It’s World Of Books for all you UK based bears - second hand books for pretty cheap. Buy 3 get one free - not outrageous I know but I like an excuse to get some books.
Anyway, I’m looking for some good leftist non-fiction book recommendations, and I trust you lot the most. Ye’ve never let me down on books so far.
Bonus points if they’re specifically focused on C.I.A/imperialist interventions or South America. I’ve already decided I’m going to buy Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad (unless one of y’all convinces me otherwise).
Cheers
Washington Bullets is solid, go for it
Killing Hope by William Blum is great for CIA shit
aaaand it’s in the shopping basket
Washington Bullets is solid, go for it
It’s great if you’re a leftist but his refusal to cite anything makes it a no go on trying to get Libs to take it a seriously.
Wretched of the Earth slaps
If you want
to sell you on it, you’re in luckThus the day of magicians and fetishes will end; you will have to fight, or rot in concentration camps. This is the end of the dialectic; you condemn this war but do not yet dare to declare yourselves to be on the side of the Algerian fighters; never fear, you can count on the settlers and the hired soldiers; they’ll make you take the plunge. Then, perhaps, when your back is to the wall, you will let loose at last that new violence which is raised up in you by old, oft-repeated crimes. But, as they say, that’s another story: the history of mankind. The time is drawing near, I am sure, when we will join the ranks of those who make it.
~Some french guy
THE ORIGIN OF CAPITALISM by ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD
Was one I caught someone recommending on here once and it’s very good.
ridiculously based book, meiksins wood is such a Chad
Death to America
Yeah I really really enjoyed it. It isn’t a hard read and filled in some of the areas I had questions about in the transition to capitalism
Jakarta Method pairs nicely with Washington Bullets
Anything Parenti.
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano - Haven’t read this yet, but I think it will be largely what you’re looking for.
Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin
Red Hangover by Kristen Ghodsee
Anything Fanon; Wretched of the Earth. Black Skin, White Masks.
If you can find anything by Anna Louis Strong.
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between The VAtican, The CIA, and the MAfia by PAul L. Williams
“Fidel Castro: In His Own Words”
got that bad boy already
Super rad
A couple off the top of the dome
The Black Lamb and the Gray Falcon
Ten Days that Shook the World
Mythologies by
Ten Days is what I came to say as well, it’s a real page turner
