bunkyprewster

Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/everything-for-everyone

Best text to start with?

Oh yes 1844, got confused with the later revolutions.

I posted this before, but it seems relevant here. Not doing anything is also bad for my mental health. Organizing is probably the right answer.

There is a brutal man with a gun, controlling and threatening a group of good citizens with consciences. He's going to do terrible things to them, and make them do terrible things themselves.

They have him outnumbered, but he has the gun. If they rush him, they can easily defeat him. But, the first one or two or three or four people to move forward will be shot and probably die painfully. Going first is going to cost a terrible price and you don't know for sure that anyone else will follow you, that your sacrifice will be for anything at all.

You feel a little paralyzed and at the same time ashamed you are just standing there.

What happens next?

I thought the 1848 manuscripts were pretty rocking when I first read them.

I always felt Marx's finished products had a kind of dull exposition, at least for large parts. I think he felt he had to lay out a system like that. But the unfinished stuff, even the Grundrisse have a lively dialectical feel that is pretty captivating.

Antichrist vibes

Wouldn't it be easier to go from RN to ARNP than starting over to train as a PA?

That was awhile ago. And look what happened to the Cathaginians.

Meanwhile the Catholic Church keeps chugging along like nothing happened. Hell, people keep sending their children to Catholic schools.

Wow. This essay is really powerful.

But as a white USian, much of the same applies to me.

"The Event"?

Yes Victoria Goddard. There are a lot of these books and they all intertwine in one universe.

Hand of the Emperor is the start of a many novel, interwoven set of stories. Calming, delightful.