ten Haaf
USSR, the velvet counter-revolution - Ludo Martens
Long walk to freedom - Nelson Mandela
The great conspiracy against russia - forgot who :P
And last but not least
Diary's from the Kremlin - Boris Jeltsin

Monty Cantsin

15th November 2005, 06:54

Originally posted by [email protected] 14 2005, 01:09 PM
I just finished Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrilliard. Found it very entertaining, fitfully insightful, but largely bogus.

If anyone know’s of an online copy of this rather then just an excerpt, I’d be very grateful. We should probably start a pined thread which files E-Text of different books especially hard to find stuff.

So if anyone can find my post-structuralist stuff online I’d be very thankful.

YKTMX

15th November 2005, 12:47

Monty asked for 'Simulacra and Simulation', but to be honest I can't find it and I think it's always been a particuarly 'hard to find' book. I got a copy from my University library.

Johnny

21st November 2005, 12:06

harry potter

RedGeorge

21st November 2005, 18:57

"The Color Purple"- it's just a tad depressing.

I'm the red under your bed

22nd November 2005, 23:04

A revolutionary life-biography of Che

Le People

23rd November 2005, 04:02

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2005, 08:11 AM
harry potter
Harry Potter is mind jello. I am about to read the Autobiograghy of Malcolm X.

coda

23rd November 2005, 06:29

Ramblin' Man - The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie by Ed Cray. Good book, thus far.

But, Ugggh.. I'm never gonna finish it in time and due back to the library in a few days. Fuck!

bcbm

23rd November 2005, 07:09

Currently:

Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA by Richard English
Matxinada: Basque Nationalism and Youth Movements by Eoin O Broin
Bandits by Eric Hobsbawm
Burmese Days by George Orwell

Just finished:

Televisionaries by Tom Vague
Shoot the Women First by Eileen MacDonald

WUOrevolt

26th November 2005, 01:00

Inside the Resistance: The Iraqi insurgency and the future of the middle east by. Zaki Chehab

ReD_ReBeL

2nd December 2005, 03:15

I am currently reading...

Stalin:The Court Of the Red tsar (btw im not a fan of Stalin just trying to figure him out lol , and hes an interested read)

Nelson Mandela(Autobiography- Long walk To Freedom

Cuba:Socialism & Democracy

Purple

2nd December 2005, 04:29

Currently reading Othello, by William Shakespear, as well as Romeo & Juliet, which I have recently realised is completly overrated! It is possibly the worst Shakespear book..

bed_of_nails

2nd December 2005, 04:54

Gehenna, 100 Vicious Little Vampier Stories, and a collection of Ovid.

Anarchist Freedom

2nd December 2005, 05:35

Bakunin god and state.

ColinH

2nd December 2005, 05:42

Dictatorship of the Proletariat: Marxism's Theory of Socialist Democracy, by John Ehrenberg

encephalon

2nd December 2005, 07:15

trying to once again trudge through das kapital for the nth time. Damn this thing is dense.

Monty Cantsin

2nd December 2005, 08:14

i just finished a Jorge Luis Borges book collection of short stories and poems called "the book of sand"

and i''ve started on Albert Camus's "the frirst man"

Monty Cantsin

9th December 2005, 13:00

just started "thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Nietzsche

coda

10th December 2005, 01:27

Never finished reading the Woody Guthrie book, so now I'm really fucking off and re-reading the complete Charles Dickens tales. i forgot all about the "Artful Dodger" -- something about him though, is such an endearing character.

Monty Cantsin

19th December 2005, 19:58

The Plague by Albert Camus

which doctor

19th December 2005, 20:22

I'm currently reading "This Thread". It's really boring, just about what books a bunch of people are reading right now.

bolshevik butcher

19th December 2005, 21:18

One flew over the cookoos nest
Revolution and counter revolution in Chile

metalero

19th December 2005, 21:26

I started reading Lenin's "what is to be done?". The first part is a little confusing since he starts to talk about the social-democrats parties in europe and their revisionist hypocrisy. This guy is a library himself, I have to go constantly to the glossary at the end of the book. I have recently wasted a lot of time dating stupid girls and drinking, I feel ashamed everytime I walk into my room and look at the book half-read. has it happened to you?

Ric_god

29th December 2005, 20:23

I've just finished 1984 tonight (great book, interesting, but a tragic ending.)

About to start reading "Political Philosophy" by Adam Swift, has anybody else read it? It looks like it sums up alot of political philosophers theories and argunements. It looks like some things could be over-simplified, but I guess fairly basic 'overview' books like that give a broad view, from which you can choose which topics you want want to read further into.
For example, I read "Introducing Philosophy" and "Introducing Marxism." Both books greatly simplify things, but from that I could choose which books to read to expand on what was biefly explained. By getting a snapshot of John Locke, I thought "hmm, this guy sounds interesting, perhaps I will research further! :D" I also read "Introducing Marxism" before I read the Communist Manifesto, which I think did help in understanding.

I've also got lined up to read:
Animal Farm- George Orwell
Keep the Aspiristra Flying- George Orwell
Metamorphosis and Other Stories- Franz Kafka
Under Milkwood- Dylan Thomas
The Prospect of the Sea- Dylan Thomas
Death and Entrances- Dylan Thomas

Alot of classics to get reading!

I'm also planning to buy "The Corporation," as I havn't yet seen the film. Are there any other good fiction/political books that people would recormend? I got some book vouchers for xmas, so I can get reading!

Rockfan

30th December 2005, 21:34

Heaveier than Heaven - The Biography of Kurt Cobain

Really good, tons of detail, stuff like the colour of his bassinaet as a kid and stuff.

After that 1984 then I might get Steal This Book.

Hampton

31st December 2005, 00:07

Inadmissible Evidence: The story of the African American trial lawyer who defended the Black Liberation Army- Evelyn Williams

Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and corruption in a small Texas town- Nate Blakeslee

Mencken: The American Iconoclast- Marion Rodgers

Delirium

31st December 2005, 00:11

Just started: The praise of folly-Erasmus

Guerrilla22

31st December 2005, 08:54

I'm reading the Bolivai Diaries again, this time I'm reading the version with the intro by Fidel and the foreward by che's son Camillo.

dannie

31st December 2005, 09:23

i'm rereading ché guevara by jean cromier after i got it as a b-day present

Led Zeppelin

31st December 2005, 13:29

I'm going to reread "What is To be Done?" and "The State and Revolution" by comrade Lenin.

I like saying that; "comrade Lenin". :D

DeathtoPrejudice

31st December 2005, 14:59

reading;

Panzer Aces II by Franz Kurowski: Battle stories of German tank commanders in WWII. history

just got done reading;

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers: Fictional story of a soldier sent to the jungles of Vietnam. anti-war

Dooga Aetrus Blackrazor

31st December 2005, 18:56

Originally posted by Le People+Nov 23 2005, 04:11 AM--> (Le People @ Nov 23 2005, 04:11 AM)
[email protected] 21 2005, 08:11 AM
harry potter
Harry Potter is mind jello. I am about to read the Autobiograghy of Malcolm X. [/b]
Harry Potter, despite having ideological flaws, is an interesting read. Sometimes it's fun to let your brain turn to jello.

I just finished Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. I am about to start The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

Angry Young Man

7th January 2006, 17:48

im reding "dialogues concerning natural religion (which, by the way seems anti- religion, so dont shun me) by david hume

timbaly

12th January 2006, 20:56

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime

It's about a child with autism, he is the narrator.

comradesteele

12th January 2006, 21:54

terry prachett , one of the discworld ones

Djehuti

13th January 2006, 17:19

* Dissident, an anarchist theoretical periodical. The current edition is about insurrectionist anarchism.

* Letters, letters between a convict and a proletarian writer.

* Homeland, the first book in the first Drizzt-trilogy, by R.A. Salvatore.

Vladislav

18th January 2006, 05:50

Lenin - a biography by Robert Service

Das Kapital by no one other than Karl Marx

I'm saving up for more books.

The Feral Underclass

18th January 2006, 11:58

I'm reading, 'The Game of War: The life and Death of Guy Debord' by Andrew Hussey

Led Zeppelin

18th January 2006, 12:07

I'm reading random writings of Lenin in his selected works, yesterday I read a chapter of State and Revolution and "the proletarian revolution and the renegade Kautsky", apparently Lenin was planning --and had actually started-- on writing a 7th chapter to State and Revolution named The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, but as he himself brilliantly said:

Originally posted by Lenin
This pamphlet was written in August and September 1917. I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, "The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917". Apart from the title, however, I had no time to write a single line of the chapter; I was "interrupted" by a political crisis--the eve of the October revolution of 1917. Such an "interruption" can only be welcomed; but the writing of the second part of this pamphlet ("The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917") will probably have to be put off for a long time. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it.

His 7th chapter would have been very useful to the movement.

coda

19th January 2006, 05:53

I'm reading a Debord book too, called "Guy Debord"

I'm also reading a book called "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. about a man with a extremely low IQ who undergoes an experimental operation that makes him a supergenius. very fascinating to observe the progression and to see his realization when he slowly discovers that he was mocked and treated badly by the people he actaully thought were his friends. Book won the both Sci-Fi Hugo and Nebula awards.

Commie Rat

19th January 2006, 12:01

Perfume - Patrick Suskind

Brilliant, Fucking Beautiful

Angry Young Man

20th January 2006, 20:37

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2006, 09:12 PM
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime

It's about a child with autism, he is the narrator.
"child with autism" just shows how ignorant you are. the character is ASPERGERS - A mild form of autism. people say 'autism' and think of people sitting perfectly still in darkened rooms never blinking and thoroughly studying a completely inane object. aspergers is much milder. i have AS and i get along with students at college better than at the residence.
anyway, the offending book is a generalisation written to make ignorant people feel enlightened. anyone not reading it, however, deems it as uninformed dross. each individual with AS is radically different from any other, and the traits you read of arent, as the great uneducated would think uniformal - there are variations. my AS traits are obsessions, which change gradually. as of current, it is left-wing politics, rather different from being obsessed with lavatories and vacuum cleaners when i was 5.

Eoin Dubh

20th January 2006, 21:24

I just picked up "The Lord Of The Rings' at the local thrift store for 1$.
So far, so good!

AnTi-Right Nation

22nd January 2006, 07:42

Currently reading State of War Pretty solid book so far.

:che:

tambourine_man

24th January 2006, 05:43

waiting for godot by samuel beckett

...

Life of a Salesman

1st February 2006, 05:16

I'm reading "Dude, Where's My Country?" by Michael Moore currently.

YKTMX

1st February 2006, 13:02

The Russian Civil War by Mawdsley.

I'm thinking about doing some sort of script project based on the time, so it's research!

Pawn Power

18th May 2006, 16:25

Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Nabokov
and
The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

Cult of Reason

18th May 2006, 16:27

Ohanian Physics, Second Edition Expanded, by Hans C. Ohanian and The Road to Reality, by Roger Penrose.

Just finished Cosmology Revealed, by Anthony Fairall.

bolshevik butcher

18th May 2006, 18:53

Left Wing communism: An infantile disorder- VI Lenin

LoneRed

19th May 2006, 08:03

For Class

No Exit and Three other Plays-Sartre

and for leisure Gramsci,Culture and Anthropology by Kate Crehan
and

Stalin:A Political Biography-Isaac Deutscher

stealthisname67

19th May 2006, 15:06

I'm finishing Catch-22, reading one chapter of Animal Farm at least once a day, and guerrilla warfare

Delirium

19th May 2006, 16:06

for entertainment i'm reading Pillars of the Earth by ken follet, i'd definatly reccomend it.

I;m also reading A Modern History of Palestine by some dude. It is DENSE.

rioters bloc

19th May 2006, 16:08

violence and politics

a collection of essays

specific essay i'm reading is state violence and lgbt rights.

Dyst

19th May 2006, 17:02

"Jonas" by norwegian anarchist writer Jens Bjørneboe.

It is a good book about the authoritarian school system.

CCCPneubauten

19th May 2006, 20:19

Originally posted by Massoud+Jan 18 2006, 12:07 PM--> (Massoud @ Jan 18 2006, 12:07 PM) I'm reading random writings of Lenin in his selected works, yesterday I read a chapter of State and Revolution and "the proletarian revolution and the renegade Kautsky", apparently Lenin was planning --and had actually started-- on writing a 7th chapter to State and Revolution named The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, but as he himself brilliantly said:

Lenin
This pamphlet was written in August and September 1917. I had already drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, "The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917". Apart from the title, however, I had no time to write a single line of the chapter; I was "interrupted" by a political crisis--the eve of the October revolution of 1917. Such an "interruption" can only be welcomed; but the writing of the second part of this pamphlet ("The Experience of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917") will probably have to be put off for a long time. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of revolution" than to write about it.

His 7th chapter would have been very useful to the movement. [/b]
Odd, I am reading that as I type, and also 'Revolution Betrayed' by good ol' Trotsky. Amazing read, I fully recommend it to all, Trots, Marxists, Anarchists.

Rockfan

20th May 2006, 06:21

Sound of the Beast: The Headbanging History of Heavy Metal.

The Grey Blur

20th May 2006, 21:39

I recently read "Connoly's Marxism", a study of James Connoly's theoretical output

Then I read "Guerila Days in Ireland" by Tom Barry, excellent book about the Irish war of independence

And I just finished "Huey: A Life" by David Hilliard, a bio on Huey P

Now I'm reading a book by Tom Hayden on the SDS and the summer of 68 tensions. I'm also reading a more recreational book about a woman confronting her would-be-murderer

Sorry if it sounds like I'm showing off :lol:

Pawn Power

20th May 2006, 22:01

Sorry if it sounds like I'm showing off

I don't get it. :blink: Showing off??

The Grey Blur

20th May 2006, 22:16

Because I'd read a lot of books...? You understand?

Pawn Power

20th May 2006, 22:33

Originally posted by Permanent [email protected] 20 2006, 04:16 PM
Because I'd read a lot of books...? You understand?
Ohh, your literate. Very good.

Janus

20th May 2006, 22:40

Right now:

Walden Two by B.F. Skinner

The Grey Blur

20th May 2006, 22:59

Originally posted by Revolution is the Solution+May 20 2006, 09:33 PM--> (Revolution is the Solution @ May 20 2006, 09:33 PM)
Permanent [email protected] 20 2006, 04:16 PM
Because I'd read a lot of books...? You understand?
Ohh, your literate. Very good. [/b]
It's true - I was showing off by saying I hope no-one thought I was showing-off

My only wish is that God can forgive me