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(1/2) Oops. Just completely forgot to post about the last two books I read lol. Been completely swept up in the new school year!

My last read of the summer. I figured it was short enough to squeeze in before school started & would be nice to knock out before I started the September seminar on CLR James that I‘m taking with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research! 🙂

3rd NYPL checkout = ✅ A comprehensive little book about a revolutionary giant who made enormous contributions to the struggle for African independence, unity and socialism.

Tremendous overview of the history of fascism in the US.

Feel like this could've gone somewhere different. It's set up as though it's going to be less history, more manifesto, but even the near history (2019) feels written as...history. the manifesto itself is the last sixth of the book, and while understandably US centric it still feels like more could've been said in a broad sense, after the /Euro/centric history lesson, which makes up at least half the book. Still worth reading but need to follow up.

When I heard Carla Bergman talk about joy and unschooling and Ursula K. Le Guin (and more!) on the Coffee with Comrades podcast (ep. 117), I immediately ordered their book JOYFUL MILITANCY: BUILDING THRIVING RESISTANCE IN TOXIC TIMES, co-authored with Nick Montgomery. My copy arrived in the mail today! 💕

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Verso has this ebook available for free right now.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/3089-the-us-antifascism-reader

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Radical publisher Verso has made The US Antifascism Reader free to download or to email to an e-reader, and I find myself curious to try it.

“This reader reconstructs the history of US antifascism ... showing how generations of writers, organisers, and fighters spoke to each other over time.” It begins in the 1930s, including famous authors like W. E. B. Du Bois & Sinclair Lewis.

https://versobooks.com/books/3089-the-us-antifascism-reader

tentative top 10 essays (in the order they were read)

1. blood lineage — yi xiaocuo
2. datong and xiaokang — craig a. smith
3. dialectical materialism — pang laikwan
4. museum — denise y. ho
5. people‘s war — guan kai
6. permanent revolution — matthew galway
7. poetry — claudia pozzana
8. sugarcoated bullets — benjamin kindler
9. third world — teng wei
10. trade union — ivan franceschini

Nonfiction November Week 3 is "Be the Expert" - If you find yourself pulling further left politically, or just want to learn more about leftism, I think you'll enjoy the titles shown here (and others mentioned in today's post). They all have clear, accessible writing styles and a hopeful tone. ❤?❤ https://lovelybookshelf.com/2020/11/books-for-leftists/

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