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*The Great U75 Politics Reading List Thread.

Going South - why Britain will have a third world economy by 2014.
- Larry Elliot & Dan Atkinson.
 
butchersapron said:
This set going for 140 quid is what i have, which is a 1975 reprint of the 1940 two volume edition. The confusion mostly comes from the most easily available edition (the 1979 Cienfeugos press edition) omitting part 2 which is mainly a collection of documentary material rather than narrative or analysis.
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What butchersapron said, but you're probably more likely to find a copy of the original 1940 first edition (30-50 pounds on abe at the moment) than the reprint.
 
Can anyone offer any recommendations on the Paris Commune? I know next to nothing about it so introductory stuff would be good - but I'm going to be studying it as my specialist subject next year so more focused stuff will definitely come in useful too.

I've been lent The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne, which from a quick flick through looks like a fairly standard liberal account, and History of the Paris Commune of 1871 by Prosper Olivier Lissagaray, which appears to be an eyewitness account - anyone know if they're any good?

Thanks.

I don't think I'd get away with passing off other peoples views as my own due to plagiarism rules so the Laurie Penny 'ask twitter' strategy isn't really an option :(
 
The Horne one is more military than anything but is a good book. The Lissagaray book is one of the best from below accounts of any radical uprising ever. Frank Jellinek did one for the Left Book Club in the 30s which is still good and you can easily enough avoid/spot his stalinist/pop front sympathies. Stewart Edwards wrote an account that is weird mix of liberalism/whiggism and romanticism. For interesting context Roger Magraw did a marxist-luddite account of the surrounding period. But the main thing is...read Lissagaray!!!!!
 
butchersapron said:
The Horne one is more military than anything but is a good book. The Lissagaray book is one of the best from below accounts of any radical uprising ever. Frank Jellinek did one for the Left Book Club in the 30s which is still good and you can easily enough avoid/spot his stalinist/pop front sympathies. Stewart Edwards wrote an account that is weird mix of liberalism/whiggism and romanticism. For interesting context Roger Magraw did a marxist-luddite account of the surrounding period. But the main thing is...read Lissagaray!!!!!
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Great stuff, cheers mate :)
 
cyprusclean said:
If I'm on the wrong thread, why respond to me? And why not direct me to the right one; if there is a right one. This forum is about politics, is it not?
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To tell you that you are on the wrong thread. That's why.

And there isn't a right one or i would have directed you to it.
 
cyprusclean said:
If I'm on the wrong thread, why respond to me? And why not direct me to the right one; if there is a right one. This forum is about politics, is it not?
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Maybe you should learn the difference between 'forum' and 'thread'? Just a thought.
 
cyprusclean said:
That's helpful of you, if not a tad gratuitous.
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Well, it's not exactly difficult to differentiate betwen a thread and a forum, and posting a question about the Pirate Party on a thread entitled "The Great Urban Politics Reading List Thread" does seem either a foolish or wilfully ignorant act.
 
treelover said:
anyone read this, sounds good.
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It's interesting because it's subject matter is interesting, but it's a fairly conservative take on those subjects denying any real radicalism, and saying everything happens in a nice, evolutionary way, which is why we have the bestest democracy in the world.
 
butchersapron said:
The Horne one is more military than anything but is a good book. The Lissagaray book is one of the best from below accounts of any radical uprising ever. Frank Jellinek did one for the Left Book Club in the 30s which is still good and you can easily enough avoid/spot his stalinist/pop front sympathies. Stewart Edwards wrote an account that is weird mix of liberalism/whiggism and romanticism. For interesting context Roger Magraw did a marxist-luddite account of the surrounding period. But the main thing is...read Lissagaray!!!!!
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I'm reading the Edwards one now - I wasn't expecting to but I'm really enjoying it - well worth the £5 or so I paid for it on amazon.
 
Just finished reading this, really interesting insight into an aspect of the Civil Right Movement I was totally unaware of.
 
J Ed said:
Just finished reading this, really interesting insight into an aspect of the Civil Right Movement I was totally unaware of.
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Have a look at Deacons for Defence too. I have copies of Williams pamphlets and stuff i need to upload asap as well. Whole battle with people like this that MLK engaged in and used every tactic they could to undermine. Now hidden in favour of a bullshit peaceful march to civil rights narrative.
 
Anyone got anything to recommend on 'post-development'? I've got to do a 7000 word project, title of my choice, on development and I'm seriously considering doing a Marxist critique of post-development. So I'm interested in key texts from its adherents but also if any Marxists have critiqued or commented on it I'd be very interested in seeing what they have to say.
 
treelover said:
anyone read this, sounds good.
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I read it last year. It was actually quite a let-down. Mostly due to what I felt was a poor writing style and a tendency to throw loads of names at the reader at the expense of a clear exposition of events.
 
J Ed said:
Just finished reading this, really interesting insight into an aspect of the Civil Right Movement I was totally unaware of.
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Something else you may be interested in. Akinyele Omowale Umoja has published We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement.


In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance was critical to the efficacy of the southern freedom struggle and the dismantling of segregation and Black disenfranchisement. Intimidation and fear were central to the system of oppression in Mississippi and most of the Deep South. To overcome the system of segregation, Black people had to overcome fear to present a significant challenge to White domination. Armed self-defense was a major tool of survival in allowing some Black southern communities to maintain their integrity and existence in the face of White supremacist terror. By 1965, armed resistance, particularly self-defense, was a significant factor in the challenge of the descendants of enslaved Africans to overturning fear and intimidation and developing different political and social relationships between Black and White Mississippians.

This riveting historical narrative relies upon oral history, archival material, and scholarly literature to reconstruct the use of armed resistance by Black activists and supporters in Mississippi to challenge racist terrorism, segregation, and fight for human rights and political empowerment from the early 1950s through the late 1970s.
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I have put a not very good but perfectly readable version of this here (warning it's around 170mb - better and smaller version on way though) and a academic article outlining the thesis here.
 
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