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What are you reading? VI
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Currently enjoying Vietnam Rising Dragon by Bill Hayton.
百花齐放
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la luz
de un Rojo Amanecer
anuncia ya
la vida que vendrá.
-Quilapayun
Alexander Kielland - Gift
Sun Tzu - Art of War
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe
Haven't got very far with it yet, but it's good so far.
"Her development, her freedom, her independence must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right to anyone over her body; by refusing to bear children unless she wants them; by refusing to become a servant to God, the State, society, the husband, the family, etc. ... by freeing herself from the fear of public opinion and public condemnation. Only that, and not the ballot, will set woman free, will make her a force hitherto unknown in the world, a force for real love, for peace, for harmony; a force of divine fire, of life-giving; a creator of free men and women."~ Emma Goldman
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Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman.
Jackal- the secret wars of Carlos the jackal
Segui il tuo corso e lascia dir le genti.
Socialism resides entirely in the revolutionary negation of the capitalist ENTERPRISE, not in granting the enterprise to the factory workers.
- Bordiga
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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The State rests on the slavery of labor. If labor becomes free, the State is lost. - Max Stirner
None of my prevailing tastes center in things that can be bought. I want nothing but unadulterated pleasures, and money poisons all. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau[/FONT]
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Lenin by Lukács
Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
Rich People Things - Chris Lehmann (funny and depressing)
A Queer History of the United States - Michael Bronski
'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison
Is it any good? Saw it in the bookstore the other day, too expensive for me though.
Animal farm by George Orwell. I will also start reading Knut Hamsuns Mysteries soon.
'mcmafia: a journey through the global criminal underworld' by misha glenny
'heavens above, how awful it is to live outside the law - one is always expecting what one rightly deserves.'
petronius, the satyricon
Adolf Hitler by John Toland
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Friendly Fascism by Bertram Gross
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free - he has set himself free - for higher dreams, for greater privileges.”
-James Baldwin
"We change ideas like neckties."
- E.M. Cioran
That's a good book. Some people here would probably get irritated reading it though because the author throws in frequent jabs about how shitty and boring the former USSR was.
One of my favorite parts was when he described a party thrown by some Russian oligarch in the 90's, which was USSR themed, and they had the International & other socialist songs playing, busts of Brezhnev and Lenin and all those guys everywhere, but with coke and prostitutes and tons of booze...like a consciously ironic juxtaposition of the austerity of the USSR and the crazy hedonism of 90's Russia.
"Win, lose or draw...long as you squabble and you get down, that's gangsta."
Just finished reading Jo Nesbo's "The Redeemer". Now going onto "Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary" by Bertrand M. Patenaude.
I was re-reading "The Revolution Betrayed" and "Catching Fire" but since I haven't been at home that has kind of been put on hold.
Economic Left/Right: -9.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.15
I finished Animal Farm, and it was awesome. Im currently reading 1984, and i really like it so far.
