My 10 Favorite Books I've Read in 2021

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The list:

[bxllxdxnnx]

The link to your book in the description goes to the listing for "How to Justify Torture: Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario" by Alex Adams

[АлександрМалахов-шл]

Great video! The only thing I wanted to point out is that Narodniks were not largely reformists, in fact, it was quite the opposite. Nearly all significant thinkers of this tradition, including such people as Mikhail Bakunin and Georgi Plekhanov, advocated revolution, and its followers have participated in revolutionary action extensively. The assassination of the emperor Alexander II was carried out by a group of narodniks called People’s will. And one of the main revolutionary forces during the 1917 was the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, a neo-narodnik organisation. Whille a more moderate wing of the party supported reforms and coalitions with bourgeois parties after the monarchy was overthrown, many participated in councils and advocated for radical change, playing a significant role in the October Revolution.

[AWorldtoWin]

Great list! I'm actually taking a class on Kant and Hegel with J.M. Bernstein this semester, I might have to check out that book and have a chat with him.

Happy studies,
Melody

[cphlmy]

Interesting list, thank you. Tangentially related to the book about the reality of Lenin's role in the party: there's always a lot of material on theory and high-level strategy and tactics of the revolutionary movement, and about the leaders. Sure, it's important and fascinating, but the inner workings of the movement at low level tend to be overlooked. The unfinished autobiography of Ivan Babushkin, a worker and a member of RSDLP provides an overview of what this day-to-day life of a regular party member looked like, which is really interesting to look at. Not sure if it's translated into English though.

[ThatsWhatUCallClass]

Jonas: "...Slevin o'livarrez, spiritfarer..."
Me: *watching with my mouth open and my fist clenched in anticipacion*
Jonas: "...Tendies123..."
Me: *wildly cheering*

[ex_orpheus]

I was half expecting Post-Capitalist Desire: The Final Lectures of Mark Fisher to make it on this year's top 10 list. Wouldn't be surprised if you happened to read it anyway.

[guthrien]

This was a fun list, thanks. I also just wanted to take a moment to say I'd put your book on my list for the year. I was rather new to your channel, and I'm not sure what I expected being a newcomer to some of your ideas, but I was bowled over by the passion and intensity of your book. It really did come with the Hammer and Sickle, and livened many of my previous understandings of Marx with the electric themes of Nietzsche. It read not like simply another analysis, but a call to action. Really great read I'd recommend to anyone here.

[ticklemeelmo]

Very new years of you. Loved you book by the way! It was really cool to actually see it in my local book store

[coreydinardo]

Thanks for the recommendations! Also, I read your book (and subsequently subscribed to your channel) after listening to your interview on the PlasticPills podcast; I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[LogicGated]

Nice I wanted to take a small break from more theoretical texts so Karl Marx: A life looks like a fun read.

[rverasart]

i find interesting that in south america the consensus is that Stalin wasn't at all Lenin's continuation, and Trotsky was more loyal to leninist ideals, i find both ideas ludicrous but at the same time, some claims about what was the real will of Lenin have such a strong personification on the results of a revolution that i tend to reject these extrapolations entirely

[Aliggan]

Appreciate your sharing of interest in Lithuania and its history. I'm just Lithuanian-American, but I am keenly interested in Lithuanian historical proliferation nonetheless, especially in shedding light on its communist history here, a subject mired in issues of nationalism between Lithuania and Russia, for example, and so on. Thank you

[charliekowittmusic]

THANK YOU. Always need more book lists.

[TheMjsanty]

Seeing videos like this one are some of the high points of the stuff I watch online.

[thelstan]

Your first book to recommend is my favourite too😉

[sageinit]

Two book recommendations:
"Rudolf Hilferding: The Tragedy of a German Social Democrat" by William Smaldone (or at least read the book review by Kenneth Calkins in The Journal of Modern History, btw. I'm pretty, albeit not entirely, sure it's 💯% Hilferding's fault that Lenin got a completely incorrect view of Austromarxism, Lenin only got newspapers from Western Europe in stacks every few months due to the times, and Hilferding shaped those. Classical, Neoclassical, Neoconservative, and Neoliberal economists all to this day erroneously believe that Hilferding=Austromarxism, despite nothing being further from the truth, which leads us right over to: )

"Otto Bauer (1881-1938) Thinker and Politician", by Ewa Czerwińska-Schupp. Which is creative commons licensed!!

[fede]

Ever considered doing anything on phenomenology? I don't know the degree of your familiarity with it, but I'm fascinated, for instance, by Merleau Ponty's take on the body.

[dionysianapollomarx]

Read half of this list last year. Will read the others when I find free versions. My favorite from the list was Bernstein. Excited to look at Moshe Lewis' Lenin's Last Struggle. Cheers!

[gabisyderas]

Have you ever read Walter Benjamin's graduate dissertation, The Concept Of Criticism In German Romanticism? It is an absolutely phenomenal read and it might be interesting if yr still on the German Aesthetics kick

[reikowallach]

I want to see you do more negative book reviews. Your takedown of Stephen Hicks is legendary.