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The News Megathread Imperialism Reading Group: Week 1 - January 13th to January 19th, 2025
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Welcome to the first week of the Imperialism Reading Group!
This will be a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. How many chapters or pages we will cover per week will vary based on the density and difficulty of the book, but I'm generally aiming at 30 to 40 pages per week, which should take you about an hour or two.
The first book we will be covering is the foundation, the one and only, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. We will read two chapters per week starting from this week, meaning that we will finish reading in mid-to-late February. Unless a better suggestion is made, we will then cover Michael Hudson's Super Imperialism, and continue with various books from there.
Every week, I will write a summary of the chapter(s) read, for those who have already read the book and don't wish to reread, can't follow along for various reasons, or for those joining later who want to dive right in to the next book without needing to pick this one up too.
This week, we will be reading Chapter 1: Concentration of Production and Monopolies, and Chapter 2: Banks and their New Role.
Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group.
Ping, will be fun to re-read some works and read new ones 
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Ping please and thank you
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Is there a specific copy that will be being used? I'm not aware if there are different translations or what people generally recommend and want to make sure I'm following along with the majority.
EDIT: I grabbed the 2010 Penguin published epub since it was easily accessible and I need an epub for my ereader.
ping pls
Biden has named some old US Technology that recendent crawled out of the middle east, humiliated the USS George W. Bush .
Edit: its a quote from the book.
Ping Gracias might be overcommitted as I just started a third in-person reading group but hell if I join enough eventually they have to start overlapping right?
I'll take a ping please 
Ping me, I need to do some reading
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Please ping me! I might not actually read along, I did a re-read not too long ago, but I wanna read everyone’s comments
Ping me please. Thanks everyone for the community and for setting this up!
Very excited for the notes and insights the comrades here will share. Always very edifying
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Ping me, please! Down for a reread of Imperialism, and Super Imperialism has been on my radar.
I'll pin and unpin your posts when you ping, if you'd like.
This and Kapital double feature will go hard
Thankfully we will be done with the denser parts of Volume 1 before we get to Super Imperialism
We will read two chapters per week starting from this week, meaning that we will finish reading in mid-to-late February. (The post)
Thankfully we will be done with the denser parts of Volume 1 before we get to Super Imperialism
Oh ho ho boy (just to be clear, at the point you inevitably start Super Imperialism, you'll be likely in the thick of Chapter 15, which is like 2x Chapter 1's size, and is the largest chapter of volume 1, so that could be a challenge)
Oh yikes, lmao. Thanks for the heads-up!
Ping please and thank you
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First! Can ye ping me?
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I already read Imperialism but I'd be down to review it so I can read the Hudson book. Ping me up Scotty.
Ping!
Yeah I'm down for a ping.