@loppear@bookwyrm.social out of curiosity, how did you hear about this one? A podcast (I think?) recommended it to me recently, but also I feel like I've heard about it several places in the last few weeks so I assume it's getting some delayed popularity, but I'm not sure where from and I was curious! It's on my list too.
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Sam quoted An Anarchist Programme by Errico Malatesta
While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle, and that once one begins to enjoy a little freedom one ends by wanting it all.
Sam quoted An Anarchist Programme by Errico Malatesta
But there is a further question: if capitalism were to be destroyed and a government were to be left in office, the government, through the concession of all kinds of privileges, would create capitalism anew for, being unable to please everybody it would need an economically powerful class to support it in return for the legal and material protection it would receive.
Sam quoted The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
But just as we earlier witnessed a confrontation between two very different concepts of equality, here we are ultimately witnessing a clash between very different concepts of individualism. … Insofar as we can speak of communism, it existed not in opposition to but in support of individual freedom.
— The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow (Page 48)
Sam quoted Creating Cohousing by Kathryn McCamant
In addition to monthly workdays, the community takes on one major project each year. … "The annual project each year helps maintain some of the positive cooperative energy we had when we were planning Drejerbanken," one resident told us.
— Creating Cohousing by Kathryn McCamant, Charles Durrett (Page 100)
Sam wants to read The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow
The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us …
Sam wants to read Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, …
Sam wants to read How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
Sam quoted The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
'Noble' savages are, ultimately, just as boring as savage ones; more to the point, neither actually exist.
— The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow (Page 21)
Sam started reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, David Wengrow
The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver …
Sam wants to read Rebels against the future by Kirkpatrick Sale
Sam rated Record of a Spaceborn Few: 4 stars
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but …
Sam rated Record of a Spaceborn Few: 5 stars
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but …
Sam quoted A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Endless electronic ink had been spilled over the old tradition, but all of it could be boiled down to listen to people, give tea. Uncomplicated as could be.
— A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Page 12)