I recommend Mike Cooley`s book Architect or Bee . Where to start ? errr ok its about worker controll ... thats it , and technology
*The Great U75 Politics Reading List Thread.
- Thread starter Idris2002
- Start date
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
This looks like your best bet:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&r...owtoread.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0JMFuU7nEZLA7sumndaVAQ
I'm not sure if that link will work, though - let me know if it doesn't, and I'll see what else I can do.
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
Oh, and Dragnet - this is a pretty good summary of the above:
“How to Read a Book”: Paul Edward’s guidebook to reading techniques for students
“How to Read a Book”: Paul Edward’s guidebook to reading techniques for students
Dragnet
Well-Known Member
That's perfect - cheers!
Dug out a couple of books from the pile today; can anyone recommend which is worth reading more?
Nell - Nell McCafferty's autobiography
Small Earthquake in Chile - Alistair Horne
Ta!
Nell - Nell McCafferty's autobiography
Small Earthquake in Chile - Alistair Horne
Ta!
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
I'd go with Nell.
I did in the end! Nearly finished it and it's a real eye opener.
Especially hearing about stuff like the plight of the Armagh Women - the hunger strikers. I had never heard of them before. Makes me want to see the film Silent Grace but that's never on the telly and the DVD costs an arm and a leg.
Nell's great. Flawed, as any of us are, but great. I'd seen her around years back and I might have even spoken to her (memory hazy on this one) but I wish I had known her story and the wider story, back then.
I'd seen it and I'd heard it. It was all around me but I didn't open my eyes and I didn't listen.
Anyway, best autobiography I've read in all my years. Anyone who hasn't read it - go for it.
Dragnet
Well-Known Member
I've only read extracts from this (published as the pamphlet 'Poor Lenin'). I'd be interested in reading the whole thing; I remember it being quite funny in parts.
Cheesepig3
Cheese. Cheese. Cats.
"Utopia" hasn't had a mention?
Either my search skills are shit (very possible) or this thread is missing something.
Either my search skills are shit (very possible) or this thread is missing something.
Dragnet
Well-Known Member
Right, hope this isn't too off-topic, but didn't feel it warranted starting a new thread - can anyone recommend a basic introduction to economics? I've started reading Wolfgang Streeck's Buying Time, but I think I'd get a lot more out of it if I had a better understanding of some of the terms he uses - fiscal consolidation, debt-financing, market deregulation, the Bretton Woods system.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
A Michael Kidron Reader is released in the next day or two over here. ebooks are available now with 90% off, well worth picking up
Capitalism and Theory: Selected Writings of Michael Kidron
Capitalism and Theory: Selected Writings of Michael Kidron
Dragnet
Well-Known Member
Cheers, I'll give that a read.
krink
I'll do it this afternoon
Free ebook of "who do you serve who do you protect" about policing and responses in murica Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Dunno if this will get me thrown off here but am enjoying Fukuyama’s ‘Origins of political order’
He's reactionary and delusional. But I'd only mock you for reading it.
The end of history. Hegel done wrong.
AndrewNumLock
Well-Known Member
Clive James - Cultural Amnesia
Basically a defence of Liberal Democracy and turned me away from being a Marxist.
Basically a defence of Liberal Democracy and turned me away from being a Marxist.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Ralph Miliband - Parliamentary Socialism.
19force8
For the avoidance of faith
Seriously enjoying A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling | Waterstones available as an e-book too.
Not so much political theory as an account of applied politics with hilarious consequences.
It tells the story of how a small community in New Hampshire was successfully colonised by 21st century libertarians who progressively reduced the local tax burden by stripping away services such as planning regulations and garbage collection, leading to an increase in the bear population. The town already had form with this aversion to taxation, having tried to secede from the USA during the American Revolution because it didn't like paying taxes to support the Continental Army. Also, during the first half of the 20th century it consistently voted against having a fire department because it would increase property taxes.
Not so much political theory as an account of applied politics with hilarious consequences.
It tells the story of how a small community in New Hampshire was successfully colonised by 21st century libertarians who progressively reduced the local tax burden by stripping away services such as planning regulations and garbage collection, leading to an increase in the bear population. The town already had form with this aversion to taxation, having tried to secede from the USA during the American Revolution because it didn't like paying taxes to support the Continental Army. Also, during the first half of the 20th century it consistently voted against having a fire department because it would increase property taxes.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Thanks for the heads-up.
I've recently got a load of political books that I now need to read. Maybe its been recommended already but Granny Made Me An Anarchist by Stuart Christie is a bloody great read.
I also found Chums by Simin Kuper to be an informative book recently. And Anarchy's Cossack by Alexander Skirde is a very informative book about the Makhnovists. I have also started I Couldn't Paint Golden Angles by Albert Meltzer, good so far. And apparently the Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes is good.
I also found Chums by Simin Kuper to be an informative book recently. And Anarchy's Cossack by Alexander Skirde is a very informative book about the Makhnovists. I have also started I Couldn't Paint Golden Angles by Albert Meltzer, good so far. And apparently the Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes is good.
I'm currently reading The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes. Its brilliant - very informative and interesting and well written and with beautiful illustrations aswell. I highly recommend it.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
It is very good. I'm reading it too.
...but I wonder if/when he'll talk about how his own privilege enables him to "get away" with trespassing in a way a black kid from, say, London wouldn't?
Similar threads
