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Leaving_Marx

Leaving_Marx@wyrmsign.org

Joined 2 years, 10 months ago

Printer, anarchist, illustrator, & enthusiast of the printed word.

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2025 Reading Goal

73% complete! Leaving_Marx has read 22 of 30 books.

reviewed Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Dogs of War, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Dogs of War (Paperback, 2017, Head of Zeus) 5 stars

Rex is seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and …

am I a good dog

4 stars

this one came critically praised by the critics. I thought it was a decent enough story, though i just struggled again and again to get lost inside the "head" of a half dog/half human protagonist.

all in all it takes a look at war and miltary hierarchy and the ways this erases the individual and autonomy so it's another decent anarchist adjacent sci-fi but compared so some of tchaikovsky's other novels i am not sure why this series got a trilogy and others stayed as stand alones.

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Alien Clay (2024, Orbit) 5 stars

Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his …

Fav book this year!

5 stars

I really loved this book. It felt like the interest and passion in biology that Mikhail Bakunin exhibited in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution but told ask a sci-fi epic@!

analyzing the conditions and contradictions of a human inmate labour camp upon an exoplanet with alien life Tchaikovsky looks at what makes us human, what mutualism and organization mean, and the struggles against domination.

I would liken this to The Dispossessed of Tchaikovsky's catalog and want you all to read it then get coffee with me and talk about the ups and downs.

Aaron Benanav: Automation and the Future of Work (2021, Verso Books) 4 stars

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are …

marxists on the machine

4 stars

just finished this book today. pretty decent and the take was a bit more nuance than i was expecting. Generally I think of this author is the luxury space communism camp, and very much like: communism creates innovation, innovation frees us from work, we all get Rolexes. presented in the marxist does economics way, there is arguments presented from the right and left side of a full-automation perspective (more technology, machines, robots, AI than just AI). anti-tech arguments aren't really explored but he tries to poke holes in the idea that work will be eliminated or made obsolete and this will lead to downtime or communism. His larger argument is that surplus labour and declining employment and automation/production are not linked as we are often presented by economics and politicians and that capitalism is making people obsolete, not technology specifically.

not trying to make the arguments here just present them. …

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Saturation Point (Hardcover, 2024, Solaris) 4 stars

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new …

annihiliation adjacent

4 stars

enjoyed reading this, it's short, it has some annihilation vibes to begin with but the story diverged enough from that line in the send half that it wasn't just a remake of a popular book.

is this an easy summer read. most definitely