I haven’t been updating my Reading List as much as I could have been. The way that page is organized makes if a bit of a mess, and what might be easier for me here is to just make a blog post about things I’ve read and listened to that stood out to me recently. So this is a test to see how that goes!
On the Origins of Capitalism from Feudalism, and Historical Materialism More Generally
Marx - Preface to ‘A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy’
Robert Brenner on the primacy of productive forces or of production relations
(What are productive forces but the material process from start to end of production? Then production relations are simply the social power relations between the people involved in providing labor towards this production process—the labor of calculative coordination, physical transformation, and transportation—viewed this way, productive forces are the engines, while production relations provide the fuel in cases of overreach and overconsumption beyond the productive capacity of the time; and in other periods, who attempt to fetter, constrain, and shape advancements in productive capacity to maintain old power structures. But technology, once invented, is very difficult to forget, especially once it is brought into the productive process—it is quickly very sticky in that people accustom rather quickly to a certain level of productive capacity.)
Maoism
The Mass Line
Rev Left Radio episodes
The Imperialist Chain, Decolonization, and The Mass Line - 53:30 to 78:30
WHOA: Serving the People and Applying the Mass Line - 22:00 to 34:00
The Mass Line: What It Is and How to Use It - Liberation Road
Luxemburg
Reform or Revolution - Chapters 2 and 8
Joan Robinson
Lecture on Robinson’s Life at Girton College
W.E.B. Du Bois
Liam Kofi Bright on Du Bois’ Philosophy of Science, History of Africana Philosophy Podcast
Adam Tooze
Critical Race Theory
Interview with Ian Haney Lopez on Vox’s The Weeds Podcast
Critical Race Theory and “Moral Panic” on Carlos Maza’s YouTube Channel
How Race Was Central to Prop 22, Tech Won’t Save Us Podcast
The Story of America's Founding, Ezra Klein Show
Current Affairs
China
Global China book from Brookings
How China Escaped Shock Therapy, Author Interview
Anarchism
Interview with Zoe Baker on the It’s Going Down Podcast
Living Utopia: Anarchism in the Spanish Revolution - Documentary
Status
What’s Your Status? on the Vox Conversations Podcast
Work, an interview with the author, James Suzman, on the Ezra Klein Show
Envy on Natalie Wynn’s Contrapoints YouTube Channel
Miscellaneous
The American Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak
Dedicated by Pete Davis
Slavoj Zizek on The Legacy of the Russian Revolution Jacobin Show
The Alt-Right Playbook YouTube Series
Long Covid and the Blind Spots of American Medicine on the Ezra Klein Show
And, the actual praxis / organizing I’ve been up to:
Around Houseless Distributions
Around Tenant Organizing against shitty landlords and local slumlords