What Book Are You Currently Reading?

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chill w/ the bourgeois sh**t.  you're a good kid.  read some real sh**t.

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there's nothing wrong with Krugman, except that he is limited.  it is without argument a good thing that he and Stiglitz (among others) emerged as a neo-Keynesian counterweight during the neoliberal grand slam era of the 90s.  but he basically beats concepts into the ground, ruing the fact that policymakers don't listen... and herein lies the limitation: he has no serious understanding of why neoliberal policies persist, no functioning theory of state power is deployed in his work.  this is likely a product of the absolute taboo on Marxian thought within economics in academia.

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Rebel cities by David Harvey.

Thoughts? I've read a few of Harvey's short pieces for class, and A Brief History of Neoliberalism has been on my reading list for a while.

good man

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"Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72"

+1

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American Insurgents
A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism by Richard Seymour



http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/American-Insurgents

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Leo Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God is Within You

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Chris Ealham - Anarchism and the City


Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (translated by Constance Garnett )

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (translated by Constance Garnett )

No access to Pevear and Volokhonsky? Or are you feeling masochistic?

I would have to buy it

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Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (translated by Constance Garnett )

No access to Pevear and Volokhonsky? Or are you feeling masochistic?

I would have to buy it

I shelled out the $22 for the P/V today after reading the clumsy Garnett for 2 books.

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Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Age of Reason."

At first it was toilet seat reading, but the Cable Guy came over this morning--connected the internet, finally, and gave us 300+ channels of garbage.  I suppose this will cost an arm and a leg, but it's good to be back in touch.  Anyway, he noticed the book splayed, spine down, on a box in the basement and commented on it.  Apparently he'd read it because he was very well versed on it and had a detailed analysis regarding the development of characters.  We discussed it somewhat, but I felt a bit guilty that I was only on page 42 at the time.  Since then I've read another 30 pages.  I relate to Mathieu.

yeah read that.  good book.  you would suffer from clinical depression without red wine, much like Sartre, read it, relate, and become a Communist

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Just got it today. Been on my reading list for a while.

isn't this a Nazi book?

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Augustine's Confessions

I think I tried to do that, didn't work

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The Odyssey for college. I had all summer to read it and with six days left I've read about 60 pages.

if it's for orientation or whatever it's totally ok not to do it.

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I picked up a copy of Age of Extremes for $3,

how?

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in an attempt to simultaneously display the best and worst of tastes, I'm approaching 50% done with War & Peace (P/V translation) and poking around a pdf of Fifty Shades of Grey.

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in an attempt to simultaneously display the best and worst of tastes, I'm approaching 50% done with War & Peace (P/V translation) and poking around a pdf of Fifty Shades of Grey.

gave up on 50 Shades after 3 chapters, up to the 1812 war in W&P, and re-starting my January-downloaded pdf of Age of Revolution in honour of the late Eric Hobsbawm.

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Can anyone recommend any good books on modern Latin American history? The Venezuelan election has piqued my interest and it's one of the areas of the world I never really learned a great deal about in school.

as for Venezuela itself, a Marxist-Leninist professor buddy of mine recommends the following.

Greg Wilpert, Changing Venezuela by Taking Power, Verso, 2007.
Steve Ellner, Rethinking Venezuelan Politics, 2008.
Michael Lebowitz, Build it Now.

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well you can take a look at the post above you for some Chavez stuff.

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an abridged version of Leon Trotsky - History of the Russian Revolution that I've been meaning to read for some time.  he's so much the better writer vs. Stalin that it hurts.  no wonder Stalin was a bit jealous.

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Now I'm reading Dead Souls by Gogol.

took you long enough

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picked up a copy of Kolakowski's Main Currents of Marxism (all three volumes in one) the other day from the library.  some of the best sh**t I've ever read, particularly those parts that I'm naturally interest in (reading it front to back proved impossible for me).  may have to splurge and buy it for $24 on Amazon

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somewhat continuing on the theme, I picked up CS Lewis' Mere Christianity a few days ago.

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Nations and Nationalist Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by Hobsbawm

Good one.

yeah, he reads cooler sh**t than I did as a second semester freshman.  tracking maybe 12-18 months ahead of me.

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started Tolstoy's Resurrection last night to end an eight-week hiatus from fiction.

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I just finished Tolstoy's The Law of Love and The Law of Violence, one of the lesser examples of his elucidation of his own anarcho-pacifist Christianity.  still reading his last full length novel Resurrection, about 3/5 of the way through that.  I checked out from the local library his 'translation' of the Gospels, as well the three volumes of Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology, but haven't really started either.