babyhueypnewton posted:

I recently read some of "North Korea: Markets and Military Rule" by Hazel Smith because she's a left-liberal and an advocate for peace. It was horrid. Not only because it was propaganda but the scholarship was quite poor and lazy.

i've been meaning to look at this book because smith was one of the academic voices soberly countering the imperial narrative about the dprk. sad to hear it's bad and trash

kamelred posted:

i am tracking down a lot of these books and some of them seem like they would be tough without access to a university library system

not sure about the others, but almost everything i psoted is availible through libgen or google

bit188 posted:

bhpn can i get the dropbox link for teh korea stuff

Sorry this doesn't have all of them and has some garbage, I'll be able to steal the rest at the end of the month though.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wd5jzvoadv8fbdg/AAB4CpR_g7KrAERbTtIn3LLLa?dl=0

Also if you want to read books about anime...

kamelred posted:

please dont own me for asking this but is there any area of academia that would be of any use to a tankie stalinist authoritarian gone mad with blood lust?

Education.

tears posted:

“This is a surprising book. At a time when confusion about Globalization surrounds us, Zak Cope pulls us towards what is fundamental. He outlines the 19th & 20th century recasting of the diverse human world into rigid forms of oppressed colonized societies and oppressor colonizing societies. A world divide still heavily determining our lives. Working rigorously in a marxist-leninist vein, the author focuses on how imperialism led to a giant metropolis where even the main working class itself is heavily socially bribed and loyal to capitalist oppression. Much is laid aside in his analysis, particularly the solution to the value-utils gap, in order to concentrate on only what he considers the most basic structure of all in world capitalist society. This is writing both controversial and foundational at one and the same time.”