trashgender-neurotica:

canmom:

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cannibality:

wizardovthevoid:

nyarlathotwink:

somuchforthetolerantleft:

wizardovthevoid:

i present to you a rough draft of my new leftist exclusive political compass

what’s the sand book

dune

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.“

ahh yes, that model for a perfect society which we should strive towards emulating, Arrakis.

actually I think the ultimate lesson from Dune is to make sure resistance stays out of the panopticon eye of omniscience in No-Ships

for anyone wondering (i think people are joking but the sand book isn’t dune), going clockwise:

• bread book: The Conquest of Bread by Pëtr Kropotkin (1892) [thebreadbook.org]
• foundational text of anarcho-communism, libertarian socialism etc., looking to the agricultural commons as a long lasting instance of socialism destroyed in the enclosure and arguing against private ownership for mutual aid, common ownership etc. (apologies for the vague description, this has been on the to-read list for a while and I’m not sure how Kropotkin’s thought differs from later anarcho-communism).
  
• marx: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1st ed. 1st vol. published 1867) [readcapital.org] and other writing by Marx such as the Grundrisse
• foundational text of Marxism and all descendent philosophies, itself a detailed examination of the capitalist mode of production and its internal contradictions, and explication of Marx’s economic, historical and philosophical methods of analysis. (first link: the Penguin edition, the most recent and apparently best translation, but still copyrighted)
• spook book: The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner (1845)
• foundational text of egoist and individualist anarchism. I don’t understand Stirnerism well enough to summarise tbh, so try Wikipedia.
  
• settlers: Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai (3rd ed. 1989, can’t find 1st ed. publication date) [readsettlers.org]
• major text of Maoism Third-Worldism; presents a history of the white settler labour aristocracy acting in white supremacist ways, criticises the idea that they are proletarian or that there is any point trying to organise them, and calls for organisation of the internal colonies (groups such as Black people, Latin@ people and Native people considered as separate nations to the settler state) through Leninist vanguard parties.
  
• sand book: Desert by anonymous author (2011) [readdesert.org]
• anti-civ anarchist work whose first few chapters dwell on climate change pessimism, millenarianist tendencies within anarchism, and deflating fantasies of an impending global anarchist movement. I admit I’ve never heard of this one one until I checked the comments on this post so I’m not exactly sure what it calls for, but it’s pretty bleak so far.

I’m not sure which started the read{{book}}.org trend - probably Settlers but maybe that’s just the first I saw? Anyway, another slogan along these lines you sometimes see is ‘google Murray Bookchin’, also in the anarcho-communist tradition.

I first saw it as “Read the Bread Book” but then again I’m an anarchist.

I wanted to clarify tho that anarchists ascribing to Stirner’s philosophy are called “egoists” rather that “Stirnerists”.