Today we read "Women in Class Society" by Heleieth Saffioti

Saffioti offers a comprehensive study of women in class-based society, with a historical analysis of women's education and labor in Brazil, a reflection on mysticism and science, and the role of the feminist movement. All grounded in a clear and faithful application of dialectical historical materialism, and principled anti-imperialism. This book should be a reference for anyone considering feminism or studying it.

This is the book I have recorded myself, so any comments or advise will be appreciated! I chose this books to be the first that I record due to feminism being a leading factor in what led me to reading class-conscious theory, and though Marxist-Feminism is neglected by most "Leninist" and Feminist groupings today, it ought to be an integral focus of every organizer!

I'm aware of the many audiobooks that have been taken down that I have previously posted, and the corrupted audios, with time I will take them all down and record audios for all the books myself.

Thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoy :)

- Salahuddin Al Na3emi

UPDATE: the original upload's audio was messed up, Im still learning how to edit audio, bare with me and let me know if there are any issues with the audio.

This is an audiobook, read by the Communist programmer Dessalines, of the autobiography “Revolutionary Suicide” by the Communist African American revolutionary, Huey P. Newton, who founded the Black Panther Party.

Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the most successful communist revolutionary group in American history, the Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers to his solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail, Revolutionary Suicide is smart, unrepentant, and thought-provoking in its portrayal of inspired radicalism.

"Revolutionary Suicide" is Huey Newton's, founder of the Black Panthers, memoir on his life before and during his time leading the the Black Panthers as a radical response to the police brutality and economic depressions imposed on the black community in the United States. What is clear from the first page is that Newton's plan for the Black Panthers was rooted in a deeply researched understanding of ideas from canonical thinkers like Plato and Fanon. This makes sense given the realities Newton faced: a man who graduated high school in inner-city Oakland unable to read or write, taught himself, at age 18, to read by reading and re-reading Plato's "Republic" until it made sense. Newton, with Bobby Searle, studied the laws closely and formed the Black Panther Party to protect the black community from the police and to provide much needed ideological and economic support to the black community, a community the US government was apt to ignore. And for this he earned the ire of the white, upperclass establishment who tried to frame him for the murder of a police officer - a murder he did not commit, could not commit, because the police officer was too busy shooting him while he was unarmed. In the pages of Huey Newton's memoir comes a prescient tale of the realities face by Black America: even when they follow all the rules and try to support each other out of their oppressed position, white America will do everything in its power, illegal or not, to keep them down. And what Huey fought this with was simple: ideas of a world that was better than the one in which we are living.

This audiobook has been uploaded here for the sole purpose of education.

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Towards a New Socialism, by Paul Cockshott, Read by Comrade Dessalines.

The book outlines in detail a proposal for a complex planned socialist economy, taking inspiration from cybernetics, the works of Karl Marx, and British operations research scientist Stafford Beer's 1973 model of a distributed decision support system dubbed Project Cybersyn.
Aspects of a socialist society such as direct democracy, foreign trade and property relations are also explored. The book is, in the authors' words, "our attempt to answer the idea that socialism is dead and buried after the demise of the Soviet Union."

This audiobook has been uploaded here for the sole purpose of education.

To support Dessalines please join his Patreon, Watch his other readings, and look into his programming projects, all of which you’ll find linked bellow.

Youtube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@dessalines6388⁠

Follow him on lemmy: ⁠https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines⁠

Follow him on mastodon: ⁠https://mastodon.social/@dessalines ⁠

Support him on Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/dessalines

This is an audiobook, read by the Communist programmer Dessalines, of the autobiography “Revolutionary Suicide” by the Communist African American revolutionary, Huey P. Newton, who founded the Black Panther Party.

Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the most successful communist revolutionary group in American history, the Black Panther Party. From Newton's impoverished childhood on the streets of Oakland to his adolescence and struggles with the system, from his role in the Black Panthers to his solitary confinement in the Alameda County Jail, Revolutionary Suicide is smart, unrepentant, and thought-provoking in its portrayal of inspired radicalism.

"Revolutionary Suicide" is Huey Newton's, founder of the Black Panthers, memoir on his life before and during his time leading the the Black Panthers as a radical response to the police brutality and economic depressions imposed on the black community in the United States.
What is clear from the first page is that Newton's plan for the Black Panthers was rooted in a deeply researched understanding of ideas from canonical thinkers like Plato and Fanon. This makes sense given the realities Newton faced: a man who graduated high school in inner-city Oakland unable to read or write, taught himself, at age 18, to read by reading and re-reading Plato's "Republic" until it made sense.
Newton, with Bobby Searle, studied the laws closely and formed the Black Panther Party to protect the black community from the police and to provide much needed ideological and economic support to the black community, a community the US government was apt to ignore. And for this he earned the ire of the white, upperclass establishment who tried to frame him for the murder of a police officer - a murder he did not commit, could not commit, because the police officer was too busy shooting him while he was unarmed.
In the pages of Huey Newton's memoir comes a prescient tale of the realities face by Black America: even when they follow all the rules and try to support each other out of their oppressed position, white America will do everything in its power, illegal or not, to keep them down. And what Huey fought this with was simple: ideas of a world that was better than the one in which we are living.

This audiobook has been uploaded here for the sole purpose of education.

To support Dessalines please join his Patreon, Watch his other readings, and look into his programming projects, all of which you’ll find linked bellow.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@dessalines6388

Follow him on lemmy: https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines

Follow him on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@dessalines

Support him on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dessalines

In The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins argues persuasively that during the Cold War, the U.S. approved of mass murder campaigns to roll back communism in the Third World. This is a provocative, necessary book, an essential guide to anyone seeking a deeper understanding of our imperfect world.

Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it’s been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington’s final triumph in the Cold War.

In this lecture, Grover Furr, a primarily Medieval English literature historian, recounts his experience with studying Anti-Stalin academia. In the lecture Professor Furr points out the lack of academic integrity and honesty in many of the anti-communist historical works.

Today we'll be reading Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny, read by Leelee Cocodrie

00:00:00 Chapter 1: Introduction

00:26:39 Chapter 2: Two Trends in Soviet Politics

01:59:21 Chapter 3: The Second Economy

02:47:02 Chapter 4: Promise and Foreboding, 1985-86

04:13:24 Chapter 5: Turning Point 1987-88

05:25:00 Chapter 6: Crisis and Collapse, 1989-91

07:11:42 Chapter 7: Conclusions and Implications

08:07:47 Chapter 9: Epilogue

Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union" by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny is a comprehensive analysis of the factors that led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. The authors challenge the prevailing view that the collapse was the result of inherent flaws in the socialist system and instead argue that it was the outcome of a deliberate strategy by a group of Soviet elites to dismantle socialism and embrace capitalist market reforms.

The book provides a detailed account of the economic, political, and social changes that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and 1990s, examining the impact of policies such as perestroika and glasnost. Keeran and Kenny argue that these policies, which were initially intended to revive the Soviet economy and strengthen socialism, ultimately led to its demise. They also explore the role of external factors such as the pressures of global capitalism and the influence of Western powers in hastening the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The authors draw on a wide range of sources, including archival documents, interviews with key figures, and scholarly research, to provide a nuanced and complex understanding of the collapse of the Soviet Union. They argue that the demise of socialism in the Soviet Union was not inevitable, but rather the result of a series of political and economic decisions made by a small group of elites who placed their own interests above those of the people.

Overall, "Socialism Betrayed" is a thought-provoking and insightful analysis of one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. It challenges conventional wisdom about the collapse of the Soviet Union and offers a compelling argument that socialism was not inherently flawed, but rather was betrayed by those who were meant to uphold its principles.

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