Anonymous asked:

If you had to recommend 2-3 basic books to a person in their 20’s who has absolutely no introduction to Marxism, feminism , radicalism ( the only 3 words I know), please recommend some books. Plisssss.

inqilabi:

ok this is my drive of essential readings (I have both PDF and epubs where possible). I’ve made a suggested reading order. Change the viewing to ‘list view’ so that you can see the order easily. Start with the area that interests you. Best if you are able to form a reading group, but if not, listen to the podcasts mentioned below to substitute for discussion as you read.

For Marxism start with:

1) What is Marxism All About, this Dialectical Materialism Intro and this anticonquista article on Dialectical Materialism

2) Then read through this Marx & Engels folder in roughly the order as numbered

3) Some ways down the road, you can read through this folder for Lenin, Luxemburg, Kollontai, Stalin & Mao

4) You can also listen to RevLeftRadio, Red Menace, Proles of the Roundtable podcast or Guerrilla History to supplement as you read. E.g., you can search Red Menace podcast’s on Socialism: Utopian and Scientific after you read it. Rev left, Proles & Guerrilla History have well researched Marxist view of history, so e.g, listen to their episodes on Stalin or Cold War to knock out the bourgeois history we learned.

For Anarchism start with:

- this folder, it is already ordered by books that are introductory to anarchism. The only fiction book I have in the drive is here, The Dispossessed by Guin.

For Feminism:

1) Read at least Ch 2 of this article: Women and Super-Exploitation.

2) Then read through the marxist feminism folder and radical feminism folder

Islamic Feminism:

1) If you are a non-Muslim radical feminist who is constantly talking about Islam, read Leila Ahmed. You should also read this if you are from a Muslim background.

2) If you struggle with your sexuality & being Muslim, read Kugle.

3) If you are interested in how women are conceptualized within Islam, rights, criticism of Sunni jurisprudence read Wadud, Mernissi or Ali. 

Here’s an updated list of non-book reccs. Just podcasts and documentaries. Many courtesy of @comrats. Please scroll to the bottom of this drive doc for a nice table. I put in links to everything where I could find them!

Anonymous asked:

does sulekha have a new tumblr account ? i thought she disappeared years ago

To be honest I don’t think so

Anonymous asked:

come back queen, we need you

😢 hope y'all are well.

I’m going thruuu it so. May be I’ll be back some time

Anonymous asked:

Are you active?

I just check periodically 😢

Also to the person who messaged me about starting on Marxism, read this tweet. I like this guy. He’s an old school Marxist. Been in the game for a really long time and is very well read:

https://x.com/CDMorlock/status/1898246153604677972?t=W74SJSME7pHybojRf54-Lg&s=19

ALT

Anonymous asked:

sorry thats not what i meant. i want to study it and understand it, especially the dialectical materialism and the economic aspects (surplus value and that stuff) as well. Im not sure if theres other authors or books that could help grasp a better understanding of it, since so many times marx and engels are read in a “formulaic” manner. i’ll start with principles and the reconquista article. i appreciate your sharing your knowledge

I would go straight to the source. Marx and ingalls both specifically wrote short treaties on value form, etc. They’re somewhere in my drive. I think they’re under the Reed first section. Before you start Capital. It would be good to read those.

Anonymous asked:

hi annie! i'm trying to get started on learning about marxism and it's theory, but i am worried about mistranslations and editions since im mainly going to buy the texts secondhand or read pdf. do you think it matters? since it's easy to even get the easiest concepts wrong... i'll have a look in that drive you shared

mhm. I don’t think it matters overall if you’re only going to be doing this once. But if you become a serious student where you are getting into the nitty gritty then it starts to matter. I wouldn’t worry about it at the beginning. Go with whatever is accessible and easiest. I think with my drive I had done the upfront research of versions. (I don’t recall from the top of my head anymore). But you can use mine as a version.

I also changed the covers for my books so that they would look pretty sitting on the iBooks shelf lol so some of them are my own cover art

looks like Buriaq/Buria/Sulekha Gombhir is still harassing women. This woman has some serious mental health issues and latches on to women and turns on them when she perceives some rejection which can be you not wanting to be friends with her, disagreeing with her opinions or dating a man. She’s a skinny brown woman. If I find pictures I have no issues posting them here. She she is dangerous. She will reach out to your work and family contacts through social media and harass them

I’ve had the wildest 20 days

pisceanpharies:

inqilabi:

pisceanpharies:

inqilabi:

pisceanpharies:

inqilabi:

androgynousnightmentality:

inqilabi:

Becoming a parent is an ego death for the mother. But not for the father. When a couple has a child, the woman becomes a woman and the man stays a man. In the sense that, the role of being a mother is inescapable. A baby is latched to you 24/7 in a way that isn’t the case for the father. Even if you were pumping and so that the father could get up and feed the baby instead, you still are going to have to get up to pump to keep your production. There’s nothing that a man can do that the woman doesn’t already have to do. Most men continue their extracurricular activities as normal, having days out with the boys meanwhile women find that they can’t even take a shower anymore without requiring advanced coordination. I mean heck, the fact that men can have multiple families but a woman never can, speak to this fact.

Prior to this, as just a couple without children - you can have gender equality. So if you don’t already have it at that stage, you will definitely never have it when you have children.

But the act of having a child is an inescapable gender inequity. Parenthood can never be 50/50 even with a very involved partner. I think this is a very hard pill to swallow.

So the logical conclusion should be to not have chilldren as a woman and spawn future rapists and victims. Isn’t it?

Uh oh….

No

Why would you say all of that and then be a pro-natalist?

It’s immoral to have more children when there are so many who need to be adopted and when the nuclear family destroys the lives of women who are literally (justifiably) going insane because they have to do all of the childcare alone, along with housework & emotional labour, while working outside the home too. It does take a community to raise children properly, which most women don’t have.

It’s an incredibly sick society which encourages people to have more kids when there are already kids who need parents. It’s all about egotism, passing on genes, and having kids as status symbols. It has nothing to do with actually wanting to take care of kids, because if it did, people would adopt.

I said all that because it’s the current reality. I am pronatalist because it won’t be a permanent reality.

That doesn’t make sense. Why are you pronatalist when you understand this stuff, and why do you think it won’t be a permanent reality?

I think it probably will stay this way, because most people are participating in the nuclear family dynamic, and if they aren’t, they’re trying to.

That doesn’t make it ok.

It won’t be a permanent reality because when the social structure changes, the family structure will change. And the social structure has already changed several times in history and it will again. The family structure we have didn’t always exist and won’t always exist

It’s possible, but would have to take hundreds of years at this point.

It’s also possible that humans are too stupid to be able to do that again.

We’re destroying this planet in many ways, so the human race deserves to die off.

Yes it will take about 50-100 years or so, which is literally only one generation away. So it’s not hopeless for the people being born right now/their kids. You can figure out short term solutions for yourself but to say it will be a permanent state isn’t accurate.

pisceanpharies:

inqilabi:

pisceanpharies:

inqilabi:

androgynousnightmentality:

inqilabi:

Becoming a parent is an ego death for the mother. But not for the father. When a couple has a child, the woman becomes a woman and the man stays a man. In the sense that, the role of being a mother is inescapable. A baby is latched to you 24/7 in a way that isn’t the case for the father. Even if you were pumping and so that the father could get up and feed the baby instead, you still are going to have to get up to pump to keep your production. There’s nothing that a man can do that the woman doesn’t already have to do. Most men continue their extracurricular activities as normal, having days out with the boys meanwhile women find that they can’t even take a shower anymore without requiring advanced coordination. I mean heck, the fact that men can have multiple families but a woman never can, speak to this fact.

Prior to this, as just a couple without children - you can have gender equality. So if you don’t already have it at that stage, you will definitely never have it when you have children.

But the act of having a child is an inescapable gender inequity. Parenthood can never be 50/50 even with a very involved partner. I think this is a very hard pill to swallow.

So the logical conclusion should be to not have chilldren as a woman and spawn future rapists and victims. Isn’t it?

Uh oh….

No

Why would you say all of that and then be a pro-natalist?

It’s immoral to have more children when there are so many who need to be adopted and when the nuclear family destroys the lives of women who are literally (justifiably) going insane because they have to do all of the childcare alone, along with housework & emotional labour, while working outside the home too. It does take a community to raise children properly, which most women don’t have.

It’s an incredibly sick society which encourages people to have more kids when there are already kids who need parents. It’s all about egotism, passing on genes, and having kids as status symbols. It has nothing to do with actually wanting to take care of kids, because if it did, people would adopt.

I said all that because it’s the current reality. I am pronatalist because it won’t be a permanent reality.

That doesn’t make sense. Why are you pronatalist when you understand this stuff, and why do you think it won’t be a permanent reality?

I think it probably will stay this way, because most people are participating in the nuclear family dynamic, and if they aren’t, they’re trying to.

That doesn’t make it ok.

It won’t be a permanent reality because when the social structure changes, the family structure will change. And the social structure has already changed several times in history and it will again. The family structure we have didn’t always exist and won’t always exist

pisceanpharies:

inqilabi:

androgynousnightmentality:

inqilabi:

Becoming a parent is an ego death for the mother. But not for the father. When a couple has a child, the woman becomes a woman and the man stays a man. In the sense that, the role of being a mother is inescapable. A baby is latched to you 24/7 in a way that isn’t the case for the father. Even if you were pumping and so that the father could get up and feed the baby instead, you still are going to have to get up to pump to keep your production. There’s nothing that a man can do that the woman doesn’t already have to do. Most men continue their extracurricular activities as normal, having days out with the boys meanwhile women find that they can’t even take a shower anymore without requiring advanced coordination. I mean heck, the fact that men can have multiple families but a woman never can, speak to this fact.

Prior to this, as just a couple without children - you can have gender equality. So if you don’t already have it at that stage, you will definitely never have it when you have children.

But the act of having a child is an inescapable gender inequity. Parenthood can never be 50/50 even with a very involved partner. I think this is a very hard pill to swallow.

So the logical conclusion should be to not have chilldren as a woman and spawn future rapists and victims. Isn’t it?

Uh oh….

No

Why would you say all of that and then be a pro-natalist?

It’s immoral to have more children when there are so many who need to be adopted and when the nuclear family destroys the lives of women who are literally (justifiably) going insane because they have to do all of the childcare alone, along with housework & emotional labour, while working outside the home too. It does take a community to raise children properly, which most women don’t have.

It’s an incredibly sick society which encourages people to have more kids when there are already kids who need parents. It’s all about egotism, passing on genes, and having kids as status symbols. It has nothing to do with actually wanting to take care of kids, because if it did, people would adopt.

I said all that because it’s the current reality. I am pronatalist because it won’t be a permanent reality.

sverlana8647-deactivated2025052:

androgynousnightmentality:

inqilabi:

androgynousnightmentality:

inqilabi:

Becoming a parent is an ego death for the mother. But not for the father. When a couple has a child, the woman becomes a woman and the man stays a man. In the sense that, the role of being a mother is inescapable. A baby is latched to you 24/7 in a way that isn’t the case for the father. Even if you were pumping and so that the father could get up and feed the baby instead, you still are going to have to get up to pump to keep your production. There’s nothing that a man can do that the woman doesn’t already have to do. Most men continue their extracurricular activities as normal, having days out with the boys meanwhile women find that they can’t even take a shower anymore without requiring advanced coordination. I mean heck, the fact that men can have multiple families but a woman never can, speak to this fact.

Prior to this, as just a couple without children - you can have gender equality. So if you don’t already have it at that stage, you will definitely never have it when you have children.

But the act of having a child is an inescapable gender inequity. Parenthood can never be 50/50 even with a very involved partner. I think this is a very hard pill to swallow.

So the logical conclusion should be to not have chilldren as a woman and spawn future rapists and victims. Isn’t it?

Uh oh….

No

Ofc why would you stop birthing with your pro birth propaganda feminism and “uwi motherhood”. No wonder males see feminists as a joke.

There is nothing “inqilabi (revolutionary)” about partnering and birthing children. Thats what patriarchy wants from you.

this is why you third worlders don’t overcome the extreme misogyny, ya’ll still obsessed with breeding even though ya’ll are “radfems”

What a racist thing to say. Very on brand tho

There’s this one auntie who sends my mom rishtas still and she sends the worst ones and says oh “Annie is a bit older now so this is fine for her”. And it was a divorced guy (which I don’t care about ofc I don’t think that lessens a person’s value but in our culture we do). Or it’d be someone with kids or someone who doesn’t have an education. These are never things they’d if I was a guy. I could still be unmarried up until my early 40s as a man and demand a laundry list.

It is sad that they lower expectations, probably for their own daughters as well. Meanwhile if you date yourself, you will not have to make the same compromises. So long as you are ready and willing to walk away or be alone if you don’t find what you’re looking for

androgynousnightmentality:

inqilabi:

androgynousnightmentality:

inqilabi:

Becoming a parent is an ego death for the mother. But not for the father. When a couple has a child, the woman becomes a woman and the man stays a man. In the sense that, the role of being a mother is inescapable. A baby is latched to you 24/7 in a way that isn’t the case for the father. Even if you were pumping and so that the father could get up and feed the baby instead, you still are going to have to get up to pump to keep your production. There’s nothing that a man can do that the woman doesn’t already have to do. Most men continue their extracurricular activities as normal, having days out with the boys meanwhile women find that they can’t even take a shower anymore without requiring advanced coordination. I mean heck, the fact that men can have multiple families but a woman never can, speak to this fact.

Prior to this, as just a couple without children - you can have gender equality. So if you don’t already have it at that stage, you will definitely never have it when you have children.

But the act of having a child is an inescapable gender inequity. Parenthood can never be 50/50 even with a very involved partner. I think this is a very hard pill to swallow.

So the logical conclusion should be to not have chilldren as a woman and spawn future rapists and victims. Isn’t it?

Uh oh….

No

Ofc why would you stop birthing with your pro birth propaganda feminism and “uwi motherhood”. No wonder males see feminists as a joke.

There is nothing “inqilabi (revolutionary)” about partnering and birthing children. Thats what patriarchy wants from you.

Ok fam don’t birth children then 👍🏽

androgynousnightmentality:

inqilabi:

Becoming a parent is an ego death for the mother. But not for the father. When a couple has a child, the woman becomes a woman and the man stays a man. In the sense that, the role of being a mother is inescapable. A baby is latched to you 24/7 in a way that isn’t the case for the father. Even if you were pumping and so that the father could get up and feed the baby instead, you still are going to have to get up to pump to keep your production. There’s nothing that a man can do that the woman doesn’t already have to do. Most men continue their extracurricular activities as normal, having days out with the boys meanwhile women find that they can’t even take a shower anymore without requiring advanced coordination. I mean heck, the fact that men can have multiple families but a woman never can, speak to this fact.

Prior to this, as just a couple without children - you can have gender equality. So if you don’t already have it at that stage, you will definitely never have it when you have children.

But the act of having a child is an inescapable gender inequity. Parenthood can never be 50/50 even with a very involved partner. I think this is a very hard pill to swallow.

So the logical conclusion should be to not have chilldren as a woman and spawn future rapists and victims. Isn’t it?

Uh oh….

No