Favorite authors
Favorite authors
They not have to be marxist specifically, but all of mine are. My favorites are: Walter Rodney, Lenin, Anuradha Ghandy and Vijay Prishad. I have been thinking of Red Star Over the Third World again recently, and I may decide to reread it soon.
Stalin writing style is one of my favorites, i started reading theory with the reading comprehension off a baby and out of all the marxist writers he was the only one i could understand.
Kollontai, who I think should literally be this subs icon. Comradely Love and proletarian feminism 🥰
I actually really like Marx. I got a thing for 19th century prose.
the translator has arrived
please we fear the prose
FRANK HERBERT
Yeah I love him. He was kind of a victim of the 50s communist scare propaganda though and was very against the idea.
Lenin is funny and I like him
William Blum is as jaded as me so he good
The Author of Eagle Among Lions
I like Rick Riordan, author of the percy jackson series too. Childish I know, but he's the one author who didn't turn out to be a transphobic or homophobic bastard. They were my comfort reads for a long while.
Lenin is very entertaining. Like in The Right of Nations to Self Determination when he basically calls Trotsky a worm.
I searched William Blum's name to check if he is the author of Killing Hope, and made a very crinkly discovery: William Blum, US Policy Critic Cited by Bin Laden, Dies at 87 | New York Times The New York Times never fails to cause me immense anguish.
Might have to look into some Blum. What would you recommend starting with?
Killing Hope, it is my bible
Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a banger
I don't have a favourite author
I have read very few books. I used to go about thinking I was deep for reading Animal Farm. I gained actual class consciousness this year, and mostly read theory. My fav. book used to be Agatha Christie's 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', it was a good one. What are the works of the former and latter two? I've heard about Anuradha Ghandy but not in detail.
For Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is perhaps his most well known work. I have read that, and Decolonial Marxism. Both are very wonderful and comprehensive.
Anuradha Ghandy's book on feminist trends has been immensely useful for me in navigating a lot of idealistic tendencies which exist. Her statements regarding anarchist organizing particularly is something I think of often. It is a very short book, so it may be easier to go through as well.
And Vijay Prishad writes constantly. He is in a lot of leftist outlets being interviewed, or writing articles The books I can think of from him are Washington's Bullets, and Red Star Over the Third World.
Bebel I suppose. (Not the August Bebel!)
Also Alexander Dumas.
Ficton-wise, Bernard Cornwell remains my favourite author. Some other authors deserve a mention: John Williams, Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Heller, Sally Rooney, David Lodge, Phillip Pullman, Conn Iggulden, David Gemmel, Wilbur Smith, and Robert Jordan. I might not necessarily enjoy all these authors' works in the same way as I once did if I re-read them today and I know little about their personal lives or politics but I loved them all when I first read them.
Non-fiction-wise, Lenin, Engels, and Parenti are as easy to read and enjoyable as good fiction. Maybe David Harvey, too, but I get a bit annoyed with some of his anti-China sentiment.