I’m broke lol, I’m not about to throw cash at S4A if I can just pique their interest instead and get them to think they came up with the idea to narrate the article by themselves

I used to be a terrible mischief-maker in my younger days but, with maturity, I’ve channeled this urge into achieving win-win outcomes for everyone. I have confidence in myself to get this one over the line by leveraging just the right amount of influence at the right moment.

Oh you were thinking of paying haha? I’m just gonna try drawing their attention to the article in such a way that it will just make sense for them to want to narrate it. I got a strategy all planned out already, just gotta wait until an opportunity presents itself to me - likely in the next few weeks. Will keep you posted.

Hell yeah! I didn’t even think about why having anthologies would be a problem until I encountered your post so it’s been a good learning opportunity. It’s not so bad having an anthology because you can timestamp within a playlist but it just makes more sense to have them as separate books because it’s more user-friendly that way.

I’ll see if I can entice Socialism For All to narrate the Jones Manoel article. S4A is on an Anti-Trotskyist reading arc right now and Manoel’s article fits neatly into that scope, plus the article is short - I’d guess it’s well under 30 minutes of runtime for a narration so I feel like that might be enough to get it over the line. I’ll see if I can work some magic in the next few weeks.

Elementary Principles of Philosophy
How To Be A Good Communist

Alright, the only thing I haven’t done is Lavender & Red because I S4A is still in the process of recording that one. I’ll have to remember to finish the job once they have completed it but that aside your playlist is complete.

Wage Labor and Capital
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Getting there!

On Practice and Contradiction
Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Other ones are in the pipeline but I have to redownload them because I ran out of space on my harddrive and deleted some of the original files since I wasn’t expecting to need them again.

I’m tired of learning new things

What Is To Be Done?
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
State and Revolution

Okay I need to sleep

Btw I’m working on splitting the audiobooks at the moment. I’m gonna have to get to it tomorrow because Audacity wasn’t playing well with my computer.

I don’t know if you saw my edit, but I will try to squeeze it in!

Of course I didn’t see your edit. Do I strike you as one of those ?

Just kidding. About the hostile tone that is. I actually didn’t see it but that’s awesome thanks for letting me know. Also know that your comment inspired me to make this and submit it to the emoji comm lmao

For real, whenever I come across a baby leftist I have to restrain myself from acting like some sort of deranged person from a time travelling scifi movie who has come back to warn people about the dire reality of the future while I recite this article at them at a near-shouting volume.

Instead I’m like “Oh um, you know, uhhh… just be careful of the political organisations who sell you on this idea of them being the valiant underdog and how great everything could have been if only they weren’t robbed of their opportunity. You want to find an organisation that has a positive future perspective rather than just lamenting the past.”

I know that the character limit is tight but I just remembered that the short piece by Jones Manoel titled Western Marxism Loves Purity and Martyrdom, But Not Real Revolution could have saved me years wasted as an eclectic radical. I think it dovetails nicely after Left Communism but it’s updated and takes aim at people who idolise Che yet despise Castro and Stalin, that sort of thing.

I’d like to suggest it, if there’s room and you think it’s suitable. Also if you haven’t read it yet, goddamn you should because it’s really incisive.

From the Civ 3 tech tree:

I tried to read this article but I teared up too much and I couldn’t see to be able to keep on reading.

If Yoko Ono were still alive she’d write an song with an odious, racially-charged comparison between Hillary and black people and everyone around the world would come together every year on November 9th to listen to this song and to mourn our collective loss.