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Damn bro.. So many ppl are reading several books at once apparently. I don't think my brain could manage so much information at once honestly o.O
I'm reading "Blackshirts and Reds" by Parenti. Am on page 119 rn, and I gotta say I still enjoy Parenti's simpler style of writing as opposed to Marx'. Also I was surprised how Parenti went into detail abt czechoslovakia even. Specifically abt Vaclav Havél's privatization campaign. Never thought he'd go that direction. I feel like I learned a LOT through this book and I'll keep recommending it to everyone who hasn't read it. I think anyone can profit from reading this.
After I'm done with this book, I thought I might pick up Mao's "On Practice"? I read "Dialectical and Historical Materialism" by Stalin and "How to be a Good Communist" by Liu Shaoqi, so I hope that book might additionally help me understand philosophy more.
If you are gonna do Mao, I'd say grab Five Essays. It's got On Contradiction and On Practice both, which are always recommended for good reason, but it also has a few other really good works by him.
I'm trying to find it as an epud to add to my collection but I listened to the audiobook version which is on Spotify.
Hmm.. I'll add it to my list. (assuming you mean epub?)
Lol yeah. Epub*