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Mine focused on my abuse and my dream of getting a college degree (I succeeded, I have a master’s degree now), so Children of the Self-Absorbed by Nina Brown, and On Course by Skip Downing. On Course has so many great self-esteem projects in it, but it’s written for students.

I also like a lot of self-compassion meditations, like these: link . She actually wrote a workbook too that’s on amazon, that might be something to look into if you like her mediations as well: link

For those really stressful feelings that come up while healing, I recommend ACT mediations: link

I’ve also been thinking of picking up a DBT workbook—just to learn more about other self-work projects so that I might be able to weave it into my teaching. You might like to look at it too: link

Thriftbooks also has some options! link

Hope this helps :)

If you want a best understanding of what Graeber provocatively calls everyday communism, I suggest you take a look at this book:

Anthropology and the Economy of Sharing by Thomas Widlok.


Thomas Widlok's book is the only book that I know of that talks about the issue of communism in any detail. He edited two books on the ethnography of equality that are also useful.

The anthropological term for that communism is "demand-sharing".


Demand-sharing is distinct from the gift, by the way. Demand-sharing is NOT a form of exchange (Widlok deals with this very well).

For Gifts, I would direct you to The World of the Gift by Jacques T. Godbout and Alain C. Caillé and Gifts and Commodities by C. A. Gregory.

Alain Caillé is the expert on the question of the gift.


P.S:

/u/LitGarbo

You deserve way more subscribers, this is some good quality stuff.

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Need better sidebar link. Link to The Bread Book with a summation would be best. Current results for duckduckgo'ing "The Bread Book" returns:

The Bread Book: More Than 200 Recipes and Techniques for ...

The Bread Book: Linda Collister, Anthony Blake ... - amazon.com

The Bread Book by Linda Collister - Goodreads

The Conquest of Bread - Wikipedia

The Best Bread Books — abreaducation

etc etc etc

She does provide a lot of sources in her book


As for the voice, if you know of free software with better voices, please let me know!

>organize before you learn how to organize" is bad advice

Yeah, I didn't actually mean it in that way and I see why I got downvoted to hell. My main point was that we need more work done on the ground and less circle jerking in the cloud. If you really want to advance the cause online, you can tell people about local organizations they can join. Joining is a lot easier than starting something from scratch and the actual experience that you get from participating informs you in later organizing efforts. Organizing is something that you have to do in many different contexts in order to learn it. There's only so much you can learn from Youtube videos.

>It sounds like you're just trying to advocate an anti-internet mindset which is a pretty weird thing to do via internet communication. "Sharing information and talking to people from across the world cannot POSSIBLY help you organize in real life!"

No and yes.

I've actually been thinking about the "Youtube problem" for a while now and there are a lot more moving parts here than you might think at first glance. Ultimately, I think that the overwhelming emphasis on online communication cripples us a great deal. Here are just a few reasons:

• You can count the major online social platforms on one hand. Youtube, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Patreon, etc., they can all cut you off at any time and for any reason.
  
• Large web services are the only game in town when it comes to reaching a mass audience online. If anything we say or do threatens the shareholders of these platforms, we will be cut off.
  
• The internet itself can be shut off. Other countries have done this during uprisings. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if your main lines of communication get cut, you're done.
  
  The obvious answer is decentralization, but that isn't happening despite the means of doing so being widely available. Peertube is a thing. Mastadon is a thing. Scutttlebutt Protocol is a thing. Sneakernet is a thing. Hosting your own web page and putting a donation button on the sidebar is a thing. RSS feeds are a thing. Podcasts have more than one distribution source but video content MUST be delivered through Youtube? Simple distribution is covered with or without Youtube.
  
  The problem seems to be a combination of overvaluing convenience, capitulation to planned obsolescence, and the fact that this is a market, for making money, rather than a movement. Organizing on the ground and circulating the material via physical media, in conjunction with multiple online distribution methods, will get us farther than just dicking around on some some rich asshole's server farm.
  
  And if you're wondering how to get the videos off of YT for physical transfer in the first place, there's a long way to do it and an easy way to do it.

I'm particularly a fan of his correction videos on historical topics (along with Three Arrows). I also just noticed that season 4 of Adam Ruins Everything in on Amazon for $6. It was special season of all animated episodes devoted entirely to updating and correcting bad history.

It's got all the important stuff: coverage of Native American Genocide, stories of oft-forgotten minorities in pivotal roles, and a more comprehensive historiography of other events, including all perspectives rather than just the "written by the victors" versions or the myths we pick up because they were in songs or movies. I'm learning a bunch!

It's tiding me over while I wait for more Shaun. It scratches a similar itch (with comedy).

I also watched John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons, which teaches ancient American history via a Broadway one-man show.

This book on the subject is fucking fantastic, btw.

Hey! Would you be willing to review Richard Wolff's Democracy at Work - A Cure for Capitalism?

Any particular books on co-ops you are willing to recommend?

> Are there books on why

what a surprise /s. there are

The Battle for china's past by Mobo Gao

Was Mao Really A Monster by Gregor Benton

The rise of the Chinese people's communes by Anna Louise Strong

The Chinese road to socialism: Economics of the cultural revolution by E. L Wheelwright

Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton

Turning Point in China: An Essay on the Cultural Revolution by William Hinton

> If someone comes here to debate rather than learn and discuss then they shouldn't be here.

I think we can approach at least some of that riff-raff in a more constructive way than just banning it outright.

there are a few books you can read on it. i just got this in the mail
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004G606EY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

blades shouldn't be more than a quarter https://www.amazon.com/Feather-Double-Edge-Blades-Count/dp/B00AGG3MNU/

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B06XNP1L12/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin

Explicitly feminist theory:

• Alexandra Kollontai
  
• I haven't read it, but I get the sense that Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch touches on these themes.
  
• A lot of mother-goddess archaeological work, feminist anthropology, etc. deals with this; specifically, Evelyn Reed, and several essays in this 1974 reader.
  
  Other things that might be of interest:
  
  
• Jewish kibbutzim anti-family child-rearing practices that I imagine are based in some body of theory, but I'm not familiar enough to cite anyone here. Other utopian communities may also have similar practices.
  
• Lewis H. Morgan, who was making broadly similar arguments to Engels but more through an anthropological lens comparing the western patriarchal family to matrilineal cultures.

Did you read the article? They have four citations.

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Maybe you can provide an explanation of why these numbers are wrong and tell us where we will find more accurate figures.