the mood in here is electric
being gay isn’t a choice it’s something that happens automatically when you listen to primadonna by marina and the diamonds, age 12.
Anonymous: Hey, could you recommend any books/Essays etc for "beginners" in the movement. Especially concerning how communist/ anarchist societies work and were the difference is. I understand and agree when people tell me about anarchocommunism but I just dont seem to be able to explain it myself to others.. so i hope through reading i will be able to process and express it better. Thanks in advance!
Hi anon!
For general “beginners” reading I’d suggest the following:
- Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
- What is anarchism? by Alexander Berkman
- libcom.org - Anarchism reading guide
For material focusing on anarcho-/libertarian communism I’d suggest:
- Introduction to Anarchist Communism by the Anarchist Federation
- libcom.org - Anarchist communism - an introduction
- Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles by Peter Kropotkin
- What is Anarchist Communism? by Wayne Price
- Ditching Class: the Praxis of Anarchist Communist Economics
- The liberation of society from the state: What is communist anarchism? by Erich Mühsam
- What Is Communist Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman
- Anarchist-Communism by Alain Pengam
- Listen, Marxist! by Murray Bookchin
“We are communists. But our communism is not that of the authoritarian school: it is anarchist communism, communism without government, free communism. It is a synthesis of the two chief aims pursued by humanity since the dawn of its history—economic freedom and political freedom.“ - Peter Kropotkin, Anarchist Communism: Its Basis and Principles
If others have more reading suggestions please contribute!
- J.
on food/the food writing industry & colonialism/racism
- cooking other peoples food: how chefs appropriate bay area ‘ethnic’ cuisine by luke tsai, east bay express
- the stark racial divide in pay for restaurant workers by alastair bland, npr
- the primal pleasure and brutal history of sugar by ruby tandoh, eater
- ole missus vs mammy: who owns southern food? by michael twitty, vice
- what happens when a brown chef cooks white food? by khushbu shah, gq
- the rise (and stall) of the boba generation by jenny g. zhang, eater
- yelp reviewers authenticity fetish is white supremacy in action by sara kay, ny eater
- pathology of displacement: the intersection of food justice and culture by shane bernardo, whyhunger
- the bon appetit test kitchens race problem by soleil ho, san francisco chronicle
- the vegan race wars: how the mainstream ignores vegans of color by khushbu shah, thrillist
- whose food is it, anyway? by ann hui, the globe and mail
- food, race, and power: who gets to be an authority on ‘ethnic’ cuisines? by lorraine chuen, intersectional analyst





