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Butterfinger

Common Sense | Thomas Paine

Ready to dive. @Librarybelle

Librarybelle Yay! 2h

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Leftcoastzen

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century | Timothy Snyder

Some read , some yet to explore , You‘re welcome! Love these tags !
#Antifabookclub #readingispolitical
#overcomingevilempires

AmyG, TheBookHippie, Amiable, Susanita, TheLudicReader, Suet624, Deblovestoread, Chrissyreadit, CBee, dabbe

AmyG I seem to be audiobooking my antifa reads. Great books. 22h

TheBookHippie Oooo yes!!!!! 21h

TheBookHippie Need to get strongmen. 21h

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lil1inblue 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 What a stack! ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 21h

Deblovestoread Great stack! Have a few need to get and read others! 21h

Amiable I need to stack several of these! Thanks! 21h

Suet624 Thank you. Now more than ever these books need to be read. 21h

Chrissyreadit Great stack!!! Thank you for sharing the tags 💙💙💙 We need more democracy and less fascism 💙 20h

dabbe W😍WZA! What a list! 💙✊🏻💙 19h

Christine A very patriotic shelf! 🩷 18h

AnnCrystal 👏🏼📚✊🏼📚👍🏼💝. 4h

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lil1inblue

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century | Timothy Snyder

I am grateful to these folks, and many more not pictured, for fighting the good fight. Working with them has restored my hope and my faith in humanity. I am so proud to stand with them.

#thoughtsforthursday

Eggbeater You give me hope. Thank you. 💙 22h

AmyG 🙌🏻 22h

lil1inblue @Eggbeater That brings a tear to my eye. Thank you! 💓 21h

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lil1inblue @AmyG 💓 💓 💓 21h

TheBookHippie YAAAAAAAS!!!! 21h

Deblovestoread This! What we are fighting for 💙✊🏼💙 21h

dabbe HECK Y😍! 💙✊🏻💙 18h

lil1inblue @TheBookHippie ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 17h

lil1inblue @Deblovestoread 🩵🩵🩵 17h

lil1inblue @dabbe ✊🏻🩵✊🏻 17h

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥲✊🏼💝. 4h

lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 💓✊🏻💓 12m

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mija333

Kierkegaard: A Single Life | Stephen Backhouse

pick

“It might change your life. I know he changed mine.”

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Rome753

Democracy in America (Volumes 1 and 2, Unabridged) | Alexis De Tocqueville

"I do not mean that there is no deficiency of wealthy individuals in the United States; I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property."
-Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America"

Chrissyreadit perfect quote for the insanity of enriching billionaires and destroying a portion of the country! 1d

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Trashcanman

Homo Viator: Introduction to a Metaphysic of Hope | Gabriel Marcel

Hope consists in asserting that despair is not the last word.

— Gabriel Marcel, Homo Viator

PurpleyPumpkin 💜💜💜 2d

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monalyisha

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess | Becca Rothfeld

“Only someone who longs to be no one could savor the deprivations of a decluttered mind, a room bereft of furniture or ornament.”

I keep thinking about my study of Buddhism (and Hinduism) in college, as part of my Religious Studies major. Admittedly, these were survey courses and I feel like I only grazed the surface. But I keep remembering my initial, wholesale rejection of Buddhism — and my professor‘s response. 👇🏻

monalyisha 1/4: I hated that god was thought of as nothing; that the goal was to be no one. I much preferred Hinduism‘s conception of god(s) as The All. My professor explained to me that god was nothing and practicioners endeavored to be nothing in the sense that god is no(t one) thing because god is everything. We are no(t) one because we are everyone. Everything flows into everything else. 2d

monalyisha 2/4: In this sense, mindfulness doesn‘t strive for “deprivation,” as Rothfeld argues, but fluid, extreme connection. It *is* excess.

Anyway, I don‘t regularly practice mindfulness. And I‘m not Buddhist. I‘m not everyone, I‘m not everything, at least not all of the time. I like having my own preferences, too, and I agree with the author that it‘s not a state I want to strive for all the time. 2d

monalyisha 3/4: But it‘s a gorgeous perspective to let filter into your consciousness occasionally (and to allow that it might filter in at any moment, in every aspect). In this essay, Rothfeld strikes me as being too dismissive and sure of herself when there‘s maybe more at play here than she understands. For me, my knee-jerk dismissal was a matter of language. I disliked the wording — not the whole of the nuanced idea. 2d

monalyisha 4/4: Rothfeld says she‘s criticizing modern mindfulness as divorced from its religious and communal context, but, if that‘s true, her assurance seems paltry and not oft-repeated enough for the length and breadth of her critique. This essay feels jabby and personal, and maybe a little immature. 2d

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