Chav. Solidarietà coatta

Read in 2 days - I wasn't able to put the book down. Wtf is the point of academic writing after this. Gives you a serious task to check yourself in white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. The author certainly has. Will read again and again.

This book is like a jump cable for your heart and mind. I want all the fellow middle class activist folk I know to read it, not so we can talk about it, but so we can collectively absorb the author's visceral understanding of the traumas that hierarchies of class, race and gender inflict on people w Leggi tutto

Συγκλονιστικό βιβλίο, νομίζω από τα βιβλία που πρέπει οπωσδήποτε να διαβάστουν... Το βιβλίο θα μπορούσε να καταταχθεί ως μια αυτοβιογραφία, ή μια λογοτεχνική αυτοπαρουσίαση. Όμως όποιο έκανε αυτή την κατάταξη θα πρέπει να είχε χάσει ένα μεγάλο κομμάτι του βιβλίου όσο το διάβαζε. Προσωπικά μου έκαναν ε Leggi tutto

Coming from a similar background and holding similar disdain for cosplaying middle class 'anarchists' maybe I wasn't the intended audience for this one.. There was some wisdom here. Some critical thought. But also dogma. I lost count of the number of times the term 'white-supremacist patriarchal capi Leggi tutto

Videorecensione: https://youtu.be/slc0A88-LEc Questo libro è stato quello che tanti libri non sono stati in questi due anni, un libro che non solo ti racconta un vissuto tremendo e di miseria, con la seguente "ribalta", ma che lo fa in maniera politica e sociale, senza porre un suprematismo rispetto Leggi tutto

Veloce memoir di un autore che a quarant'anni di cose da raccontare ne ha, cresciuto com'è nella miseria del sottoproletariato Nottingham fra risse, aggressioni, spaccio, rapine, prostituzione, stupri, ogni sorta di violenza subita e perpetrata. Come fa a sopravvivere? Di sicuro perché è bianco, qui Leggi tutto

This is a phenomenal and extremely eye-opening book. It is about the author's experiences growing up in extreme poverty, and the development of their political ideas. While the subject matter is often challenging, the book is written in an easy and unpretentious style so you can fly through it very qu Leggi tutto

[θα το κατέτασσα στη λίστα με τα πιο σημαντικά βιβλία που έχω διαβάσει ή και θα διαβάσω.]

An important read that made me think and feel a lot. What i find so important about this book is that it leads you to acknowledge your privilege (especially important to read if you are a cis white man). He does that not only by pointing out his lack of privilege, but also by talking about his own p Leggi tutto

Μου πήρε μέρες αφότου τελείωσα το βιβλίο και προσπαθώ να βρω τα λόγια για να γράψω για αυτό. Σαν να έχω βγει για μπύρες με ένα "φίλο" ο οποίος μου εξιστορεί τη ζωή του, μια ζωή όμως βουτηγμένη στα σκ@τα. Τον ακούω να ξεδιπλώνει όλες τις πτυχές της προσωπικότητας του, να αφηγείται την παιδική και εφη Leggi tutto