Painfully boring. For any paragraph of sort of interesting ideas there is seven pages about Marx’s notes and how every other Marxist misinterpreted them. People write about Marx the way people write about Christianity.

This was a truly wild ride. I was anticipating a book about the alt-right wellness influencer culture. I was not prepared for yoga being birthed into culture by orientalist, occultist grifters with strong ties to fascism…only 110 years ago when it is generally spoken of as ancient. Bananas. 👍

Finding books about somatics and healing that are written from an expressly anti-capitalist/anti-racist framework feel so refreshing. Really, really recommend this one.

This book was truly tough to get through: expansive look at the violence done by evangelical Christians towards women and children and how these people are systematically building power to make everyone’s life really hard in the very near future. A true bummer but probably a necessary read.

This is an interesting look at family as one of the places where capitalism looms large and furthers the isolation in our society. The historical perspective was enjoyable. I appreciate most books who arrive at the perspective that capitalism must be destroyed in order for humans to survive.

This was sooooo good. Really appreciate any sort of liberation theory that takes smashing patriarchy as a central task and seeks to build democracy outside of the idea of a nation state. All the people that dismiss anarchism as utopian would really do well to read this.

I really liked this book. Short essays about water and the relationality that water cycles imply, and how those lessons move us away from racialized capitalism. She traces her shift in organizing to solving people’s problems and away from reforming or being recognized by the state. 👍

How the worst people sold themselves on the worst ideas and then found a way to package it as populism. This is a great primer on how we got to where we are: politicians unmoored from facts who are enamored with race science and are convinced that A: the world is ending, and B: that’s okay for them.

These are great interviews, and the book is a nice refresher of the history from Oslo right up to the Zionist Entity’s most recent genocidal intensification. The book is from 2021 so it is hard to truly fathom all that has been lost since these interviews took place.

Zerzan becomes fascinated with certain art and cultural wormholes, and overall the focus is mostly WESTERN civilization as opposed to civilization as a whole, but it is still a very interesting read…like most of his work.

Really enjoyed this one! A series of interviews designed to take on what the word “accountability” has meant in various radical and communist communities. It draws the conclusion that authentic community cannot exist under capitalism.

We impulse-adopted a puppy and as a result it took me two full weeks to finish this <200 page book. That said, this book is a worthwhile endeavor and seems especially important as the so-called United States enters its last horrific chapter.

I had only ever encountered his fiction work before (Men in the Sun haunts me to this day.) This book provided a lot of insight into imperialist meddling in the oil Emirates, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia in particular. It can be difficult to understand how we got to where we are.This helps. 👍

This provides good background into the so-called “Oka Crisis” but really hits its stride talking about extractive capitalism as Canada’s driving force and how the Canadian government’s “reconciliation” with native folks is just another packaging for more colonialism. 👍👍

More scenes from the Nambé badlands.

I feel so lucky to live in a beautiful place where I can ride my weirdo tracklocross bike. This is one of the few things keeping me grounded as the world continues to unravel.

I wanted to like this more than I did. He mentions repeatedly in the book that he is not a writer and the text bears that out; lots of meandering. That said, a good reminder that there are many, many ways you can contribute to revolutionary ideas.

It’s been 20+ books since I’ve taken a break from non-fiction; can be a nice palate cleanser from the heavy stuff I typically read, but the problem is I generally choose equally-heavy fiction. Simon Ortiz is a writer from Acoma Pueblo, these stories are mostly about ways of resisting colonialism. 👍

So begins my exodus from other social media platforms. I post about books when I finish them. I’d love to hear your thoughts and/or suggestions based on the books I read.