I’ve tried to be coy about my declining enthusiasm and interest with this book but it’s becoming harder and harder to do. It isn’t that the book isn’t well researched, written or composed, it’s just not exactly what I thought I was going to get. My impression was that Fitzgerald would spend much of the…
A mix of poor sleep and other mental health related issues pushed back the release of this article by a day. But that said, despite the increased length of the chapter relative to the last one (29 pages instead of 21) I actually have significantly less to talk about within the context of anti-work. Largely…
I feel that a more general book review is going to be helpful for Stalin’s Peasants at this point. But I do want to make some comments about the nature of the state and its relation to the peasantry. Particularly the relation of the state wanting to take more from the peasants and the peasants…
I will admit that the book is not as relevant to anti-work struggles as I’d hoped it be. The difficulty with going off the suggestions and reviews of others (which I believe is what spurred me to buy this book) is that they may only be judging it generally instead specific chapter relevance. Given that,…
Just like I did with Working Stiff Manifesto I’ll divide particularly long or involved chapters into parts. This is not only so I can make digesting them a bit easier for both me and you, the reader. But also because I don’t want all of my articles on books to be 3000 words or more,…
When we last left our intrepid heroes we…Wait, no, that’s not where I am… Oh right, millions of Russians are being exiled, exploited, stolen from and murdered by Soviet power. Silly me, always getting fairy-tales and communism mixed up! Seriously though, I hope you enjoyed my summary and analysis of Fitzpatrick”s book in the last…