Discussion questions:
What new books are you reading?
Do you prefer fiction or non-fiction?
Question of the week:
What do you prefer: Game of Thrones or A Song of Ice and Fire?
I’m currently reading everything I can about Rosa Luxemburg.
I was given a copy of The Essential Rosa Luxemburg which contains Reform or Revolution and The Mass Strike, which has led me to reading her complete works, as well as her biography by Frolich, a book of her personal letters to Leo Jogiches, and Raya Dunayevskaya’s Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution.
I prefer to read fiction, especially fantasy, but I simply do not have the time with how much reading I have to do for research. I was never a fan of A Song of Ice and Fire, and as such never watched the adaptation. I didn’t care for his writing, but more than that, for personal reasons I don’t read fiction full of sexual violence.
Should I read Rosa Luxemburg?
I adore her writing. She is super passionate, super clever, and also really loves sick burns. Reform or Revolution is an entire fifty-page shut-down of Bernstein, and she tears the fuck into him. It’s all about how you can’t create socialism through capitalist reform.
If you’re going to give just one bit of her writing a try, I would say the Junius Brochure which she wrote while in prison, and was smuggled out, in which she rails against the senseless inter-proletarian murder of the first World War and calls for an international unity of workers to rise up against the capitalists that send them to their deaths for profit
Very nice. Thanks!
Still chugging through Morris Cornfort. This time on the second part, about historic materialism. Interesting stuff, although some of the bits did not age well.
Maurice Cornforth, right?
Yes, that’s right. I forgot to check the original spelling
Gotcha. Yeah, I’ve wanted to read one of his books for a while.
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Yeah, I prefer reading than using the audiobook.
restarted Betrayer by Aaron Demski-Bowden
Enjoying Warhammer? Apparently that makes you a fascist sympathizer.
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Bwahaha!
Just got an ereader recently and downloaded a couple of books on my to read list. Decided to start with fiction first cuz I’ve literally been only reading non-fiction for the past couple of years. So currently I’m reading Star Trek DS9: The Neverending Sacrifice. Great book in general but even better if you’ve watched DS9. After that book I’m not sure what I’ll read, maybe Parenti’s book about Yugoslavia or Orientalism by Edward Said.
Sounds good! I also got an ereader myself.
I read from the Tao Te Ching all the time. It’s a great book! I am also reading 100 years of solitude. I’m getting close to the end. It’s a trip. I don’t know what I’ll read next.
I was listening to Losurdo’s book on liberalism and it’s so bonkers… like, you realize just how fake and dishonest liberalism is. I read it based on SpaceCowboy’s rec. idk where they wen tho :(
Zhuangzi > Daodejing
IMHO
But I love both of them.
Haha, I have read the Zhuangzi but I feel like I haven’t found a great translation of it. The translations I have found lack the meditative and poetic quality of Stephen Mitchell’s Tao Te Ching.
What translation do you like of the Zhuangzi?
Also, I feel like everyone spells both of those titles and authors differently. Is there any consensus on that? Maybe I’m just not up to date lol
Find the one by Wang Rongpei.
It’s translated by Chinese scholars during the late 1990s. You’d like it.