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What is the easiest piece of theory you've read? You can post multiple in the order of easiest first to hardest last. (hexbear.net)

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In terms of theory, I don't consider myself well read. Theory is often really tough for me to read. Even with very easy-to-read writers like Michael Parenti, it's dense with mindblowing info. And things like the book Will to Change by Bell Hooks hits me in really raw feelings so I stopped at the first chapter. I need the easiest authors and their easiest-to-read works, or else I'm just not reading.

-Micahel Parenti: What’s a Slum? Urban Poverty and Marginality in America

-"I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision" by Michael Parenti"

-Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth

No idea how I got through "Friendly Feudalism." I read these all about 3.5 years ago before I lost the bandwidth to go further.

Edit: I tend to watch things more so I guess you can add video links after everything else too.

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[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Peter Singer

Oh no!

So you may not know this, but this site has had a user go off the rails like 2 years ago and spam the opening paragraph of Peter Singer’s Wikipedia article hundreds of times using vpns to avoid being rate limited in creating accounts.

We also had a pretty vitriolic struggle session about veganism and zoophilia based on an article of his around that time two.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Regardless of all that this polemic of his is actually cool and good. I am not familiar with his views on zoophilia or whatever and that kind of shit grosses me out. If posting him causes zoophiles to come out of the woodwork then I'm glad to do my part to weed out weirdos.