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Summer Reading List:
Besides depressing 19th-century novels, I've been doing a little light reading on how to overthrow the government. (JUST KIDDING, FBI! Ha! Ha!) I saw both these books in the library while I was looking for stuff on Emerson and sailing and gender issues in Ancient Roman literature (none of which were quite exciting enough to share) and I was going to slip them out of the library when I realised that they were probably online, and they are. This is partly for my own future reference and partly for you, my dear readers. Dammit, I wish Valia wasn't missing this.
Steal This Book Hilarious! Learn how to get free rides on buses. Learn where to get huge amounts of free food. Get the address for obtaining a free buffalo from the government. Learn how to build bookcases out of junk... well, what can we say- this book was a real pathbreaker of its time- teenage wannabedropouts didn't have the internet and they didn't know this stuff. Awesome. Quote by the author: it's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you end up on the bestseller list. I feel your pain, man. Good try.
The Conquest of Bread Anarchist Communism is completely different from Lenin's Russia or even Marx's ideal society. Here're the coolest ideas of the book (written 1906): Ch 8-II- basic necessities can be provided by 5 hours per day, 150 days per year. Ch. 10-II- emancipation of women! Equal value given to domestic work! Ch. 13-IV- All inequalities of life derive from unequal valuation of labor. Therefore, everyone gets the same benefits no matter what job they have. People choose work they enjoy- and everyone enjoys different things, especially if it's only 5 hours a day and manual labor is valued equally (because everyone has time for intellectual pursuits too) And all arts and sciences are produced voluntarily in the extra 10 hours of the day by individual associations created by the people and trading between each other.
Besides depressing 19th-century novels, I've been doing a little light reading on how to overthrow the government. (JUST KIDDING, FBI! Ha! Ha!) I saw both these books in the library while I was looking for stuff on Emerson and sailing and gender issues in Ancient Roman literature (none of which were quite exciting enough to share) and I was going to slip them out of the library when I realised that they were probably online, and they are. This is partly for my own future reference and partly for you, my dear readers. Dammit, I wish Valia wasn't missing this.
Steal This Book Hilarious! Learn how to get free rides on buses. Learn where to get huge amounts of free food. Get the address for obtaining a free buffalo from the government. Learn how to build bookcases out of junk... well, what can we say- this book was a real pathbreaker of its time- teenage wannabedropouts didn't have the internet and they didn't know this stuff. Awesome. Quote by the author: it's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you end up on the bestseller list. I feel your pain, man. Good try.
The Conquest of Bread Anarchist Communism is completely different from Lenin's Russia or even Marx's ideal society. Here're the coolest ideas of the book (written 1906): Ch 8-II- basic necessities can be provided by 5 hours per day, 150 days per year. Ch. 10-II- emancipation of women! Equal value given to domestic work! Ch. 13-IV- All inequalities of life derive from unequal valuation of labor. Therefore, everyone gets the same benefits no matter what job they have. People choose work they enjoy- and everyone enjoys different things, especially if it's only 5 hours a day and manual labor is valued equally (because everyone has time for intellectual pursuits too) And all arts and sciences are produced voluntarily in the extra 10 hours of the day by individual associations created by the people and trading between each other.