It’s honestly wayyyy less dry than I expected. Something about the topic and the author being Norwegian made me feel like it would be boring as hell but the guy’s writing style actually suits my brain pretty well. Y’all should give it a shot if you haven’t already.
Well aware of his cringe takes. It is unfortunate but I still consider some of his work worth reading especially if you study world systems theory/dependency theory
It’s almost like we can read works from people we don’t 100% agree with to consume a variety of ideas, challenge our assumptions, and take the good/leave the bad.
People act like reading something from someone who has a bad take on one topic or another is like reading some sort of cursed tome that instantly makes you a revisionist.
Personally I found “the principle contradiction” to be an interesting work, I’ll have to check this one out too. Thanks for the recommendation.
Also, lauesen fucking robbed banks, sent the money to anticolonial resistance movements, and ended up doing time for it, he and his comrades did more for the struggle than 99.99% of randos online who complain about his takes on the USSR will ever achieve.
Holy fucking based. Wish I was that cool wth
two things can be true at once