• HeavenDeparts@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    7 months ago

    I’ve been meaning to read this, thanks for the reminder.

    I finished If We Burn by the same author. Good book showing how anarchic/horizontal movements squandered revolutionary potential multiple times.

    • Saymaz@lemmygrad.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      7 months ago

      Lenin predicted the same damn thing about how horizontal movements are doomed to fail without a principled Vanguard Party and disciplined revolutionary militant movement. And he has been historically proven right every time.

      An example in modern history: The dismantling of the Occupy Walstreet movement by the bourgeois state apparatus i.e. the state police, FBI, DHS, NSA etc.

      Sources:

      1. What is to be done?
      2. One stepforward, two steps back

      Edit: Forgot to ask. Is it a good enough of a book to add to my ‘to be read’ list?

      • HeavenDeparts@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        7 months ago

        I’d say so. It was an easy read, I only felt that it was a tad long. It took longer than I expected to get through it compared to the other books I am reading.