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All I’m saying is it has some decent history and it’s pessimism made sense for the time. Writing a book and getting some dogmatic and uncritical followers is different from starting a cult. That’s like blaming mao’s writing for polpot and Gonzalo.
You would really enjoy Samir Amin's perspective on Maoism vs Sovietism I think
If I have any weird middle of the night rancor in my posts (it never feels like it at the time) just know I'm tired of hearing the same pseudoleftists like Sakai and Zizek get play over dependency theorists and other interesting shit like that
Link it? Sakai is far better than Zizek. Sure he’s a little overrated here, but he’s worth reading as long as you’re critical and reading more recent stuff with better specific analysis too. I agree there are a lot of other authors like Amine that deserve more attention.
Simply read through his entire bibliography
Didn’t he write a lot of stuff? Surely you can give me a couple of suggestions or a place to start.
Galeano's open veins
Eurocentrism & russia and the long transition from capitalism to socialism are highly relevant bangers from samir amin. Also the future of maoism though a bit old
Yea I'll help with that I'm just finishing up my parapolitics annotated bibliography which is another blindspot for many