I'll check it out. Learning from failures, as long as they are written constructively, is always useful. Have you read about Kibbutzim in your studies? I'm obv

I'll check it out. Learning from failures, as long as they are written constructively, is always useful. Have you read about Kibbutzim in your studies? I'm obviously not a fan of ethnonationalism, but they seem to be a collectivist arrangement akin to your brief on farmers in America. As for books to recommend, I'm just finishing The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood, but that's more of a historical analysis of the differences between French and English agrarian land ownership and how that led to capitalism in England but not France (not immediately, anyway). Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread is next in my queue. It's quite critical of ML politics and suggests instead socialism is only achieved via bottom up worker organizing. It's highly recommended by a bunch of folks. Also, I've found David Harveys lectures a very approachable intro to Marx's Capital https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n5vu4MpYgUo&feature=emb_title https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n5vu4MpYgUo&feature=emb_title And yeah, holy shit so many socialists get way to caught up in feeling superior and it sucks. Also, so many people see the word socialist and start hitting insults. Always nice to have a conversation with someone who disagrees but does so in an interested way.