I’m reading The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce (Delphi edition) on my tablet.

Just finished Legendborn as well.

The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin is also what I’m reading (second book in the trilogy of The Three-Body Problem)

In terms of non-fiction:

Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism (2nd Edition) by Otto Wille Kuusinen (highly recommended!)

Class, Race and Black Liberation by Henry Winston (also highly recommmend! …Though not before reading the prequel to the book Strategy for a Black Agenda)

Discussion questions:

What new books are you reading?

Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?

Question of the week:

What books are you eager to read that you haven’t read yet?

Enjoy!

  • Makan@lemmygrad.mlOPMEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Are you starting out as an ML? I could recommend some other elementary works, if you want.

    • shroobinator@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been in the leftist camp for the last few years now, but just recently self identifying as an ML, but probably agreeing with the general idea without realising it.

      My mother who grew up in Soviet Crimea just recently gifted me a copy of the Manifesto, so I’ll be reading that soon. I’d really appreciate a list of some recommended works. Also if you have any suggestions for some books in the perspective of a historical account like The Jakarta Method, that really resonated with me.

      Thank you!

      • Makan@lemmygrad.mlOPMEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Materialism and Empirio-criticism by V.I. Lenin

        Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels

        “Democracy” and Dictatorship by V.I. Lenin

        On Authority by Friedrich Engels

        Anarchism or Sociailsm? by Joseph Stalin

        Critique of the Gotha Programme by Karl Marx

        On Practice by Mao Zedong

        On Contradiction by Mao Zedong

        Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels

        Historical Materialism: A System of Sociology by Nikolai Bukharin

        Dialectical and Historical Materialism by Joseph Stalin

        “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder by Vladimir Lenin

        What is to be Done? by Vladimir Lenin

        @shroobinator@lemmygrad.ml

        I hand-picked these from a lot of choices.

        If you can read through all of these, you won’t be a “baby” leftist anymore.