Of course, maybe it's just because I love commies who live to be very, very old. Is it true that if you get yourself on the editorial board of Science & Society you're guaranteed to make it to 100?
MM
>>> chuck at tao.ca 05/06/02 15:59 PM >>>
kelley at pulpculture.org wrote:
>
> At 11:29 AM 5/6/02 -0400, Chuck Munson wrote:
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> >It would probably help everybody if they spent some time reading material
> >outside of their usual circles.
>
> so, to start an interesting thread, what would you identify as a book you
> should read outside of your usual circle?
>
> i can often think of conservative books i'd read, but i can't think of a
> lefty book i'd read that i wouldn't normally. i suppose i should read
> comrade lenin....
Well, for starters, I never read any Marx, Lenin, or just about any of the classical Marxist. I'm sure you are all wondering how I ever got an M.A. degree without ever reading The Communist Manifesto, but I got an art degree that never required that I take Western Civ. I've always wanted to spend some time reading more of the communist and socialist classics.
Hell, I haven't read most of the anarchist classics for that matter.
I started reading Empire several months ago and had also picked up Harry Cleaver's "Reading Capital Politically." I just finished a new Chomsky book and got the urge to read some Adam Smith.
As far as conservatives go, I can't think of anything I'd want to read, save for some of the right-wing libertarians.
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