How commie should I be? We’re supposed to have a book swap and idk if it’s NYT bestsellers or Lenin. They’ve got a lot of “we’ll take your name off if you’re scared to associate with our group”, but looking through the docs and all seems like completely normal stuff.
If you don’t know how radical they are, why not bring a book written by a Marxist but that doesn’t immediately set off people’s alarm bells? Fanon, Gramsci, or any of the French new left writers are acceptable for most radlibs (yet for some reason Marx isn’t?)
read the jakarta method, it’s kinda both
Naomi Klein is a good middle point, try the shock doctrine or this changes everything
If you want to gauge the group itself, their sentiments on China are a good barometer.
How about Capitalism, Coronavirus, and War by Radhika Desai? It is modern, relevant, and has substantial portions about the new cold war against China. If a group is particularly anti-China, they will let you know by taking this opportunity to tell you that Chiba is imperialist or something.
I feel like there are a lot of Bernie Sanders style left liberal who are not ready to be deprogrammed on China yet but would appreciate Blackshirts and Reds, at least in my experience talking to people in USA and Canada
NYT bestsellers or Lenin
Neither, Unjust Depths
