My org has a book club that is seeing low and declining participation because of infighting. I want to get group participation and solidarity up and in my mind the best way to achieve that is to get people learning, thinking, and discussing in ways that won’t start infights. Think stuff that’s friendly to MLs, leftcoms, anarchists, and even socdems. I also find that things under fifty pages keep engagement high because it gives a lot of opportunities for entry and it doesn’t punish missing a week quite as hard.
I’m thinking some things relating to bipoc or other minority struggles, queer liberation, feminism, things like that.
Ideas? :thinking-about-it:
Just a history book about the US doing something monstruous sonewhere
Cesaire’s Discourse On Colonialism is quite short (only about 20 pages) and very good. Cesaire was describing how fascism is the application of colonial methods of rule to the imperial core before Foucault proposed the same.
The first chapter of the wretched of the earth (on violence) is pretty god tier. Big libs prob won’t appreciate, but succdem and anarchists definitely can I think
