I decided to read The Face of Imperialism by Michael Parenti. It opens up with the following quote, from a poem by W. H. Auden.
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I’m not sure if I’ll like this
I’m going to attempt to read it, anyway.
Reading Update 05-08-2024b – Our Task: To Make José Rizal Obsolete (Finished)
OUR TASK: TO MAKE JOSE RIZAL OBSOLETE by PROF. RENATO CONSTANTINO (Part 1 of 2)
OUR TASK: TO MAKE JOSE RIZAL OBSOLETE by PROF. RENATO CONSTANTINO (Part 2 of 2)
I just finished reading ‘The Filipinos in the Philippines and other essays’. I’m not sure what I’ll read next. Maybe I’ll read Michael Parenti’s ‘The Face of Imperialism’. 🤷🏼♀️
Reading Update 05-08-2024a: ‘Benevolent assimilation’
Reading Update 05-06-2024b: Education in the Philippines during American rule
Reading Update 05-06-2024a: The U.S. occupation of the Philippines
I came across this book by Filipino historian Renato Constantino, and started reading it earlier. This is the first book that I’ve read on the history of the Philippines. I’m only 24% through it, but it’s good so far.
Reading Update: 03-18-2024a
I finished reading Capitalism and Disability, earlier. The last chapter is about Nazi eugenics.
Now to push myself to finish The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.
Quotes by Lenin to reflect on and some updates
The more democratic the system of government is, the clearer it will be to the workers that the root of the evil is not the lack of rights, but capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin
Under capitalism democratism is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and of the poverty and misery of the masses.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich: this is the democratism of capitalist society
Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
Updates:
Read More »Reading update 03-15-2024a
I just finished listening to three chapters of Capitalism and Disability. I haven’t read any more of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, though. I’m not sure if I’ll get to it, this weekend, or not. I still have to set up my laptop and backup my iPad so that I can reset it.
Reading Update 03-11-2024a
I just finished listening to two Chapters of Capitalism and Disability and reading one chapter of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.
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