BartsBigBugBag

Recommended Readings:

• The Philosophy of Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin.
• Mutual Aid by Pyotr Kropotkin.
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin (fiction)

That means fuck ECOWAS as a tool of the oppressors also. Critical support for every coup in Africa, and for the rights of Africans to demand the French and US militaries leave their country.

Critical Readings:

• Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah.
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney.
• Rethinking Ownership of Development in Africa by T.D. Harper-Shipman.

Recommended readings:

• Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawaii Statehood by Dean Itsugi Saranillio.
• Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl.

Recommended videos and podcasts, not necessarily related:

• Andrewism’s We Need a Library Economy https://youtu.be/NOYa3YzVtyk?si=bHNNRV5RCxWFpJvA
• SRSLY Wrong Podcasts Library Socialism series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFkjJ43atCw_ctKXYufzsgmSGZURWK9lB&si=pwHlR2cyBE02OKlB
• KGATLW Rattlesnake https://youtu.be/Q-i1XZc8ZwA?si=0xhvK35vB3thXP41

Recommended readings:

• Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis.
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis.
• Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks

Recommended in the comments:

CurlyWurlies4All:

• Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women's Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach and Ercan Ayboga
• Liberating Life: Woman's Revolution by Abdullah Ocalan

99.9% of all institutions in my life are at best feudal orders, run by aristocrats so far removed from my life that they wouldn’t even know how to survive without their armies of servants, nannies, and assistants. Democracy needs to extend beyond the state. Democracy must be present in every part of our society, or it will, as it has now, inevitably become nothing more than another oligarchy for and by the rich.

Recommended readings:

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire.
Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber.
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti.
Neocolonialism by Kwame Nkrumah.
Anarchism and other Essays by Emma Goldman.

Recommendations from the comments:

/u/BallShapedMan - The Dictator’s Handbook by by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith

Note: I believe there are genuine instances where medication helps. Coming from a family with a history of schizophrenia, I understand how hard it can be to survive without access to modern medications.

That said, I also believe that the Therapy Industrial Complex is myopically focused upon the individual, to the point where there’s often not even consideration of societal factors influencing our minds. It is not individual mental health leading to rising suicide rates, increases in mass shootings, and generalized depression. It is our society.

If you genuinely don’t feel regular feelings of climate anxiety that effects your ability to focus on the meaningless trash that is much of modern life, then it is you who need medication, not those who experience the entirely rational anxiety of knowing that life as we know it is very likely to come to a screeching halt, leaving us and our future generations infinitely worse off than the generations before them. It is sick to be healthy in a sick society. Instead of taking drugs to hide your emotions, use them to get angry enough to do something.

As long as people keep taking their soma and going to work, things won’t get better, they just won’t. Period.