39 - Is Socialist Revolution in the U.S. possible?, by Mary-Alice Waters
WHY I PICKED IT: Picked up at Word On The Street Book Fair
ELAPSED TIME: 3 Days
RATING: Not Good
This book of (3) essays, taken from speeches at the Venezuela Book Fairs in 2007 and 2008 is an argument of why a socialist revolution is not only possible, but probable. Unfortunately, although they do make good points about the fight from the immigrants perspective, and the need for cross-race support, I do not believe they adequately (a) define the meaning of what is a socialist revolution, and (b) describe how it would come about.
I bought another book at the fair, called Pity the Billionaire, outlining how the disastrous collapse of the free market economy in 2008 heralded a popular revival of the right... perhaps this will be a better read.
This blog is a simple review of every book that I read... For all books I’ll tell you why I picked it, how long it took me to read it, and give it a rating (burn it, not good, meh, good, very good, and required reading). I ask (encourage?) all readers of my blog to post their thoughts of any of the books in my comments :). Thanks!
No comments:
Post a Comment