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For Trans liberation I would read Leslie Feinberg's Beyond Pink and Blue.

For Gay and Lesbian liberation I'd read Harry Hay's Radically Gay

On Feminism there's a lot. So you may want to grab Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex and Silvia Federici's Revolution at Point Zero. Both will give you a historical and economic understanding of women's struggle.

On the African struggle I would read Thomas Sankara's The Burkina Faso Revolution.

For the Indian struggle, I suggest Anuradha Ghandy's Scripting for Change if you can find a copy somewhere.

That's it for stuff outside of the purely economic sphere.

As for fiction that intersects with communism, I suggest Iain M. Banks's Culture Series. Considering Phlebas, The Player of Games and Use of Weapons. The late Banks did a tremendous job at portraying a classless, stateless, moneyless, post-scarcity society with access to cornucopia technology.

For generally entertaining Sci-Fi that'll keep you turning pages, and is also written in a non-traditional way, you have to read the Warhammer 40,000 Ciaphas Cain series. Get yourself the two omnibi Hero of the Imperium and Defender of the Imperium you'll enjoy yourself to no end. Commissar Ciaphas Cain just kicks all kinds of arse.

If you enjoy Fantasy, and want a bit with a Marxist Dragon, then I recommend Alan Dean Foster's The Spell Singer Adventures series. Specifically books 1 and 2, Spellsinger and The Hour of the Gate. It's also laugh out loud funny.

If you're more into old fashioned adventures, like Conan the Barbarian kind, then you need to read Michael Moorcocks's Elric series. You can get your toes wet with Elric: The Stealer of Souls. The stories are great fun, Elric is an absolute Byronic anti-hero, he's physically weak, he has to dope himself up, he causes the downfall of his own civilisation, and yet he's a great swordsman, poet, philosopher, and so on. Very much a nihilist, very much a tragic hero.

Finally if you want to delve into the Paranormal, and specifically into the romance category (and why not, I say?). I think you should absolutely read Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series. Starting with Halfway to the Grave. Written by a woman, with a female protagonist, all from her first person perspective. It's a vampire story, and as far as the lore is concerned follows very closely to the White Wolf idea of the Masquerade. It's nothing like Twilight, you'll enjoy it and if you're like me, get hooked on the series.

There is so much more that I could get into with all of this, but I have work in 2 hours and this has already gone on far too long. If you somehow made it all the way through this and are still not convinced that the original post is a massive misrepresentation of what is actually going on in Venezuela right now, the only thing I can do is point you to some of my sources so that you can hopefully get a more articulate deconstruction of what's going on in a less-clunky format.

The main sources I cribbed from with this post are:

1. Associate Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University George Ciccariello-Maher's Building the Commune.
   
2. George Cicariello-Maher's We Created Chávez
   
3. Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York David Harvey's, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
   
4. Co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. Mark Weisbrot's Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy
   
5. Keynesian economist and University Professor at Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs' continued work including this report, specifically.
   
6. Political activists and independent journalists Mike Prysner and Abby Martin's work on Empire Files.
   
   I highly recommend anyone who's interested in the history of Venezuela to read the literature. The history of the people there is not only fascinating but deeply profound, in my opinion. If anyone has more specific questions I'm not against answering them here, but I you'd be much better off just looking into it yourself. Understanding what's happening in Latin America is key to understanding the flow of capital worldwide and you can't be an informed political actor without educating yourself on the dynamics of modern capitalism.
   
   Love & Solidarity.

This is my favorite book on this topic.

Yet another cretin who has not read anywhere near enough Chomsky to know a thing about him. Chomsky is one of the most hopeful activists one can image. This "author" strawmans like his life depends upon it.



Listen to the last track on this (steal it of course) to get a better idea of what Chomsky actually thinks....or you know just email him. Hes about as far from doom and gloom as you can get: http://www.amazon.com/Class-War-Attack-Working-People/dp/B00000DFW0

> I guess Heidegger wasn't a philosopher then, or Gentile for that matter, or Croce.

Not my point. There's literally a book called Heideggerian Marxism, there's also there used to be a Heidegger flair on /r/socialism, so I really don't think "Heidegger was a fascist" is really as slam dunk a thing as you seem to be implying.

> Why do we bother extracting meaning from words?

Because that's how communication happens? I'm having trouble seeing what it is that is "so important to [me]" here.