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*The Great U75 Politics Reading List Thread.

N. M. Seedo : In the Beginning Was Fear
A novel following the life of a Jewish girl from Bessarabia who escapes from the Nazis to find refuge in England.
 
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf

Former head of Kissinger Associates and Clinton administration official looks at what he describes as the 'Superclass', comprising of about 6000 people who are the world's most powerful and influential. They constitute a community amongst themselves and exist and operate above the level of nations and national laws. It also looks at the issues surrounding 'globalisation' which this class is largely the driver of.
 
Fields, Factories and Workshops - Peter Kropotkin

Anarchism: Arguments For and Against - Albert Metzer

I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels - Albert Metzer

Free To Choose - Milton and Rose D. Friedman
 
josef1878 said:
Keith Mann - From Dusk til Dawn

http://www.fromdusktildawn.org.uk/

Enough for 3 books in there
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That is a FANTASTIC book and if anyone still believes in the law and democracy, when they see this they won't believe the goings on.

Busy reading RAYMOND McCORD-JUSTICE FOR RAYMOND at the mo, about how the powers that be employed murderers as informants in N Ireland and deliberately fucked up investigations into his sons death
 
trevhagl said:
That is a FANTASTIC book and if anyone still believes in the law and democracy, when they see this they won't believe the goings on.

Busy reading RAYMOND McCORD-JUSTICE FOR RAYMOND at the mo, about how the powers that be employed murderers as informants in N Ireland and deliberately fucked up investigations into his sons death
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I've read a few books on that subject Trev. Very dark things happened in NI during the conflict. I thought Government sanctioned death squads only existed in piss poor dictatorships until i read em.
 
The Retreat of Reason: Political correctness and the corruption of public debate in modern Britain by Anthony Browne (see here)
 
Autonomia - Post-political politics. Semiotext(e) Editor: Sylvere Lotringer.

Fantastic collection of original articles, documents, photos and essays in response to the Italian State clampdown of '78 - '79.
Inspiring, illuminating and informative!
 
Colin Ward - Influences: Voices of Creative Dissent. Very interesting and illuminating chapters on Paul Goodman, Godwin and Kropotkin among others.
 
Fledgling said:
I'm going to find more books on the conflict, these were excellent.
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The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor is really good, though it's an overall thing. Covers the conflict really well and I think I especially if you're interested in the Anarchists because he doesn't sound like he's sneering at them as I seem to remember some of the other big writers doing. But as a military historian you don't worry as much about it being completely partisan as you do with Bookchin and that. Bookchins The Spanish Anarchists has good diagrams of the way the CNT was organised though.

heading off into history really but:
I recently finished Zapata and Villa by Frank McClyn which seemed pretty good though I've read nothing else about the mexican civil war/revolution.
It paints zapata in a fairly positive light as being incorruptible through most of the revolution and sketces he and Villa really well. Can anyone recommend me any good histories of the Zapatistas that show how much democracy/land reform they managed to achieve while they were about? there's a bit mentioned in the booked but not loads.
 
Four short books that have just been released simultaneously on the new Zero books imprint are well worth a look.
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism
Nina Power – One Dimensional Woman
Owen Hatherley – Militant Modernism
Dominic Fox – The Aesthetics of dejection and the politics of militant dysphoria
This seems to be Zero books attempt to forge a new avenue in public critique; they have a mission statement that claims to be pursuing radical cultural/political/social criticism outside of academia but without sacrificing quality or relevance. All four authors are bloggers but I think only Fox’ book hints at that. It still has lots of very interesting material I especially liked the chapter on the early 90s Norwegian black metal scene. Mark Fisher’s book is the most impressive from my perspective. He analyses various trends in popular culture, work and politics over the last ten years or so from a broadly Zizekian, Deluzian perspective. The best parts are when he applies these ideas directly to his experience of working as an FE tutor. It’s rare to find someone using Zizek’s ideas and actually using them to unpick some very everyday experiences of work in 21st century Britain.
 
The Aesthetics of dejection and the politics of militant dysphoria


one reason why certain sections of leftist politics will never reach anyone but boring intellectual fuckers who'd send a glass eye to sleep
 
"Going Postal - Mark Ames"


Ames takes a systematic look at the scores of rage killings in our public schools and workplaces that have taken place over the past 25 years. He claims that instead of being the work of psychopaths, they were carried out by ordinary people who had suffered repeated humiliation, bullying and inhumane conditions that find their origins in the "Reagan Revolution." Looking through a carefully researched historical lens, Ames recasts these rage killings as failed slave rebellions.
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Actually a lot better than the blurb would have you think, the somewhat exploratory parallels between workplace/school shootings and slave rebellions is more of an excuse to document the changes to working conditions (and wider society) post-Reagan in the USA and posit the shootings as an angry and desperate backlash against the imapct of neoliberal economics.

Interview with the author

Easy read too.
 
America The Book: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart (daily show host)



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worth a look i promise.
 
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