worst thing I have ever read, I had literally constant anxiety throughout the entire book

  • Volcatile [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    31·
    6 months ago

    Also just finished reading earlier this week. The most haunting part was learning that a decent portion of the killing was done by non-military, non-police locals. Neighbors killing neighbors because of anticommunist propaganda and state terror. I hate how much I can see a similar campaign happening in America, so many bloodthirsty conservatives ready for murdering communists to be legal.

  • regul [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    6 months ago

    I took a biiig long break once it got to the 80s, but finally soldiered through it.

    Death to America, fr.

  • Greenleaf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

    I want to read Kill Anything That Moves before this one, but those two (along with Wasington Bullets) is on my list of books to read that are to remind me that every horrific and evil thing “israel” and the IDF have done, the US has done over its history on much larger scale.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    6 months ago

    I talk shit about socdems but I don’t know. The people featured in the book seem to regret not listening to the communists. Makes me think a lot of them are just optimists who can’t see reality until it hits them. The ones in the west get to enjoy the exploitation of the global south, but the socdems in the global south have mostly dreams to cling onto. And many times those dreams end up in disaster

    • GinAndJuche@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      It’s good, and trueanon has an episode interviewing the author for after you read it (or before if you want to go in with a general outline).

          • MattsAlt [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            6·
            6 months ago

            I really enjoyed it. I wasn’t politically aware at all for the early to mid 2010’s, especially internationally, so learning about EU Maidan, the so called Arab Spring, Brazil’s uprising, and other movements during the era was helpful.

            Even though it discusses how people with good intentions lose control of large movements to forces of reaction in many cases I still came away feeling more hopeful than JM. You discover how these movements can inspire people and with the right organization and planning it’s possible to create a better society through them

  • CommunistBear [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    6 months ago

    I don’t think I finished it. I was way too bummed out. It’s hard to make it through without wanting to constantly scream death to america