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What is the goal of the Marxist? To simply take over the state and control it but for communism reasons? No, smash the state! This book is Lenin at his most Anarchist, and it reads great.

If you want to feel sad about our ability to change the world, this is the one to read!

THE WAY IS SHUT. IT WAS MADE BY THOSE WHO ARE DEAD, AND THE DEAD KEEP IT, UNTIL THE TIME COMES. THE WAY IS SHUT.

Escaping liberal democracy seems impossible, this book certainly makes it feel that way! But it is not until the problem can be fully explicated that we can overcome it.

Benjamin is a great writer, the language is quite accessible to those who are not well-read in Theory, and it provides a good analysis of our problems.

Utopian experiments are a feature of every society. Radicals and extremists get it in their head that they must simply build the new world, and show everyone that it really works! The truth is, it probably would work. These experiments are full of well meaning and successful people doing their best. The problem? It threatens state-power of course! So they must be destroyed!

I would recommend this book, it radicalized me, it may radicalize you!

An amazing, inspiring, and heart warming journey through the Middle East. This travelogue is the daily journal of a hilarious and brave 30 year old Irish woman as she treks from Ireland to India on a bicycle. Throughout, she meets amazing people, faces adversity, fires a pistol, and is offered farm-land by a Pakistani prince.

One of the best books I have ever read.

An easy to read and understand manifesto of the movement that has been haunting our society for the last 175 years.

A deep dive into the republican thought of Karl Marx. Living in the United States, there is a common adage: "We do not live in a democracy but a republic," which always seems like a cop-out. So what is a republic really? This book provides a historical analysis of the republican movement from years 1840 to 1871.

Questions this book answers:

• How do republicans understand freedom?
• What is the problem with democracy?
• What does a republic solve?
• What is a Marxist alternative to the contemporary state structure?

It answers these questions not only by analyzing Marx and his writing extensively, but also his contemporaries in republicanism.

After reading this I can confidently call myself a Social Republican!

Does life have any value when it happens only once?

Would recommend.

Great book, a great tale of the life of a man searching for divinity.

I only read the intro, which is a plurality of the book, and quite dense philosophically.

What is the point of history? Is it simply a retelling of past events? As an object of critique, that would not be very useful. Hegel theorizes history to be the unfolding of freedom itself. We began society with slavery. The only way we could have freedom was if a few people enslaved many. Eventually, more and more people were emancipated. With the rise of bourgeois society (circa Hegel's era) the opportunity for everyone to become free has revealed itself. Now, in the current era, everyone can be free! That is, until capitalism, but that is for the Marxist's to elucidate. I would definitely recommend reading this to understand how Marxists see history.

Why do we all feel so depressed? Why do we burnout when we work less than we did 100 years ago? Han has a great analysis on the problems of modern subjectivity, or as he would say, projectivity. Would recommend.

If you want a good introduction for how Marxist's understand what separates their form of revolutionary socialism from all others, this is the book to read.

Utopian Socialism is an old and hallowed tradition, but one that does not seem to have had much lasting impact in the western world. Scientific Socialism - Marxism - is an attempt to understand the process of history and use it to the ends of human emancipation. Engels here goes into great depth on the differences between the two, it is not a long read. Would recommend!

Not a very hopeful look into the future, and not very realistic either.

Yuval Harari should not be as popular as he is. Would not recommend.