VMSmith
a figment of my own imagination
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| Marxist Left Review #4. more specifically the essay on racism in australia. it's very good. covers everything from anti irish and antisemitism and refugee racism to islamophobia and the cronulla riots and discrimination against aboriginals and indian exchange students, etc |
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Blondstrom
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Jul 02, 2012
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Location: Toronto, Canada
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I just finished reading the book "King of Russia" by Dave King and I finished it in two days. It was a wonderful read about King as he went to coach in the Russian Super League (hockey)... tells of all the things he went through and little things about Russia. It's very interesting.
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Descartes
Cogito Ergo Sum
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Age: 21
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Location: Arlington, Texas
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Freedom Summer, by Bruce Watson - a non-fictional account on the "Freedom Summer" movement wherein college students from all over the U.S. converged on Mississippi in the summer of 1964 intent on registering African-Americans to vote.
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lostgirl1986
There's a party in my head.
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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"Even Now"-Karen Kingsbury
Shane Galanter is ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who remembers a love that hasn’t faded with time? Lauren Gibbs is a successful international war correspondent who gave up on happily-ever-after years ago—when it was ripped away from her. So why is life so empty?Emily Anderson is a college freshman raised by her grandparents, about to take her first internship as a journalist. But before she can move ahead, she discovers a love story whose tragic ending came with her birth. As a result, she is drawn to look back and search out the mother she’s never met, and the father she never knew. With hallmark tenderness and power, Karen Kingsbury weaves a tapestry of life, loss, love, faith—and the miracle of resurrection. |
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GoonSquad
Gadfly or Fly Food?
Joined: May 12, 2007
Age: 43
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Location: International House of Paincakes...
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Armageddon-2419 A.D./Airlords of Han by P. F. Nowlan
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In the year 1927 WWI vet, Anthony Rogers is exposed to a mysterious radioactive gas and buried alive while working as a mine surveyor. Preserved in a state of suspended animation, he awakes 492 years later to discover a devastated America ruled over by the Han (Chinese) Empire.
The Han are content to live in luxury scattered across the continent in and Mega-cities--leaving the overgrown, wild countryside to the barbaric Americans…
Meanwhile, after centuries of brutal Han suppression and constant infighting, the Americans are beginning to rebuild. Organized into small loosely allied paramilitary socialist collectives known as “gans,” Americans are preparing for a second war of independence in their camouflaged, forest villages and subterranean weapon factories.
After saving ace air-scout Wilma Deering from a renegade gan, the Bad Bloods, Rogers is adopted into the Wyoming Valley gan. All is well until a Han Airship appears above the valley, using its disintegrator rays to lay waste to the hidden American base below! All seems lost until Rogers uses some good OLD American know-how to knock the Han’s Dragon out of the sky…
The second revolution has begun! |
So, this is the pulp novella that introduced Anthony "Buck" Rogers to the world... It's actually a very good SF story with some good action.
BUT, the thing I find most interesting here is that these future American freedom fighters are SOCIALISTS.
...and it's not just glossed over either. Nowlan goes out of his way to emphasize the fact that the Americans do not own anything but (very) personal stuff. Everything else-all resources-are held in communal trust and used for the common good!
By contrast, the Han are described as greedy, weak, pleasure/wealth seeking tyrants.... Hmm...
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VMSmith
a figment of my own imagination
Joined: Apr 18, 2011
Age: 21
Posts: 2676
Location: the old country
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| The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx by Alex Callincos and What is the real Marxist Tradition by John Molyneux and the article in Marxist Left Review #2 on Confronting The Stalinist Legacy. all for a reading group i have tomorrow. my comrade said i can come even if i dont finish the lot. |
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Joker
Sinn Fein
Joined: Mar 20, 2011
Age: 24
Posts: 7593
Location: North Carolina The Tar Heel State :)
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| I am reading the darkest powers series by Kelley Armstrong again. |
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NeueZiel
Señorita Gamera
Joined: Apr 29, 2012
Posts: 1246
Location: Kapustin Yar
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| The Brothers Karamazov, have abit over 100 pages left. Been reading it forever. Crime and Punishment will be next. |
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Blondstrom
Tufted Titmouse
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Location: Toronto, Canada
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| NeueZiel wrote: | | The Brothers Karamazov, have abit over 100 pages left. Been reading it forever. Crime and Punishment will be next. |
I love Dostoyevsky! I'm re-reading Notes From Underground before I go to The Brothers Karamazov! Crime and Punishment is an excellent book as well!
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VMSmith
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| marxism and the party by j. molyneux. i disagree with his idea of lenin as some elitist prick and with it saying we should be too. |
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ProfessorX
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| Last Temptation Of Christ-Nikos Kazantzakis |
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Shatbat
Fénix
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Age: 20
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Location: South America
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Sex at Dawn. Looked interesting from hiperlexian's description of it.
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NeueZiel
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Finished The Brothers Karamazov today, really good ending..funeral was very sad but uplifting  . I think I'll read American Gods next before jumping to Crime and Punishment. |
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greenheron
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Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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| Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground. |
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opal
Phoenix
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Posts: 916
Location: Australia
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Just finished " The Reader".
I found it very thought -provoking, and could relate to both the central characters. It shows that there is always another side to the story. |
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