This is a weekly thread in which we read through books on and related to imperialism and geopolitics. Last week’s thread is here.
The book we are currently reading through is How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Please comment or message me directly if you wish to be pinged for this group, or if you no longer wish to be pinged.
This week, we will be reading the third and last sections, “Education for Underdevelopment” and “Development by Contradiction” of Chapter 6: Colonialism as a System for Underdeveloping Africa. You can also read the postscript if you wish.
This is the final week of this book! After this week, we will take the next two weeks off for people to catch up and post observations and questions in this thread. This means we will move on to the next book on the week beginning October 20th.
Got a bit behind from being busy with the kids but finally finished! Thought it was a great read and definitely going to recommend it to others.
Are we doing a poll for the next book or has it been decided already?
We’re going ahead on Greg Grandin’s Empire’s Workshop. I may hold a poll on books going forward but I’m unsure of the best way to do that for this particular situation.
For now, I’m trying to ensure that the books we cover are a) fairly generally known to a leftwing audience; b) not known to be particularly controversial; and c) relevant to the present day, so hopefully people are content with the book choices.