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Syncopation
Feb 21, 2020

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

anyone got a good rec on a mao bio or history of the chinese rev? looking to read up on that after i finish fidel’s autobio and deutscher’s trotsky vol 1 (maybe i should finish the rest of trot though, great summation of the man and the era/history so far)

meisner's "mao's china" is essential imo. i think there's a revision that adds "and after" and expands on it, also

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Syncopation
Feb 21, 2020

Epic High Five posted:

Kim Stanley Robinson was just recently on Pod drat America to discuss his incredible (reading but not finished yet) book The Ministry for the Future, and reaffirmed my love of him by exactly elaborating my own opinions on the book Solaris versus the movie Solaris. I highly recommend both (the podcast and the book, not the movie which is boring trash)

His argument that nothing he writes is actually insane because soviet-bloc and adjacent writers were way crazier is one I'm extremely lmao about

dissing tarkovsky like this.. man

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