robpertray.bsky.social Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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This idea has been written about by people like Mark Fisher, and it's broadly understood as "capitalist realism" — the idea that capitalism is all there is, that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, that capitalism = the economy.

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@Convict_No9653 .@Red_Menace_Pod just did an excellent breakdown of Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread from an ML perspective

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@fishontherun2 like schools can be done well, I'm reading kristen ghodsee's "everyday utopia" right now and there are so many examples of incredible schooling that instills values of cooperation and care in children — and critical thinking skills

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according to political economist/historian Karl Polanyi in his excellent book "The Great Transformation," poverty as we now understand it did not exist before capitalism – for the most part communities ensured that no one went hungry or did not have shelter if they needed it

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have you read the foundations of leninism by stalin? (flirting)

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this week palo alto has been haunting me. you can listen to my conversation with malcolm harris to learn why! 👻 https://t.co/wMN1rPQm53

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Yeah, I’m into Dune 😏 … Dune the film adaptation of the 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert

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@plants_fanon @BandsIsland been seeing a lot of commentary on this but I still don't fully get what happened — sounds like more stupid Internet stuff? anyways, @UpstreamPodcast is having him on later this year to talk about his book "Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music"