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reading an ebook from my library, so don’t have page numbers (tezt size is modifiable, so any page numbering would be arbitrary for my copy)

A bit of a struggle to read, but I’ll survive

Short bits to round out the night

I am at a point in this one where I only have Engels’ Condition of the Working Class in England, Marx’s short translation of Peuchet, a fragment of Fourier, and a few short articles by Engels.

On to the Condition of the Working-Class in England

God they’re funny

The Holy Family is hilarious

Peak. The whole chapter on the Labor Charter is 10/10.

Since this one doesn’t have page numbers here on GR, I’ll use the % option.

St. Thomas? Check. Stewardship concept of property? Check. Guild system? Check. Class peace? Check. A moral problem with laissez-faire that seeks to cause that class peace and overcome the bad of capitalism but somehow maintain its relations? Check. Saint-Simon, Fourier, Blanc, and Proudhon? Check, check, check, and check.
I may have found an indisputable gem.

It’s interesting to see a man who was a Chinese fascist praise the US and the UN, but criticize them for recognizing the PRC. He adopts Orientalist tropes about China (sinification of outsiders as a rule, going so far as to single out Kaifeng Jews as assimilated, reproducing tropes about the integratability of Jews generally) and positions overseas Chinese as model minorities. He maintains the mythology of Chiang.

I’ve never read Bukharin’s book on imperialism before. It’s so good.