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A deeply emotional story about a historian struggling with discrimination during her studies and co-founding an anti racist movement in an alternate history setting where black colonizers represent the ruling class.

@homohortus@mastodon.social I finished it some time ago and was disappointed. The introduction to Marxism in the first sections seemed very good, but I think the author lacks a grounded understanding of datacenter operations and this leads to bad interpretations from an otherwise interesting idea. I also briefly discussed the book with a political scientist, who told me that Varoufakis' definition of feudalism is off, but I'm not enough of an expert to judge this myself.

This book takes the simple premise of trying to understand the geopolitics of nations within the "global south" by taking their perspective seriously. From there, the main thesis as I understand it is roughly:

our world looks to be multipolar for the foreseeable future. In such a world, a mix of shared interests is more central than harsh (and historically inconsistently applied) principles. At the same time, the shared interest between both European and small and mid sized nations in the global south is a strengthening and democratization of international organizations such as the IMF and the world bank, with the aim to bring these more in line with UN principles that give more rights to smaller nations in particular.

I'm not sure I agree with everything, but it's a fantastic read with well-rounded arguments.