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Mad

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Programmer with ADHD, interested in history and social movements, as well as poetry. I've recently found out that reading fills the same need for me as scrolling on social media, and one is significantly more productive and healthy than the other.

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Mad reviewed Animal Farm by George Orwell

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” A farm is …

Predictable, but still profound

4 stars

The basis and concept of Animal Farm have been reduplicated and pondered over so much at this point that the entire plot was extremely predictable. However, it still expresses it and makes you think in a way that is very profound, and I think with the context of the surface-level message (how social movements, especially Marxist ones, devolve) you're able to see some of the deeper analogies like the types of working class people that Boxer, the rats, Benjamin, etc. represent and how that informs one's ideology. That's what makes it a classic, and a must-read for anyone anywhere.

Mad reviewed At the Café by Errico Malatesta

Malatesta began writing the series of dialogues that make up At the Café: Conversations on …

An absolute must-read

5 stars

Malatesta provides a comprehensive primer on the arguments for and against socialist politics. Though given from an anarchist perspective, it's not particularly prescriptive and the user is given every opportunity to relate to one of the many other characters in the story, representative of the different players in the discussion.