Left Coast Reads 📚🌹
@leftcoastreads.bsky.social
📍Pacific Northwest
📚History. Philosophy. Political economy. Occasional sci-fi.
🌹Trying to show solidarity and keep an open mind. A veces posteo en español también.
📚History. Philosophy. Political economy. Occasional sci-fi.
🌹Trying to show solidarity and keep an open mind. A veces posteo en español también.
Is this not the logical endpoint of what Lukacs called reification and Marx called commodity fetishism? Everything is treated as a commodity. Everything from human labor power to opinions (evidently?) are now treated as objects with value independent of the social relations which produce them.
December 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Is this not the logical endpoint of what Lukacs called reification and Marx called commodity fetishism? Everything is treated as a commodity. Everything from human labor power to opinions (evidently?) are now treated as objects with value independent of the social relations which produce them.
C.L.R. James said, "The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental." W. E. B. DuBois said, "the problem...
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
C.L.R. James said, "The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental." W. E. B. DuBois said, "the problem...
Post-Thanksgiving rainy day. Leaves fluttering outside. Time to read with Juniper curled up next to me.
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Post-Thanksgiving rainy day. Leaves fluttering outside. Time to read with Juniper curled up next to me.
Anarchists and Marxists have often disagreed on key aspects of political strategy and theory. In this book--Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States--Chris Wright tries to reconcile the two with worker coops as the lynchpin.
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Anarchists and Marxists have often disagreed on key aspects of political strategy and theory. In this book--Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States--Chris Wright tries to reconcile the two with worker coops as the lynchpin.
I am once again reminding you not to give any money to the New York Times.
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I am once again reminding you not to give any money to the New York Times.
Yuval Harari as he wrote this book
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yuval Harari as he wrote this book
I am once again reminding you not to give any money to the New York Times.
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I am once again reminding you not to give any money to the New York Times.
Echoes of Eugene Debs. "You may be a convict, but... There is more to the real religion of Jesus Christ in the spirit you breathe out to the world from behind your cruel prison bars than in all of the orthodox sermons ever preached."
Idk this Minister's exact politics but this is real shit.
Idk this Minister's exact politics but this is real shit.
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Echoes of Eugene Debs. "You may be a convict, but... There is more to the real religion of Jesus Christ in the spirit you breathe out to the world from behind your cruel prison bars than in all of the orthodox sermons ever preached."
Idk this Minister's exact politics but this is real shit.
Idk this Minister's exact politics but this is real shit.
The story of Cuba's medical system and research capabilities is inspiring. Did you know they invented the world's first Meningitis B vaccine?! #booksky
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The story of Cuba's medical system and research capabilities is inspiring. Did you know they invented the world's first Meningitis B vaccine?! #booksky
How about this?
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
How about this?
For the first time, Australia generated more electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels for an entire month.
November 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For the first time, Australia generated more electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels for an entire month.
Find you a woman who looks at you like Rama looks at Zohran (and who wants to dismantle capitalism).
November 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Find you a woman who looks at you like Rama looks at Zohran (and who wants to dismantle capitalism).
Portland is special.
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Portland is special.
I am once again asking you not to give any money to the New York Times. There are so many other places to get your news that don't push this sort of rage bait sexism.
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I am once again asking you not to give any money to the New York Times. There are so many other places to get your news that don't push this sort of rage bait sexism.
Historian Eric Williams once said that "slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery." In The Invention of the White Race, Theodore Allen makes a related claim: when Africans were brought to Virginia in 1619, there were no "white" people there. #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Historian Eric Williams once said that "slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery." In The Invention of the White Race, Theodore Allen makes a related claim: when Africans were brought to Virginia in 1619, there were no "white" people there. #booksky
First thing I thought of:
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 AM
First thing I thought of:
The perfect book for Halloween! In Monsters of the Market, McNally explores the history of zombies, vampires, and other monsters, arguing that their origins are tied to socioeconomic and cultural changes experienced by the working class under capitalism. #booksky #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The perfect book for Halloween! In Monsters of the Market, McNally explores the history of zombies, vampires, and other monsters, arguing that their origins are tied to socioeconomic and cultural changes experienced by the working class under capitalism. #booksky #halloween
Mamdani/Halkias 2028
We're taking the white house babyyy @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
We're taking the white house babyyy @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Mamdani/Halkias 2028
We're taking the white house babyyy @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
We're taking the white house babyyy @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Pandemic relief worked! And then they ended it. Guess what happened? Poverty increased! If you give people money, food, and low cost healthcare, protect them from eviction, and pause their student loan payments, their lives get a lot better.
October 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Pandemic relief worked! And then they ended it. Guess what happened? Poverty increased! If you give people money, food, and low cost healthcare, protect them from eviction, and pause their student loan payments, their lives get a lot better.
A huge issue for Biden which is often overlooked is that the expansion of benefits during the pandemic was ended rather abruptly with catastrophic results. The overall poverty rate and child poverty rate were higher at the end of his term than when he started! @stephensemler.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A huge issue for Biden which is often overlooked is that the expansion of benefits during the pandemic was ended rather abruptly with catastrophic results. The overall poverty rate and child poverty rate were higher at the end of his term than when he started! @stephensemler.bsky.social