1000 pages, one sentence (yes, one.), — Manuel

Krasznahorkai is shaking right now.

Let me know what you pick up. I have a list but want to be a bit selective since I want to get an order from Haymarket too.

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

@StreetlightX looks like the Verso end of year sale has started. Could have sworn it was 50% off last year though.

Monsters of the Market Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism by David McNally — Maw

Yeah so read this book

Two months ago is cute, try two years ago.

Yeah Quinn Slobodian's book is excellent! Was going to recommend Wendy Brown's In The Ruins of Neoliberalism, but looks like I was beat to the punch. Incidentally was looking to start Melinda Cooper's Family Values by the end of this year or early next.

I enjoyed Dune

@180 Proof did you see Dune yet?

Faust by Goethe

Monsters of the Market was interesting. Some of the analogies are a bit ham-fisted and awkwardly argued, but I really appreciated his discourse on zombies, and ultimately his insistence on emphasizing the monstrosity of capitalism.

Canada sucks too

Someone get me out of this shit country

Ironic that Tucker Carlson had a recent segment on Fox criticizing the concept of paternity leave that many conservatives jumped on board to agree with. Seems like the question should be Capitalism or Family Values, eh?

Has anyone else watched Satantango?

Will do!

Loved loved How Revolutionary. One of my favorite reads of the year. Intellectually dense, and with acerbic wit and confidence that I admire.

Monsters of the Market Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism by David McNally

Bela Tarr, the Time After by Jacques Rancière

Funny how people can dress up paying over $1000 per month for formal child care as "Family Rights"

I find your comments to be self-indulgent and poorly written. — ToothyMaw

lol

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai

That's very sad to hear, he was quite young to pass too, I very much enjoyed Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism several years back

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins.

The Other Afghan Women

Entire branches of Shakira’s family tree, from the uncles who used to tell her stories to the cousins who played with her in the caves, vanished. In all, she lost sixteen family members. I wondered if it was the same for other families in Pan Killay. I sampled a dozen households at random in the village, and made similar inquiries in other villages, to insure that Pan Killay was no outlier. For each family, I documented the names of the dead, cross-checking cases with death certificates and eyewitness testimony. On average, I found, each family lost ten to twelve civilians in what locals call the American War.

It tackled the themes from the original from different perspectives and angles, not necessarily as successfully as Blade Runner did (and I prefer the original anyway), but thoughtful and stimulating all the same, IMO. As you said, gorgeous movie, and great acting (apart from Leto), and Ana de Armas could strangle me and I'd thank her for it.

(i forgive him for the gorgeous failure of Blade Runner 2049) — 180 Proof

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:love:

Well, western liberalism teaches that men are worthless racists and misogynists and all that matters is refugees,elephants, rhinos, and polar bears. — Apollodorus

This is simply correct, what's the problem?

If the US Government actually cared about women's rights they'd be invading Texas right now

oh wait..

Wow I can't believe the Taliban are offering a $10K reward to any Afghanistan citizen willing to sue another person who, in any way, helped make an abortion possible. We really need to reinvade the country for women's rights.

You probably just drank too much coffee. — frank

I know it must be hard for some people, perhaps like yourself, to understand that there are people out there who are sincerely happy for the conclusion of a "forever war" that was unjustifiable in the first place.

Absolutely giddy over the week plus meltdown by the media, pundits, and other elites across the liberal-conservative spectrum, at the prospect of America's limited ability to maintain overseas Empire.

Free markets are vital so when I go to Walgreens to pick up toothpaste I am confronted with 60+ options

20 years, nearly a quarter million killed including tens of thousands of civilians, lord knows how many disabled, displaced, at the price tag of $2 trillion and the Taliban retake power within three months. In 2019 it was revealed the US Officials knew the situation was "unwinnable". What would have prevented this? 20 more years? More bodies on the ground and more bodies in the ground? How much more money should we have thrown at it? What about $4 trillion? Maybe $8 trillion? Should the US have just committed to an endless imperial conquest? A July 2021 poll showed that 70% of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, supported withdrawal, so the call to escalate was a political non-starter and would have been far more unpopular than withdrawal. The first best thing to have done was to not invade in the first place. The second was immediate withdrawal. Unfortunately it took 20 years to do.

If I don’t like the situation in the workplace I bargain for different conditions, find preferable conditions, or better, make my own. — NOS4A2

No you don't, you're just outright lying.

How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? by Neil Davidson

looking forward to this one given @StreetlightX's glowing review

Started and finished Sir Gawain and the Green Knight today and just got back from the movie

Probably the one with the access to the nuclear codes and military

Marx's Capital and Hegel's Logic: A Reexamination edited by Fred Moseley and Tony Smith

I've been on a cinema binge since the beginning of the pandemic so might I recommend Mulholland Drive

Because right-winger extremism isn't largely considered a threat as demonstrated by the muzzled response by guards (some sympathetic to them) during the capital riot. Contrast this to the response of city police during Black Lives Matter protests last summer after the death of George Floyd. Easier to be "emboldened" as the Right, when the red carpet is rolled out for you. — Maw

A recent extension of this: the double standard between BLM and leftists protests on Florida highways, and anti-Cuban government protests on Florida highways.

this was about as mainstream a movement as I’ve seen, except among the police. — Joshs

So if a mainstream movement (it peaked in June 2020 with around 67% support, decreased to 55% by September 2020) could illicit demonstrable brutality against them by police, what type of reaction do you think the police would have against a large non-mainstream protest against capital?