I’m currently finishing up Gideon the Ninth and, on the non-fiction side of things, I recently finished Reconstruction: The Battle For Democracy 1865-1876 by James S. Allen (which was published in the 1930s and inspired W.E.B. DuBois’s Black Reconstruction book).

You can purchase the reconstruction book here (and I implore you to do so or at least put it on your to-read list sometime).

Today’s discussion questions:

  1. What do you plan to read?

  2. What are your favorite publishers?

My answers:

I intend to read the Mao Zedong biography trilogy that’s being published in the United States by, I believe, either Cambridge or Harvard. Before you say anything: they’re Chinese-to-English translations and they were insulted by the web outlet Foreign Policy (a conservative U.S. foreign policy outlet) which is high praise to me.

As for my favorite publishers: International Publishers (CPUSA’s publishing arm) and Canut International Publishers (based in England and I believe they have an office in Turkey; they publish a lot of English translations of Chinese theoretical texts on Marxism-Leninism).

Talk about whatever, but do answer the title of the thread and the discussion questions, please. Thanks.

Also, shameless plug-in for a Discord server that me, BayArea415, and some good friends created:

https://discord.gg/qQmdd28CBR

Enjoy!

    • Makan ☭ CPUSA@lemmygrad.mlOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      Ah, I see you’re dong some multi-reading.

      I decided to give that a break for the time being. I would prefer to prioritize one for now. I kind of have to give myself time to recharge my batteries and shift to focusing on other stuff.

  • housefinch@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    For fic reading King Lear so I can understand the references, I’ll read Crime and Punishment Next, liked Brothers Kamazov so I figure it’ll go well.

    On nonfic might do some misc Marx-Engels readings and Murder of Sergei Kirkov by Grover Furr.

  • redshiftedbrazilian@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    Man I have a comic book you guys might like.

    X-Men went through a reboot recently (2019) and they changed some stuff, but basically, after years of massacres and anti-mutant activism, they had enough and they built a Nation for all mutants called Krakoa. Its a really cool comic that honeslty is partially responsible for my radicalization. After this reboot, Krakoa became the status quo and in the first few editions of the new X-men series we follow Professor X and Magneto in their responsibilities as new nation leaders. UN meetings, bilateral meetings, etc. This is the setting of the comic book I’m talking about. It’s just a meeting. Nothing more.

    But I swer to god this is probably the best things Marvel has ever made. It is unbelivably based. Magneto’s speech is amazing.

    Just read it, I promise it is not big

    X-Men (2019) #4

    • Makan ☭ CPUSA@lemmygrad.mlOP
      3·
      2 years ago

      Oh that sounds nice actually

      Maybe Magneto isn’t the villain this time as well but just “morally grey hero lol” instead.

      Which I wouldn’t mind.

      • redshiftedbrazilian@lemmygrad.ml
        3·
        2 years ago

        It actually doesn’t feel like a super hero story you know? That’s one of the reasons I liked it so much. Its more a (very) political sci fi than a super hero comic, so you dont have a clear right/wrong side. Except for Orchis, bc they are fucked up

  • simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I fucking loved Gideon the Ninth. The second book was enjoyable, but the first really scratched an itch for me.

    I’m currently reading Charlaine Harris’s Shakespeare’s Landlord, and just finished Bardugo’s Ninth House.

    On the nonfiction side, I just finished William Carlos Williams’ Paterson, and I’m starting T.S. Eliot’s “Wasteland and other poems”.

    I’m not sure what I’ll read next, but I’m looking at Jack London’s Burning Daylight.

    I don’t think I have a favorite publisher, all the theory I read is online pdfs or just from marxists.org.