Fiction or Non-Fiction, academic or casual, theory or non-theory, feel free to mention books of any genre and on any topic.
Just finished the fourth book in the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Was pretty good, but I think the series is definitely winding down. It didn’t quite grip me as much as the last one, and certainly not as much as the first, but it was still a good read so I’m not disappointed.
I did love the addition of the bushido-style warrior mantis shrimp, honestly the fourth book revolving around their warrior society coming to it’s own realization of how constant war can only take a society so far would have been a really good one on it’s own imo.
I’m most of the way through elementary principles of philosophy by Georges Politzer
Reading chapter 3 of The Capital. I really think this line is the best one:
[A]lthough money is nothing but the value-form of commodities, price ceases altogether to express value. Objects that in themselves are no commodities, such as conscience, honour, &c., are capable of being offered for sale by their holders, and of thus acquiring, through their price, the form of commodities.
I also discovered the book Dialectics of the Abstract & the Concrete in Marx’s Capital, by Evald Ilyenkov.
I haven’t read it yet, but it seems like the book talks about how Marx develops his ideas from the abstract to the concrete. It might be useful for someone here.
Still reading two autobiograpies from CIA whistleblowers: Inside the company by Philip Agee, and the CIA and the Cult of intelligence by Vincent Marchetti.
They are both excellent and are giving a great view inside how western intelligence services function, as well as they’re historical involvement.
Picked up “Decolonising the Palestinian Mind” by Haider Eid. I realised after reading this that I have a lot more basic reading to do before I am fully informed on Oslo accords, NGO, PLO, and even the literature of Edward Said which Haider builds on. He has written this after October 7, but there is a chain of historical apartheid the author draws on that puts post-2023 Gaza into perspective. I am nearing the conclusion of the book, so I’m looking for further reading.
I’m just about to start reading Rosa Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital
Mostly following along the This Soviet World reading group on Hexbear. I’ve been enormously busy compared to normal so I haven’t had much time, plus with Prolewiki down I’ve had to pause my usual scrolling of articles there.
