Václav Havel’s meditation on political dissent, borne of his first-person experience, would seem especially pertinent in this moment.
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I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race and class struggle, plus stuff like wine, baseball and music.
So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year and maybe one poetry collection.
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Steven Ray wants to read On Ideology (Radical Thinkers) by Louis Althusser

On Ideology (Radical Thinkers) by Louis Althusser
The publication of For Marx and Reading Capital established Louis Althusser as one of the most controversial figures in the …
Steven Ray wants to read The Power of the Powerless by Timothy Snyder
Steven Ray wants to read The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz
Steven Ray wants to read On the nature of the psyche by Carl Gustav Jung (Bollingen series -- 20)

On the nature of the psyche by Carl Gustav Jung (Bollingen series -- 20)
Steven Ray started reading On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Steven Ray wants to read Between Existentialism and Marxism by Jean-Paul Sartre
Steven Ray wants to read On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin …
Steven Ray started reading Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy by Goran Therborn
Steven Ray wants to read Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno

Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic investigation, Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's major work, a defense of modernism that is …
Steven Ray wants to read The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
A dual-language (French and English) publication of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece of poetry, 'Les Fleurs du mal' includes nearly all of …
Steven Ray wants to read Lives On The Left by Francis Mulhern
just arrived on my bookshelf.
Steven Ray started reading How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points …
Steven Ray started reading The last day of oppression, and the first day of the same by Jeffery R. Webber
Steven Ray wants to read 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism is a 2010 non-fiction book by economist Ha-Joon Chang. The book offers …