My 10+ Favorite Books I've Read in 2022

Book list:

Honorary mentions:

My videos on the German revolution:

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:34 - 1: The Failure of a Revolution
05:12 - 2: The German Revolution: 1917-1923
08:14 - 3: Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution
10:57 - 4: All Power to the Councils!
11:54 - 5: Leviné: The Life of a Revolutionary
16:26 - 6: Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition
19:15 - 7: Art and the Working Class
22:42 - 8: Armed Insurrection
25:44 - 9: The Robbers
26:44 - 10: The Roots of Romanticism
29:13 - Honorary mentions
32:13 - Credits

[Megaghost_]

A goldmine of recommendations. Thank you so much man!

[JuanRamos-ywme]

I just wanted to say that I have been following your channel for the past 4 or so years. Initially what got me in was the Post-modernism videos, as I used to watch the Peterson videos that got recommended to me and, although I liked them, something didnt sound right. I remember that at the time I kind of frowned upon the thought of you being a Marxist. Nowadays I am a convinced communist, and for that I have to thank you to a great extent: you drove me out the conservative-alt right rabbit hole and introduced me to the left.

I love your videos and how you make accessible what otherwise would be obscure to the average non-reader. So thank you for your work these past years and for the ones to come.

[demit]

China Miéville’s book ‘The City & The City’ is great; I read it in something like 4 days— it also inspired Disco Elysium.

[presentbuilder]

Always love these videos. More books to put on my reading list, and then only ever watch videos on the books

[cyberneticsiren]

19:51 you should do a video on tektology and Ernest Mach, im coming from a physics background but am also a Marxist so it’s really interesting to see overlap between the fields and I I didn’t realize that there was even a connection between Marx and Mach

[anzus]

As a counterweight to the criticism you received for your pronunciation of 'Baudrillard', I just want to say that your Norwegian pronunciation in the case of 'Kristin Gjesdal' is excellent!

[Theacademichouse]

I love your readings and recommendations
I wish you could make book reviews each book you read in one video. Thanks 🙏

[nopasaran]

I read the Rosa Luxembourg reader while I was in a dual diagnosis drug treatment center a year ago and coincidentally I got your book while getting October 3 days ago. I’m still in treatment but at a lower level so I appreciate you writing that because I’m sure it will make this process easier. I will definitely end up putting out a review of it up on my channel when I finish reading it. Thank you for doing your thing and keeping me company on some type of list.

[thelegalsystem]

thanks for the book recommendations! I finally have an e-ink reader, and I have been reading more than ever before.

[matiasdavidlozano]

These videos have been some of the highlights of the last few years

[thiagovieira]

I was living for this video! Always insightful.

[yonatanharris]

Excellent timing I am currently in the middle of writing a paper on the german revolution for a class. always interesting recommendations in these videos

[exg]

Since you like Schiller, I would strongly urge you to read his Wallenstein trilogy. It is absolutely brilliant and also deeply philosophical (much more so than, say, Die Jungfrau von Orleans or Maria Stuart).

[taylorgenovese]

Really glad you found Art and the Working Class so interesting! Thanks for including it. Very insightful review.

[tomio]

It is always a good day when Jonas uploads :)

[post-baudrxllardian]

"And you‘ll hopefully find something to put on your own reading list" please I need you to take things off my reading list! With my lifestyle my reading list probably exceeds my life expectancy already

[vallraffs]

That book by Broué seems really interesting! I'd love to find a book that looks at the consequences of the German revolution's defeat on international communism and the Soviet workers' state. Definitely need to check it out.

[polkunus]

always looking forward to you new content

[test-cra]

As always, great list. I would like to comment on the pronunciation of Bogdanov's surname, it should be BogdAnov.

[wtfthisisntminecraft]

I got an introductory-level book on the Revolution myself not too long ago, but disgarded it because the author was clearly too much in favor of the reactionary part of the SPD. I guess I should get Haffner's book instead, thanks for the recommendations!