Mike's Updates en-US Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:27:54 -0700 60 Mike's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg ReadStatus9317190005 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:27:54 -0700 <![CDATA[Mike started reading 'Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam']]> /review/show/7493142619 Red Star Over Iraq by Johan Franzén Mike started reading Red Star Over Iraq: Iraqi Communism Before Saddam by Johan Franzén
]]> Review7076627193 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:12:32 -0700 <![CDATA[Mike added 'The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s�1970s']]> /review/show/7076627193 The Arab Lefts by Laure Guirguis Mike gave 3 stars to The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s�1970s (Hardcover) by Laure Guirguis
bookshelves: anti-colonialism, mena
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Mike liked Chris Huncho's review of Pedagogy of the Oppressed:
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
"Paulo Freire: I am Latina, I am teaching people to read, I am writing a boring book.

Me: Well, let’s just say this is written…inaccessibly…and, the conclusions are, well, ermmm� obvious…�

Donald Trump (😂): I AM A CHEETO!!! DON’T LOOK AT MY SMALL HANDS!!"
]]> Review7470798711 Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:13:41 -0700 <![CDATA[Mike added 'Martov and Zinoviev: Head to head in Halle']]> /review/show/7470798711 Martov and Zinoviev by November Publications Mike gave 4 stars to Martov and Zinoviev: Head to head in Halle (Paperback) by November Publications
bookshelves: marxism, russian-revolution-and-ussr
]]> Review7462231366 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:48:29 -0700 <![CDATA[Mike added 'The birth of Stalinism: The USSR on the eve of the "second revolution"']]> /review/show/7462231366 The birth of Stalinism by Michal Reiman Mike gave 4 stars to The birth of Stalinism: The USSR on the eve of the "second revolution" (Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies) by Michal Reiman
bookshelves: comintern, russian-revolution-and-ussr
]]> Review7437411214 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:42:36 -0700 <![CDATA[Mike added 'Karl Marx']]> /review/show/7437411214 Karl Marx by Allen W. Wood Mike gave 5 stars to Karl Marx (Hardcover) by Allen W. Wood
bookshelves: marxism, philosophy
]]> Review7459589636 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:09:50 -0700 <![CDATA[Mike added 'Orientalisme i orientalisme invers']]> /review/show/7459589636 Orientalisme i orientalisme invers by Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm Mike gave 4 stars to Orientalisme i orientalisme invers (Paperback) by Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm
bookshelves: mena
]]> ReadStatus9235284773 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:25:00 -0700 <![CDATA[Mike is currently reading 'Karl Marx']]> /review/show/7437411214 Karl Marx by Allen W. Wood Mike is currently reading Karl Marx by Allen W. Wood
]]> Rating840520061 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:35:39 -0700 <![CDATA[<Update id=16257717584 user_id=179953330 resource_id=840520061 resource_type=Rating>]]> Review7432464860 Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:28:05 -0700 <![CDATA[Mike added 'Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene']]> /review/show/7432464860 Class Notes by Adolph L. Reed Jr. Mike gave 3 stars to Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene (Paperback) by Adolph L. Reed Jr.
bookshelves: left-in-the-us, race
Meh. All of the book’s positives are relatively self-evident critiques and Reed’s politics are crap. Not finishing. ]]>